Jack Garrett

Desperately need a DC beat reporter to dig into the trivia cheating scandal currently rocking Red Bear Brewing — where it was heavily implied that reigning champions (who have won four straight weeks) were caught cheating, including by using a Shazam-enabled Apple Watch.

The problem with roko is that he’s not very smart

I actually have a take that is even more controversial than this. Not only is it the case that human societies would flourish and people would be happier if women aged 18-40 were banned from the full-time, paid workforce so they could raise children It is furthermore the case that the net total productivity contribution of women to GDP is negative, and by a very large amount. i.e. we could be richer by just giving all women a guaranteed lifetime UBI to party/date/go on holiday/do art/hobby science/whatever they like for their entire lives How could this be the case? Well, you can almost prove it mathematically; as the economy becomes more complex, contributions to GDP are more and more dominated by the right tail, which is mainly male due to men because men have a higher variance. What do women do in the workplace? They get men fired/demoted/overlooked for promotion because it's not "fair" that men take more of the top slots. Not to mention the negative contribution to politics (see: 1 in 7 men support wokeness, 3 in 7 women do) So as a pure mathematical fact there must be some stage of right-tail returns where the above is true. I just happen to think we've already passed it. Note that this is net total contribution - there's a thin slice of highly neuroatypical women who are mentally like men, but their number is very small. In fact I'll go even further: when men do work, they have a large number of average workers and a few super-producers. When women do it, they instead have a large number of average workers and a few super-anti-producers who produce negative products that eclipse and negate all the positive contributions of all the average women. Things like the anti-nuclear movement are a good example. Just us missing out on nuclear power may negate the positive contributions of a significant fraction of female contributions. (And yes, anti-nuclear is almost entirely female)

President Joe Biden has proposed an annual tax credit that would give Americans $400 a month for the next two years to put towards their mortgages. Americans may therefore get a $9,600 tax credit to buy a home. Should this be implemented?