It can sometimes be worthwhile to say things that are obvious. By explicitly stating something that no reasonable person would disagree with, you can smoke out the unreasonable ones.

If people REALLY believed in their own doomsday narratives then they wouldn't be complacent about being broke and out of shape, while complaining on the internet and starting fights with strangers every day. They would be doing everything they can to prepare themselves and

Merry Christmas everyone (say it back!) One of my favorite quotes to take with you into 2024: “Tradition is a set of solutions for which we have forgotten the problems. Throw away the solution and you get the problem back.” - Donald Kingsbury

You are permitted to discuss the benefits of division of labor in a family only when it reverses traditional gender roles

“We all wish that disability carried no wage penalty but… we cannot magic it away with the wave of a legislative wand. Reality often gives us a choice between a sub-optimal outcome and an even more sub-optimal one.” From John Phelan open.substack.com/pub/johnsecon/…

I've been watching the show Alone and noticing that I constantly wince watching the contestants (survival experts stranded in a harsh wilderness) kill animals or even cut down trees. I wince because modern society keeps me so well insulated from how the sausage that is my

The special mark of the modern world is not that it is skeptical, but that it is dogmatic without knowing it.

Vacations are great, but do you know what's even greater? Building a life that you don’t need to escape from.

“Over 30% of (Minnesota’s) students were chronically absent in 2021-22.” Chronic absence is 10% of school days. If education is an investment in our future, what’s the real return on our investment? startribune.com/editorial-the-…

“For first time” 🤔

“Graphlighting.” Excellent.

Some people who are very dissatisfied with their lives nevertheless have no intention of changing their own behavior. They want to keep on doing what they have always done, but just have it turn out differently.

This winter, Hermantown teachers picketed for better pay.

Schools can’t close the achievement gap between students whose parents read to them and those that don’t

You don't get to call someone a 'science denier' if you - think that more than two biological sexes evolved in vertebrates - think that mammals can change sex - think that there are no sex differences in human psychological traits - think that human evolution stopped more than

From an anthropological standpoint, it’s quite easy to see why large metropolitan zones are more prone to becoming epicentres of delusion, and detachment from natural order (e.g., blank slatism, excessive hedonism or decadence, confusion about gender and gender roles, etc.):