Maxaemand
@maxaemand
Semi-anonymous void jounal.
Worst fears do come true. Germany feared being divided by and forever subservient to foreign powers. The US feared left-wing subversion and gradual self-sabotage. The USSR feared reactionary capitalist elements plundering state institutions. Sometimes hardliners have a point.
Tyrolean Iceman updates: Cool study focused on a specific region over thousands of years, charting the changing genetic landscape. Those Neolithic genes sure persisted. Interesting to now compare Otzi with others in the region. He was broadly the same but also unique!
Genomic diversity and structure of prehistoric alpine individuals from the Tyrolean Iceman’s territory. Analysis of 47 alpine individuals dated from the Mesolithic (6380-6107 BC) to Middle Bronze Age (1601-1295 BC). nature.com/articles/s4146…
Nobody ever answers my real questions. Is there a certain amount of closeness you reach with someone where you say "hey, in case I die, here's my phone password so that you could access my data" or something like that?
Real question, do people not use passwords on their phone? Or do they give passwords to people in their life? Even when there's nothing to hide, I don't really see how that conversation would even come up.
Eric is doing a great job representing his case on these larger platforms. Comes across very normal and dismantles all the moral objections put to him with ease. People should learn from this.
There is a community making headlines for being whites-only. Co-founder of @RTTL_Official @Aarvoll_ came on TMZ Live today to explain.
Twitter, where seemingly, every Catholic is Mexican, every Orthobro watches hentai, every pagan is actually an atheist, and protestants don't exist
Smarter people learn to cooperate more in Prisoner's Dilemmas over iterations (blue: higher Raven's Matrices score, red: lower Raven's Matrices score). This is plausibly one of the reasons for the "Hive Mind" effect (national IQ being more important than personal IQ).
Out of everyone trying to articulate what makes this so appealing, no one seems to mention linearity, but I think it does. The trees to the sides and one main, winding path make it more compelling, not less.
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The reason people appreciate "not having to ask" is because it shows a depth of understanding one person has for the other. True intimacy. The problem is, you don't develop that level of understanding without ever communicating in the first place. So ask.
friendly reminder:
Note Japan. From 1990 to 2008, it seemed superficially plausible that Japan's economic stagnation was due to muh xenophobia and Japan needed to embrace immigration, and this became conventional wisdom. But since 2008, the rest of the rich world has stagnated just as hard.
No advanced economy has seen a more severe growth slowdown since 2008 than the UK.
I'm very proud of my computer file organization system, to the point where it feels sad that I'm the only one who ever sees or uses it.
I'm sympathetic to the people who genuinely get unfairly banned because of their beliefs, but I don't think people want to admit that like 90% of the people who get banned deserve it for making threats or otherwise acting insane.
Women's strongest social power has always been the selective distribution of information. I think when you remove that, especially in a way that makes her feel personally vulnerable, she's more likely to take it as a slight than men would.
This is one of those things a lot of people enjoy doing but when they have it done back to them they tend to freak out Average woman is not a huge fan of everyone knowing every guy they've ever talked to
Reply to this tweet and I'll post a pic of an aesthetic bed I think you'd like to sleep in based on your personality.
The "autism and schizophrenia as cognitive opposites" hypothesis is simplistic but the loose framework is useful for applying to social dynamics. I think a lot of arguments come from one person's overly mechanistic thinking against another's overly mentalistic thinking.