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Sick with the “Slack Effect”, Etc.

03 Monday Apr 2023

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Note that large numbers of all US employees, especially in Gen Z, are sick and tired of their very low-paying and increasingly meaningless jobs.

This is very bad for companies. Low engagement is linked to higher job turnover and reduced profits; Gallup estimates it costs the global economy $7.8 trillion a year in lost productivity. It’s also bad for young workers. If they were simply stepping away from their jobs and finding fulfillment elsewhere, that might be OK. But it’s far deeper than that.

Oh, no! The poor corporations! Won’t someone think of the little corporations?! And what about the banks?!!!

Notice that among the list of things companies can do to “help”, one of them is not PAY PEOPLE MORE! You know, like the $300K per year it would take to live a lifestyle comparable to what the Boomers grew up with. Doing the right thing, of course, would cut into the financial looters cut. So…

This is just the beginning, kids! Keep giving 110% to people who obviously don’t care a wit about you.

Tanking

03 Monday Apr 2023

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A Stephen Bryen wrote up a pretty decent article on the junk weapons NATO is sending the MOD to destroy. It’s not perfect. For example, the USSA has terrible air defenses because it hasn’t developed anything new in decades, hasn’t maintained what it has, and has a dwindling supply of people capable of doing anything about it. It’s also bankrupt and virtually finished. The Iron Dome was partly overwhelmed not so long ago by homemade rockets and missiles Hamas literally built in garages and basements. The ID would be useless against Russian rocketry and would itself become a series of targets. Just like all the tanks and other junk NATO is shipping to the 404 – which, again, is not necessarily all bad because each weapon destroyed can never be used against Westerners by our satanic elites.

Coffee Pods

01 Saturday Apr 2023

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An update on FP:

The main site has now joined the FPC, store, and news sites in digital heaven. A moment of silence.

What’s left:

Podcast Archives (through 1/2/23);

FR Coffee (while the site is up, I am not sure about operations).

Not going to lie: I miss the old days. And I have given thought to a new podcast of sorts. I have several options, including right here on the blog, though I am still short on a decision. There’s certainly no lack of topics. To be continued…

 

A Beauty Not Taught

28 Tuesday Mar 2023

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Imagine if math was presented as the poetic beautiful thing it is in our “schools”. Here is a great article by Patrick Honner on how that would look.

The formula is as useful as it is likely to appear in the dictionary under “math anxiety,” and a quick look shows you why:

−b±√b2−4ac2a

As intimidating as this looks, hiding inside is a simple secret that makes solving every quadratic equation easy: symmetry. Let’s look at how symmetry makes the quadratic formula work and how a lack of symmetry makes solving cubic equations (of the form ax3+bx2+cx+d=0) much, much harder. So much harder, in fact, that a few mathematicians in the 1500s spent their lives embroiled in bitter public feuds competing to do for cubics what was so easily done for quadratics.

Symmetry! Make it a part of your homeschool quadrivium. Read that whole thing – an elegant pleasure even for the “verbal” minded.

The Common Factor

27 Monday Mar 2023

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All school shootings, regardless of other circumstances, take place at schools. Another WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE mass crime at a Nashville private elementary school.

Another benefit of homeschooling is that random or dedicated killers usually don’t come calling or shooting at single homes. Parents are also completely in charge of home security.

And if Americans would wake up for just a second, it is patently obvious that we have no need for Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, ISIS, or any other trumped-up outside foes. There is more than enough going horribly awry here as-is.

UPDATE: If reports are correct, the killer was a transvestite freak. If so, more proof the lgbtP-ites are a lethal menace to children.

UPDATE: Sodomite confirmed. It even left a manifesto. Evil.

Retarded America

24 Friday Mar 2023

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How many times have I rung a bell (curve) about this? How many times has Vox Day? Now even the clickbait MSM admits there is a terrible cognitive problem in ‘Murica. Cause ‘Muricans be gittin mo dumber.

This is what happens when you practically prohibit your more intelligent natives from reproducing while simultaneously importing hordes of low-IQ foreigners. A net loss of .4 IQ points per year adds up.

Things are dull enough, but they are going to get much, much worse. The USSA, or what remains of it, is headed for the world average IQ of 82. I read somewhere the other day that by 2075, the average White American IQ will be down to 85.

If you like your indoor plumbing … you’d better be ready to build and maintain it all by yourself.

UPDATE: I’m not kidding about the plumbing. Replacing competent men with affirmative action hires and deluded diversityites in engineering schools is a recipe for disaster.

Feminism Killed The University

23 Thursday Mar 2023

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Forget education entirely. The new US university is a mental institution designed to sicken, not heal its charges. Read Heather Mac Donald’s essay on “hate” and “trauma”.

The most far-reaching effects of the feminized university are the intolerance of dissent from political orthodoxy and the attempt to require conformity to that orthodoxy. This intolerance is justified in the name of safety and “inclusivity.” It turns out that females and males assess the value of debate and the legitimacy of speech restrictions unequally. The 2022 FIRE College Free Speech Rankings reported “stark” differences in whether female and male undergraduates would allow speakers with “offensive” ideas (such as the belief that abortion should be illegal) to come on campus. In the 2021 FIRE rankings, over 40 percent of students at Barnard and Wellesley (women’s colleges, all) supported the use of violence against dissenters. In a 2018 Knight Foundation survey of over 4,400 college students, reported in Quillette, 71 percent of males agreed that protecting free speech is more important than promoting an inclusive society; 59 percent of females agreed that promoting an inclusive society is more important than protecting free speech. Two-thirds of male psychology professors from top universities polled in 2021 believed that pursuing truth was more important than pursuing social equity if the two conflict; around a third of male respondents said that the issue was “complicated.” Fifty-two percent of female psychologists answered that the issue was complicated, while only 43 percent prioritized truth. A 2017 YouGov survey of over 2000 U.S. adults found that 56 percent of men said that colleges should not protect students from offensive ideas, whereas 64 percent of females said that they should. Men support the development of knowledge that explains reality, even if such knowledge threatens egalitarian norms, whereas females are more willing to suppress such scholarship if it poses “potential moral threats,” as Quillette put it.

Read the whole thing. This is a list of reasons why most women have no place in colleges, voting, or in leadership. The fake West is finished; hopefully, future societies will learn from our horrible mistakes.

Opportunities

21 Tuesday Mar 2023

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A grand one was missed. Yellen and Garfinkle both popped over to Ukraine without the slightest hypersonic interference. One supposes the Russians wanted the two walking WMDs back in the USSA to continue their work, which may be superior to what any missile can deliver.

Another is still in the making. I really need to update GET OUT! in order to reflect the extreme retardation of the Polish ruling class. They’re now openly boasting that once Ukraine is defeated, Poland will be next. One supposes Germany is on deck.