We don’t talk about any other country this way. No one identifies as anti-Iran, anti-North Korea. We oppose their rogue regimes, policies, governments. Calling yourself “anti-Israel,” is just dog whistling that it’s illegitimate for Jews to have a state.

Watch your own speech for - “he needs to…” - “I want her to…” - “it would be great if he…” This will raise your awareness of your agenda for your child. Then let it go.

The problem of politics isn’t who should rule. It’s how easily bad rulers can be replaced, and at what cost. A piece on extending Karl Popper’s criterion beyond politics, to markets and even families 👇 open.substack.com/pub/samuelkuyp…

A pattern I see is some people are not that interested in thinking about abstract things in politics or philosophy. Then there is a second group that become interested, and conspiracy theories are so common here. I feel like the moment someone goes from not caring to caring,

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They think they can coerce God too.

(1) I think they mean AGI. (2) Either way – No. spectator.com/article/is-ai-…

I don't know who made this to give them credit, but it ended up in my inbox and is glorious. Avoiding Israeli brutality is very important these days, and it's also extremely easy (for civilized people).

The tech people dismissing this are completely out of touch. The NGO people can turn you into the devil, if you don't play your cards right. The merchants of Venice and Florence understood the need for priests, artists, scholars and writers to paint a new vision of the world.

.david friedberg: “A wealth tax takes away private property. If you give the government the ability to do that on even 1% of net worth for billionaires, the next step is 5% of the billionaires, or maybe 2% of millionaires, and then maybe it’s 3% on people that have a net worth of 100

What’s worse is that government can print money and force asset prices to go up, which will force the people who are the best at building companies to give up more ownership of their companies.

On ne peut pas trouver meilleure représentation graphique des distorsions artificielles de marché provoquées par l'État. Le marché libre aurait produit une distribution continue et naturelle, guidée par les préférences réelles des individus et leurs besoins concrets. Au lieu de

Time doesn't actually flow. Your brain just makes it feel that way. Paul Churchland, philosopher of mind and neuroscientist. Physicist Paul Churchland draws a striking distinction between time as it exists in the world and time as we experience it. The external world, he

How about: "Hey, are you sad?" "Tell me what's going on, do you want to keep trying or do something else?" "Whatever you want I am here to help!"

"Austin’s Surge of New Housing Construction Drove Down Rents" (even as its population grew) pew.org/en/research-an…

We don't have a homeless problem. We have a crime problem. Very few people mind if you sleep in your car, shower in a gym, and are involved in society. What we're fed up with is needles, used condoms and human feces on the sidewalk, trash everywhere, sidewalks blocked, raw

How to debate the woke that 2+2≠5? Forget the mathematics. Argue that 2+2=5 is racist. Brilliant! (Yes, it’s a skit).

Hasan Piker's Views: ▶️Hamas is "1,000 times better than Israel" ▶️"America deserved 9/11" ▶️Bemoans collapse of Soviet Union in Yale debate ▶️Explicitly called for assassination of U.S. Senator Major Democractic senate candidate is campaigning with him, and he is embraced and

What does certain mean? It just means I feel some way—I feel certain. Certainty is an emotion, it’s a feeling you get, or at least a feeling some people seem to want to have. But the feeling that you are definitely correct is no guarantee that you are. Brett Hall

In my view, aiming at simplicity and lucidity is a moral duty of all intellectuals: lack of clarity is a sin, and pretentiousness is a crime. — Karl Popper