Author: VD

A Fascinating Observation

How much literary “assistance” was being provided to GRR Martin by his assistants?

One of the assistants to George R. Martin left him to write the sci-fi series The Expanse. When he left was when George R Martin began spinning his wheels in terms of getting stuff done and/or quality. Is there a connection? I don’t know. I do like how in this interview, the assistant says Martin was a great mentor not in writing but in getting deals with Hollywood and other studios.

It wouldn’t be a massive surprise to learn that Martin, rather like FW Dixon and JK Rowling, eventually turns out to have been a committee effort. Although it must be admitted that his complete inability to finish his once-popular series tends to support the idea that it was solely his own work.

Then again, the fact that he has multiple “assistants” raises the question of what, precisely, those assistants were doing? While there’s nothing wrong with having co-writers and collaborators, a dependence on them tends to significantly reduce an author’s ability to write on his own.

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Vaccine Regrets

I doubt a single Pureblood will be surprised to learn that the Filthbloods are already beginning to regret their decisions to get vaxxed:

Today is my one year “regretiversary” of the vaccine that ruined my life. So to celebrate the fact it hasn’t killed me (yet), here’s a thread attempting to summarize the rollercoaster ride this last year has been… On April 13, 2021 I received Moderna #2 after believing the BS we were told by the gov and media, all my friends/family were fine after their shots, docs recommended it, if I wanted to work/travel I’d have to get it. I thought it was the ticket to get back to normal. I was wrong.

The side effects came on hard and heavy the same day, so for the causation doesn’t equal correlation crowd that tries to discredit adverse reactions, enough. And no, it wasn’t covid. I never had the virus. Previous years were healthy and I backtested negative. It was the vax 100%.

I experienced a host of side effects that can’t even fit in a single post because so many symptoms popped up almost instantly and have evolved for the worse over the last year.

I went to the ER where I was gaslit and dismissed. Same with my PCP, and rheumatology, who canceled after waiting months to be seen, saying, “we don’t treat vaccine adverse reactions.” I reported them for patient abandonment, but the state regulatory board sided with the docs.

It wasn’t until five months after the shot until I saw immunology and nine months until neurology, who admitted they see vaccine injured patients regularly and began testing. Our symptoms mimic that of long covid, which has now been backed by science.

Cardiology started me on beta blockers, which created a half dozen new side effects, immunology put me on cromolyn sodium, which hasn’t helped, and neuro tried to get IVIG, but insurance denied approval for the $50k treatment. 30 appts later, traditional medicine has failed.

Which leads to the fact the injured are desperate for research that we’re not getting. The CDC, FDA, and NIH know that vaccine injuries exist, but are doing everything in their power to make sure you don’t. Pfizer tried hiding nine pages of adverse reactions from the public for 75 years until a judge forced them to release the data. They say “trust the science,” but…

At the root of all this evil lies Big Pharma, which is making a fortune on these vaccines, spends $4.5 billion annually on media advertising to control the narrative, pays off whichever party is in power to make sure you’re told what they want you to hear. Then there’s the big tech censorship. Social media “fact checkers” have ties to the pharma industry so people like me, who are people just like you, are labeled as “misinformation” if you end up drawing the inevitable short straw and suffer an adverse reaction then speak out.

Fortunately, this hasn’t been the typical experience for most of the vaccinated, although there are far too many in the 16-59 age group who are unable regret their decision because they are now dead from various forms of vaxx-induced heart failure. And while it’s neither polite nor appropriate to remind these victims – and yes, despite their stupidity they are absolutely victims – that they were warned, it will be necessary to remind them of that the next time the Narrative demands their submission to it.

