Woke era might be on it's way fading out. CEOs watching what they said pretty closely. Now CEOs firing their comms group, getting candid. Palantir's Karp on short sellers. Then
Jensen Huang ‘People with high expectations have low resilience. And resilience matters in success. I don’t know how to teach it to except to say I hope suffering happens to you. To this day I use Pain and Suffering in our company with great glee. Boy this is gonna cause a lot of pain and suffering. ... You wanna refine the character of your company. You want greatness out of them. And greatness is not intelligence. Greatness comes from character. And character isn't formed out of smart people. It's formed out of people who've suffered.'
Most Based CEO. All-in. Is there a vibe-shift. People less concerned about cancel culture. People are speaking their mind more. But maybe the CEOs haven't really done anything risky, unlike Elon who has taken real risks and has paid the price. Taking a really difficult political stance. True risktaking by speaking truth to power.

Shanghai elderly seek love at Ikea - YouTube
They bring self-made snacks t a food court at Ikea
This started when the IKEA started offering free coffee at its canteen.
It's a ‘place to have fun’ in rising divorce rate China. People date there, but also hang out. It's an 'entertainment locaiton'. ‘They come to make friends and wile away the lonely hours.’
In the 1970s, 10% of the residents of Shanghai were over 60 for the first time. Now 5.5m (37% of) people in Shanghai. 1/5 297m elderly in China live alone.
‘When I reached this age, I realized I had a yearning for love as well. So you see, people change. It’s not embarrassing to speak out. It's not only young people who need love, elderly people do to.
'Old people actually fear lonliness. Even if we do not talk, just sitting here already gives us a sense of satisfaction.
#Drama

Psychologists are trained to BLAME straight white men for everything. GB News covers our new NCF Doc - YouTube
The future generation of clinical therapists are being educated on a standard of critical race theory (not colorblind).

RCMP Warn of an ANGRIER Canada in New Report - YouTube
Freedom of Info Act stuff.
‘Anyone who opposes imposed government policy is ... an extremist.’
‘Coming period of recession will also accelerate the decline of living standards that the younger generations have already witnessed compared with earlier generations. Many Canadians under 35 are unlikely ever to buy a place to live.'
People angry perhaps because they're consuming info on these subjects (actual situation in Canada) without getting a break from it. Then receiving gaslighting and gaslighting attempts. And people have to purposefully disconnect from the news for a real period of time (days) to come down.
Perhaps one outcome will be further division of people from their friends and family, as some members say You know this new tax is not so bad, and others are outraged. Why are they focussing their anger on each other?
Protests start to become inspiring for people, instead of just observed news.

Matt Taibbi on How “Free Speech” Turned Into a “Far Right” Slogan - YouTube

Abigail Shrier: How therapy culture creates victims - YouTube

China, the sectors have profit margins driven down to almost zero. 1-3% profit margin usually. It's difficult for a company to stand out.

China strong feeling trade war will continue, so need for economic superiority, so capital shouldn't be allocated to housing or soft tech (e-business, consumer tech). They would like all the money to go to semis, new materials or EVs. Not a natural mechanism of markets, but rather Chinese central planning.

China, after lockdowns, people expected stronger policy response, but instead there was a crackdown in housing sector, because government wanted to deleverage from all those real estate developers, which has drained liquidity from the banking sector. In addition, more regulations in stock market, banking sector, anti-corruption campaign in health care and financial industries.
Lack of trust in government, because you used to know where to go but not now, in investing.
Middle class wealth has been shrinking for last 2 years. People feel much poorer, frustrated. Middle class now worrying about their jobs, but before there weren't really layoffs like this.

The Reality of China's Economy with Wang Dan, Chief Economist at Hang Seng Bank China - YouTube
China, new government started last year, and they have a new agenda layed out for next 20 years. Supply chain upgrade, China becomming richer, individuals richer. Ambitious goals. Green tech, new industrial structure tied to carbon emission reductions. Growth could even increase pace. Top officials don't have willingness to talk about details with public. Public doesn't understand policy anymore.
It might just be too difficult to explain to the public.

China, question of middle income trap. China was never a welfare state like Brazil. No intention to make it one. Unemployment insurance is nonexistant basically. If a person loses a job, they don't think the government should help them reflexively. One of the reasons they have more savings.

