Mal Lokrano

I am weird

[Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ @christopherrufo]

SCOOP: California is pressuring public utilities to award $633 million in special contracts to "LGBT-owned" firms. To qualify, residents must go through the state's official gay-certification program—and face up to a year in jail if they're not gay enough.
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[Mal Lokrano @roeboat72]

@ClassicLearner That is because our school system is based on the Prussian model, which was designed to create good obedient soldiers and workers.

[Mal Lokrano @roeboat72]

@Anc_Aesthetics I should rephrase commercial pilots are retired at 65 not private pilots.

[Mal Lokrano @roeboat72]

@Anc_Aesthetics I mean it tracks, pilots are required to retire at 65, and even the Catholic Church has a mandatory retirement age for cardinals (granted it is like 80). So there is precedence in it.

[Mal Lokrano @roeboat72]

For all intents and purposes this is pretty much how the original transcontinental railroad was built. Just with different cities but same overall routes.

[Indianapolis Councilor Nick Roberts @nickroberts317]

Here is my proposal for a US High Speed Rail Network! A lot of research went into this map, and I tried to be as unbiased as possible. Thoughts?

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

Middle-class leftists don't really understand the difference between wealth and money.

That's because what they have is a job as a retarded commie journalist, which pays them money, which they put in the bank before spending it on Funko Pops, cannabis, dildos, and tofu.

They think wealth is "more money". And when they think about "more money", they think about all the Funko Pops they want but can't afford, and about how Elon Musk can afford more Funko Pops than he could ever use, that is if Funko Pops could be used for anything, which they can't, unless you count leftists' strange propensity for putting unexpected things in places they do not belong.

They don't understand that Elon Musk doesn't have some sort of special titanium credit bank card connected to a bank account with 260,000,000,000 munnies in it, for the buying of Funko Pops.

What he has is some businesses he started, and a bunch of dudes whose job it is to guess the value of things have arrived at the consensus that they are worth that much. That guess changes by the hour.

Leftists can't really wrap their heads around this idea, not in the intuitive sense that would allow them to engage with it as a concept. They can't imagine what it would be like to be in that position.

Why not?

Because if they could, they wouldn't be leftists. In fact, many people can, and therefore are not leftists, so leftists are really just the group of people who are self-selected for not being able to figure this out.

This is why they can, without blushing, describe "reusable space launch capability" as "unnecessary wealth".

They don't understand that if you took every share of SpaceX away from Elon Musk, and all the other shareholders, it would still be valued at 200 billion dollars (or whatever it is on the day you are reading this), but it would not magically transform into 200 billion one-dollar bills that you could give to left-wing journalists to buy more Funko Pops with. It would still be a bunch of factories, and designs, and offices, and employment contracts, and rocket engines, and stuff.

The reality is that the earn-spend-consume model of money that retarded leftist commie journos are familiar with has an upper limit. Once you've spent on much on yourself as you want, a ceiling which varies depending on your character, you need a new source of meaning and purpose in life.

You need to develop different ambitions.

Then your spending becomes not about what you want to have, but what you want to create. You build the things you want to see in the world.

This is where money becomes wealth. Money is used to buy things. Wealth is used to build things.

When you create something that a lot of people care about, it's valued at a huge amount of money, because money is a measure of fucks given.

So maybe, when you have enough money to buy a mansion and a yacht, you decide that what you really want is "reusable space launch capability", because you're a nerd who reads science fiction, and so you think it's a kind of dumb idea for humanity to spend all its time on one tiny dust speck in an infinite universe.

So you buy some computers and you hire some dudes who are good at designing things on computers, and then you buy some metal, and hire some dudes who are good at cutting metal and sticking it together, and pretty soon you're the proud owner of whole bunch of stuff.... computers and factories and tanks full of liquid oxygen and launch pads and most importantly, rocket boosters.

And no Funko Pops. Not a single one.

Now, it's worth more money than you started with, because the people who guess the value of things (it's called a "stock market") are starting to agree that this was maybe a pretty good idea.

So, on paper, you're richer than you ever were. But that's your not bank account, or your Funko Pop collection. That's the fact that you now control humanity's effort to leave the gravity well. And you control it because you built it in the first place.

Wealth inequality is a measure of technological progress.

It doesn't exist in low-tech societies where everyone is chasing antelope with a throwing stick and a stone-tipped spear. Because no one invents anything and there's nothing to own.

