9/10
I didn’t think I’d like this show but by the second episode, I found myself utterly addicted. It’s one of the best TV shows I have ever seen.
The HBO series is set at a Hawaii hotel called The White Lotus and focuses on several of the guests and a couple key staff members. There’s the prissy gay Hotel manager who smiles to everyone’s face but badmouths them behind their backs, the spoiled yuppie who can’t understand why is new bride would want an identity of her own, the woke university student who brings a minority friend on the family vacation to prove she’s morally superior to her parents, and the lonely ageing rich lady who can’t enjoy her wealth because she’s constantly whining about her childhood.
If American Beauty exposed the façade of the perfect American family, then White Lotus shows us the dark side of the perfect American vacation.
The show reminded me of the most luxurious vacations I have ever taken: When you first see everyone they seem so perfect, but as you get to know them, the dysfunction is legion. It made me nostalgic for the last time I’d been to Hawaii; the delicious outdoor dinners overlooking the sun setting into the ocean as the wind blew in my hair; the smell of tiki torches everywhere.
You’ll fall in love with the characters and the humour is up to the minute. In one scene the lonely rich lady agrees to meet with a strange man because she thinks, what a wonderful person he must be to work for “BLACK LIVES MATTER”. Much to her chagrin she discovers that the BLM he works for is actually BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT.
In one scene, a woman worries that her son is actually at a disadvantage these days being a white heterosexual male (“no one seems to care about them”) only to be scolded by her woke daughter for saying something so cringeworthy. When the woman tries to defend herself, the daughter cuts her off again “MOM CRINGE!”.
In another scene, the mother scolds her woke daughter and minority friend for badmouthing Hillary Clinton, disgusted that the woke generation’s girls could turn on such a feminist icon. The scene is ironic because the woke daughter looks like a young Hillary:
If you get HBO-on demand, I would definitely watch this series from the start.
Pumpkin Person 
Thanks for these reviews Pumpkin. I’m not much of a movie or TV enthusiast, but if you enjoy something, I trust your taste pretty far.
Here’s a movie you might enjoy if you have about 80 minutes to spare. It deserves your complete attention, so don’t watch it if you can’t give it that. “Koyaanisqatsi”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6-K-arVl-U
PP has super androgynous media taste. He loves horror and sci-fi but also Oprah and comediennes. Interesting cat.
Good to see Biden standing up to the [redacted by pp, 2021-08-12] media. I was worried he was one of the senators they had blackmail on.
Cinnamon Girl by Neil Young. Great song.
Hey pp. I assume you are aware of this study. It seems to me that the IQ’s mentioned here are ratio IQ’s but would you mind giving me your opinion? The only reason I’m not sure is that I was under the impression Stanford Binet tests have a standard deviation of 16, which is not ratio IQ.
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/47403/pg47403-images.html
Also, (semi-related) maybe this time I *have* guessed correctly that my link will interest you (or maybe some readers of the blog):
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5987166/
I often think and compare my dad, who is borderline retarded with an autistic person like my old friend Tim and what the differences are in these conditions socially. Tim had a much higher IQ than my dad (i.e. probably 50 points more) but socially was about as functional as my dad. I think if someone was speaking to either Tim or my dad they would actually realise something was wrong with Tim first because at least my dad has an awareness of what someone else is thinking and tries to hide his stupidity. On the other hand, Tim was way more in control of his life and had the capability to take care of himself. For example, Tim moved the UK and got a job as an engineer whereas my dad could only expect to do something like that if he was part of a group and someone was managing things for him. In terms of making friends my dad and Tim are about the same – not very good but my dad would tend to make friends with complete losers whereas Tim made friends with complete nerds (which is not the same thing as being a loser). I would say both my dad and Tim demonstrate the same level of sexual desire i.e. none. Autistics tend to be largely non-existent as sexual entities and I can confirm the same is true for borderline retards. After a few years I socially developed more myself and realised Tim was an idiot (socially) and didn’t want to see him anymore, but it actually took me longer to tire of my dad’s pure idiocy. Like I said this was because my dad can hide it a lot better than Tim.
Overall both conditions are terrible denouments of a persons life. Both would be considered omega males.
I could talk about these conditions a bit more maybe about aesthetic taste or taste for violence/tribalism but thats enough for today.
Oh and sense of humour. Thats a really big one when you consider the human condition of autists/idiots.
A different perspective on testocracy. The world will be irretrievably dystopian by 2065. Stand back and stand by.
the problem with high stakes tests isn’t the tests, it’s the high stakes. people who can’t make the score shouldn’t have their lives ruined. those who can shouldn’t be made for life.
but because we are already living in idocracy in america (it’s becoming as dumb as canada), people and [redacted by pp, 2021-08-18] want to get rid of tests because “racist”. if blacks in northern cities had good jobs (like they used to), they wouldn’t care if they didn’t get a good score.