China, state owned sector dominating most strategic industries and taking over most profitable projects. So private sector, how will it fare? A middle or large company even can go bankrupt in China. Innovation happens most, and most jobs created, in private sector.

China, if supply chain moves out, whole ecosystem will follow it. Stress for cities. Shinking in local labor market and export.

Moving supply chains out means picking between China and a combination. Like either China or a combination of Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia. Deal with several labor markets, several countries.

China, buying things is cheap, cheaper than before, and a good variety of stuff. So people not demandning structural changes as much as otherwise. If prices don't increase, people won't spend on durable goods.

There are ways to get out your honest opinion without criticizing. Try to find some constructive solution or way of debating certain topics. I find that very useful. - Wang Dan

The public will buy the nationalistic message. If you say the Chinese or Western economy is collapsing, they buy it.

AI, people fearful about applications. ‘I think we would embrace AI wholeheartedly if we had a recent history like the 1990s, but instead we had a whole decade of economic problems, this social unrest, riots and people screaming at each other 24/7 on social media, crazy politicians, fundamental uncertainty about the social fabric of America. I think that put people in a defensive crouch.’
AI's Influence on the Economy with Nathan Labenz - YouTube

Exiled Chinese artist Ai Weiwei: 'Censorship in West exactly the same as Mao's China' - YouTube
'Sometimes even more ridiculous.' If two professors give opinions, a kind of private talk, then they have to be fired. It is considered attitude, not private opinion. You cannot talk about the truth anywhere.
Certain matters, you just cannot touch.
‘Art is a special form of freedom of speech. If freedom of speech doesn’t exist we cannot call it art. And any artist who's not an artist is a dead artist.'
Artists in this society are mostly corrupted. Seeking money or fame, no one really cares.
‘Are you a real artist, or are you too arrogant?’
‘I cannot exercise my rights or my art, but still I can live well there.’
#Weiwei
"Many of My Shows Have Been Canceled": Chinese Artist Ai Weiwei on Israel, Gaza & Censorship - YouTube

Even if you're a person who default-postion doesn't see anything wrong with wearing a front-facing camera (glasses with cameras), and says ‘I have the right to do what I want’ and that ‘public space you can do what you want’, won't they, over time, feel the social pressure of sitting down at a table with friends or new acquaintances or business partners who react very negatively to their imposition and invasion/threat to privacy of that person, that they after a few instances just say it's not worth it and I guess I will respect other people after all?
So if you want to see people be more respectful of this, your solution should maybe be not to focus on defense, ie masks, etc, but rather on low-grade persistent offense, ie calling people out, confronting them, when they are being invasive and annoying, but not fighting them, so that you can continue to do so and so that they will be worn down through education to change.

Girls are more likely than parents to be liberal, men more conservative, GenZ.
Why the political worldviews of young men and women are increasingly diverging | DW Analysis - YouTube
Boys and men are behind in education at every age, every subject. Scandanavia is the biggest gap, men are most behind. The gap is as pronounced as they were the other way around in the 70s or whatever. There's no difference in testing intelligence, but there is in who finishes and tries in education.
Some of this has to do with girls maturing at younger age, so they are more ready for responsiblities or whatever of school.
‘Useless’ and ‘worthless’. ‘Are they needed? Are then necessary?’
You can look at the opportunities for men. They can work part time. They can stay at home and raise children. These were things denied to men who had been the default breadwinner.
Structural disadvantages. Blacks. Poverty, neighborhoods, frontline work.
Rich men, who don't have to worry about being the breadwinner because they can easily provide and because their partners often can also provide, it's easier for them to be feminist and say there's no problem. Poorer men, who can't provide and have to focus on trying to be a provider (and traditional gender role). Zero sum. Toxic masculinity blames men for their own plight. Using the word ‘toxic’ is toxic itself, you've signalled your politics and that you are their enemy, and they will stop listening.
Andrew Tate is idolized, not just listened to. Not just important but profound. He speaks truth, he vilifies women and feminism, mocks empathy and kindness. He socializes boys a certain way. Can they be deprogrammed? The reason they find a market is young men are struggling with questions and there's nobody else trying to give an answer, except feminists saying ‘Stop being so toxic.’ We have a problem with strong male role-models.
‘They don’t care about male suicide.' (It is 4x women.) Where do they mention the gender gap on the government site? They do LGBTQ, veterans, urban, which are all smaller disparities. No wonder Andrew Tate can pick up followers.
Fathers need to understand that and how they are valuable to their children, without the element of being the provider. What men do for children and families, society.