Testing the Hypotheses

Over the last decade, a lot of theoretical hypotheses have been subjected to real-world practical tests and failed. Unfortunately, this hypothesis appears to be holding up over time as the evidence comes in:

Hypothesis: The jabs not only don’t work they ruin immunity, and the more of them you take the worse the odds (by some factor, either linear or exponential — but with an unknown exponent) of one of the following outcomes:

Immediate death or serious disability due to clotting disorders or other serious systemic dysregulation.
OAS imprinting, such that each new insult confers and strengthens an incorrect antibody response (that increasingly fails to neutralize the infection.)
OAS imprinting as above coupled with evolutionary pressure that results in ADE (binding antibodies overwhelm neutralizing), and the infection kills you outright as your body is unable to fight off the acute phase at all.
OAS imprinting as above which results in an inability to entirely clear the infection. This is a nightmare scenario as low-level damage continues to accrue from the virus itself, much as occurs with AIDS. It’s not AIDS and those claiming it is are wrong on the facts, but it bears a resemblance to it and so will the outcomes (nasty infections that ordinarily don’t bother someone become ugly to the point of serious or even lethal results.)
There is evidence for this already, and its getting stronger over time. We knew this might happen too because the first three have occurred with every single attempt to vaccinate against a coronavirus in history, no matter the mechanism used to deliver the antigen production and as a result of same showing up in animal trials, given enough time, they were halted before humans got ****ed.

This time we didn’t bother with the animal trials which require a year or two to find out. We’re finding out in animals — human animal trials — that the evidence is emerging for exactly the same outcomes.

Yes, that’s bad.

It’s not Case Nightmare Kitty, but it’s looking a little worse in the long run than I had hoped after the worst scenarios were quickly ruled out. That being said, it will be necessary to keep an eye on a) all-cause death rates and b) birth rates over the next five years to understand the full extent of the ongoing damage to the populace.

As Karl Denninger says: “The nature of this sort of issue is that it is likely to reveal the boundary of the horror slowly rather than rapidly.”

The Death of Jesus

Later, knowing that everything had now been finished, and so that Scripture would be fulfilled, Jesus said, “I am thirsty.” A jar of wine vinegar was there, so they soaked a sponge in it, put the sponge on a stalk of the hyssop plant, and lifted it to Jesus’ lips. When he had received the drink, Jesus said, “It is finished.” With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.

Now it was the day of Preparation, and the next day was to be a special Sabbath. Because the Jewish leaders did not want the bodies left on the crosses during the Sabbath, they asked Pilate to have the legs broken and the bodies taken down. The soldiers therefore came and broke the legs of the first man who had been crucified with Jesus, and then those of the other. But when they came to Jesus and found that he was already dead, they did not break his legs. Instead, one of the soldiers pierced Jesus’ side with a spear, bringing a sudden flow of blood and water. The man who saw it has given testimony, and his testimony is true. He knows that he tells the truth, and he testifies so that you also may believe. These things happened so that the scripture would be fulfilled: “Not one of his bones will be broken,” and, as another scripture says, “They will look on the one they have pierced.”

John 19: 28-37

The End of International Capital

In addition to triggering the Great Bifurcation of the world into two economic blocs, the US response to the Russo-NATO war in Ukraine is likely to bring an end to the age of the free movement of capital.

Washington is not planning to return the assets confiscated from Russian businessmen as part of the latest sanctions imposed on Moscow over the military operation in Ukraine, US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said on Thursday.

“Our goal is not to give them back,” Sullivan said at the Economic Club of Washington, adding that the US authorities would use the seized assets “in a better way.”

“There are authorities we have, and there are further authorities that maybe we could develop, and that’s something we’re actively looking at,” the official added.

The White House has introduced several rounds of sanctions against Moscow since February 24, when Russia’s military operation in Ukraine began. As part of the penalties, the US authorities arrested Russian foreign assets along with those belonging to the country’s businesses and high-profile individuals.

How good do your project returns in a given jurisdiction have to be in order to justify the risk of having all of your property seized simply because the politicians in that jurisdiction don’t approve of the actions of your government?

