Killed this btw (bottom quartile overall)
September 26, 2026 at 11:53 PM
Killed this btw (bottom quartile overall)
“You would much much much much rather be a median American today, or even a bottom-quartile American, than in the 1980s.”
Oh wow. 40-50 years later you get a bigger tv. The leaps that quality of life has improved for the bottom quartile in the nation that has pillaged the world that entire time
Oh wow. 40-50 years later you get a bigger tv. The leaps that quality of life has improved for the bottom quartile in the nation that has pillaged the world that entire time
April 5, 2026 at 1:17 AM
“You would much much much much rather be a median American today, or even a bottom-quartile American, than in the 1980s.”
Oh wow. 40-50 years later you get a bigger tv. The leaps that quality of life has improved for the bottom quartile in the nation that has pillaged the world that entire time
Oh wow. 40-50 years later you get a bigger tv. The leaps that quality of life has improved for the bottom quartile in the nation that has pillaged the world that entire time
No different than your top quartile sports fan.
September 21, 2025 at 12:16 AM
No different than your top quartile sports fan.
I also listened to the song and it was... just kind of boring? Texas, cowboys, blah blah. I would definitely rather listen to almost any second-quartile Taylor Swift song.
September 27, 2026 at 2:47 PM
I also listened to the song and it was... just kind of boring? Texas, cowboys, blah blah. I would definitely rather listen to almost any second-quartile Taylor Swift song.
The economic recovery was good for everyone but best for lower-income people in the bottom quartile and decile
“but our recovery was unprecedented! the economy is so good now!”
yeah but good for WHO, man
and did it in any way compensate for the massive withdrawal of social support and safety nets?
yeah but good for WHO, man
and did it in any way compensate for the massive withdrawal of social support and safety nets?
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. saw an 18.1% increase in homelessness this year, with more than 770,000 people counted as homeless.
December 27, 2024 at 5:12 PM
The economic recovery was good for everyone but best for lower-income people in the bottom quartile and decile
it's because none of the ostensible working class stiffs going viral with this stuff were in that bottom quartile
Jesus fucking Christ.
15.3% REAL wage gains from 2019-2024.
This isn't total Stancil Victory. This is totally Stancil Conquest.
15.3% REAL wage gains from 2019-2024.
This isn't total Stancil Victory. This is totally Stancil Conquest.
March 26, 2025 at 10:13 PM
it's because none of the ostensible working class stiffs going viral with this stuff were in that bottom quartile
And the press, consisting almost exclusively of people in the top quartile, destroyed him for it.
One of my black pill moments was that Biden actually focused on lifting the lowest quartiles up at the expense of the rich and the online left screamed at him about student loan forgiveness.
The vibecession was primarily driven by lower sentiment among the upper and middle classes, not the lower classes.
February 15, 2026 at 10:33 PM
And the press, consisting almost exclusively of people in the top quartile, destroyed him for it.
This is mystifying to me because after looking at the various metrics - YouTube views, Spotify plays - this song appears to be the equivalent of an second-quartile Taylor Swift song in overall popularity, and I assure you I don't know all of those either.
This kind of take made a Rolling Stone writer so mad they wrote a whole piece about it.
September 27, 2026 at 2:46 PM
This is mystifying to me because after looking at the various metrics - YouTube views, Spotify plays - this song appears to be the equivalent of an second-quartile Taylor Swift song in overall popularity, and I assure you I don't know all of those either.
if you instead prefer selective enforcement by men with firearms who graduated high school in the bottom quartile of their class, i would ponder a bit on why
As one of these 48,000, yes I was over the speed limit and I probably deserved the ticket but getting caught speeding by a robot still feels like a violation of the social contract somehow. wjla.com/news/local/m...
New system issues 48,000 speeding tickets to Maryland drivers in the last 2 months
More than 48,000 citations were issued by the Maryland Safe Zones Automated Speed Enforcement system in the first two months of expanded speed monitoring, accor
wjla.com
May 28, 2025 at 3:08 AM
if you instead prefer selective enforcement by men with firearms who graduated high school in the bottom quartile of their class, i would ponder a bit on why
Woah. Survival among the top wealth quartiles in northern/western/southern Europe were higher than that among the wealthiest Americans. Survival in the wealthiest US quartile were similar the poorest quartile in northern/western Europe www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
Association between Wealth and Mortality in the United States and Europe | NEJM
Amid growing wealth disparity, we have little information on how health among older Americans compares with that among older Europeans across the distribution of wealth. We performed a longitudinal...
www.nejm.org
April 9, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Woah. Survival among the top wealth quartiles in northern/western/southern Europe were higher than that among the wealthiest Americans. Survival in the wealthiest US quartile were similar the poorest quartile in northern/western Europe www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
In fairness to Chuck, “if it happened to someone like me, it could happen to me as well” puts him in the upper quartile of American IQs by itself.
Welp. Now we know what Schumer's limit is. It's "people who have the same job as me."
Sen. Chuck Schumer: "I just saw something that sickened my stomach; the manhandling of a United States Senator. We need immediate answers to what the hell went on."
June 12, 2025 at 7:02 PM
In fairness to Chuck, “if it happened to someone like me, it could happen to me as well” puts him in the upper quartile of American IQs by itself.
The Trump regime looked at these maps and thought that it's totally okay to defund USAID and kill 14 million people over the next 5 years (including 4.5 million children under five) because they're not white. Trump apparently also deserves the Nobel Peace Prize.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
October 3, 2025 at 2:01 PM
The Trump regime looked at these maps and thought that it's totally okay to defund USAID and kill 14 million people over the next 5 years (including 4.5 million children under five) because they're not white. Trump apparently also deserves the Nobel Peace Prize.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
The wages for the bottom quartile rose more than anyone else's during the Biden administration.
