From 97782eb029fbc5130657c0c61ec51a1f7e63ecb9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake" Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2019 23:13:33 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] check in --- content/drafts/baby-grant.md | 12 ++++++++++++ notes/epigraph_quotes.md | 10 ++++++++++ notes/notes.txt | 2 ++ notes/post_ideas.txt | 4 ++++ 4 files changed, 28 insertions(+) create mode 100644 content/drafts/baby-grant.md diff --git a/content/drafts/baby-grant.md b/content/drafts/baby-grant.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5599bf3 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/drafts/baby-grant.md @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +Title: Baby Grant (working title) +Date: 2020-01-01 +Category: other +Tags: natalism, personal +Status: draft + +> **GUIDELINE #3: TACTFULLY REWARD YOUR KIDS FOR EACH GRANDCHILD** +> +> [...] For trust issues like this, actions speak louder than words. If you're ready to help financially, the best way to prove that there are no strings attached is to make one-shot gifts. No matter what you say, a monthly check feels contingent. It's more convincing to celebrate the birth of each new baby with an early inheritance—and the suave excuse, "This will all be yours eventually, anyway." True, you're giving up control, but as computer geeks say, "That's a feature, not a bug." Grandparents' money talks louder when they surrender control. Or to be more precise, when you surrender control over your grandchildren's upbringing, you get _extra_ control over a more important outcome: their number. +> +> —Bryan Caplan, _Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids: Why Being a Great Parent Is Less Work and More Fun Than You Think_, Ch. 7, "Selfish Guidelines for Want-to-Be Parents" + diff --git a/notes/epigraph_quotes.md b/notes/epigraph_quotes.md index efe6a0d..90e8cc6 100644 --- a/notes/epigraph_quotes.md +++ b/notes/epigraph_quotes.md @@ -321,3 +321,13 @@ https://xkcd.com/1942/ > In general, our society less and less encourages looking sexually attractive to other people and more and more encourages acting out inner fantasies that are unattractive to others to make yourself even more of a victim of society. > > —[Steve Sailer](http://www.unz.com/isteve/the-woke-war-on-homosexuals/) + +> All those days +> Chasing down a daydream +> All those years +> Living in a blur +> All that time +> Never truly seeing +> Things, the way they were +> +> —"I Can See the Light" diff --git a/notes/notes.txt b/notes/notes.txt index 6fa8b8b..7cef91c 100644 --- a/notes/notes.txt +++ b/notes/notes.txt @@ -1408,3 +1408,5 @@ https://humanvarieties.org/2017/07/01/measurement-error-regression-to-the-mean-a I'm imagining that there's some margin at which the shame and intimidation is counterbalanced by E pur si muove concerns. (Conditional on the hypothesis that, in fact, e pur si muove.) Scott being more sensible in a less-visible place: https://archive.is/In89y + +http://www.trans.cafe/posts/2016/6/27/17-signs-i-was-transgender-but-didnt-know-it diff --git a/notes/post_ideas.txt b/notes/post_ideas.txt index 1cf0fcb..a5fec38 100644 --- a/notes/post_ideas.txt +++ b/notes/post_ideas.txt @@ -6,6 +6,10 @@ On the Argumentative Form "Super-proton Things Tend to Come in Varieties" Game Theory of Stigmatization (need better title) +reply to https://surveyanon.wordpress.com/2019/10/27/the-mathematical-consequences-of-a-toy-model-of-gender-transition/ + +testimony on trans girl periods: http://www.onwednesdays.net/trans-girl-periods/ + Butting Heads; Or, Selective Reporting and the Tragedy of Cause Prioritization Anne Lawrence on AGP Teen Transition -- 2.17.1