opus 5.5 says there's a recognized dynamic in geriatric medicine called "therapeutic nihilism" that applies to "multiply-hospitalized elderly patients" like mum the weekend doctor characterized her case as "medically cryptic" the new doctor just said "fuck it, discharge her"💀

today my mum's hospital ambushed me with a 6 vs 1 "family meeting" without any advance notice. its sole purpose: shove her out. 4th day in ward: never spoke to her doctor, no diagnosis, not told she has resistant bacterial infection. Canada's health care is sicker than my mum.

“National conservatism is based on love. Love of one's heritage. Homeland. Love of one's God. … Love makes hospitality possible, for I can only invite someone into my home if I have a home.” — R. R. Reno of @FirstThingsMag at NatCon Jerusalem.

This is basically unironically correct. In any culture you have to kind of get a sense of how hard people are working and if you’re putting in way less effort, you’ll be ostracized, but if you are putting in too much effort, then you should also expect to be ostracized. In the private sphere, the latter case often means that you are in the wrong environment and you should try to find a context that matches your ambition. But people are naturally wary of shifting the broader culture too much in one direction or the other. Liberals are all using the term, “Goldilocks racism” to mock this view, but that is also unironically the right framing. There is no objectively correct answer. It’s culturally dependent. It literally is like Goldilocks. We are in a kind of local equilibrium that works well for us and we don’t want to disturb it. That’s perfectly natural and fine.

Every recent immigrant group praises itself as supremely intelligent, productive and all that. It’s admirable self-esteem I suppose. But a repeat observation is that we don’t even know what the true level of our domestic talent is. We’ve been undercutting and degrading white men for decades. You can’t hobble your own, and then praise ‘newcomers’ as superior.

This is the culture that produced the sword in the stone. It doesn’t matter how much you’ve practiced, how much you’ve trained, how hard you’ve worked. You’re either meant to pull the sword or you aren’t. Neo isn’t “the one” because he studied to be.

They just make shit up all the time so that it gets memed into the discourse as something that happened, even though it didn’t.

A corollary of HBD is that striverism is a massively negative-sum game. Your ability to do your job is mostly about innate talent. Sure, you have to know specific things. But that’s not difficult. Grinding SAT problems is just waste. This is not to say Asian or Jewish advantage is just about striving, it’s not. I believe in g. What it means is striving is, if anything, an even greater tragedy for these groups. Koreans kill themselves after exams. They spend their whole youth grinding. And it doesn’t matter at all. It’s just negative-sum relative status competition. They’ll be exactly as good at their eventual real world jobs as they would be if they didn’t manically memorize geometry problems. Asia needs this message more than anyone. You can let your kids be kids. It won’t change their brains. I don’t want my own culture consumed by this ridiculous unscientific fever. And before anyone cries “cope” I maxxed the GRE (without studying).

Lyricism is by far the least important part of music

Around 1 a.m. in Ontario, Canada, 18-year-old Aeron McQuillin, 17-year-old Bailey Campbell, and 15-year-old Billy Tarbett, who had gone out for a late-night snack, came across a woman stranded on the side of the road after her car had broken down, and she told them she could not afford a tow truck. Instead of continuing on their way, the three teenagers decided to help, and with the woman steering they began pushing the car by hand, moving it nearly 7 kilometers down the road toward her home over a trip that took more than 2 hours. Another driver eventually stopped and followed behind them with headlights and hazard lights on for safety, and even as hills, exhaustion, and a dead battery made the work harder, the boys kept going until just after 4 a.m., when they finally pushed the car into the woman’s driveway.

秋の長野が絶景なんです

This is a picture of Beicha. It's a small village of 128 people near Döbeln, in Middle Saxony. On 26 Sept., the villagers held a little village 'Oktoberfest,' sponsored by their local volunteer fire department. The kind of thing many municipalities across Germany are doing right now. Five migroids showed up, got drunk and started pissing in someone's garden. A fireman told them off, they left angry but they returned in four cars. Now there were nine of them. They attacked the lingering revelers at the village party, using beer mugs and broken bottles as weapons. They wounded nine people, putting six of them in hospital. Witnesses said there was blood everywhere. After the bloodbath the migroids fled. Police stopped one of the fleeing cars, took IDs, but let them go – no hard grounds for arrest. They are presently 'investigating.' The day after their attack ,some of the nine returned to the village to tell the villagers they'd burn their houses down if they talk. Wir schaffen das.

Real campaign sign from here in Kelowna😂 I hope he wins!

This is not how you talk about a people you love and respect. It is how you talk about a people you hate.

A brewery worker in a small town was found wearing a "Show Me the Evidence" shirt on Orange Shirt Day yesterday, so the brewery fired him and issued a temporary closure. Just another day in Canada, where you can wear politicized shirts... but only if you hold the correct opinion 🫩

RT @jonatanpallesen: There is a widespread phenomenon of children in Europe getting beat into submission and humiliation by Muslims. Someti…

"Just look at this cemetery with an ironwork grate, marked graves, and thorough documentation of deaths due to contagious disease. This proves the residential schools were an extermination campaign!"

“Parents had to apply in writing for their children to attend, since boarding was over three times more expensive than day school. And 50 per cent of Indigenous kids left both day and residential schools after Grade 1. In short, admission was only at parental request and exit was at will.”nationalpost.com/opinion/nig…

This is something I've been wondering about. How does residential school mortality compare to back on the reserve? Seems native kids might have died at a higher rate if they'd stayed home.