Author: Chill

Reading, England

Chill Killin' It

No one does the reading.

I do the reading. A lot of it. And that’s why I often know more than so-called “experts” in a field. You can learn a hell of a lot if you put in some effort and have a halfway decent brain.

Woody Allen supposedly said something like, “70% of life is just showing up.” And that’s true in all areas. If you read a couple of textbooks in a field and the top dozen papers, you already know more than 99.99% of people in general and more than 50% of “experts” in that field.

Sad but true.

Chill Links

Trump, Chip Maker TSMC Announce $100 Billion Investment in U.S. Something positive at least.

How the British Broke Their Own Economy.

Social Security Checks Could Stop Going Out by April, Ex-Head Warns. Depression even more likely.

‘Fighter Drone’ Designations Officially Assigned To Collaborative Combat Aircraft By USAF.

House Democrats Vow To Hold President Accountable With Agriculture Bill Where First Letter Of Every Line Spells Out ‘Impeach Trump.’

China Retaliates Against Trump Tariffs as Superpower Trade War Escalates.

How globalization brought us Trump.

Total Context Collapse: New Polls Show That 100% Of Americans Have Forgotten Why We Built A Society In The First Place And Why We Need To Keep Doing It.

Marine Le Pen condamne «la brutalité» de la décision des États-Unis de suspendre l’aide à l’Ukraine.

In Recess

Chill Political Economy

Should be a bit higher. And we’re going the opposite direction.

Unfortunately, partially due to that and the uncertainly around the government being destroyed, a recession is baked in, Great Recession II is extremely likely and depression chance is about 50/50 now. If Social Security checks are disrupted for more than a month, depression chance is 90%.

Status and Judgment

Chill Culture

Dating requirements.

This isn’t entirely wrong, but it also isn’t fair to women.

It ignores that being attractive isn’t actually that easy. We live in an obesogenic environment that requires a lot of self-control. And to be what most men consider attractive1 involves quite a lot of work from women: “natural” makeup, shaving legs and armpits, dressing decently and flatteringly and other skin care and body care routines that most men are not even aware of.

But it’s right in that men are more judged on things they have no control over, especially in the US2.

As a first approximation, women are valued for merely existing; men are valued for status and achievements. Those men who have neither are considered disposable by both men and women.

  1. If you don’t just naturally have it like my partner.
  2. Women in other countries aren not so incredibly, unhealthily obsessed with height as American women are. Don’t know why.

Chill Links

Trump administration retreats in fight against Russian cyber threats.

Hundreds of your Warner Bros DVDs probably don’t work anymore.

They Crashed the Economy in 2008. Now They’re Back and Bigger Than Ever.

Google has near complete and absolute control over the browser market. Bundle this with the most popular search engine, and they have near complete control over the web.

Gangster Party. As gangsterism, it all makes sense.

Musk Is Lying About Waste and Fraud in Social Security to Have an Excuse to Kill It. Rich people hate Social Security so, so much; they want you to work until you die and they want that money in the fund.

Economic alarm bells are sounding. Tariffs threaten to deal a big blow.

Trump administration dramatically cuts staff at water agency in California. Depression getting more and more likely all the time.

NASA’s upcoming telescope launch aims to address some existential questions.

Press

Chill Clowns, Prediction

I’d put the odds of a recession at 90%1, the odds of a Great Recession at 65%, and the odds of a depression similar to the 1930s at 45%.

We are fucking up big time.

  1. The highest I go for anything systemic.