Couldn’t you argue that high stakes actually improve cognitive/achievement tests’ predictive power?
For example, putting high stakes on SAT scores gauges the test-taker’s abstract reasoning skills under pressure. This will probably have a stronger correlation with his future success than his intelligence in a vacuum.
Thats what the jews will start doing to gentiles.
Anytime the ruling class is ethnically different from the oppressed class, you don’t want high IQ members of the oppressed class questioning things a la Langan. Much better to keep the masses believing QAnon. I suspect smart blacks were feared in Apartheid South Africa and pre-1960 America.
Brilliant episode. Haven’t seen that since I was 10-years-old. Helped kick-start my IQ obsession.
That ending really got me. Holy shit.
But re testing, it’s definitely possible to compromise fairness and predictive power by setting the stakes either too high or too low. Without stakes, you can’t have a meritocracy, but if the stakes are too high, you run the risk of mischaracterizing the test-taker’s actual real-world ability and putting him on a track he doesn’t belong in.
I actually think that standardized testing could play a huge role in cutting education costs and making the workforce more meritocratic. (e.g. instead of requiring applicants to possess a certain 4-year degree, wouldn’t it be better if that company instead just gave them a job-specific proficiency test?)
This will never, ever happen though.
Loved this show. Can’t applaud the creators enough about how great the writing and use of music was.
I forgot to mention the music. Very effective!
how big is your penis?
peepee screamed out, “yes oprah! yes!” during sex.
HA! Funny!
I follow a journalist named Michael Tomasky since his time as a guardian writer over a decade ago now. Anyways he recently got made editor of New Republic and I looked at the wiki of the magazine. It was basically a neocon rag up until 2012. The previous owner was an Israel first guy. What a disgrace the magazine was.
That column by Steve Sailer saying that 80% of blacks are born to women who haven’t even got a high school certificate leaves me wondering whether black IQs have actually gone down over the past 50 years since Earl Warren [redacted by pp, 2021-08-18] ended Jim Crow. There seems to be a lot of chronometric evidence for it. I would even argue black diet has deteriorated as well also bringing down IQ.
South Africa is kind of like the number 1 example of HBD people being right and predicting disaster. As a result the western media tends to ignore modern south Africa. Isn’t there a name for the phenomenon where people think a person is dead even though they are still alive called the Mandela effect? People think South Africa ended after Mandela became president haha.
What do you think RR’s IQ is? 7? 8?
My new job as a tax preparer has been GRUELING.
I started at the outset of peak business tax return season, so I’ve been putting in 40-50 clients hours per week—plus an additional 20 to learn the software, schmooze with managers, and study for my licensing exams. I really hope it settles down after the big filing deadlines.
Has anyone else been super busy? I’m curious to know.
Just read over some of my posts from last week and I honestly can’t believe I was so retarded.
5 drinks of Macallan + pot brownies is not a winning combo.
lynn has already informed us of differences in “pressure to succeed” between montreal jews, protestants, and catholics. even if 0.7 were taken as the h^2 for subpopulations too, it’s not hard at all to move a genetic true score of 100 up to 107.
those with a genetic true score of 100 will score >= 107, 26% of the time. those with a score of 107 will have a genetic true score <= 100, 33% of the time.
lynn describes "pressure to succeed" as differeing by orders of magnitude, not a little.
these elementary calculations demonstrate that psychologists have low IQs. they don't even know what they mean when they talk about "heritability" or they assume that enviroments are identical in all subpopulations as is the h^2.
They better not ban her. Oprah & Barbara Lee were virtually the ONLY 2 elites smart/brave/moral enough to oppose Afghanistan was BEFORE it began:
or they assume that enviroments are identical in all subpopulations as is the h^2.
Occam’s razor means you start with the simplest assumption. Jensen calls it the default assumption. The IQ gap between U.S. races has the exact same genetic & environmental mix as the IQ differences within races.
you don’t understand occam’s razor peepee. the simplest POSSIBLE explanation is best. not just the simplest explanation. identical environments and h^2 qccross subpopulations is obviously IMPOSSIBLE.
why so many sprinters from jamaica? why all the spelling bee champions indians? why did the soviets dominate chess for 40 years? “because much genes yo!” [redacted by pp, 2021-08-20]
identical environments and h^2 qccross subpopulations is obviously IMPOSSIBLE.
