May 29, 20232 yr Typical feminist Don't listen to them, they're the champions of inconsistency. Link to the articles: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jun/03/women-street-harassment-statistics https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jul/20/catcall-culture-feminism-jessica-valenti?CMP=twt_gu
May 30, 20232 yr @Enrico_sw This is a quite interesting response from Buffett & Munger on Woke on Corporate Boards and political controversy. Their stance, unlike Elon is to stay out of it for the sake of employees and shareholders. This was recorded in their annual shareholder meeting.
May 30, 20232 yr 17 hours ago, Cult Icon said: @Enrico_sw This is a quite interesting response from Buffett & Munger on Woke on Corporate Boards and political controversy. Their stance, unlike Elon is to stay out of it for the sake of employees and shareholders. This was recorded in their annual shareholder meeting. I agree with what they say. It's better for their shareholders and employees. It's perfectly rational. However, I would judge Elon more harshly if we weren't in a world where a growing number of companies are taking extremely woke stances (Disney, Target, Bud, Balenciaga, Netflix, etc.) Most of these companies are being taken over by a sectarian movement through the propaganda fed by "gender studies" graduates (or any other type of sophists) who entered their companies a couple of months/years ago. Elon is trying to bring freedom in a world dominated by liberticide forces. Of course, many of those who succumbed to the voluntary servitude are angry against those who try to break shackles.
May 30, 20232 yr The ESG score is a massive scam that allows companies to greenwash or pinkwash their brands. It results in the division of people. Even if the intentions were good (and I doubt that as well for many people), the results are catastrophic.
June 2, 20232 yr On 5/29/2023 at 3:49 PM, Enrico_sw said: Agreed, I've seen that. I don't think that India will ever become a superpower. It has lots of assets (great engineers, demographic power, growth, etc.), but lots of liabilities (bureaucracy being the worst). It's funny to see that the Indians used a Western tool to counter China (they accused them of being racists), while China doesn't give a crap about "racism". Yea, India has massive problems. I find it interesting that China, India, and Russia produce tons of highly technically educated people (scientists and engineering) but GDP per capita is low compared to Western countries. Russia produces almost 50% more engineers per year than the US last I checked and that's something that most people don't know. India and China produce many times more STEM people per year than the US. Japan has many aspects that keep them in the first world but they hit a wall in the 1980s and haven't recovered since. One of the things that I find interesting is what kind of culture & people can make a good society. It seems that the society needs a well balanced mixture of different people with different traits, besides good rule of law and institutions. Introverted and extroverted people, entrepreneural-risk taking people, people with managing and leadership skills, introverted technical people, etc. combined together. The society can't have an excess of one type of people and lack the others.
June 2, 20232 yr 36 minutes ago, Cult Icon said: Yea, India has massive problems. I find it interesting that China, India, and Russia produce tons of highly technically educated people (scientists and engineering) but GDP per capita is low compared to Western countries. Russia produces almost 50% more engineers per year than the US last I checked and that's something that most people don't know. India and China produce many times more STEM people per year than the US. Japan has many aspects that keep them in the first world but they hit a wall in the 1980s and haven't recovered since. I didn't know Russia had so many engineers. I've met some of them in the past, they're good, but sometimes a bit too conservative (they rely on the fundamentals a lot). I've met Korean and Japanese engineers, I like them a lot. Very disciplined and humble. Indian engineers are so good individually (very smart and savvy), but very inefficient when they are in a group. Taking a decision has got to get through the whole bureaucracy. And they know it ver well (but still can't fight it). Indian engineers do great in Western companies where there are less bureaucracies.
June 2, 20232 yr 49 minutes ago, Cult Icon said: One of the things that I find interesting is what kind of culture & people can make a good society. It seems that the society needs a well balanced mixture of different people with different traits, besides good rule of law and institutions. Introverted and extroverted people, entrepreneural-risk taking people, people with managing and leadership skills, introverted technical people, etc. combined together. The society can't have an excess of one type of people and lack the others. Yeah, that's what I've always thought. It's the only diversity that matters (culture, character, etc.) These are the things that really matter. Gender, race, s*xual orientations are a extremely superficial way of seeing people. This also applies to political parties; we need right and left (and all the other nuances - two parties isn't enough). When a party takes the supremacy (like the Left in the USA), it becomes crazy and extremist (that's exactly what's happening in the USA). (I'll stop here, before I ramble on again )
June 2, 20232 yr One of things about the US is that we have legalized corruption called campaign contributions and lobbying. This hides what it really is.
June 2, 20232 yr 34 minutes ago, Cult Icon said: One of things about the US is that we have legalized corruption called campaign contributions and lobbying. This hides what it really is. Yes and the US has stopped to fight against oligopolies. American economists made great work and analyses on competition and they contributed to the making of great Antitrust laws. But you have stopped to enforce them.
