This is so unreal

As @treeofwoe observes, "GDP" is a classic example of optimizing the metric and not the underlying phenomenon the metric is supposed to score. The result is the real economy suffers while the GDP by which it is scored soars sky high. The same thing happens in science.

We want to know how good a scientist is. Hard to do, but we can count how many papers they produce, and more papers correlate to more science and more productivity. In response to this metric, scientists shave their work down into tinier and tinier slivers. We have more papers than ever, but they are of lower quality and arguably less real science is done because more effort is diverted into the overhead of producing, reviewing, and publishing all the extra papers.

So, we change the metric to take into account how many people CITE the paper (h-scores and similar measures). The result? Scientists make a point of referencing each other as a way to curry favor with the important, well-cited scientists on peer-review committees while paying less attention to the innovative newcomers who aren't getting citations. Less scrupulous scientists completely game the system by forming cliques that mutually cite each other and boost their scores sky-high.

We were arguably all better off under a system where a few elite gatekeepers were doing the gatekeeping. Sure, they had biases and oversights, but at least we weren't wasting all this bureaucratic effort optimizing the metric.

The bottom line is: you always get more of what you score, not more of what the score is trying to measure.

https://treeofwoe.substack.com/p/gross-domestic-fraud

"The vaccines prevent the contraction and transmission of COVID-19, except that they don’t, and whoever said they did anyway? The ruble will be rubble in a month, but then, everyone knew the war would last a long time; Putin is after all both losing to Ukraine and a threat to the rest of Europe. To pull Joe Biden from his re-election bid would be undemocratic, almost as much so as questioning the ascent of Kamala Harris to replace him, and even though she was an excellent border czar she was also never the border czar and has nothing to do with the massive invasion currently taking place that she stopped years ago."

https://librarianofcelaeno.substack.com/p/le-cirque-du-sogay

Oh. THAT'S a relief. It's totally not demonic and there is in fact a natural and scientific explanation for the red glowing eyes:

"Mythmakers suggest the rearing horse is cursed after killing its creator, Luis Jiménez, in 2006. Jiménez was a famed artist who did, in fact, die building the statue — but not in the way conspiracists think.

"Stegman said Jiménez was killed in his New Mexico studio after a piece of the sculpture fell on his leg and severed a vital artery and noted the glowing eyes didn't come about because of it.

"The artist's father was a neon sign maker, so the red eyes were a tribute to his father," she said. "It's really a beautiful story, not something demonic."

https://www.businessinsider.com/denver-airport-conspiracy-theories-horse-gargoyle-behind-the-scenes-tour-2024-7

What Brings a Man Down

How women perceive the hierarchy

https://sigmagame.substack.com/p/what-brings-a-man-down

“Anti-social behavior is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists”

― Nikola Tesla

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"As Great Britain descends into chaos after the stabbing deaths of three innocent young girls in Southport, a sensational video is making the rounds of Canadian singer Kelly Lamb performing [Owen Benjamin's] “How They Rule Ya” at Tommy Robinson’s “Unite the Kingdom” protest at Trafalgar Square July 27 to a crowd of 100,000."

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/08/sensational-hymn-100-000-sing-this-is-how/

"Now, scandal is rocking SFWA and threatening to destroy the club entirely as their president stepped down and the SFWA board issued a strange statement trying to ease members’ concerns."

https://fandompulse.substack.com/p/sfwa-rocked-by-rumors-of-scandal

"The American ability to fight militarily is going down. And to the military, that means if we don’t have war now and wait till next year in the future, we’ll be less and less and less able to win.

"Well, the reality is they’re going to lose wherever they go, unless there’s atomic war and the chessboard is thrown over. And I think their feeling is the Americans are doing everything they can, from Ukraine to Israel to Iran, to try to stir up a retaliation so that they can then say, ah, we’re under attack, we’re purely defending ourselves, and once you tell your population and your voters this is a war for defense, as the Nazis know, you can always get a—as Goebbels said, you can always get a population on your side if you say it’s for defense."

https://voxday.net/2024/08/03/neocons-are-back/

Biden almost flew to Russia as a result of the exchange .

The President of the United States went and boarded the plane after all the prisoners had already gotten off it , and sat there until he was taken out of it .

The pills don't help anymore.

🇮🇪 🤝 🇬🇧 Catholics and Protestants are quite literally marching shoulder to shoulder in Belfast, Northern Ireland as they demand an end to Mass Immigration.

🔶️ When these two communities are putting their differences aside and coming together, you know you’ve messed up.

📎 Cillian

"There are three possible explanations for the Trump assassination attempt, which Big Tech and the media have attempted to delete from our memory: (1) thanks at least in part to DEI, the Secret Service has achieved levels of incompetence heretofore unimagined; (2) the Deep State let it happen through malicious apathy; or (3) the Deep State made it happen."

https://moonbattery.com/unprecedented-incompetence-or-inside-job/