This is a great film to watch on Halloween, and it’s available on shudder. I saw at it as a kid after Roger Ebert gave it no stars. The 1980s was the golden age of horror. You can’t make movies like this anymore because people will think it’s a self-parody or you’ll have clueless people like commenter Pill saying “your films are so weird, are you an alien with no social intelligence?”. But in the 1980s normal people produced and consumed these gritty films with no sense of irony.
The shocking opening scene from Charles Kaufman’s MOTHER’S DAY (1980)
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Pumpkin Person 
Answer my comments on the last post.
economic: they’re capital intensive and a commodity business. one gold miner’s gold is as good as another’s.
mathematical: reserves can only be estimated. there’s a distribution around the point estimate. and the distribution itself is just a guess.
social: often mining cos can be spectacular investments and so people will pay too much to gamble as they have no access to or appreciation of cheap leverage/gearing as an alternative.
an example: russia’s polyus gold is worth 15x what it was 7 years ago in real USD terms.
I like how it baits you into thinking they’re about to back up and run over the mother, but other than that, this is the stupidest thing I’ve seen in a while.
If you want a real horror film [redacted by pp, Halloween 2021]
greatest horror film ever made was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triumph_of_the_Will.
a film so great a film was made about its director: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wonderful_Horrible_Life_of_Leni_Riefenstahl.
Puppy doesn’t know this but when I was a kid I was a horror movie fanatic myself and he’s right that the 80s were the golden age of horror. The greatest horror movie is probably the Exorcist in terms of its cultural and cinematic impact on people. A religious movie like that wouldn’t work today.
manufacturing cos have an R&D expense…
mining cos have a ??? expense.
what is the metaphorical equivalent to R&D in mining?
peepee is interesting because she’s an example of how “size doesn’t matter”.
she is a black woman attracted to chinamen. she must know that chinamen have small penises.
In 1989 Rushton briefly turned a large penis from a status symbol to a badge of shame when he branded it GENETICALLY INFERIOR. One black guy was interviewed almost in tears “all my life this made me the man, and now people look at it like it’s a disease. All because of his pseudoscience”.
Rushton never used the terms genetically superior/inferior in his book. You made that shit up because you are some sort of evolution progressivist.
In his original paper he linked the hierarchy of the races to the time period when they branched off the evolutionary tree (Negroids 200 kya, Caucacasoids 110 kya, & Mongoloids 41 kya) and said “one theoretical possibility is that evolution is progressive and some populations are more advanced than others”. He also used mathematical shorthand like Orientals > whites > blacks which many interpreted as superior. He denied being a supremacist but in private conversation he would slip by saying things “mongoloids branched off in a superior form”
Well if he said that hes an idiot. Its obvious the hierarchy has more to do with human domestication than any abstract notion of superiority. Most east asians wouldn’t have lasted more than a few months on the plantations or jungles of latin america.
Mongoloids colonized Latin America thousands of years before Caucasoids did.
You can’t compare the mongloids of America with east Asians. They’re basically two different races. And actually the mongloids of america weren’t used for slave labour because they were physically robust enough.
Rushton’s theory ultimately is about Mongoloids vs Caucasoids vs Negroids. East Asians are just one type of Mongoloid and whites are just one type of Caucasoid.
#weren’t physically robust enough
“Most east asians wouldn’t have lasted more than a few months on the plantations…”
Actually East Asians did come to work on plantations in Latin America, and worked themselves up do becoming the most successful race there.
LOL! Pill just got OWNED.
If you look at the historical record other civilisations and races never really explored the world like Europeans did. The east asians did nothing in 5000 years.
And I’m talking about even before the inventions of the caravel, astrolabe and the quadrant and such when Vikings found Newfoundland around 1000.
Plainly whites are the masters of the sea and that portended their later millitary superiority.
I don’t know about the history but I don’t think arab sailors ever rounded the cape of good hope?
Rushton wrote:
The Whites who explored China were just as racist as those who explored Africa, but their
descriptions were different from what they and the Arabs had written about Africans. In 1275 Marco Polo
arrived in China from his native Italy to open trade with the Mongol Empire. He found that the Chinese
had well built roads, bridges, cities connected by canals, census takers, markets, standardized weights and
measures, and not only coins, but paper money as well. Even a postal system was in existence. All of
these made him marvel when he compared the Chinese to what he saw in Europe and the Middle East.