And it peaks in high-tech societies where enterprising people create entire economies ex nihilo by investing in a wild idea. Because things are being invented and people give a fuck about them, and so the innovators have a much higher net worth than the people who sit around eating processed snack foods and shopping for Funko Pops on the internet.

Reducing wealth inequality is a disaster, and typically requires one. If you reduce wealth inequality in a free market, you are either outright destroying growth enterprises, or transferring control of them to non-producers.

Which is what leftists really are. Useless journo flacks and cloistered academics who want to tear down the engines of tech innovation so they can buy more middle class consumer goods, until they tear down the engines that produce those, too.

The most important task in all of economics is keeping people who don't get shit done out of the way of people who do.

Leave humanity's orbital launch capability alone, Zaid.

It is already in the hands of the people who are best qualified to operate it. We know that because they are ones who built it in the first place.

Das computermachine ist nicht fuer gefingerpoken und mittengrabben bei das doomkompfen. Ist easy schnappen der springenverk.

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

The problem with universal suffrage is that the more technologically advanced a civilization becomes, the smaller the fraction of people there are in it with the native intelligence to understand how it works.

When the majority of humanity was employed in whacking at the dirt with a pointed stick, and the height of technology was a slightly better pointed stick, anyone with a triple digit IQ could understand what was going on.

Now, we have things like stock markets, the internet, transportation infrastructure, and the Linux kernel, but most people who vote are unable to conceive of these as anything but large piles of chocolate coins, or something else they can put their mouths.

Because that's how the average monkey interacts with money. They stack the blocks, the research assistant gives them a token, they exchange the token for a banana.

It's no good trying to explain to the monkeys what supply chain is, or how a trillion dollars worth of rockets can't magically be converted into a trillion dollars worth of bananas just because they're both measured in dollars, as if a six-foot man and a six-foot plank of wood were interchangeable.

Finding a slightly different explanation, or getting the monkeys to sit still and really listen, doesn't really help.

Because the problem isn't just that the monkeys aren't paying attention. The problem is that the monkeys are monkeys.

Their brains simply don't have the developmental capacity to grow the neural connections they would need in order to grasp and manipulate the concept.

In the long term, this is why universal democracy is doomed. Because societies that let retards vote will fail, and be replaced by those that don't.

You may think that we, as a society, face a great variety of problems. We do not. We have only one. Retards. Every other problem we have is downstream from their inability to understand the consequences of their political opinions.

But to fully grasp the implications of this, you have to understand that the definition of "retard" changes over time, as technology advances, because the IQ level required to grasp what's really going on gets steadily higher and higher.

Eventually, the category "retard" grows until it includes the average person.

This has already happened.

Nick Knudsen isn't dumber than the average guy. But the average guy, the 100 IQ salt of the earth guy that's sitting on the next bar stool over, can no longer understand the modern economy. And this isn't correctable, because the problem isn't ignorance, it's complexity.

You can't make Nick Knudsen smarter by telling him things. You can't even make him less ignorant, because the bare facts aren't believable to someone who doesn't have the framework to understand how they fit together.

The people who understand what's going on are so much smarter than him that he doesn't even think they sound smart.

He thinks they sound crazy.

[Mal Lokrano @roeboat72]

It is simple they saw the dollar signs. You see it every time. The family couldn’t care less about a dude with mental issues, most of the time they don’t even want him or take care of him, but as soon as the cops shoot and kill him suddenly now all of the sudden they are grieving and miss their loved one. The reality is they only care enough cause they know they are in for a big payout now.

[Amiri King @AmiriKing]

It was the retardedest of times.

• A man armed with a knife tries to kill his family

• The family calls 911

• The man charges at responding officers with the knife when they show up

• Police shoot and kill him

• The family files a $10m lawsuit

Victim Olympics 🥇

[Bad Hombre @Badhombre]

“So a bunch of idiots donated $600,000 to you for your legal defense?”

Das right, Dave.

“And your family spent it all on bottles of Hennessy, jars of Kool-Aid pineapples, two new Cadillac Escalades, and rented a million dollar home?”

Uh huh.

“So you ended up with a third-rate defense team, and you were found guilty of first degree murder in less than three hours?”

Sho’ nuff, Dave.

[Mal Lokrano @roeboat72]

When I worked for a hospital one of the reasons I started to suspect something wasn’t right was when they were releasing Covid results for our building. The Covid results only even mentioned they tested positive for Covid and not if they were actively experiencing Covid symptoms or were specifically in the hospital for Covid.

