It’s not every day in my field that you get to run a regression analysis on survey data, but some days you do.
Day: November 18, 2024, 6:12 PM
Compulsion
Housing is a terrible investment, by the way. Real returns of around ~2% a year. And no, the recent run-up does not change that much at all. People only perceive it as a good investment as it’s forced savings.
But I don’t need that. I save without being compelled to do so.
We only bought a house when its expected investment “returns” could be in the sharp negative and we’d still financially be ok. That’s not the only time you should buy a house. That is up to you and depends on your risk tolerance and financial status. But you won’t even beat a money market fund with housing unless you get really, really lucky.
Housing as an investment is BS in all sorts of ways.
Job Jabber
On one customer questionnaire, my name was next to 14 different job titles.
I don’t get paid for 14 different jobs. But I should.
Off the Tracks
Feminism really screwed itself over when it went from striving for equality to mostly about keeping undesirable men away from PMC women.
Branding 90% of the male population “creepy” and “default rapist” did not help them, not at all.
Basedness
I’ve seen a whole damn lot of that bizarre pretending. Also goes along with the “only white protestants can be colonialist and no one else” casuistry. Most people just fundamentally do not live in reality and care nothing for the actual facts.
Coates of Not Many Colors
Dude wrote one great essay, a few good blog posts, then went full clown. Vanished, came back and went even fuller clown, and now has vamoosed again. Weird.
Lawry’s
You call them MICROPLASTICS. I call it SEASONING.
Bad Boom
If Russia nuclear strikes Ukraine, would the West really follow up with nuclear counter strikes?
No, that’s not what would occur. NATO and the US would utterly destroy Russia’s military capabilities using conventional means, though. And perhaps even occupy Moscow temporarily.
However, what China would do is another matter. That I don’t have a lot of insight on but I can guarantee it would not be nothing. Most likely it would occupy significant parts of eastern Russia and Siberia, I’d guess. But that I’m less clear on.
Reconfirm
Yep. Many liberals are now completely lying about this, but it’s true. I saw Heather Cox Richardson just today completely making up false data and using utterly-transparent fabrications to justify why the win was all the fault of straight white men. The reality, though, is that only a few small demographics shifted away from Trump. Every other American group went Trump-ward — including black men, Native Americans and most of all, Latinos.
The liberal deniers of this sound just as clown-ass as the election-denying MAGA types. And will be even less effective. And I say this as someone who believes that Trump 2 will bring about the most disastrous era this country has seen since the Civil War. It’s just that I prefer to deal with the world as it is — uncomfortable facts and all — rather than whip up some absolute nonsense to reinforce my worldview.
You don’t win that way. And you aren’t right, which is even more important to me personally to be completely honest.
James Webb Space Telescope Finds Evidence for Alternate Theory of Gravity.
Astronomers discover two galaxies aligned in a way where their gravity acts as a compound lens.
They’re going to waste our collective time to accomplish nothing. Such a great comment.
Female competition stress linked to disordered eating across the lifespan.
The reason I’m writing this is to shoot holes in the “If you haven’t done anything wrong, don’t worry” story. That story is one of the stupidest fucking things I’ve ever heard. And that says a lot, as I grew up in rural North Florida.