The most plausible candidate yet for the Great Filter

"The old humility made a man doubtful about his efforts, which might make him work harder. But the new humility makes a man doubtful about his aims, which will make him stop working altogether." - GKC

Harvard University I’m a white, heterosexual, Christian, American, family man with a 1600 SAT score, who plays violin and won states championships for basketball. I was immediately rejected from Harvard so you could put a foreigner in my seat. And you want to take my tax money to fund your criminal

Harvard should have just baked the cake.

Dear Speaker Mike Johnson, stop fcking around and codify the DOGE cuts! Americans voted for this! 👇🏼

Never leaving this site.

People will get angry that Aristotle claimed that some people are natural slaves and then post stuff like this

Wellfleet today

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My spiritual journey is far from complete, but one thing I have learned with certainty by now is that if there is a Hell, it somehow involves that clear packing tape that sticks to itself on the roll

I don't want diversity, I want this version of Ireland to remain forever. 🇮🇪

View from the window just now: skies cleared after rain

Scientists yearning for spiritual repose and doing the best their religion allows: waking up on third base and thinking they've hit a triple. bigthinkmedia.substack.com/p/5-scientists…

Michael Tracey Imagine you have the theory of mind to put yourself in a believer's shoes. Their Holy Grail of overturning Roe v. Wade happens due to Trump's work. Then Trump endures Job-like punishment, threatened with bankruptcy and life in prison. Then he miraculously survives an

He nailed the delivery. Will it make Greta rethink things? Highly doubtful. (Ion Legarda is absolutely worth following.)

Thank you Elon for illustrating that autism is a crippling liability and not a magic superpower unless you’re locked in the engineering department

Well, I don't know about you, but I'm fed up.

After 21 years and exactly 1,000 episodes, John Derbyshire, aka @DissidenRight (who celebrated his 80th birthday last week) has aired the final installment of Radio Derb. Thank you, John, for your wisdom, your grace, your humor, your civility, and for standing, all these years,

After 21 years and exactly 1,000 episodes, John Derbyshire, aka John Derbyshire (who celebrated his 80th birthday last week) has aired the final installment of Radio Derb. Thank you, John, for your wisdom, your grace, your humor, your civility, and for standing, all these

genuinely, how does one explain to a person like this that it is extremely negatively impactful, at the population level, to have people running around in the street screaming and setting cars on fire