April 7, 2025 at 5:31 AM
The wages for the bottom quartile rose more than anyone else's during the Biden administration.
MeToo, BLM, and the advances in quality of life and economic prospects of the bottom quartile
March 30, 2025 at 4:40 AM
MeToo, BLM, and the advances in quality of life and economic prospects of the bottom quartile
You would much much much much rather be a median American today, or even a bottom-quartile American, than in the 1980s. It's not even a close call. The standard of material prosperity is so much higher now that it can be hard to even make the comparison.
April 4, 2026 at 4:52 PM
You would much much much much rather be a median American today, or even a bottom-quartile American, than in the 1980s. It's not even a close call. The standard of material prosperity is so much higher now that it can be hard to even make the comparison.
My evolving views on mob movies
October 7, 2025 at 4:05 PM
My evolving views on mob movies
Wage growth among all workers is declining significantly, with low-wage workers hit especially hard.
www.ft.com/content/cfa6...
www.ft.com/content/cfa6...
November 25, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Wage growth among all workers is declining significantly, with low-wage workers hit especially hard.
www.ft.com/content/cfa6...
www.ft.com/content/cfa6...
This is a daily recitation from President Sundown these days, so one more time:
His 2024 win was not remotely a landslide and not remotely a "clobbering." His margins in the popular vote margin and electoral college are both down in the bottom quartile all time.
And no, his people do hurt us.
His 2024 win was not remotely a landslide and not remotely a "clobbering." His margins in the popular vote margin and electoral college are both down in the bottom quartile all time.
And no, his people do hurt us.
May 11, 2026 at 12:29 AM
This is a daily recitation from President Sundown these days, so one more time:
His 2024 win was not remotely a landslide and not remotely a "clobbering." His margins in the popular vote margin and electoral college are both down in the bottom quartile all time.
And no, his people do hurt us.
His 2024 win was not remotely a landslide and not remotely a "clobbering." His margins in the popular vote margin and electoral college are both down in the bottom quartile all time.
And no, his people do hurt us.
So Biden’s policies for suppressing working class wages failed? Since the lowest quartile wages rose higher than inflation and higher than any quartile throughout the 4 years
May 13, 2025 at 2:45 PM
So Biden’s policies for suppressing working class wages failed? Since the lowest quartile wages rose higher than inflation and higher than any quartile throughout the 4 years
Letting an upper quartile comic book writer get Too Big To Edit was a mistake
the culmination of the warhammer books' signature storyline is a three-volume experimental novel.
I would never try to explain the appeal of wh40k because nobody would believe how genuinely good the good bits are - and the bad bits are really, really quite bad.
September 22, 2026 at 10:39 PM
Letting an upper quartile comic book writer get Too Big To Edit was a mistake
Thing is Tommy Tuberville is upper quartile for Alabama.
January 7, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Thing is Tommy Tuberville is upper quartile for Alabama.
You can't just tweet "blue collar boom!" if the increase bottom quartile wages has substantially decreased.
October 26, 2025 at 2:12 PM
You can't just tweet "blue collar boom!" if the increase bottom quartile wages has substantially decreased.
according to the 2024 lesswrong community survey:
"Question: Mean + standard deviation (1st quartile, 2nd quartile, 3rd quartile) [n= number responding]
...
P(Simulation): 25.8 + 29.4 (2, 15, 40) [n=219]"
i am an anthropologist or something
"Question: Mean + standard deviation (1st quartile, 2nd quartile, 3rd quartile) [n= number responding]
...
P(Simulation): 25.8 + 29.4 (2, 15, 40) [n=219]"
i am an anthropologist or something
The main vibe I get from the AI crowd is they think we'll invent new physics if we can just get enough compute & good enough algorithms. Not just wealth, not just technology, but the end of any material limit at all. I wonder how many of them subscribe to the simulation hypothesis
September 8, 2025 at 8:05 PM
according to the 2024 lesswrong community survey:
"Question: Mean + standard deviation (1st quartile, 2nd quartile, 3rd quartile) [n= number responding]
...
P(Simulation): 25.8 + 29.4 (2, 15, 40) [n=219]"
i am an anthropologist or something
"Question: Mean + standard deviation (1st quartile, 2nd quartile, 3rd quartile) [n= number responding]
...
P(Simulation): 25.8 + 29.4 (2, 15, 40) [n=219]"
i am an anthropologist or something
there's a lot of justification for restrictive immigration politics that goes "well, lack of wage growth feels bad for low-wage workers, who then blame immigrants", which I think is undercut significantly by the fact that we had massive low-end wage growth throughout the recent immigration backlash
November 25, 2024 at 11:53 AM
there's a lot of justification for restrictive immigration politics that goes "well, lack of wage growth feels bad for low-wage workers, who then blame immigrants", which I think is undercut significantly by the fact that we had massive low-end wage growth throughout the recent immigration backlash
this is really a bottom quartile kind of thing on the “historically significant crime” list tbh
a coalition of countries led by the united states and britain invaded iraq in 2003 leading to a war which killed well over 600,000 iraqis. the stated purposes of that war were found to be a total fabrication and literally nobody was ever held accountable for one of the worst crimes in human history
August 18, 2025 at 9:15 PM
this is really a bottom quartile kind of thing on the “historically significant crime” list tbh