June 2, 20232 yr Blackrock's CEO, Larry Fink (aka the biggest manipulator of woke mobs) says he wants companies to "force behaviour". A century ago, antitrust laws would've been used against this megalomaniac man's dystopian company.
June 4, 20232 yr Quote Egyptian lawyer sues Netflix over Queen Cleopatra https://egyptindependent.com/egyptian-lawyer-sues-netflix-over-queen-cleopatra/
June 9, 20232 yr With the withdrawal of Wagner PMC for rebuilding, Ukraine has begun their counteroffensive at the Z-Oblast front. So far it appears that the news flow claiming that the West ran out of reserve ammo, Western production of ammunition is poor, and Ukraine's ammunition situation is very depleted is so far evident. There are no weeks long interdiction strike operations (instead it was the Russian air force and missiles that destroyed many targets- including dozens of warehouses and ammo dumps along with strike footage of 60 Ukrainian radar and artillery systems destroyed by Kamikaze drones ) The Ukr attack performance has been quite poor from 6/4-6/8, almost no ground gained and so far it has been a turkey shoot with high Ukrainian losses of men and material. Russian forces claim up to 5000 Ukr casualties and hundreds of vehicles knocked out, including visually confirmed drone footage of French and German tanks. They also released footage of over 75 Ukr vehicles getting blown up, more will certainly appear. This appears to be first stage of the offensive, and there will be a middle and final act, still to come. What is striking however the lack of fire support, this shows that the Russian strategy to drag out the war and force Ukraine to use up thousands of artillery shells a day has had a material impact. The big 1,000 dollar question is whether or not the USA is committed enough to self-cannibalize its own ammunition stockpiles to continue the war. If they are perhaps Ukraine will have a nasty surprise up their sleeve in the coming weeks. I doubt that this offensive will last more than a month and they can terminate the offensive at any time and shift to defense. Overall, if these results continue the war may end with a negotiation in a few months due the collapsed Ukrainian ammo supply. Without ammunition Ukraine will have to terminate the war and accept a peace deal. It seems overall that the maneuver warfare and tanks have become terribly dangerous due to modern ISR, drones, artillery and PGM. It's just too easy to destroy 20 million dollar tanks and other armored vehicles.
June 9, 20232 yr On 6/2/2023 at 5:21 PM, Enrico_sw said: I didn't know Russia had so many engineers. I've met some of them in the past, they're good, but sometimes a bit too conservative (they rely on the fundamentals a lot). I've met Korean and Japanese engineers, I like them a lot. Very disciplined and humble. Indian engineers are so good individually (very smart and savvy), but very inefficient when they are in a group. Taking a decision has got to get through the whole bureaucracy. And they know it ver well (but still can't fight it). Indian engineers do great in Western companies where there are less bureaucracies. Isn't it interesting how Russia and China have such low nominal GDP but it's complete deception as their PPP GDP is far greater. Eg. Russia is $28,000 PPP GDP/capita but nominal is only $12,500 or so. China's PPP is $18,000. I think it has something to do with how they are much more manufacturing and real goods & raw materials based countries, like the USA up to the 1950s. They are the opposite of de-industrialized and extremely financialized service economies in the West including US.
June 9, 20232 yr 18 hours ago, Cult Icon said: Isn't it interesting how Russia and China have such low nominal GDP but it's complete deception as their PPP GDP is far greater. Eg. Russia is $28,000 PPP GDP/capita but nominal is only $12,500 or so. China's PPP is $18,000. I think it has something to do with how they are much more manufacturing and real goods & raw materials based countries, like the USA up to the 1950s. They are the opposite of de-industrialized and extremely financialized service economies in the West including US. Primary and secondary sectors are essential for a functioning country. There are needs for tertiary sector, but when it's too bloated it tends to feed itself and generate tons of bullshit jobs (e.g. diversity officers, bureaucrats, etc.). Most western countries have been de-industrialized (maybe Germany is an exception) and many are sabotaging their primary sectors too (the attack on the European agricultural system will have brutal consequences). The USA still has the great advantage to have the reserve currency. It's still the case but I wonder what will happen when (and if) it changes.
June 10, 20232 yr The combat performance of 5 Ukrainian counteroffensive brigades with nato standard training and equipment this past week has been absolutely terrible. The Russians of 42th motor-rifle division destroyed their vehicles in front of the first echelon defense with artillery, airpower, and drones. $15 million dollar Leopard 2s, french tanks, and many US Bradleys have been knocked out and destroyed, the whole world is seeing NATO/ US gucci kit getting destroyed. so far there are 101 counted in the drone footage 20230616004830-7a126a4c.jpg (3784×2181) (rybar.ru)
June 10, 20232 yr @Stromboli1 Who will the woke mob choose between the Muslims and the "LGBTQQIA....+++" community? Quote US: Muslim parents protest losing right to opt out of LGBTQ school books https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/muslim-parents-protest-losing-right-to-opt-out-lgbtq-school-books
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