basically one thing that's happening globally right now is that american ideological strains escaped from america. they're incredibly potent and while americans have been selected for resistance the rest of the world is naive. basically brain smallpox but for the old world

Lol we don't hate Europe, we like you guys! We just have fun ribbing you guys about your silly foibles like being allergic to air conditioning and using the metric system and caring about soccer, but we're just teasing. We just think your governments are retarded.

death of the author is all well and good until you decide that someone doesn’t have “media literacy”

Okay but he's still insufferable. I don't want to read a book about a guy who's insufferable. There being a reason for it doesn't make it less tedious to read.

every defense of modern art I’ve seen on this site lately doesn’t explain why the art is good, it just goes on and on about how the poster’s ideological enemies are too dumb to understand why the art is good or valuable. this validates my priors on a lot of that art, which is

People who talk about how much they hate capitalism and then turn the meter on when their “friends” show up.

That … was the original point?

This will have less impact than people think. Farming labor is already 99% automated compared to a century ago. We already live in calorie postscarcity.

Homeschool your kids IXL Khan Academy Math Academy YouTube Buy workbooks Have them read classics Order science kits Take them to the zoo Join a local co-op Sign them up for sports Take them hiking

try me. do it.

Humanities Majors: Nooo we’re just as smart as the STEM majors! We’re not the midwits. You guys are the midwits! Tolkien, World Renowned Humanities Professor known for being very smart: The hero of my epic fantasy story has a name that literally translates to midwit.

The Appalachians will be reunited once again

One of the events at a demolition derby should be drunk driving contests

I was told by Elizabeth Warren that I could only receive these updates from PBS.

The fact that normies never embraced the idea that the 'net was a great place to have 'alter egos' and just be free from insane societal peer pressure really is wild. Instead they used the internet to double down and make it impossible for non-conformists to escape.

don't ever, ever be this polite to a reporter. the only acceptable approaches are to aggressively waste their time or direct over the top verbal abuse. remember that journalists are not human beings, they are feral vicious animals and you must always act accordingly

Nothing makes me hate a speaker more and it’s the first thing they do when they get on the mic

people are notoriously bad at predicting these kinds of technology trees. 140 characters, web 2 led to giant adtech monopolies that built ai research divisions that led to the transformer. video gaming led to the company that creates H100 matmul machines at industrial scale

People who oppose borders and think we’re not allowed to police immigration insist on the other hand that there are neighborhoods that are literally theirs that nobody else should be allowed to move to

Yes the young men living in NYC are absolutely a representative sample of the US. This will definitely work.