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Sane contrarian analysis of society, science and politics.

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@TheAtlantic Why are poor people so noisy? Why is a quiet neighborhood a privilege that only the rich can afford?
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I watched the first episode of 3 Body Problem. I can believe that the laws of physics have changed, but what I can't believe is that the two top physicists in the United Kingdom are a hot girl and a black guy. That's the real alternate-universe science-fiction thing.
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@thecaptain_nemo After an hour spent grinding in a videogame, you can look at your in-game stats and see that you have become more powerful in the game. In the real world, you can spend four years in college, and then still not be employable.
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@TrungTPhan Well that wouldn't work in the United States. Getting paid and not having to do any work? That's what every American dreams of!
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About how Peter Thiel grew up reading Heinlein novels: I've been saying for a long time that Heinlein, not Ayn Rand, was the most influential libertarian novelist. His influence on those libertarian tech types was huge. Elon Musk also read Heinlein. Jeff Bezos read Heinlein.
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I used to think that school was a place for children to be educated, but the pandemic taught me that it's actually a free babysitting service so mothers can work at nonessential jobs instead of caring for their children as they did for thousands of years before the 20th century.
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@lastpositivist I'm going to plug Albert Bierstadt.
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@eyeslasho A black child with a mother and father married to each other has become a weird outlier to the more normal black family structure.
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@RichardHanania Very smart campaign strategy if the goal is to win the election.
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@SJSpotlight Yeah, next thing you know, black people would move and, and he wouldn't want that.
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@SpiritofHo Russia did worse to several cities in Ukraine, and they blew up a dam to do that much extra destruction to Kherson. Many deserted Ukrainian cities with more than 90% of buildings destroyed.
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Hispanics have a higher BMI than white Americans (and it's fat, not muscle), but live an average of 3 years longer. If fat is so unhealthy, then why do Hispanics have a longer life expectancy?
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@Iberianamerica She has a perfect Valley Girl accent, no one who knows English well would ever think she's from any country but the United States.
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When affirmative action is debated, a lot of liberals like to pull out the legacies talking about. "What about the legacies!" As if somehow, conservatives who are against affirmative action are in favor of legacies. No one really likes them except for the people who personally
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@RichardHanania But blue-collar jobs in Japan don't pay much less than they do in the U.S., and you can rent a studio apartment in Tokyo for $700/month in a safe crime-free neighborhood.
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@ScottMGreer If you're legally allowed to get welfare, you should take it. Rich people certainly don't forgo tax breaks because they feel bad about it.
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Today, my company (pretty big U.S. corp) canceled all international business travel, told everyone to cancel any flights they booked. If every other company does that, this will kill the airline industry.
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The Empire State Building was built in 18 months. Today a big project takes more like 18 years because of environmental studies, lawsuits, safety reviews, bureaucratic inaction, etc. We used to get shit done, now we just create lots of jobs for desk jockeys. And to add insult
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The Big Bang Theory may have been a show for stupid people, but at least the actors who played physicists looked like physicists. And the hot girl, Penny, was a ditz who worked as a waitress.
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@zarathustra5150 A reminder to always consult with a divorce lawyer before you get married.
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No Muslim Arab country would put up with the bullshit that Israel puts up with. When Muslim Brotherhood Islamists took over the city of Hama, Syria fucking leveled the city and killed 20,000 (or maybe 40,000). That's how Muslim Arabs deal with Islamist bullshit.
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@dpinsen @ConCaracal Yeah, like Bill Gates said he's not leaving his kids any money, but somehow his daughter bought a $51 million apartment in Manhattan. Like how did she afford that by herself?
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This is what real-world top physicists look like:
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@jamieson Unions are supposed to advocate for better pay and working conditions for their members, not make demands about totally unrelated foreign policy decisions.
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@SwannMarcus89 Banning cigarette smoking in restaurants and bars was a huge success.
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@eyeslasho @TheLynx_1 Vance was above average for Yale because he made law review. Harris was below average for Hastings because she was only accepted because of affirmative action.
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@anon_opin Why don't we just stop all usesless education after the 7th grade? What use is knowing history or having read some old novels? Total waste!
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Before the Supreme Court decision, colleges were insisting that they weren't doing any "affirmative action," they were just admitting people for diversity because diversity is essential to the learning experience. So it's funny that, with all the outrage from liberals about the
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@emollick This is good news that poor kids have a professional essay writer like the rich kids have always had.
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@DrEricDing Same journalists (rightfully) aghast about this are gushing over Threads.
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@twostraws @ChristophBauer I've used ibuprofen that was many years old, it's fine to use old ibuprofen, ignore the expiration date.
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In the early aughts, there was a great online intellectual community of HBD believers and advocates. Steve Sailer was the godfather of this community; he coined the term HBD and wrote a lot of great journalistic-style articles on HBD topics. 1/6
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@eyeslasho @rainnwilson He's rich, he doesn't have to deal with the crime and social dysfunction they'd bring to the Untied States, so he has nothing to lose by virtue signalling.
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@HorrorGorl If you don't like it, you can always buy raw chicken ($4/lb) and the other ingredients and cook your own chicken salad from scratch.
