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True love is something very few people find. Many don't even find true sex. And both of these get harder to find over time, not only because of aging, but cynicism and emotional scars as well. I hope we'll one day cure aging and make everyone beautiful, but that day isn't here.
Sep 23 • 13 tweets • 6 min read
TOP TEN REASONS AMERICAN SUBURBAN ARCHITECTURE IS RETARDED
1. Fake Shutters
Real shutters are the same size as the window. They protect against severe storms. Fake shutters protect against nothing, are the wrong size, and look retarded. Just please stop. Like, what the hell. 2. Asphalt Shingles
They look terrible and don't even save money. They're made out of paper with some tar stuck on them. I can't believe people seriously put these on their houses. A real roof is made out of metal or tile, people. Stop. Please.
Sep 18 • 35 tweets • 9 min read
THE TRUTH ABOUT AGE GAPS AND BEAUTY
This thread will make most people of both sexes angry. So I'm going to start it with several disclaimers. Keep reading, if you dare.👇
This thread is not relationship advice. It's not about the psychology of dating. It's ONLY about beauty. I'm not telling you whom to date or marry or anything like that. You can do with this information what you will.
Sep 2 • 15 tweets • 4 min read
EFFICIENT STUPIDITY
"If you're so rich, why aren't you smart?"
This new addition to my TRUST NETWORKS series uses concepts from investing to understand how social knowledge works. Namely, momentum and passive investing. If that sounds interesting to you, keep reading...
First, a link to the complete TRUST NETWORKS essay. As soon as your interest is whetted I recommend you start from the top.
A peasant revolt is not going to fix the West. What we need is a revolution by counter-elites in which peasants play a relatively minor role. Boys love to talk about the Roman Empire, but they're not drawing the right conclusions because
our current situation is not analogous to the fall of the Roman Empire. It's analogous to the later days of the Roman Republic.
Thanks to new genetic evidence we now know that mass immigration occurred in the later days of the Roman Republic.
Jun 30 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
I never watched Pirates of the Caribbean, but apparently the plot is that evil pirates were forcing her to dress in pretty clothes, and after great struggles she overcame them and dressed herself in ugly ones.
Final stage involves her wearing men's clothes and waving around a phallic symbol.
So, basically transgender grooming?
Jun 30 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
A few women have asked me about the "Kibbe body type" clothing system. I've finally taken time to look into it. Some of its recommendations (example below) are dreadful. Please just ignore this system. I don't think it's popular enough to write up a detailed critique.
The quoted recommendation is the opposite of the correct one. If your physical features are low in femininity you should compensate, e.g. with bright colors, flowing lines, and frilly ornamentation. NOT double down by emphasizing a weakness, which is just an insane thing to do.
Jun 28 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
I'm not a devotee of "no conspiracies evar!!1"
Groups make plans behind closed doors all the time. It's the OBVIOUS thing to do.
The mistake is setting the bar too high: "It's only a conspiracy if one secret council determines everything that ever happens to anyone." Yeah, no.
Regarding the debate, the obvious thing was to schedule it early so you had time to swap your senile candidate out if he bombed the way you expected. And get your PR people (journos) on the same page. _Any_ sane person in the leadership who knew his state would have done the same
Jun 14 • 19 tweets • 5 min read
THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO GIMBY: A NEW MOVEMENT FOR LOW-DENSITY HOUSING
Would you rather live here than in a high-rise? Are you ready to join the GIMBY movement and demand grass? Then read on.
This is an except from the article linked below, which greatly expands on my viral “Introduction to GIMBY” thread and offers a complete guide to the new low-density GIMBY movement. You can read the opening of the article in the following posts.
Lmao. Cowardly screenshot-quote from arch-YIMBY Yglesias. Also lies about the content. I did NOT propose making apartments illegal. So, why screenshot-quote? To get away with the lie. And because he's afraid if you actually read the thread you'd agree with me.
When I write my full GIMBY article this dishonest screenshot quote is going to be included so people can see the truth about how YIMBYs operate.
May 31 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Bell Labs was one of the most important centers of innovation in history. To escape the distractions of New York City, its labs gradually relocated to lower-density areas of New Jersey--examples below. The transistor was invented in Murray Hill.
For innovation, GIMBY > YIMBY.