No you don’t understand Jensen’s argument. He didn’t say the races have the same environment.
what made you think i was trying to unnuhstan densen’s argument?
whereas a genetic true score of 100 will have a score of 85 or less only 8% of the time.
this is a real undoctored photo.
or peepee would like to take the square root of 0.7 for a P, G correlation of 0.84.
in that case 107 true score will score less than 100 24% of the time and 100 will score 107 24% of the time too? that makes sense?
anyway. whatever. it’s not that incredible.
P = sqrt(0.7)*G + sqrt(1 – 0.7^2)*E so 7/15 =< 0 + E. so true score of 100 scoring 107 or higher is as i said before.
what’s the probability of 100 (=0) >= h*107 (=7/15) + sqrt(1-h^2)*E?
vs
107 <= h*100 + sqrt(1 – h^2)*E?
the asnwer is the former is actually less probable, like 20% vs the latter's 24%.
the E stands for environment but ordinarily stands for error. P, G, and E are taken to be standard normal distributions with mean 0 and variance 1.
explain why going from true score of 100 to score of 107 is more likely than going from true score of 107 to score of 100.
so actually true score of 100 to score of 85 or less would happen only 3.36% of the time. sorry.
no the figures are 26% vs 24%. why?
a quote from an unz comment:
This is partly a cultural thing, only because synthetic reasoning (cleverness) is rewarded from a very early age. This is probably why there are differences in IQ between the groups described. Dumb people expect less from their kids. I’ve seen it a million times. The IQ’s among the goy white households in my 100% European white neighborhood varied tremendously and it was the culture of those households. You can’t be expected to excel in math or reading if football, bowling, courting, or other distractions color your environment. Why? Because it isn’t important. These are households that considered an all “C” report card OK…”You Passed!” In the next house the parents would be disappointed and likely take steps to get those grades up. The latter case is what one would be more likely to see in a Jew household. But also in a Ukrainian household (all the Uke boys in my neighborhood went to dental school). That’s just the way they are. I’ve known coloreds like that too and their negro kid was a National Merit scholar.
The biggest batch of losers were protestant Irishmen. Tutoring the one next door (3 grades ahead of me) at first, I couldn’t teach that sap anything for over a year – he was too busy playing dumb. He was more interested in football and was raised that way for 12 years before he moved in. (I did get something out of it – he taught me how to throw a football)
It’s culture. And white trash is white trash. And they’re the jealous Joes always blaming Jews for the fact that they were raised in a beer & bowling alley culture and wound up sweeping floors in the hospital instead of doing surgery in the OR.
On an inborn potential basis, IQ varies remarkably little in the human population. It’s culture. And it’s obvious.
the scots irish are the protestants from northern ireland and in the US they are very common in appalachia. the negro thomas sowell speaks of them of having a shitty culture too. but in northern ireland they fare better than the catholics i believe.
Sowell argues that the black ghetto culture originates in the dysfunctional white southern redneck culture which was prominent in the antebellum South. That culture came, in turn, from the “Cracker culture” of “North Britons,” border English, Highland Scots, Welsh, and Ulstermen who emigrated from the more lawless border regions of Britain in the eighteenth century.
reflective thinking is the basis of IQ. it’s just that reflection happens in so many ways. when it happens all at once creativity emerges. but most people think iq is just manipulation. You actually need to make something to be intelligent. So it is a balance. Of what you can do. I really got low working memory. but I have excellent perceptual reasoning. It’s all about putting the pieces together.
i know from experience. even though my house had more books in it than any house in the whole town, my parents never pressured me at anything…they themselves were not ambitious, were not strivers. they had nothing to prove. they regarded the rest of humanity as beneath them…so why try to impress them?
only late did i learn how so many parents pressure dey keeds. my parents and i are what fussel would call “class x”.
yes. it could be possible that environments aren’t identical but they are identical in terms of their effect on IQ…which is what i meant by identical OBVIOUSLY.
the point is a difference in mean score of 7 is easy to explain. a difference of 15 is not easy to explain…assuming the same h^2 and assuming the same distribution of good vs bad environments when it comes to IQ.
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it’s obvious that so many jew theoretical physicists is because einstein was a roll model.
excuse me “role model”.
the first great jamaican sprinter was donald quarrie.
he came in third in the 200m in the 1980 moscow games behind two white guys. he’d won the gold in 1976, and the silver in the 100m, just ahead of borzov.
the US and others didn’t participate because…
the soviets had invaded AFGHANISTAN.
so it’s been 42 years of shit for afghanistan.
where what you’ve got today is…
by far the fastest non-black ever is a chinaman. su bingtian. he equaled ben johnson’s world record of 9.83 set in rome in 1987.
https://vault.si.com/vault/1987/09/07/bravos-for-a-roman-candle-ben-johnson-blazed-to-a-record-983-100-meters-in-the-world-championships
“The Soviets” did not invade Afghanistan they were invited in by the legal Afghan government.