Dheeraj Chand

Perhaps the most heartbreaking thing about being an Indian person is that if you search for the phrase, "Indian people no civic sense", you will find that the majority of comments are by other Indian people, and, usually merited.

When people describe Nick Land in complimentary ways.

Bari Weiss is someone with all the cultural resentments and political grievances of neoconservatives, with none of our discernment nor interest in it. While it takes a tremendous amount of competence and cunning to do what she has done, she will be bad for journalism in America.

I cannot prove this, but I strongly suspect that that vast majority of BMW’s, Volkswagens and Mercedes-Benz’s are owned by people who speak loudly about not buying cars made by Nazis.

Today I told a relative of mine that for my birthday next year, I would like to be able to make a listing type thing of things that require her cooperation and discuss them without combat, interruption, redirection and wandering attention. It will take ten minutes. It didn’t go well.

I thought she retired after her failed show with Spitzer. “Nil” is generous, I hadn’t even noticed she was still alive.

She’s still around? What a joke. Firing Radley Balok and keeping her is an appalling decision.

My new thing is going to be telling people that Martin Heidegger is the greatest exemplar of German Idealism and watching what happens.

My least progressive music opinion is that fusion is not inherently good. You can fuse things and have it turn out awfully. For example, I am at a cafe where someone is playing a DJ set of “Afro-House,” which is house beats over Femi Kuti. This is, politely, garbage.

Evergreen reminder that you can dislike Taylor Swift’s music and social importance without making it your life mission to let everyone know you dislike Taylor Swift’s music and social importance.

There are many other interesting opinions on music you can share.

Bari Weiss is often miscoded as a leftist because she is both Jewish, a religious minority, and married to a woman. Neither of those things have been barriers to being on the right in a while. She is not like me, a neoconservative on the left, but a full on defector.

Everyone is making fun of Lakshya for this, but he's right about one thing. Trans-ideological institutions make politics less nasty. I've seen this in my own life, in martial arts schools, temples, the fraternity. Being able to be in community with the opposition lowers the temperature of politics.

A quick way to get sales people to stop calling you is to ask if English is their first language. If so, ask what part of, "I'm not interested, please don't call again" is unclear. If not, volunteer to help them diagram the sentence and look up the words in the dictionary. They'll never call again.

Republicans have shut down the government. They have done so over an issue of public health, they think emergency rooms should check immigration statuses of patients. Think about how dumb this is. When you’re having a heart attack, do you pack a passport for the ambulance?

The comments on this are exactly what you’d expect. We are living through a second neoconservatives moment in which many decent people are driven right by the absurdity of the complex of third worldist politics and American upper class people desperate to feel like revolutionaries.

Robert Morris, Texas megachurch pastor, pleads guilty to sexually abusing a child Under a plea agreement, Morris was given a 10-year sentence, but he will serve only six months in an Oklahoma jail.

It’s tempting to make jokes about specific religions, but one thing that radfems get dead on is that all religious infrastructures eventually serve the purpose of allowing men to sexually abuse women and children with impunity, whether as purpose or side effect.

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ICC warrants do not apply in the United States, first of all. Second, heads of state have diplomatic immunity, particularly, at the U.N. Anyone who wants to be Mayor of New York should take a few minutes to learn about the laws governing one of its treasures.

Political defection stories are often big news, but we tend not to notice when people defect the other side for ours because we think they should have been there anyway. “”Why I left The Left” is absolutely not more visible than, “Never Trump,” but we notice it more.

My personality in one picture and a caption:

Jumpin’ Jack Flash-y Hegel.

Yes, but I do it with sevenths. CMaj7, Dm7, Em7, etc.

Playing harmonized scales is a great way make relationships explicit. I’ve recently begun playing scales in sequence in root, then all the inverted voicings, up and down neck, in one key, with roots on 4,5 and 6. You’d be surprised how long it takes, but how much you get out of it.

I cannot tell you how funny it is that funerary praises for John Searle are being written by LLM systems. Poor guy. Rest in peace, John.

"I'm not going to debate my humanity" sounds really impressive till you consider that what people consider their humanity can have conflicting rights claims, and that most of what people call debating humanity is debating those conflicting rights claims.

The problem with @anthropic.com 's products is very obvious: the web interface is capable of solving problems very well, so are the mobile phone apps. But the Claude Code software, the terminal tool and the IDE plugin, is garbage that hallucinates and makes vanity tests.

The domestic terrorism in this country is increasing, with an attack on LDS in Michigan. I grew up around many Mormons, and they are tremendous people who deserve way better than this. I'm so sorry this is happening to you.

There is nothing that will make you distrustful of medicine faster than a doctor who refuses to listen to you about how a medicine makes you feel, whether it's accomplishing its purpose. Doctors do a very bad job of thinking scientifically, they think pontifically.

I really want someone to explain this to me. It sounds like I'm being sarcastic, but I'm not. Why is this position coherent? “We must have economic sanctions on North Carolina for their attitudes about gay people but attitudes about gay people is not a reason to sanction Middle Eastern countries.”

A few of my conservative friends have used the occasion of Charlie Kirk’s death to reflect on political violence, domestic terrorism and their support of things like bombing medical clinics. Most have not. I still this as a good sign.

The New York Yankees are the Dallas Cowboys of baseball.

Tank has to put on 60+ lbs for this gimmick fight against Logan Paul. I don't think that there's a good way for this to happen.