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Jan 15 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
all of the discourse around "jobs" misses the basic issue, which is that labor markets are globalized now to a degree they have never been in the past

and they will probably become moreso in the future

pretty much everything is downstream of that this is very good for many people, including the poorest people in the third world and the most talented people in every country

it's fairly terrible for non-elite labor in rich countries who compete, increasingly frictionlessly, with non-elite labor in shithole countries
Jan 8 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
this is among the more novelly-misogynistic things i have encountered.

i'm not sure i understand it, but it might be explained as a failure mode of third wave feminism's insistence on gender flattening

allow me to explain Image in this interaction:

* nicole expresses frustration with a physical danger she's exposed to as a mother with children in tow

* @IanMacAllen responds with aggressive hostility, telling her to harden the fuck up

what an odd thing to say! why is it odd?
Jan 5 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
no i'm sorry but anime women are humanity's greatest achievement of apollonian femininity >"anime is bad femininity"
>conception of Good Femininity turns out to be limited to a dozen pieces of pre-raphaelite slop

develop 👏 interest 👏 in 👏 another 👏 art 👏 movement
Jan 4 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
this isnt really correct, people are being really dumb about this

a reasonable model of the impact of H1Bs is that more technical work will be done *because they lower market clearing wages*

yes lump of labor is wrong but "importing labor has no impact on wages" is just LYING Image the only way that you get "infinite job creation" in a reasonable time frame is if the demand for technical workers is "perfectly elastic" which. look. you can make that argument if you like but markets like that tend to involve low skill labor easily substituted with machines Image
Jan 2 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
if this is what it means to maintain "good race relations" im sorry but you cant have a multiethnic state personally i think "good race relations" are "preserved" by "hanging people who commit heinous crimes independent of race." but i realize im old fashioned about these things
Dec 31, 2024 • 12 tweets • 7 min read
just occurred to me that my parents were probably mentally traumatized by watching society collapse in the 70s and yours probably were too and they started in a much better place than we did

the vertigo must have been unreal once the smoke cleared and they could see how far they'd fallen
Dec 30, 2024 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
i would prefer people not universally hate legal immigrants which is why my advice to pro-immigration activists is Shut the Fuck Up

every time people open their mouths to speak they cram a foot so far inside it causes an anal prolapse

please just stop "immigrants are good because Americans are lazy entitled rich fucks who should just die" this is you right now Image
Dec 29, 2024 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
this is pretty brutal but im not familiar with the dataset and i imagine i might be missing some context

what i'm most curious about is, something like 10x as many applications are approved as visas can be granted by statute

so do most of these just go unfilled? or is the limit just ignored (i assume not but who knows) or what
Dec 28, 2024 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Let's consider some historical analogues.

"The ultimate result of an open border between Rome and Germania would not be two countries that look like Germania."

Actually it was dozens of countries that looked like Mad Max for a thousand years The Ultimate Result of Open Borders between the United States and Ireland Image
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Dec 27, 2024 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
not to revisit the h1b bloodbath but an important error in the discourse has been a failure to distinguish between the following groups:

* potential immigrants
* immigrant noncitizens
* immigrant citizens
* born citizens

likely crux: what _duties_ do americans have to each? some obnoxious positions:

open borders/ea/leftish: we have equal duties toward all groups and potential immigrants have more to gain at the moment than citizens have to lose

wignats: all of these suck except born citizens and only some of those actually
Dec 25, 2024 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
buffy the vampire slayer? no thanks man im not into live action magical girl anime prompted by trying out sailor moon (1992) and discovering that it seems to be buffy but way better

just watched Learn How to Be Skinny from Usagi! amazing stuff
Dec 25, 2024 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
man. idk

the number of posts ive seen like this is genuinely shocking to me and makes me more inclined to support obnoxious immigration restrictions tbqh

something is going very badly wrong with integration if this is a common expressive response among indians i have seen a Lot of shit like this including from longtime mutuals and its pretty depressing

eyeballing it seems more common from first gen than second gen which suggests some combination of integration is working and newer immigrant waves are different (worse)
Dec 24, 2024 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
i have to say i do not regularly interact with any business that exhibits greater nor more systematic contempt for its customers than does medicine normal businesses: yes we would love to take your money. how can we help you

medicine: oh you probably have pneumonia? this 50yo battleaxe will menace you, lecture you about the proper procedure for scheduling. no she won't help you. no you can't do that here. get fucked lmao
Dec 21, 2024 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
to understand social media it is necessary to understand oscar wilde Image MISS PRISM.
You must put away your phone, Cecily. I really don’t see why you should have a Twitter account at all.

CECILY.
I tweet in order to enter the wonderful secrets of my life. If I didn’t post them publicly, I should probably forget all about them.
Dec 18, 2024 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
does it still make sense to buy an intel cpu for a home system or is everyone just using AMD at this point? nevermind i just remembered i have an enormous workstation from the mid 2010s i can clean up

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Dec 3, 2024 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
a series of thoughts abt this in no particular order first: my track record. ive previously criticized tiresome woke academic work by tiresome woke academics here

this, not just in quantitative but literary fields; and not just about the work itself but about what it represents

example below
Dec 1, 2024 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
full agree with zy here

i think i would explain the intuition of the formulas using integration but i'm not sure that's quite right, maybe it's just a restatement

"area" and "volume" are superficially totally intuitive to me but i don't know how to better formalize them Image here's a line. it's x units long. we're going to drag it along a flat surface in a direction perpendicular to its length for y units. "area" is "how much" of the surface we dragged the line over.

"1 unit squared" is what we get when we drag a 1 unit line for one unit.
Nov 30, 2024 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
the syrian state is probably about to collapse. this will be very interesting because it's completely unclear what will happen after that.

here's an Understanding Syria starter pack (you wont Understand Syria) Image
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Image its a complete clusterfuck and i doubt we have anything like a coherent objective in syria

looks like maybe Erdogan is the winner here, do we like this, idk idk, who can say

maybe our best hope is "no huge refugee crisis again please"
Nov 27, 2024 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
i've just invented a rational agent explanation for why identitarian activist groups tend to be populated by the absolute worst members of whatever community they purport to represent.

the key intuition here is that it's an act of self-defense for the kakistocrats imagine some excluded group A with measure α < 0.5 and an excluding majority B with measure (1-α).

to become "included," at least 0.5 of the population must agree to inclusion. inclusion imposes a cost C(Ai) borne by B, but produces a benefit Y accruing to included members of A
Nov 22, 2024 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
occasional reminder

russia is fighting an honest to god trench war because they can't do anything else and they're barely making progress against a country 1/5 the size armed mostly with our hand-me-downs from a couple generations of warfare past they're literally incapable of projecting power outside of the dark green area because their logistics are entirely rail based and the areas outside of the dark green use a different gauge of rail Image
Nov 19, 2024 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
someone made a proposal for how the administration might rapidly crush sanctuary cities and states unilaterally

spit take material
theamericanconservative.com/how-to-break-t…Image
Image masterful tactic as described

sets states and localities in a position of choosing between legal students bringing them money and illegal immigrants

no approval needed, i'd guess

reportedly unreviewable except by scotus

would be an incredibly demoralizing loss for the left