One of the few legitimate social science discoveries that hasn't spilled into the collective mind is that civil war violence mostly isn't bombs and battles-- it's homicide. To see rising homicide across a country is to see a thousand little civil wars bloom.

Strong evidence that local economic conditions don’t substantially impact birthrates: ethnic/cultural groups have similar birthrates across borders. Ethnic Chinese in Singapore/Malaysia are both ~0.75 TFR.

Accelerationist who doesn’t know whether to vote for Adams to minimize trust in government or Mamdani to destroy the housing market

Elon squandered political influence with DOGE + conflict with Trump. Now he’s trying to regain it, hence earlier nonsense about the “America Party.” What has he decided is his best strat? Rape gangs + “save Britain” anti-migration rhetoric. What does that tell us? That he

Education failed to translate into economic gains in Ghana, at least according to the usually unreliable African data.

The cultivation region of each of the 4 major crops in China. Rice or wheat (since the Tang Dynasty) were historically China's primary crops, but since ~2010 maize (corn) has exceeded both in land use (hectares) and output (tonnage).

The US and Canada are destined to be one country. x.com/yesdata_/statu…

Wholly unrelated but that's not a flag back there. It's a cone printed to create the illusion of a draping flag. This trend started with Israel and the Gulf States, spread to the US, and is now taking over the world. I hate it. It's hideous.

Two reasons to think Islamism will decline: — Birthrates. Middle Eastern countries getting older fast; means fewer young ppl to participate in ideological conflict. The Sahel still has lots of births, so might be delayed there (kinda like Maoist guerrillas still fighting in

Interesting that the Romans never noticed the similarities between Latin and Persian (Indo-European languages) vs. the Semitic languages geographically separating them (Aramaic, Hebrew, Carthaginian).

The American majority of Alberta begins to take the flight to freedom 🦅🇺🇸

"We have a fiscal crisis due to the ageing population" –Yes, this is one reason why importing low paid, low skilled migrants is a disaster, because they will pay less in tax than they consume in services.