It became pretty clear the main goal was to inflate the numbers as much as possible even if the people tested positive but were asymptomatic (not to say precautions shouldn’t be made for someone who was asymptomatic). They lumped everyone into one pile to make it look far more severe than it actually was. It also made it difficult to determine how severe the covid cases were as they didn’t show any levels of severity.

If you were in the hospital because of injuries from a car accident and tested positive you were now a Covid case. If you had a stroke or a heart attack and tested positive you were now a Covid case. It didn’t matter if the symptoms were actually causing problems or not.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

🚨 American worked at a hospital as an ER Nurse during COVID in 2020

She says the hospital would swab everyone who walked through the door, and it wasn’t because of Covid. It’s because they were getting an extra 20% kickback from the government

“Congress passed the CARES Act. Section 3710 of this CARES Act states that every Medicare patient that was diagnosed with COVID paid the hospital 20% more than the same admission would have if they didn't have that COVID diagnosis.

— We were swabbing everyone in the hospital — Everyone that gets admitted to the hospital had to have a COVID swab — If a person came in with a broken hip, they were testing them for COVID to see if they would need to go on a COVID side of the hospital, but they were also getting 20% more”

I looked into this and it’s 100% correct, it did not have to be why the patient walked through the door, it just had to be a positive test

This 20% reimbursement pay increase applied to both principal and secondary diagnoses. Meaning a patient admitted for a broken hip who also tested positive for COVID would qualify for the higher payment on the entire stay

[Mal Lokrano @roeboat72]

@Anc_Aesthetics Leftists and migrants love to do the rules for thee but not for me game.

[Mal Lokrano @roeboat72]

I have often said that women are the biggest creators of misogyny. Behind every misogynist is usually a mom who was abusive, or a wife/fiancé/girlfriend who betrayed him, divorced him and took him to the cleaners, or abused him or otherwise treated him like shit. I have seen very few misogynists that were that way from the beginning, but many more who oftentimes had a villain origin story on why they are the way they are.

Society would rather just blame it all on the men though, and then coddle the women and tell them that all men are bad. A lot of men flock to mgtow, red pill, and other related manosphere content because they are looking for answers on why women treat them the way they do, or why women left them and then did everything they could to destroy them.

But no it is all men’s fault because of misogyny and men bad and evil. Nobody cares about young men and boys. They only care if you are pulling the wagon like the good little mule.

[Ballistic Pissle @BallisticPissle]

Mainstream media is scared of the rise in misogyny and wants to blame the manosphere, but the big rise in misogyny is just guys like this noticing how women act.

[Mal Lokrano @roeboat72]

@Devon_Eriksen_ Yet they will use horrific things to justify their policies. Funny how that only works one way.

[Mal Lokrano @roeboat72]

@libsoftiktok Dude looks like if Sid from ice age had a baby with a moron

[Mal Lokrano @roeboat72]

I mean with that logic then double murder is actually just murder with an unlicensed practicing of abortion.

[girlsay. @_GirlSay]

this is one of the best arguments I've heard on this so far tbh

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Men are biologically wired to notice women’s thighs, hips, and butt for a fascinating reason.

Dave Asprey explained it on Mari Llewellyn’s podcast: women store DHA (an essential omega-3) in those fatty tissues, the exact nutrient babies need for brain development.

That’s also why first children often have higher IQs, mothers pour their DHA and mineral reserves into the first baby. Subsequent kids get less.

He also shared how targeted supplements before, during, and after pregnancy helped his wife (who was diagnosed infertile with PCOS) have healthy kids at 39 and 42, no IVF, no drugs, and drastically lowered her risk of postpartum depression.

DHA makes up ~60% of the polyunsaturated fats in the brain and is vital for neuron growth, synaptic function, and visual development. Mothers transfer large amounts during pregnancy and breastfeeding, depleting their own stores, which is why strategic supplementation before and during pregnancy can reduce postpartum depression risk and support healthier babies.

It’s pretty amazing how evolution built these preferences with a clear biological purpose.

What’s one surprising nutrition or fertility fact you’ve learned that changed how you think about the body?

[Mal Lokrano @roeboat72]

I miss the Marlboro red and white

[NTT INDYCAR SERIES @IndyCar]

Rate this @Team_Penske livery @smclaughlin93 is racing this weekend 😍

[Leading Report @LeadingReport]

Up to 90% of India’s H1B visa applications contain fraudulent information or involve unqualified applicants, a former official tells Newsweek.