There's no shared culture now. A teacher can't mention any TV show that more than 1/4 of the students have seen. There is no movie half the students have seen.

Dating apps are the lowest quality leftovers. -HoeMath

US study finds young men want children more than women, but experts aren't surprised - YouTube
Age 18-34, 57% of men, 45% women, want children. Women face changes to body, impediment to career.

Ben Carson Warns Of 'An Entirely New Threat To Our Country' - YouTube
Washington is losing its legitimate claim to govern the American people.
It has stopped even pretending to execute the charge laid out by our founders.
The Federal beurocracy, MSM, academia, Hollywood, Big Tech, and every other nexus of power ... has turned its fire against conservatives, against Christians, against anyone ... crisis of legitimacy.
America was founded on the idea that sovereignty comes from the consent of the governed.
Young men, particularly young white men, aren't signing up in great numbers anymore ... they don't want to fight for a country that hates them.
That spends trillions abroad while their towns are falling apart.
While their jobs are shipped overseas without a second thought.
That takes whatever little social capital they have left and redistributes it to others not them.
Who can blame them?
He said that what governments and school authorities are doing to children, coming down on them hard with the law if they try to pray, etc, is nothing less than child abuse.
#BenCarlson

Handyman warns of migrants catching on to squatter rights - YouTube

Based Councilman executes strategy to test if migrant supporters are willing to do what they preach - YouTube

The Dystopian CULT of Looks MAXXING (Men are not okay) - YouTube

Unfortunately NBA Teams Have Solved Basketball… - YouTube
The most efficient offense. Pick and roll. Everyone playing the same way. And it's just shooters.
They're all tall, wingspan is becomming the #1 factor whether you can be drafted at all, they're all athletic. Scoring is a super easy task. The ball is moving faster than a person. People drawing soccer-style fouls. Players not even sweating.
Peoples suggestions: reduce point power of the 3 (perhaps by moving the line). No 3 second rule in the key. Call travelling and carrying (the league has sold out). Bring back hand checks and cut bumps. Let players play d without getting fouls. Call offensive fouls.

Unc & Ocho react to Beyonce's "Texas Hold 'Em" being barred from country radio stations | Nightcap - YouTube

You don't need to win military skirmishes to take over Central and Eastern Europe. All you need to do is control the media and the social media ecosystem, because that's what controls elections, and if you simply get the right administration into power, they control the military. Organized political influence operation. - Mike Benz

Why are Hollywood movies falling out of favor in China? - YouTube
Comedies.

Vancouver residents taught to repair, not waste, at free event - YouTube
spec.bc.ca

Grammys. Taylor won album of the year, only person to do it 4x. Didn't hear any of the songs though throughout the year I don't think. Some hip hop artists gratuitously grandstanded. Not one good song. Not even one. I guess if you make it about not music (but rather looks, news, virality) after a few years you don't get music anymore. They also neutered rockstars with laws and politics (mostly laws I'd guess), so no one even wants to become a rockstar anymore, and there's no avenue to it because everyting is consumed before it ever gets to a completed stage. Will this era be like the 10s and 20s. We don't remember any songs from then. When we hear one, it's unappealing. What finally came out of all that was jazz (and blues but blues seems to have been a smaller, undergroundish alternative trend. It wasn't until the 50s and really the 60s when music we think of as good was made again.
Is it that conditions would somehow have to turn to 1. make it possible to be bad and a rockstar, have people shun/no access to devouring tools like socialmedia, and perhaps a new instrument type. Perhaps our era continues in its dismal trend, increasing repression and conformity and not permitting being ‘bad’ (not permitting in a serious way) for decades, and then maybe a war or not (which would create relief of population and increased freedom and cheapness of things/property/jobs and remind people of sweeter things, and their children perhaps will agian be comfortable and rebel en masse.

