At Lockheed Martin, management deliberately removed white people from the lists of workers who deserve bonuses.
These racist shenanigans are much worse in business than in academia.
I’m doing 3 public appearances today. Two down, one to go. I love doing this stuff but my vocal cords, not so much.
I’m not complaining, it’s great to be in demand. N, who engineered my career in public speaking, is bursting with delight. That alone would be worth it.
In the numerous news items about people lacking food in America, I notice a strange trend:
I’m certain that Felicia’s suffering is sincere but posting a video of her as opposed to pretty much anybody else is quite counterproductive.
The post ends up being comical instead of serious.
Not for nothing, 11 is my lucky number.
Deep condolences to everybody who suffered losses in this horrific crash.
This is so mega cute! Read the captions:
Have as beautiful a day as this nice couple!
Somebody asked me which is the first German book I will read. This decision was made for me by N who presented me with this copy today:
This book is very, very important to him, as it was for many Soviet children. He managed to engage Klara in the English version of Krabat. Now I get to read it in the original.
In the USSR, works of international literature and film that we were allowed to know about were often random. Why Krabat made the cut and was let through by Soviet censors while other books and cartoons weren’t is unknown.
The Right is everything that isn’t a tiny number of very rigid (and very fantastical) beliefs that define the Left. We are truly diverse. We have open-border libertarians, the “reduce all immigration to zero” crowd, and everybody in-between. And this is only one issue. We are just as seeking, enquiring, and rowdy on all others.
Nobody on our side calls others out for using the “wrong” terminology. There is no terminology. Everybody invents their own, experiments with language, plays word games. Nothing is off-limits. No idea is too scary to read, think about, and discuss. Nobody gains in-group points by denouncing others for not being ideologically pure enough.
And there’s humor. We make jokes, and nothing is too sacred to chuckle over. There’s always something happening, always something to think about. Nobody is reciting dogma. Nobody conducts witch hunts over wrong pronouns.
If you are not one of us yet, imagine, only imagine, saying whatever occurs to you, letting your thoughts roam freely, and abandoning all these mantras of “sex work is work” or “trans women are women.” You could have this freedom, too.
Both hardware and software are necessary to make a computer run. IQ is crucial to do high-level scientific research. But IQ alone is utterly insufficient. You need to take your high IQ to school and study for a very long time. And then study some more. You are utterly useless for science until you’ve downloaded software in the form of learning onto your brain.
Why am explaining this boring and obvious fact? Because I’m reading a novel Notes on Infinity by Austin Taylor, and she seems blissfully unaware that major scientific discoveries aren’t made by college sophomores. Harvard professors don’t beg said sophomores to join their research labs. Nobody expects them to do any research or to publish solo scientific articles before finishing their second year of college.
It annoys me when people pretend that intelligence is not genetic and inborn. It annoys me as much when people pretend that high IQ means you can be instantly successful in any field without having to learn.
I don’t like this, I don’t support this, I think it’s pathetic and ridiculous:
What’s next, suing people for cocktails named “Sex on the Beach” and “Bahama Mama” because they hurt the feelings of the asexuals and the infertile? The DOJ shouldn’t be in the business of policing names of beverages. We already have a party that protects hurt fee-fees. We don’t need another one.
This is very embarrassing.
A conservative literary critic and college professor
Yeah, race trumps everything else… right up until a minority disagrees with the progressive party line. Gotta keep em on…
I hope he sells the rights to his story at least to defeat some of the costs of all this.…
OT: the holdout juror, now doxxed, is taking defensive PR measures: https://x.com/SarahisCensored/status/2100022900396847407
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Thank you so much! What a kind thing to say.
Just the one. 😉
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Kid, how much of the actual history of Canadian immigration do you actually know? Human tribalism can be very ugly,…
We on your blog are all grateful for that professor, and for your great writings.
Yes. Unless you had 2 speakers who said the exact same thing.
I have a strong suspicion that this is a comment from the kick-ass speaker in question. 😉
Ha!
My husband and I once read a novel written completely out of clichés, but in all earnestness. We wept while…
She could at least thank God for her son before thanking the app 🤔
Guess he wouldn’t get past the 1st page in a Kristen Hanna book.
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Even the second generation doesn’t marry outside of the group if the pool of in-group prospects is wide enough. Or…
RPMC boot camp, really ;-D
As a said earlier, moving to New Jersey was the best thing to happen to my family. My parents’ families…
This is why I like to say that the best thing my parents ever did was move to the New…
Actually assimilation is not complete until they intermarry, there was considerable resistance amongst many ethnic groups in western Canada until…
True. People who have assimilated will not prefer to hire from their immigrant group. At an office party, they will…
Arg. CCP=PRC
The Viet Kieu I have known all my life assimilated remarkably well. 1st gen are obviously not Americans, but tend…
There’s a common idea even on the more “racist” right that east Asian immigrants assimilate unusually well. They seem to…
Exactly. There’s some sort of weird parental anxiety involved. Like if the child steps out of the hustle for a…
Free, unstructured time when kids loiter around aimlessly is the most developmentally crucial and useful. People want to turn kids…
Bykov is extremely talented as a poet. But in what concerns his prose, he’s nowhere near Veller.
Shoot, not just resume padding. I’ve watched way too many parents regard any lacunae in their little kids’ time as……
“perception is that you can’t be a just a good student who otherwise enjoys his friends, free time” They’re not…
“nobody has to be intentionally diverted every second of the day” I am soooo glad I finished school before the…
only writer of value writing in Russian today” What about Bykov?
There’s this panic among parents (and it causes a lot of stress to the kids) that you have to have…
He is also the only writer of value writing in Russian today. Meaning serious literature. There is good entertainment lit…
And then they wonder why people no longer trust MSM.
“Since then the share of foreign born population has gone up and up, even while crime fell and fell.” I…
No, I guessed because he’s the only Russian speaking “famous writer” who would make such a comment. I mean, I’m…
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