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The only way to refute systemic racism is with a genetic explanation. But that's taboo and cannot be used to refute anything. Therefore, systemic racism cannot be refuted. Not until conservatives grow some balls. But conservative balls are shrinking, not growing.
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If only we had spent billions on testing, detection, and contact tracing, we could have contained the virus and we wouldn't have had bankrupt the country spending trillions on stimulus. Total failure of government.
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@SteveStuWill One's "personality" is a lot more than the scores of 5 factors that were identified as factors because they happen to be the most genetically influenced factors.
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Women do massively more traveling then men. "Globally, 64% of travelers are female while 36% are male." So the stereotype than your girlfriend or wife wants to waste your hard-earned money on expensive vacations, totally true. .
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@jonatanpallesen @eyeslasho Unfortunately, we have the opposite, Senators get elected for loose spending and tax giveways, not for tough decisions to cut spending and increase tax collection.
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@eyeslasho Sentence #2 It means that in every other Middle East country, if you're not Muslim then you're a third or fourth class citizen without the rights of Muslims.
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@eyeslasho Now how about putting the executives at those crappy schools in prison for fraud.
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No, because Chinese have genetically much higher IQ than Indians. Don't judge Indians by the ones you know. The Indians in the U.S. are their best and brightest. The average Indian in India has pretty low IQ.
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@eyeslasho Other things that could be predicted from brain scans? IQ? Criminal behavior?
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@eyeslasho I would guess that there's a plurality of Iranians who don't take Shia Islam seriously who would be very happy if their Islamic government was violently overthrown, as long as they and their friends and family aren't personally injured or killed.
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Only the poorest (thanks to welfare) and the richest can afford to have children.
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Estimates for fertility by race:
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If white liberals believe that black crime is fake and isn't really happening, then why don't they move to black neighborhoods and save a lot of money on housing costs? (And actually, a tiny minority of liberals are stupid enough to do that, but the vast majority knows better.)
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I hoped the explosion of free speech on the internet would lead to the truth about HBD coming out. But instead it led to pizzagate, QAnon, anti-vaxxism, etc. And HBD is as taboo as ever.
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Someone is going to have to manually program the AI to not come up with answers like this.
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As this Vox article demonstrates, the best way for Conservatives to get free speech is not to advocate for free speech (which never works when conservatives do it), but rather to advocate for censorship of liberal speech. We need a new McCarthy Hearings.
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It looks like the most elite colleges are moving towards removing all measures of objective academic and intellectual merit from the applications process so that they can continue to have secret racial quotas but make it impossible to prove that's what's happening. But what
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@monitoringbias This is skewed because of race. Blacks overwhelmingly vote Democratic, and most black people aren't married.
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@RichardHanania Also, I don't think that Richard Hanania is familiar with Jimmy Buffett's body of music, maybe he only knows Margaritaville and Cheeseburger in Paradise.
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@APazyryk @KeithJensonn @monitoringbias @TafkaTrap I know a guy who was an adjunct professor at NYU (not even Ivy quality), and when he retired to Florida he got an adjunct professor gig at Florida Atlantic Univ, and eventually quit because the kids at FAU were so stupid he couldn't take it.
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We are witnessing a political realignment in which prole whites join with prole Hispanics and prole Asians in opposition to elites (of all races and ethnicities) and blacks. Unfortunately, proles are stupid, so the new prole movement is full of lots of stupidity.
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@eyeslasho Strange that they made 21% of the students take an AP exam even though only 1% of their students are capable of passing an AP exam.
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Washington Post article admits that Cheatle was a DEI appointment. When Biden named Cheatle as his Secret Service director in 2022, some inside the agency opposed her appointment, according to a half-dozen written complaints Secret Service agents sent to The Post around that
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After playing with GPT-3 for a bit, I've come to realize that GPT-3 thinks of all human communication as a bunch of bullshit. Whatever you ask of GPT-3, what it does is return the kind of bullshit that humans would return if asked the same thing.
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The problem is that there are a bunch of people calling themselves "scientists" who are wagging their fingers at the proles and telling them if they don't support "gender affirming care" for preteens, then they are morons who don't believe in "science."
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A tragic story in two charts: 1) It never used to be the case, but there is now a big partisan gap for trust in science in the US. Republicans are now essentially the anti-science party, while Dems are stridently pro
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Trump has no LEGISLATIVE accomplishments on immigration. Trump wasted his early political capital on repealing Obamacare and replacing it with nothing, and tax cuts for big corporations whose CEOs hate him. Thus Biden can just undo everything Trump did with executive orders.
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Trump List Of Achievements Includes Many Immigration Triumphs—He Was Still Better Than Hillary Clinton!
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@ObamaMalik The Jews invented stand-up comedy. The world would be a much sadder place without stand-up comedy. So let's thank the Jews for that contribution.
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I haven't tweeted yet about Columbia University dropping the SAT. I believe this is because the liberals controlling the universities are anticipating a Supreme Court decision adverse to affirmative action, and they are taking steps in advance to hide the affirmative action.
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@eyeslasho Wow, even science fiction has more female reviewers than male.
