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How’d We Do On Our 2020 Predicitons?
Dismally. Lousy. That's how we did on our 2020 predictions. Nobody saw the global insanity of the lockdowns, the Cult of the Mask, the covidiots, the scale of the election…
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The Church’s Limp-Wristed Coronadoom Response
Perhaps the worst thing the Church did in response to coronadoom was to issue, in the true spirit of "synodality", a new "viral" translation of the Bible. These modified verses…
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Why Lockdowns Spread Bugs Faster Than Liberty: Coronavirus Update XLVI
LOCKDOWNS KILL Suppose a bug is 100% transmissible. Everybody in contact with somebody infected therefore gets it, and passes it on with certainty to the next person they meet. A…
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The Horrors That Await If They Get Away With Stealing The Election
IT'S WHO COUNTS THE VOTES I predicted that unless there was wholesale cheating Trump would win. There was, is, wholesale cheating. There isn't an educated soul anywhere that doesn't know…
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Coronavirus Update XX: Lockdown Madness 2.0: BIG UPDATE
All the good stuff, caveats, code, data sources and explanations are linked, some in Update III, and the most important in Update II, Update IV, Update V, Update VI, Update…
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1968 Then And Now — Guest Post by Ianto Watt
Welcome home, neighbor. Welcome to our past. Welcome to our future. Most of all, welcome back to Hué. The scene of America's last great military victory. A hard-fought victory against…
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Troy 2.0 — Guest Post by Ianto Watt
The question has fairly arisen: do I still stand by my prediction(s) made in my book, The Barbarian Bible. The answer, of course, is 'Yes'. Double yes, to be exact.…
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Cognitive Bayes & Rationality: Why Theoretical Explanations Charging People With Conspiracy Theories Fails
Fun quiz time! This is some data: x = c(0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1). Something caused that data to be. I know what it is,…