If You Can Choose Your Gender Can You Choose Your Race? - YouTube

San Francisco ramps up nighttime enforcement at UN Plaza - YouTube

2024 Festivals Are Not Selling Well - YouTube
‘The year of the underwhelming festival headliner.’
Relying on classic artists from 80s, 90s, 2000s.
‘Banking on nostalgia.’
Next Cochella is headlined by Lana, TylerTC, Doja, ‘and No Doubt.’
People saying the lineups are made by AI or something because there's no coherence. Just TikTok random mixup.
Maybe labels are getting involved, saying if you want our artist we want ‘this much.’
I wonder if this will also happen with travel. Travel will run out of good locations since they're all pretty played out now, and culture in many places is just bland-WesternHollywoodMovie-ized.
It only takes one really bad turn out to make a company not get returns and they might not be able to continue.

A dumb phone in Europe might be called a ‘weekend phone.’ Making choices about what parts of technology contribute to better quality of life.

Inflation, crime, etc is a choice. You don't have to have them. It's a policy choice. It's saying yes or no. Grafitti, filth in Paris. Tucker. America used to have nice cities like other world cities.

Sports Illustrated publisher pulls transgender boxing story from magazine : Journalism/

BC man called racist and cancelled from paramedic duties after trying to save Powell River’s name - YouTube

Edmonton business owners remain fearful of gangs and extortion attempts despite recent arrests - YouTube
‘In front of the police’. ‘How?’
On commenter: "I don't understand where they're getting the courage to do this"
Uhh, it's called, they don't have to worry about being shot, because if we had armed self defense in canada, you'd see a lot of dead arsonists.
 Business owners not on social media, don't go to community events or go out, for fear of being known.
Targeting Indians.
 

‘New collar’ jobs (actually a 2016 coining). ‘I am always sceptical of new phrases.’ You need some training but not necesarily a college degree. You do need to get the training, the experience. 2008 returnships at Goldman, mostly for moms who wanted to go back, veterans, people who had a gap in their resume. Student debt, college grads not trained for the particular job they're going into, and tradeschools doing ‘better.’

The World is Teaching America How to Play Basketball – Data Analysis - YouTube

FEATURE: Social media trends driving Britain's Japanese literature boom

- YouTube
Grass roots organization. Organic. There's not going to be any problems, we just want to be heard. Really it's about motivating other people to do what's next.
Pennsylvania lawmakers look to help Texas tackle border crisis - YouTube
Hard to ingore the high-profile, high-conflict between a state and a president.

Dozens of cars impounded after police bust street takeovers across Los Angeles - YouTube
This means adults amassing at an intersection and doing burnouts.

German farmers block streets with tractors in protest of proposed agricultural tax increase - YouTube

Another rave pops up under I-805 bridges in Sorrento Valley - YouTube
Hundreds. Powered by a gen carried on foot, because you can only get there walking. Advertised on SM. Tickets are sold (meaning organizers could be held liable).
Illegal because held on state land.
Helicopter loudspeaker used to break up the gathering. Their cars were towed as they were leaving.

NY restaurants push back on anti-tipping campaign, warn of layoffs - YouTube

Chicago area father tells police why he shot and killed his wife and 3 daughters - YouTube
Middle eastern name.
Dad accused of killing daughter over prom dispute - YouTube
Middle eastern name.
Father arrested for slapping boy who allegedly bullied daughter - YouTube
Dad makes daughter walk as punishment for bullying - YouTube

'This is outrageous': Megyn Kelly weighs in on 50-year-old man identifying as a 13-year-old girl - YouTube (RebelNews, through MegynKelly)

Alberta students to require parental consent to use new pronouns or name at school - YouTube

In 1910s it was sitll possible to be a Supreme Court justice without having been to lawschool. Later, it became focussed on only a small number of schools people would look for (parially because like 50% of people go to college rather than less than 10%), rather than passing some other test, like passing the bar. Not good/good for career. Less open to autodidactic. Samo.

Recent fight over Harvard Extension School. ‘That’s not really Harvard.' Thought about as elite clubs, not the place someone recieved knowledge or grew.

Replacement of offensive words (which can easily be banned on platforms) with similar inoffensive, unblockable words. I see a lot of YouTubers talking about ‘corn’ now when they mean ‘porn’.