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@monitoringbias Are extremely liberal women more likely to perceive sexual harassment that other women don't? OR, are extremely liberal women more often in environments where they can be sexually harassed? OR, does being victimized by sexual harassment cause women to become extremely liberal?
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@emollick As a patient, how do I avoid the low-quartile doctors?
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@AGHamilton29 @lymanstoneky Running out of medical supplies. Not running out of rockets. Hamas priorities.
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@NewLedford Shorter is a good answer. May very well be. Also would explain why women live longer than men.
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@Rybread_26 You could get away with this back in the 1990s before the internet, but now reference checks are cheap and routine.
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@Steve_Sailer @JamesSurowiecki @docgotham @lghtbrkfast @Kevin3626258 @JSidewinder1 @MelGoofballs "Has there ever been published an honest review by the mainstream media of just how enormously much it misled the public during the Black Lives Matter moral panic" No.
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And it's not because Hispanics are richer so they can afford better medical care. It's exactly the opposite.
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@eyeslasho The people who invented doxxing and cancel culture being victimized by their own Pandora's box. How sad.
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@RichardHanania And everyone in Japan gets free healthcare.
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@RichardHanania I never thought the message of his songs was that you are supposed to be like the people in the songs. The people who listen to his music tend to be middle-class and upper-middle-class whites, not welfare people.
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@eyeslasho No, I can't think of anything useful from wokeness that wasn't already covered by pre-woke do-gooderism.
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The only way to refute systemic racism is with HBD, and because HBD is taboo and cannot be used to refute anything, this means that systemic racism CANNOT BE REFUTED. Not until conservatives grow some balls. But conservative balls are shrinking, not growing.
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That RBG only hires the best clerks instead of affirmative action clerks speaks well of her.
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With Justice Ginsburg's death, is the Summer of Blackness over and the Autumn of Feminism begun? Interesting fact: as of 2018, Ginsburgh had hired exactly one black law clerk in her 38 years as a judge:
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Story of white tortured by 4 blacks finally makes NYT homepage. Story was broken more than a day ago by "fake news" site Infowars.
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Amazon banning conservative books. When will Republicans realize that big corporations are the enemy of the people?
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Israel has now placed travel restrictions on the entire world. I wish I lived in a country like Israel that looks after its people.
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America declined under Trump. He failed to make America great again. America will decline in different ways under Biden, especially if liberal crazies control policy, but nevertheless, the Trump experiment is a failure. Learn to accept defeat.
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A short Kamala Harris bio Went to HBCU with average SAT score below typical state school, accepted to mediocre law school on affirmative action, failed bar first time, then slept with powerful man who helped her career.
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An interesting theory about why marriage rates are declining: liberal women hate hate hate conservative men, and there aren't enough liberal men to go around, so the liberal women would rather stay single.
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@robkhenderson Even among college grads, it's pretty common among any women under the age of 45.
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Certain people have wrongly asserted that being rich means not having to work, but that’s outdated by a century. With welfare and other public assistance making non-work more viable than ever for the lower classes, the higher classes distinguish themselves with their work ethic.
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@eyeslasho I expected a "manifesto" to be a lot bigger. Nothing really in there about trans stuff. The shooter just hates the kids for being white and and having rich parents. Killing kids because they are white is definitely a racist reason for a mass murder.
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@StilichoReads If they hired twice as many people to work half as many hours, they'd be creating twice as many experienced investment bankers creating more competition that would drive down their huge profit margins.
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Instagram had only 13 employees when Facebook bought it in 2012. You don't need 8,000+ employees and another 5,000+ contractors to run a social media site.
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I guess libs have given up on trying to make black kids smarter, and now they are trying to achieve equality by making white kids stupider. But it will only make poor white kids stupider. Rich parents will find better schools.
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Cambridge Public Schools eliminated advanced math in middle school with the aim of reducing disparities between low-income children of color and their more affluent peers. But some families and educators argue the decision has had the opposite effect.
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Optimistic thinking about the virus (it will go away by April, less people will die than from the flu, etc.) has been proven wrong over and over again. This current phase of optimism that the worst is over is probably just as wrong.
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@paulg Hamas doesn't really care that the war they started is causing suffering for Gazans. In fact, they like it because it's very useful for their propaganda.
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Benjamin Franklin in 1755: "In Cities, where all Trades, Occupations and Offices are full, many delay marrying, till they can see how to bear the Charges of a Family...Cities do not by natural Generation supply themselves with Inhabitants; the Deaths are more than the Births."
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@anammostarac Parkinson's Law is the adage that work will expand to fill the time allotted for its completion.
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@filippie509 Nvidia is making a lot of money.
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Bill Gates and Paul Allen both read Heinlein.
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At the time, I was optimistic that the freedom of speech enabled by the internet would eventually cause the truth of HBD to spread to the mainstream. But my optimism was wrong. The opposite happened. 2/6
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TikTok teaches us that there's a huge audience that wants to watch hot girls doing stupid things, but hardly any audience at all for ugly men doing smart things.
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We outsourced everything to China and now we are fucked. Not only are all the face masks made in China, the machines needed to make face masks are ALSO made in China.
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