Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
October 22, 2023
I DON’T MIND THIS, SO LONG AS IT WORKS:
Decapitation strike on Iran is feeling inevitable. https://t.co/RoKOAV6DFU
— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) October 22, 2023
OPEN THREAD: Do that comment voodoo that you do so well.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: SpaceX fires up Starship prototype in deorbit burn test (video).
BUT IF YOU POINT THIS OUT YOU’RE RACIST OR SOMETHING:
Darwin has a rule. If you make too many mistakes you don't survive. The corollary is that you only deserve second chances when you learn from the first. Apparently they don't teach this rule in too many institutions of higher learning.
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) October 22, 2023
The right side of history but on the wrong side of the facts; no matter they would compensate with good intentions. It was classic hubris. Too bad other people have to die for it.
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) October 22, 2023
IDENTIFYING TYPE 2 DIABETES via vocal analysis.
THE GLORIES OF MULTICULTURALISM:
That’s woke mind virus for you: simping for people that would literally throw you off the roof if they got an opportunity to do so
— Chertok (@coolerkdawg) October 21, 2023
JEFFREY CARTER: Black Monday.
I saw Black Monday trending on Twitter. Most of the people tweeting about Black Monday weren’t alive for Black Monday. If they were, they were potty training or learning their colors.
TL:DR There will be no Black Monday tomorrow. No one, and I mean no one, can call a market crash like that. As a matter of fact, the dean of Finance Professor Eugene Fama said something really prescient to me once. “You only see crashes in the rearview mirror.” He’s right of course.
Of course, the fact that the predictions for tomorrow have no basis doesn’t rule out a Black Monday either.
THAT’S GOOD, SINCE THEY DON’T WORK: CVS pulling popular cold medications from shelves. I always assumed they put out the ineffective phenylephrine products mostly as a placebo to pacify people angry because they made pseudoephedrine, which works wonderfully, so much harder to get.
BRYAN CAPLAN: Stop Thinking Like A Tourist.
The year is 1997. You visit a lovely rural town in North Dakota. Population: 3000. You take a bunch of pictures with your analog camera to treasure the sweet memories.
Twenty years later, you return. The lovely rural town is now a regional fracking center. Population: 100,000. The charm has vanished beneath a tidal wave of new construction — residential, commercial, and industrial. You take one picture with your smart phone where you shed a tear of sorrow with New Frack City in the background. Your caption: “Progress?”
From a tourist’s point of view, you’re clearly right. Lovely rural towns are much nicer to visit than regional fracking centers. Almost anyone who saw Before-and-After pictures would agree with you: The town’s gotten far worse.
But what’s so great about the tourist’s point of view anyway? Tourism is just one tiny industry in a vast economy. If a billion-dollar fracking industry replaces a ten-million-dollar sight-seeing industry, that’s a $990M gain for mankind, not a “tragedy.” The transformation is clearly good for the 97,000 new residents of the town. It’s good for everyone who consumes the new petroleum products. And while the original inhabitants will probably gripe about all they’ve lost, they’re free to sell at inflated prices and move to one of the many remaining lovely rural towns.
And there’s no moral high ground in wanting to deprive those 97,000 people of a living so you can take pretty pictures. Being anti-growth is selfish.
JON STEWART’S APPLE TV SHOW CANCELED because he wanted to report critically on China.
DON’T TRUST CHINA. CHINA IS ASSHOE.
Maybe it wasn't a good idea to base the Green dream on China.https://t.co/OjJLv2MPHK
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) October 21, 2023
A SPOUSE WILL NOTICE THINGS THAT YOU DON’T, AND NAG YOU TO GET THEM LOOKED AT: Adults who live alone may have greater risk of dying from cancer.
A FRIEND SAYS HE KNEW HE WAS MIDDLE-AGED WHEN HE STARTED TAKING A CPAP TO A BOOTY CALL. What’s in Your ‘Spend the Night’ Bag?
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Academia is bringing about its own destruction.
More and more people are asking what value it brings for the resources it consumes, and the obvious harm it is doing.
MAYBE IT WAS A MISTAKE TO IMPORT SO MANY ANTISEMITES: ‘Never Again Must Be Unbreakable’ — Chancellor Olaf Scholz Condemns Rise of Antisemitism in Germany.
FOLLOW THE SCIENCE: Global Warming? Where? “The Abstract bluntly declares that ‘standard climate models are rejected by time series data on global temperatures’ while the conclusions state ‘the results imply that the effect of man-made CO2 emissions does not appear to be sufficiently strong to cause systematic changes in the pattern of the temperature fluctuations.'”
Plus: “‘To what extent are temperature levels changing due to greenhouse gas emissions?’ may prove to be the most important scientific paper in the last 10 years.”
WHY IS HIGHER EDUCATION SUCH A CESSPIT OF BIGOTRY AND DISCRIMINATION? Lawsuit Claims NYU Law Review Discriminates Against Straight White Men In Selection Of Student Editors.
“HARVARD UNIVERSITY LEADERS HAVE NO COMMENT:” Israeli Harvard Business School Student Accosted and Harassed Amid Gaza ‘Die-In’ on Campus.
WEIRD, NOBODY WORRIED ABOUT THAT UNDER “WARMONGER” TRUMP:
Top government officials worried too many wars going on at once.https://t.co/zEl7gCEzRD
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) October 21, 2023
STUART BROTMAN: Ending the Slippery Slope of “Antisemitism.”