It’s a little bizarre that we’re not hearing any neoclassical economists or libertarians talking about this, when it’s quite possibly one of the most significant developments to take place. And this isn’t just a theoretical observation, as a major Chinese oil company is already selling off its assets in Australia, Canada, and the USA as it terminates its operations in the West.

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Rendering Themselves Irrelevant

What’s the point in using Duck Duck Go anymore? If you want censorship and a reliance on the approved Narrative, you can simply stick with Google.

DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg has announced that the search engine will begin purging all independent media outlets from the platform and will replace them with “trusted” mainstream media outlets instead.

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Mailvox: Gammas Never Get It

I can always tell when an email about the SSH is from a “recovering gamma”. Strangely enough, I never seem to hear from any gamma who simply accepts the reality of his behavioral patterns and identifies as a gamma. Anyhow, see if you can spot the fundamental problems in what he describes as his attempt to summarize the concepts “briefly for myself and others.”

I am a recovering gamma currently being purified by becoming a delta. I’m trying to summarize the SSH in one-sentence per role to aid my own understanding.

A gamma is not an alpha because he lacks the necessary abilities to top any hierarchy.

A gamma is not a beta because he doesn’t admire anyone more highly than himself.

A gamma is not a delta because he lacks the humility to realize he is a beginner (a person who lacks abilities), and that a beginner must begin at the beginning of any hierarchy.

A gamma is not an omega because he has enough social abilities to not be rejected as a total outsider.

A gamma is not a sigma because he lacks the necessary abilities to exist independent of any hierarchy, whereas a sigma has enough abilities to not need most hierarchies (except when they are useful to him, in which case he is able to benefit from them by integrating himself into them as needed)

A gamma is therefore defined by the very fact that he is not any other role in the functional hierarchy (delta/beta/alpha or sigma), and refuses to recognize that he must reshape himself into one of those roles and submit to their requirements.

It appears he still has some ways to go, as this would-be-summary is mostly the conventional gamma kerfluffery that seeks to elude the ineluctable: a gamma male is any man or boy whose behavior fits within the parameters of the behavioral pattern described as gamma. And it’s a bit ironic, in that this very attempt to summarize – which is little more than an attempt to redefine and impose the gamma’s self-perceptions on that which has already been defined externally – is very much in keeping with typical gamma behavior.

A gamma is never, ever, going to possess alpha behavioral patterns. Never going to happen. He can, of course, be a situational alpha in a hierarchy of gammas, or in one comprised of mixed gammas and omegas, but his behavioral pattern and his habitual thought processes will remain the same. The “summary” is clearly false, however, because it fails to recognize the fractal nature of the SSH.

As for bravos, forget admiration. Every natural gamma instinct inclines him to contradict the bravo impulse; indeed, the bravo’s primary role is probably cracking down and riding herd on gammas so his alpha doesn’t have to do so.

The omega summary is adequate.

The delta summary omits the key components of competence and the desire for respect. The biggest single observable difference between the delta and the gamma is that if you assign a task to a delta, he’ll get it done with a minimum of fuss. If you assign a task to a gamma, he’ll start telling you why he can’t do it, how it should be done, why it would be better for him to do something else, how he plans to go about doing it, and why you should really just do it yourself; the one thing you can be certain he won’t do is stop talking about it in lieu of actually getting it done.

The sigma summary omits the important element that sigmas are often perceived as, and mistaken for, alphas by others. This is why the gamma pretension to sigmahood is so risible, because even on their best days, no one ever confuses the guys from Revenge of the Nerds for Conan, James Bond, or Hannibal Lector.

But the key point is to recognize that the gamma is not defined by what he is not, but rather, by how others observe him to behave. If you win every argument, if you’re pretty sure that you’re the most clever person in the room, if you think you’ve got a roguish charm, and you believe it is the intensity of a man’s affections that is the prime determinant of whether he deserve their object or not, then you’re probably a gamma.

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