Harvard President Gay to Resign, Crimson Says - YouTube

Video shows moment Las Vegas judge gets attacked during sentence hearing - YouTube

How citizen investigators are helping the FBI track down Jan. 6 rioters - YouTube
‘Sedition hunters’ using tech (including facial recognition software) to track all the protesters, who PBS calls ‘rioters’. FBI was overwhelmed by the number of tips on the thosands of protesters.
Unfortunately, comments are turned off on this video. 1200 of the 3000 who entered were charged. There is a 5-year SoL. Some FBI have resigned over charged being brought against these cases. Members of Congress have also opposed this.
Do you know that during the German occupation of Polish cities, 40% of citizens were collaborators with the Nazis, providing information on their neighbors and family which sent them to concentration camps.

We have leaders who are 'unfailingly negative' about the country, says Harvard's Arthur Brooks - YouTube

Los Angeles Residents Take Desperate Measures Amid Rising Crime | Vince Ricci - YouTube

Funding for Ivys is down.

Urawaka. 70% of Japanese girls have a secondary, anonymous social media account they use to talk about geeky hobbies and complain about school or work, and don't want their real friends to know about. They show another side of their personality. Also sex topics.

Report: Canadian generosity hits lowest point in 20 years - YouTube

Dumb 'Promposal' Ends in Injury and Lawsuits. - YouTube
All to make a video to post online for the public.

Elon Musk Plans to Open a University in Texas - YouTube
#Education #Musk
'Filanthropy'?

Boston Mayor Hosts NO WHITES Holiday Party for 'ELECTEDS OF COLOR' ONLY: Rising Reacts - YouTube

The grift is not something to be embarassed about ‘anymore’. It's now seen as high status, because the most visibly high status people are all doing it. There's also no point in ‘investigating’ it for journalists, because the people are doing it like bragging. Anything promising a way out for a no-way-out situation looks good to people, where no one making minimum wage can afford a 2-bedroom anywhere.

The Downfall of Amazon: Dangerous Products, Fake Reviews & Vanishing Brands - YouTube

‘The ability to order something at 9pm and have it arrive at 7am the next causes me to make impulse purchases that I wouldn’t otherwise do.' - Louis Rossman. Combine this with an online store that has a lot of very low quality products. There's nowadays much less brand name things on Amazon, and have been replaced with low quality. In the stores, little items like screws are often stolen out of the bags, Rossman noted, even if he'd rather go there and pay a bit of a premium.

Someone said ‘the branded era is over,’ meaning that because of reviews you would no longer have to look for a trusted brand and could buy a no name with good reviews. However, on a system like Amazon they're stuffed with fake reviews.

‘No name products that have really good reviews that are complete garbage.’

As a seller, Amazon has given full refunds for people who buy a product, the wrong product for what they need (like a computer screen), then destroy it (trying to make if fit), then message Amazon for a refund, all in a few hours. As a seller, you pay for that.

Rossman thinks that the people still selling on Amazon are people who make the type of (low quality) product that can't compete on a (better) type of marketplace.

Why Are Americans Losing Faith in the Value of College? | Amanpour and Company - YouTube 

How Greeks are getting squeezed off their own public beaches | Focus on Europe - YouTube 

Illicit business practice. Sometimes tipped off before inspections. Covering parts of beaches with umbrellas and charging for chairs. However, the businesses say visitors want to rent the sun lounges. Some visitors complain about it, in terms of tourist reputation of the island.

The world kinda robs moments. - D Glover

Why period poverty is making Ghanaian girls missing out on school | DW News - YouTube 

Music awards. BlackPink won best group, IceSpice won best new female (and everyone said ‘best looking new female to men’). T Swift won album and best artist (runners up Doja and Shakira, who made a lot of headlines this year because of drama with her ex-boyfriend lyrics, and Karol G who has been filling statiums). There is a rock category, filled with bands who've been active for 20 to 40 years now. Lana won alternative. The only new thing was Peso Pluma I guess.

Song performances were all hiphop/latin pop.

Loudspeaker message outside NYC migrant shelter warns new arrivals they are 'not safe here' - YouTube 

Ending tipped wage system will hurt the people it's trying to help: Fifty/50 Group's Scott Wiener - YouTube 

 

Marriage

Education first.
Work second.
Marriage third.
Then the baby carriage.
To be in a ‘better spot’ relationship wise when they get married and when they have kids.