Even though he was an Italian, proud of his people and well aware of the greatness of Ancient Rome,
Marco Polo wrote: “Surely there is no more intelligent race on earth than the Chinese.”
Historical research bears out Marco Polo’s impressions. As early as 360 B.C., the Chinese used
the cross bow and changed the face of warfare. Around 200-100 B.C., the Chinese used written exams to
choose people for the civil service, two thousand years before Britain. The Chinese used printing about
800 A.D., some 600 years before Europe saw Gutenberg’s first Bible. Paper money was used in China in
1300, but not in Europe until the 19th and 20th centuries. By 1050 Chinese chemists had made
gunpowder, hand grenades, fire arrows, and rockets of oil and poison gas. By 1100, factories in China
with 40,000 workers were making rockets. Flame throwers, guns, and cannons were used in China by the
13th century, about 100 years before Europe.
The Chinese used the magnetic compass as early as the 1st century. It is not found in European
records until 1190. In 1422, seventy years before Columbus’s three small ships crossed the Atlantic, the
Chinese reached the east coast of Africa. They came in a great fleet of 65 ocean going ships filled with
27,000 soldiers and their horses, and a year’s supply of grain, meat, and wine. With their gunpowder
weapons, navigation, accurate maps and magnetic compasses, the Chinese could easily have gone around
the tip of Africa and “discovered” Europe!
In the last five centuries, the European nations leapfrogged over the Chinese in science and
technology. Since 1950, however, Japan has beaten the West in the production of many high-tech
products. Other Pacific Rim countries (China, Taiwan, Singapore, and South Korea) now follow Japan’s
path. Africa, on the other hand, has fallen further behind. The poor conditions of African countries and
Black America have become a concern to many. Much of the optimism of the U.S. Civil Rights
movement of the 1960s is gone, along with the high hopes for independent African nations. Trillions of
dollars of foreign aid have poured into Africa. Yet African economies have declined since the Europeans
left.
Neglect and decay are seen everywhere in Africa and much of the West Indies. International
corporations often have to provide their own power, their own water, and their own phones. In the age of
computers, fax machines, and the world wide web, getting a dial tone in many African cities is difficult.
Whites are simply more adventurous than East asians. Maybe due to higher testosterone levels. But I agree that east asians are smarter than the average white but not by much and mostly in the quantitative domain. He doesn’t explain why the east asians never perfected navigational tools to go further than Africa. I guess maybe they thought there was nothing worth trading with beyond the Silk Road? Japan had no navigational milestones.
Because the Oriental > white IQ gap is so small (5 points), other traits can put whites ahead for huge spans of time. You can almost argue Orientals are “too evolved” because many primitive traits are useful.
You might like this line of argument Puppy, but I suspect the gap with whites would actually be larger if east asians had the same quality of diet as whites. As it stands even places like Hong Kong and Singapore have nutritional deficits and widespread childhood poverty.
Tesla worth more than the entire car industry. Elon worth more than Exxon Mobil. We’re in a bubble.
Tesla worth more than the entire car industry.
go to https://companiesmarketcap.com/automakers/largest-automakers-by-market-cap/
and you’ll find TSLA is worth about 37%.
which is totally gay.
but now that the price is so high you can load up on 350-250 put spreads and make 8x your money when TSLA crashes to the market value of TM.
it should be even (much) lower.
Elon should now take the opportunity to make a speech about how the economy is a dumb rigged game and that his personal net worth should be taxed 90% and given back to the Fed who gave it to him in the first place. Of course retard autistic economists will say Elon has created $300b worth of impending value in automobiles.
I see corporations have bribed Manchin and Sinema into blocking reversing the trump tax cuts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckley_v._Valeo
All this corruption because some judges can’t tell the difference between ‘free speech’ and bribery. Wow. Autism.
I guess the natural thing to ask then is whether bribery even exists? Maybe giving someone money to do something is a type of speech….
I wonder whether the justices were bribed to come to these decisions.
ebert was too liberal in his thumbs up.
i agreed with siskel more.
even though…
ebert was the “man of letters” much more than siskel.
even though siskel was a (((yale))) philosophy major he admitted catholic ebert was a much better writer.
You guys probably dont follow american politics but I listen to the young turks quite a lot and even by the swamp’s standards Sinema is extremely corrupt and disgusting.