The video of TWO trucker dudes (at the same time) having zero emotional reaction to killing that family has radicalized me.

A White male pretended to be a gender-fluid member of the Nigerian diaspora & won an award for an intentionally bad poem that includes several emojis & the line: I want Billy Bard?? to spank?? my big? juicy?? fanny Is this included in your passing interactions with publishing?

as usual the failing NYT missed several gems

Traffic is a perfect system for understanding immigration. Being a polite driver is not self-interested behavior. One can often go a bit faster by being antisocial. In much of the world, traffic looks like the right. Because most people will not personally sacrifice to maintain

A question for men: can you ever imagine yourself doing something like this? Would this be your move if you were poor (by Western standards)? If not, then this person is fundamentally different from you, and that should affect how you think about his prospects for rehabilitation.

I often follow accounts I profile as “smart, reasonable libs” in the hopes that exposure to their views they will prevent me from being radicalized but the opposite generally happens

“How much does this surprise you” is a pretty good fulcrum on which to divide left and right

the greatest regret i have is underestimating the value of long term compounding. capital, friendships, projects, places, all get better with decades. its impossible to understand until you see it. it is entirely what life is about. a few very good things for a long time

I still think it’s very funny Kardeshev came up with a scale to measure civilizational progress that literally excludes every civilization that has ever actually existed that we know of

Imagine choosing endless welfare for non-nationals over a Space Age future.

God telling Bronze Age nomads to multiply and subdue the whole Earth obviously implies he would have told Space Age civilized peoples to subdue the whole visible universe. If churches were serious they would be funneling donations to SpaceX, Blue Origin, off-world colonization..

They don’t have a lower IQ because they are underdeveloped, they are underdeveloped because they have a lower IQ.

That's just the H1B side of things. Since 2015 their spouses and children also get visas under the H-4 Visa. Then you have F-1 student visas which is another million+ from india and china. You have the F-2 which is their spouses and children. Add another 1-2 million. You have

in economics its rude to attack an argument without providing a counterargument so here is my economic case against infinity immigration: we are not going to be able to sustain our current overgenerous welfare state irrespective of immigration sorry, we're just not. give it up

Snobbishness is an unfairly maligned trait. It’s actually your moral duty to reject low quality and ugly things, lest they consume the world

Alright, I'm hearing chatter from behind the scenes about the Cracker Barrel campaign and, on second thought: we must break the Barrel. It's not about this particular restaurant chain—who cares—but about creating massive pressure against companies that are considering any move

We have the technology now to have real-time surgical assistants with 100 cameras that guide a surgeon through profoundly rare pathologies and procedures, far beyond what a single human can keep in their head. The reason we don't have it is a political and organizational issue.

The internet: Nietzsche was bitter and resentful! Meanwhile Nietzsche: A single moment of happiness redeems all of eternity

Newt Gingrich "A king's body-guard consists of citizens, a tyrant's of foreign mercenaries" - Aristotle