Since the 70s, higher income marriage has been about steady. Middle income was at the same 80% rate in the 70s but has steadily declined more than 10%, and lower income, which was 60% is now 40%.

Since the 60s high school grads have decreased. And their incomes. Women have a more secure footing. One member of the financial undertaking of marriage, the man, is less marriageable.

Also, there is less religion, it is said. A lot of babies are born out of wedlock in some parts of the world, but in others, like Japan, only 2% or babies are so born.

Series of home invasions target Asian families in Oakland Hills, police sources tell I-Team - YouTube 

Miranda Lambert stops show to scold fans for taking selfies: 'P****** me off!' - YouTube 

Recent months, headlines have had delivery people (for restaurants etc) not deliver food (photos of the rotten food from their order), not deliver at all, etc., unless the tip is given beforehand. Some backlash. Is this the way tipping will finally come to an end?

I forget who, some US celeb who has a restaurant or delivery or something, put it so you can't tip, but they pay their waitors ‘a fair wage’ of $30.

Is this how it startss? I've seen 2 ways; legislation, or that restaurants compete by putting signs that tipping is not allowed (which is the restaurant I think most people would choose).

Has LinkedIn Ruined Your Career? - YouTube 

Absolute nonsense from John Campbell about Multiple Sclerosis, vaccination, and the WHO. - YouTube 

Stealing, flaunting your wealth, striking women, smoking marijuana on the street, shameless public hypocrisy, taking other people's month for not working. (Note that many of these things entered into acceptance with the popularization of 90s black rap music, gangsta rap, etc.)

Some people starting to talk about ‘corporate press collapsing’.

All of a sudden is everywhere, partially because of dearth of any interesting celebrities. (Kanye sometimes makes headlines but for fashion and controvercial ideas/statements in an era of high self-repression of speech across all the West, Taylor Swift sometimes for the price of her concert tickets or because she's dating a kind-of-badboy who kissed a security guard last time, Selena Gomez, Justin Beiber and Hailey in headlines about the two girls copying or insulting each other). The most headlines re culture are probably to do with trans and AI. There's an ongoing culture war in the West, but it seems it might be rolling over, as Elon, Tucker Carlson, alternative media presenters like Joe Rogan, Lex Fridman, have become not only more trusted but also more listened to maybe.

Iowa, other states making laws to allow more under-18 workers (which is called ‘child labor’ in pop media). One was denied by federal court, saying states can further limit child labor but not expand it.

Department of labor is finding more ‘violations’ of ‘child labor’ laws this year (like 3500 or something).

Why is California Losing Hollywood? | David Graves - YouTube 

De Santis will announce presidential run on Twitter. (Ted Cruz was the first to do so years ago.)

Twitter had talked about possible bankruptcy. It fired 80% of staff. It still runs. But now we're not talking about that, but instead talking about its relevence. This may have been more Musk's plan, his platform for relevence, whether to dictate or participate in talking about what's going on.

“AI washing” - like “greenwashing” - sounds good, and it will make your stock go up, but is it actually really?

The US Army 'fat camp' helping would-be recruits lose weight - YouTube 

 

Army base renamed after Black veterans as military plans to stop honoring Confederates - YouTube 

Shocking! 46 Million Become Influencers As Half of Northeast China’s Population, No More Jobs! - YouTube 

Trans women banned from women's athletics - YouTube 

 

 
Young people in large numbers (but tiny percentage, unnoticeable) buying non-smart phones for mental health.

‘Instant-noodle marriage’—Chinese youth new invention amid a miserable life - YouTube 

Tipflation Taking Over Holiday Shopping - YouTube 

Womansplaining exists, whether you believe it or not. : unpopularopinion 

Douyin makeup in China

"That disconnect (under Obama) is ultimately what broke trust in government. The fact that we didn't engage for 8 years." - Zeihan, relating Obama's inexperience / disinterest in management of the expansive government apparatus with the election of Trump.

 

Team of archaeologists come across exciting discovery, site indicates home of St. Peter - YouTube 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Want to Hookup?: Sex Differences in Short-term Mate Attraction Tactics | SpringerLink