"The Bell Labs Murray Hill laboratories spawned such innovations as the UNIX operating system, the C programming language, speech compression, digital switching, information theory, and many more – with the most famous being the transistor."
No high-rises in that backyard.
May 25 • 17 tweets • 4 min read
A TALE OF TWO URBAN AREAS: THE HIDDEN COST OF YIMBY
On the surface building up might look more efficient than building out. In this thread I'm going to demonstrate the hidden cost. Consider two urban areas, Yimbyville and Gimbyville...
Both Yimbyville and Gimbyville start off with a modest population density of around 2,000 people per square mile and a little under a million people. They're growing rapidly, but they've made different decisions on which direction they're going to grow.
May 16 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
When barbarians invade and law enforcement is curtailed, there are two housing paths you can take:
1. Reduce walkability, cut public transport 2. Riad architecture with interior garden and forbidding exterior walls
1 is much cheaper. Easily a better option for the non-rich.
Now, why do YIMBYs want more walkability, more public transportation, and open borders?
Occam's razor says they hate you.
May 11 • 36 tweets • 11 min read
GIMBYISM: THE CASE FOR _REDUCING_ URBAN HOUSING DENSITY
You've all heard the YIMBY story: increasing population density in cities will lower housing costs, reduce inequality, and save the planet. In this thread I'll make the case for its opposite. No, not NIMBYism. GIMBYism.
NIMBY, of course, stands for “not in my backyard.” It's the name given to people who oppose building high-rise apartments in their neighborhoods, even though these would provide more housing for more people at a theoretically lower price.
Apr 25 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
There's a big difference between pure white and off white walls. Pure white can look cheap and tacky if you make the slightest error, so I'm impressed when someone pulls it off. White floors make it even harder. Still don't think I'd try it myself.
Off-white/light-beige is the most neutral wall color. It's hard to show in photos why this is so different from pure white as the lighting can have an especially significant effect on whites.
Apr 25 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The long-term trajectory toward intermarriage is much stronger than people are aware. Intermarriage is correlated with generation, and few reports break this out. These statistics from Australia show most Asian groups outmarry at very high rate by the 3rd gen.
These statistics are about twenty years old and one should assume the intermarriage rates are much higher across the board today. The trajectory is toward a random assortment by the fourth generation.
Apr 19 • 29 tweets • 5 min read
WHY ULTRAHUMANISM SOLVES POLITICS
We're trapped in a sociopolitical whirlwind of doom. What is ultrahumanism and why is it the answer to our troubles? I'll explain in this thread.
I'll start by identifying the root cause of our current political insanity:
Hardware is politically inconvenient.
What do I mean by hardware?
Well, in a human context, software is things like culture, customs, laws, and education. Hardware is what they run on.
Biology.
Apr 18 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
WHY DO WE CARE ABOUT TRENDS?
Yesterday I explained how the human brain uses a version of trend trading to make decisions about aesthetic and moral values without bothering to actually think about them. But why do we even care about trends? I'll answer in this thread.
Trend trading is mainly based on changes in prices. It's not obvious how this could apply to the realm of aesthetics or morals. How does a moral attitude have a “price” that CHANGES?
And yet, because it IS obvious that people rely on trend cognition, there must be some way.
Apr 17 • 23 tweets • 5 min read
WHAT'S TRENDING: HOW WE TURNED THE WORLD GRAY
Momentum trading is based on a simple idea. If you buy something with momentum and sell as soon as the momentum fades, you can profit—even without having any other information. Guess what? The human brain already does this. Thread.👇
In my last thread I explained that passive investing is not only an investing strategy, but an evolved, instinctive algorithm of the human brain, where it's known as groupthink, herd behavior, etc.
In short, we outsource cognition to the crowd to save on fees.
Apr 6 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The "dead internet" has arrived, and we can already see who runs it. An entire thread that's just bots talking to bots, all promoting green/ESG propaganda.👇
The OP was written by a bot with a 2009 account-creation date.
The WEF own the AI sheepdogs, and you peasants are the sheep.
Mar 30 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
HOW MANY X REPLIES ARE ACTUALLY BY CHATGPT?
I noticed the distinctive prose style of ChatGPT in the replies to this post. Some of them were by well-aged accounts and only distinguishable from a real person by the style. How many? I'll provide evidence in this thread...