ENSHITTIFICATION - WHERE IS THE BOTTOM? Have had the opportunity to visit a fair few so-called shithole countries now that are different degrees of both shithole and captured by some ideology or the other. Common feature of many of these places is that their obviously

Alle beteiligten ins Gås

If I were “Germany,” I’d give every homeowner over the age of 60 with a house that has more than one bedroom a choice: sell your house to a German under 30 and move into smaller housing, and your retirement age is 65; or don’t, and your retirement age is 80.

You can just do stuff, Kabul edition.

Among 1000's of cultures, only 2 "clusters" of cultures (European & SEA) seem to be compatible with technological society. Question: Could e.g. the carthaginians have industrialized? Are there other local minima in the space of possible cultures?

Breaking: a man has taken hostage the commander of a military base in Tokyo and is now addressing the soldiers. it's hard to make out what he's saying but according to witnesses he's demanding Microsoft extend win 10 support indefinitely.

*girl in yoga pants approaches* "how many sets do you have left?" "it's... it's um... well... let me, it's... i... i... there's several different things one could say"

mfw I synthesize Ayn Rand with Vladimir Lenin

Nividia has a P/E ratio of ~50, the same as netflix. Its evaluation is based on its profit, the reason all the banks have such a low evaluation in comparison is because they drive down each others margins to near 0. Nividia has a quasi monopoly -> it gets insane profit margins

one of my favorite twitter subplots is this ongoing identity proxy war between Pakistanis pretending to be Nazis and Indians pretending to be Jews

This sort of thing is why the anti-Hitler civic religion is bad. Embryo selection for intelligence is as close to a free lunch as we can get. It’s all upside. But that would be eugenics, and eugenics is Hitler, and Hitler defines evil. So this obviously good thing is actually bad

Ferrari hat kein einziges Elektroauto im Sortiment. Aktie +120% auf 5 Jahre. Wer erklärt es Maurice?

SNAP is the greatest investment of all time. Every dollar invested into SNAP doubles. The Chinese are trying to harness our SNAP technology but they can't figure it out. If we were smart we'd spend $100T on SNAP, growing our GDP by $180T and making us all filthy rich.

This kind of cartoonishly stupid Keynesianism is significantly more destructive for society than believing the Earth is 6000 years old.

There is a straight line between the petty committees that stifle creativity and growth in ordinary professional and private life, and the expansive cosmological visions held by social and cultural elites that deny or delegitimize not just human agency but the human race itself.

I'm not the first person to point this out but it's uncanny how reliably the most ruthless amoral businessmen at the tops of their game in 2025 do not present as Donald Trump/Biff Tannen-like macho hustlers but actually as harmless smol beans just trying to help the whole world.

It’s not convoluted. That the world is eternal is the most intuitive and natural thing. To claim something is created out of nothing or to posit souls that are created and have a beginning but no end is the contrived thought of Israel that Europe wants to vomit out

A testable hypothesis.

Hat er vor seinem Tod noch den wahren Glauben angenommen?