AnechoicMedia
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Inegalitarian.
I am once again tapping the sign that higher African IQ estimates make a racist explanation more plausible, not less
Yes, those "national IQ" maps you see from time to time are bullshit.
- diversity doesn't lower social trust; the effect is all on income/education. Diverse, educated blue pockets are high trust while homogeneous poor red areas are not neighborly. - affirmative action or DEI are not a big force keeping white men out of college or good jobs (with…
What fact undermines your worldview the most?
Worrying how X/Twitter has so clearly given up on enabling genuine human interaction on this site, at the same time it is developing friend bots for endless artificial conversation. There was a time Elon said his problem with Twitter was too many bots; Now bots are all you see.
I would sooner give the death penalty to a journalist who made up fake quotes than to an honest thief. People who fabricate citations or stories deserve the highest level of social banishment any community can summon. "but what even is truth, anyway" -> bullet to the head, now
If you're curious, he replied to EY's comment on his substack here:
He's got charisma but someone needs to sit Zohran in front of a mirror until he conditions himself to stop making this face
Good morning! I'm in Uganda to visit family and friends. But depending on your perspective, don't worry or I'm sorry: I'll be back by the end of the month. See you soon, NYC.
- government sees reasonable push to be more efficient in healthcare - government tells nonprofits they have to meet organ procurement quotas - monkey's paw curls - providers procure more organs ... by any means necessary
People on Twitter have been talking about premature organ harvesting for years. I’ll be honest, I thought it was a conspiracy theory. I was wrong. It’s real, and it’s horrific.
Household water usage is a poor point of comparison because households just don't use that much water compared to agriculture or industry. More water is used to produce a single 1/4lb hamburger (~450 gal) than is directly used by a home in a day (300-400 gal).
This A1 story on Meta’s data centers, and others, use of water in an age of AI is incredible. /1
I definitely saw center-left policy people debunking claims "illegal immigrants can get welfare" with oddly specific non-denials such as "you ignoramus, illegal immigrants aren't eligible for SNAP"
i am actually curious why so many people insisted that illegal immigrants were never receiving welfare benefits when it seemed like they definitely were i never cared enough to dig into this but it seemed at the time like that claim was perhaps a lie and now it seems confirmed?
It's unbelievable how much money TV spends to produce inauthentic, inane slop. Jon Stewart's show is almost unwatchable in how lame its writing is - but Jon also does a weekly interview podcast that's just him talking to someone on zoom and he's interesting and charismatic again.
Blown away by this figure - per the article, Colbert is making maybe $20m. Where does the rest of the $100m go? It's a piece-to-camera/guest interview show
We got exactly one generation of gender equality in the professions before they became one-sided.
Partners at law and consulting firms still skew male, but the junior ranks of the same firms are mostly staffed by women. If AI does start to displace junior white-collar roles on a large scale, those are the roles that could go.
NEW: There’s been a lot of discussion lately about rising graduate unemployment. I dug a little closer and a striking story emerged: Unemployment is climbing among young graduate *men*, but college-educated young women are generally doing okay.
People used to imagine a guy to get mad at, now they imagine a past to get mad at. This is more dangerous. Potential to cause great psychic damage. Do not do it.
And these cars don’t last the way they used to either so you’re paying a loan + constant repairs. I’m losing it.
1/ David Friedman talked about this in Law's Order. You can't just punish crimes as torts (contra all the freshman year libertarians), because then the incentive is "heads, you're not caught and you keep the loot; tails you pay it back" = theft is positive sum game
One might suggest that one reason we ought to penalize theft harshly is that it is usually *extremely* difficult to recover stolen property, and a functional society needs to find ways to prevent it in the first place