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Herr Doktor Noster retweeted
Almost nothing about halo had Bible allusions.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The original Halo trilogy by Bungie contains numerous Biblical references such as the Covenant, the Flood and Ark (paralleling Noah's flood), Master Chief John-117, and the line "It is finished."
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Herr Doktor Noster retweeted
It should be an embarrassment to the entire conservative movement that a self-proclaimed socialist did this instead of them.
Never been to the opera before?
Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @MetOpera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house.
Herr Doktor Noster retweeted
Ancient Grek is just another language, with practice the upside is infinite. If you can get your listening level up to comprehending Thucydides at 2x audio speed, you will mog basically every classicist alive. It's literally free with a grinding mindset, but they will tell you it's impossible because their upbringing taught them diligence beats dumb repetition
Herr Doktor Noster retweeted
How do we do this? How are we as a society supposed to distribute extremely scarce medical resources? No one actually had an answer to this question.
Herr Doktor Noster retweeted
The “power” of the tech billionaires:
A full-grown cheetah can kill you instantly. You are safe with it, because it has a narrow prey drive. Gazelles only.
Money is power. But tech money has a narrow drive. It only invests—and only incrementally, toward goals it can measure
Herr Doktor Noster retweeted
The plan? We use AI to replace jobs, but not the menial lower class ones. Instead we target the elite knowledge workers to flip the status hierarchy and undo The Sort, which will bring back 130 IQ local politicians, police, and civil servants, thereby reversing enshittification.
Herr Doktor Noster retweeted
here's a direct link to a pdf of the essay:
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Herr Doktor Noster retweeted
Having just been there twice specifically to meet with engineers from many companies all over China (at the offices of one of their largest and most famous companies) as part of a big project my employer is doing with some Chinese partners:
1. They are scrappy. The education system is hyper competitive and many families spend a lot of private tutors and other educational expenses so engineers often return the favor by sending money back to their families... Often companies have dormitory housing available and engineers and even their managers will live in these dorms two to a room to save money if they are single.
2. They are young. I guess the country has made graduating a ton of engineers a big priority and I was surprised how the average age even at their biggest companies was not that high.
3. They are pragmatic. This is perhaps the most striking and consistent difference. American engineers are passionate about the "mission" of their companies in many cases, Chinese engineers would largely find this a foreign concept. AI researchers don't take the job because they think they can help build a digital super-intelligence that will change the world and engineers at BYD aren't trying to save the planet from climate change. I would be very surprised if even 1% of Chinese engineers put any kind of broader "mission" anywhere in the top 5 reasons they took the job (money would certainly be number 1, followed by things related to future opportunities like the prestige of the company or the prospects of the industry) and personal concerns like proximity to family, etc.).
4. The famous Chinese work culture isn't as bad as they say but they do work hard and in particular they work LATE. 8 or 9 at night would not be uncommon at all, though almost no one shows up before 9 in the morning and they have a 1.5 hour lunch at minimum (often including a nap).
5. For entertainment I'd say it's closer to America than most of the other things I have mentioned. LOTS love PC/video games, talked to a few who had project cars or bikes, they like to drink (as do most peoples) but bars less common and drinking is normally done at restaurants with food. Not a lot of outdoor stuff as hobbies but that's probably more to do with how urbanized the areas with many engineers are... No engineers that I met owned any land as far as I was aware (if they did it would probably be family/inherited land in a rural province they didn't visit much) and guns are not allowed so that's out as a hobby (though everyone who came to the US wanted to go shooting as most foreign visitors do).
Herr Doktor Noster retweeted
Protestant iconoclasm culture. It’s the same reason Muslims love calligraphy.
Herr Doktor Noster retweeted
Freud and Lacan could have told you this!
Herr Doktor Noster retweeted
bros music takes really top tier compared to his econ ones
When does great art stop feeling fresh?
Tyler Cowen on rap -
"Rap, I think, is largely dead. Electronica, for now at least, has been exhausted. I'm waiting for AI music to become really good."
"I loved a lot of early rap from the '80s. Felt very fresh. De La Soul felt very fresh. Some of OutKast. I'm not anti-rap the way some people hate the art form, but at the same time, I don't put it on anymore, unless you count Kanye as rap, but I wouldn't."
Herr Doktor Noster retweeted
I don't want a Christianized Homer. I want the real Homer to show why Christ was necessary.
IMHO, a lot of conservatives are missing the Biblical forest for the woke trees in Nolan's Odyssey. Yes, the casting of Elliot Page is silly and egregious. But here's the thing: Nolan's "The Odyssey" is an apologia for Christian morality poured into a Greek vase.
The entire movie is rooted in what Nolan terms "Zeus' law." That law is: "Treat others as you would want to be treated, because anyone might be a god." Now, clearly, there's nothing like that in Greek mythology. It's not implicit in Homer. It's a direct rip from Biblical morality, substituting "because anyone might be a god" for "because man was made in the image of God."
Nolan then takes this rule and uses it as his moral glue: the idea is that Odysseus, in utilizing the Trojan Horse, violated Zeus' law and led to full-scale slaughter. That sin has led to the unleashing of broader globalized sin (the "sea peoples" who don't respect Zeus' law and are invading surrounding areas). This is a highly Biblical message: that sin is infectious, and that sin also affects the world at large, not just the sinner.
Odysseus has sinned, and he must atone for that sin through self-imposed exile. He must also sacrifice his own aspirations to restore the possibility of a moral universe: because he has unleashed catastrophic violence and violation of Zeus' law -- manifest in the suitors' cynical use of Zeus' law to eat Penelope out of house and home -- he must violate Zeus' law one last time and then accept the penalty, which is exile.
