China’s Population Stands at 1.41B

This about *default, tagged , was written by for on May 11, 2021 .418 Comments

Results of the 2020 Census have been released. Some links: Reuters summary Chinese state statistics service communique (in Chinese) Here’s a table of the regional change: 2020 2010 % Beijing 21893095 19612368 0.12 Tianjin 13866009 12938224 0.07 Hebei 74610235 71854202 0.04 Shanxi 34915616 35712111 -0.02 Inner Mongolia 24049155 24706321 -0.03 Liaoning 42591407 43746323 -0.03 Jilin […]

Pilgrimage to the Fortress-Monastery

This about *default, tagged , was written by for on May 9, 2021 .75 Comments

I visited the Central Cathedral of the Russian Armed Forces, just slightly less than a year after its consecration. It is quite rare that reality exceeds visual media. But the Fortress-Monastery does so, in spades, and that despite its already superlative neo-Byzantine steampunk aesthetics on screen, which are like something out of a Maxim Bedulenko […]

Egor Ligachev Dies at 100

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Egor Ligachev, leader of the “conservative” wing of the CPSU under Gorbachev, died yesterday at the age of 100. He was a teetotaller who took good care of his health. The cause of death was bilateral pneumonia, though his son says it wasn’t COVID-19. By all accounts, he was a decent and uncorrupt man, e.g. […]

Open Thread 150

This about *default, tagged , was written by for on May 8, 2021 .200 Comments

This week’s Open Thread. ~ Emil Kirkegaard – Meta-compilation of HBD related materials. Very useful link. Also dug up this Blast from the Past: Who’s afraid of the big bad data? ~ NEW PAPER. Rieger, M. O., Wang, M., & Hens, T. (2021). Universal time preference. PloS One, 16(2), e0245692. (h/t @whyvert) ~ XENOS. Pop Mech: Scientists Believe […]

IHME: 6.9 Million Deaths from Corona

This about *default, tagged , was written by for on May 7, 2021 .145 Comments

This is Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation’s assessment of global excess mortality from COVID-19 from the beginning until May 3, 2021. (h/t Ron Unz) You can read about the methodology here. All in all, this sadly comports with the “millions” prediction I made in February 24, 2020. While at the end of last year I […]

The 2020s FOMO into Russian Tech

This about *default, tagged , was written by for on May 2, 2021 .209 Comments

You missed the Big Tech explosion because you didn’t understand what de facto monopolies wedded to economies of scale can do. You have been deplatformed by Zuck and @jack for being a racist and a white supremacist, and you don’t even have their stonks for consolation. You didn’t hop aboard the Tesla train because you thought it […]

Open Thread 149

This about *default, tagged , was written by for on April 30, 2021 .106 Comments

  ~ Fake News. Final unraveling of the Russian Bounties “story.” As I said from the beginning, if you believe that the Taliban need Russian rubles to kill Americans, you’re either a neocon or a moron. Glenn Greenwald on this topic. ~ Scott Alexander – Prospectus On Próspera. Think of the flies. (Or, why I’m not a […]

And These People Lecture Us on Rule of Law

This about *default, tagged , was written by for on April 30, 2021 .118 Comments

https://twitter.com/NickJFuentes/status/1387059008750727178 Society 282 in action! But actually, it’s not just a “society” (as in “social pressure”, no matter how artificial) by now. No flight lists are compiled by the federal government. All that because Fuentes turned out to a (legal) protest for Orange Man. You have Ricky Vaughn railroaded for literally posting memes on Twitter […]

US De Facto Shuts Down Travel with Russia

This about *default, tagged , was written by for on April 30, 2021 .92 Comments

US Embassy in Moscow: Reduction of Consular Services – Effective May 12, U.S. Embassy Moscow will reduce consular services offered to include only emergency U.S. citizen services and a very limited number of age-out and life or death emergency immigrant visas. These service reductions are necessary due to the Russian government’s April 23 notification of […]

Mental Populations

This about *default, tagged , was written by for on April 25, 2021 .508 Comments

Population is power, so it pays to keep track of it (along with national IQ and GDPcc), for those with an interest in geopolitics and futurism. I used to spend way too much time poring over statistics almanacs and the CIA World Factbook during my school years, so I have a pretty good fix on […]

War Postponed, For Now

This about *default, tagged , was written by for on April 22, 2021 .357 Comments

I have compared the current standoff in Donbass to a poker game. By amassing troops around Ukraine, Putin let it be known that a Ukrainian attack on Donbass would be – well, if not assuredly catastrophic, then at least extremely risky for its continued statehood. Ukraine could raise by going ahead with it anyway. It […]

Crimea & Donbass Tell Navalny to BTFO

This about *default, tagged , was written by for on April 19, 2021 .108 Comments

The Navalny campaign is calling for nationwide protests on April 21 after the failure of their campaign to even get half a million people (quick arithmetic: 0.3% of Russia’s population) to register and commit to coming out and protesting on their website. I don’t see much coming out of it. I correctly said that the previous protests […]