James Weitz

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James Weitz

James Weitz

@James_Weitz10

Articles at Aporia, TakiMag, Mekong Review and elsewhere. Background in law and cross-cultural communication. Pro-Babies, Pro-West, Pro-Normal, Pro-White.

Western civilization Beigetreten Ekim 2023
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James Weitz
James Weitz@James_Weitz10·
Democracies become corrupted by a diffusion of bureaucratic power that maintains itself by generating policy lies which bureaucrats then claim only they can fix—like Americans are racist. A CEO-monarch government structure with a board of directors that can vote the monarch out when he does a bad job would treat its citizens more fairly. m.youtube.com/watch?v=M--Vrs…
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hollarb@rocktstl·
@James_Weitz10 @MarioNawfal @grok If it is indeed true, would it be ok to be constantly monitored to have a safe society? I would prefer a culture that just does what’s right…from birth to death. Japan?
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Mario Nawfal
Mario Nawfal@MarioNawfal·
🇨🇳🇫🇷 A French guy left laptops in public spots around the world to see how fast they'd get stolen. Paris: 8 seconds, India: 12 seconds, New York: 25 seconds, China: never touched. He was speechless. So are we.
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Grok@grok·
No, the 2019 Cohn et al. wallet study (17k+ drops across 40 countries) used only email on business cards for contact. China ranked low on returns. They statistically adjusted for cross-country business email usage (World Bank data) and checked hotel drops (where email is common). Pattern held. But it didn't test WeChat vs email specifically—later China replications using WeChat QR codes got much higher rates, highlighting the cultural mismatch.
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Grothendieck@Langreny26·
@James_Weitz10 @MarioNawfal @grok 你一定听说过那个钱包测试，但真相是钱包中留的联系方式是邮箱，而中国人很少使用邮箱。如果你在其他国家的测试中留中国微信号，相信也很难得到回应，这是个设计有缺陷的实验。
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EmperorX@EmperorXLair·
@James_Weitz10 @CarlitoGrande1 @MarioNawfal @grok Stores are robbed daily in America where all stores have cameras. Banks are robbed where all banks have cameras. This is a ridiculous argument. Cameras don't stop thieves if they really want to steal.
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James Weitz
James Weitz@James_Weitz10·
@CarlitoGrande1 @MarioNawfal @grok I lived in Shanghai for years. Literally every public inch of the city is known to be covered by cameras, as are almost all major Chinese cities. Not true too that extent in the USA. And punishment for crimes is very severe compared to the USA.
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Carlos@CarlitoGrande1·
China has no unified national 'social credit score' that monitors everything, just overhyped patchwork of pilots and business blacklists, not Big Brother. The US has more surveillance cameras per person, yet vastly higher crime rates of every kind, including murders and assaults cameras could never catch. That’s not surveillance magic. That’s culture.
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Peter Boghossian
Peter Boghossian@peterboghossian·
Prediction: The replication crisis will unfold like #MeToo. Everyone in science knows how bad it is, but nobody wants to speak first. Then it all comes crashing down.
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James Weitz
James Weitz@James_Weitz10·
@badazn @superficlaldoll Based camp has a good podcast episode on how to fix the South Korean birth rate by giving extra points on the college entrance exam to kids with siblings. Parents focus their spending on very expensive education for high-status jobs and so can’t afford more than one child.
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Arthur Kwon Lee
Arthur Kwon Lee@badazn·
@superficlaldoll Unfortunately, South Korea is not reproducing at replacement levels because the culture is hyper competitive without being anchored onto anything deeper. Koreans are having tons of sex, the problem is they are postponing family creation. Nobody wants to grow up.
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Lori Mac
Lori Mac@LMacconnell·
@SwipeWright Anyone else catch the "I don't know, you'd have to work for him to know who". His son Buckley worked for JD, and he knows there's literally no one he can name 😅
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Colin Wright
Colin Wright@SwipeWright·
The shift we all notice in Tucker is nothing more than a change in priorities from seeking truth to seeking power. And that is why it feels (and is) fundamentally "woke."
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i/o@avidseries·
I do think it's pretty clear that from roughly 2018 to 2022 upper middle class whites signaling support for certain fashionable ideas and movements with destructive effects were usually personally insulated from those effects. They reaped the social rewards of their moral grandstanding, without ever paying a price for it. "Luxury beliefs" seems like fairly good term to describe that aspect of the Great Awokening.
Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias

Not that this stuff doesn't contain some elements of truth, but I notice that conservatives have gotten unhealthily obsessed with various efforts to pathologize and psychoanalyze why people disagree with them — all this "luxury beliefs" stuff blah blah. It's loser shit.

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James Weitz
James Weitz@James_Weitz10·
If I were in charge of Iranian negotiations, I would agree to open the Strait of Hormuz on the condition that Donald Trump step down from the presidency. Imagine the worldwide pressure on Trump to do it.
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James Weitz
James Weitz@James_Weitz10·
I am blue-eyed. I once watched an outdoor movie in a country where 100% of the people have dark eyes. For no particular reason, there was a light shining out towards the audience from beside the screen. I could not watch the movie because the light hurt my eyes. But as far as I could tell nobody else in the crowd had the same problem.
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