This is a not only a movie that will make millions of people go read classical literature again. It also reinforces the idea that violation of the Golden Rule has disastrous consequences.
I dunno. I'd consider that, on balance, a large-scale win for civilizational values, when weighed against the woke casting of Elliot Page or the dumbass discussion over whether Lupita Nyongo is good-looking enough (she is, and for the record Diane Kruger is German, not Greek).
Herr Doktor Noster retweeted
My advice for every dude in college:
Seriously date for finding your wife in college. You will never ever have a better high proximity dating pool of people with shared cultural interests and easy intros.
My advice to every dude in college:
Don’t seriously date in college.
You’re trying to find a wife while competing with:
• Frat parties every Friday
• Spring Break in Cancun
• Miami weekends
• Nashville girls trips
• “The girls booked Europe for 3 weeks”
• Study abroad in Italy
College is built around freedom, novelty, and “once-in-a-lifetime experiences.”
Graduate. Build your career. Then start looking for your wife while you move to a big city. (After 25)
You’ll save yourself a lot of headaches.
Herr Doktor Noster retweeted
One reason why conservatives (and right wingers) hate Hegel is that the entire conservative intellectual sphere is all about one-upping each other with increasingly absurd and obscure points in history where everything supposedly went wrong.
The rightoids love this stuff because it LOOKS like an explanation for where everything comes from, it's comforting and demystifies the world for them, so the cattle are very impressed when Dyer blames it all on nominalism, Peterson on postmodernism, Prager U on Marxism, Irvin Babbitt on Rousseau, etc.
But seeing ideas as necessary answers to problems and contradictions of their time, as part of the historical development of thought, as Hegel did, makes it impossible to participate in this absurd race to the bottom. Nominalism was simply an attempt to answer the problem of universals, which was a real problem which needed a real answer. You cannot expect people to just stop thinking or to stop looking for answers at some arbitrary moment I'm time because you don't like what they come up with to solve contradictions or problems.
A proper right winger is someone like Otto von Bismarck. Did he like German nationalism? No. But he made it subservient to Prussian interests and tamed it. Did he like liberalism? No, but he knew he couldn't pretend it wasn't an important force in society and managed them through parliament and mass enfranchisement. Did he like socialism? No, but he knew it responded to the misery of the working classes so he introduced social welfare, etc. He was successful because he recognised that these ideas have their necessary existence. Rather than try to fight them as these aberrations that shouldn't, he mastered them.
Jay Dyer on Tucker Carlson: How Medieval Philosophy Nominalism created modern transgender ideology:
“Nominalism is the idea that there are only names to things, not essences. So there’s no human nature. No dog nature. The ancient world believed things have real essences. Words described metaphysical reality.
Occam started denying that. It influenced Luther. Then Hume, Kant, the Enlightenment…
If things don’t have essences, then they don’t have genders objectively — everything is just a name.
So I can just name myself he, him, Zer, Z.
That’s the logical train from medieval philosophy to postmodern gender ideology.
It flies in the face of lived experience. You basically have to be indoctrinated to believe it.”
Herr Doktor Noster retweeted
A British woman is defending killing her baby in an abortion so her family could go on vacation.
A 28-year-old mother of two has publicly defended her decision to abort her unborn baby, saying she is happy she did so because her family would not have to “suffer.”
Leah Allington’s decision to end her baby’s life in abortion also allowed her family of 4 to move into a larger home, she claims.
She added: “I do not regret it and I never will. I’m happy I had an abortion and I’m happy my family don’t have to suffer. If I didn’t have the abortion, we wouldn’t have end up where we are now.”
Allington listed specific improvements she links to the abortion: “We’re in a three-bed house now, its got a garden. We just booked our first family holiday, a caravan holiday, and we wouldn’t have been able to do that at all. I now have a part-time job in the evening, that wouldn’t have been a thing. We’re in a much better position and situation for not having a third child.”
Allington, from Bedfordshire, learned she was pregnant with her third child in July 2024. She and her “partner” concluded they could not happily welcome another child while living in a two-bedroom apartment, where they slept in the living room so their daughters (then aged three and nine) could have their own rooms.
Allington soon began to experience the typical symptoms of being pregnancy but described them as “almost like a sign that I was making the right decision, my body was simply rejecting it, essentially.”
She contacted her local NHS and got the dangerous abortion pill that has killed millions of babies and injured hundreds of thousands of women.
An ultrasound was done of the baby but she never saw it before deciding to end the life of her little boy or girl.
Allington said: “My first thought [after seeing positive pregnancy test] was, I know I can’t keep it, and I was upset. Then I started throwing up, it was scary, it was out of nowhere as well. I think it’s almost like a sign that I was making the right decision, my body was simply rejecting it, essentially.”
The mother apparently couldn’t see that millions of families still have these things and make adjustments after having an additional child, who brings love and joy into a household.
Allington said her sister, her partner’s mother told her: “you’ve made the right decision” and that they were “happy that we were mature enough to realize that.”
Maturity would have been loving her baby, not killing her baby.
Herr Doktor Noster retweeted
“Grok inhabits a moral space shared with virtually no human societies” is my favorite part of this
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I am having a drink this evening with a friend in a Chiswick pub. Two policemen have just come into the pub and asked me to step outside. I have stepped outside and they have threatened me because I tweeted about a councillor banning seating outside pubs in Chiswick. They admit on video (watch it!) that I did not break the law at all. They came to threaten me. To warn me off tweeting about councillors and the council. This is modern Britain. This is the police state. Please, please, please watch this video. It does involve me using very bad language, but this has got to be seen. Police coming out to threaten someone who hasn’t committed a crime. I’m fuming.
