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@Alex_Fairfax06 You need to divide Asian into East Asian and South Asian.

The ONS also tells us exactly who is paying in more than they take out (it’s White people and only White people)

@andyd10 I did my job. In the US!

S.Korea

@shagbark_hick Why not just get richer faster and live in 150k in stock income? Seriously?

It really isn't. I'm a fellow with one hell of a past, teeth like a goat, a salty, hard-to-deal with personality, and I also live on <$15k/yr -- and I managed to find a fantastic wife. This mythical idea that all women are materialistic high-dollar princesses is stupid. In reality, the people in present-day USA who are truly willing to go for eccentric ways of living are mostly women. Extreme frugality, hardcore cheap travel, nonelectric off grid, life in actual rural America -- large numbers of women do this stuff already (see WWOOFing) or are truly excited at the prospect. The men who say it's "so hard" to find a woman to do this stuff with are frankly coping for some other major deficiency, or have been crippled by porn-adjacent beauty standards, or simply lack VISION. All women generally want is a man who is monomaniacally driven by a VISION that is grandiose, wild, and actually just might work. Most men these days have nothing like that within them. Their "vision" is usually a totally nondescript future involving the accumulation of money and little else, and from what I have seen, only fairly doltish and status-conscious women are attracted to such uninspired vagaries. Thinking women want a man with vision and adventure and a touch of stability thrown in, and a guy like this is able to give it to them in spades. This particular fellow is simply not mixing in the right circles (and sounds like he's got other problems besides).

@StefanMolyneux I had kids and my belly looks 100% normal. And I am petite too!

Ah the beautiful whirlpool of life! Both men and women sacrifice their bodies for children. Totally worth it.

@mattkim1 Every time I go back to Korea, I feel safe. But raising kids there is such an incredible pressure that I raise my kids in the US. It is true that small US towns can have this safety, but never big cities.

I’ve been living immersed in South Korea for the last month with my wife and daughter. We just leave the stroller outside if we go in anywhere. Because no one’s going to steal it. I met a friend for lunch. He rode his bicycle. He just left it outside in an alley without a lock. It was still there 2 hours later. Another friend mistakenly left his phone on a park bench. When he finally retraced his steps and went back 4 hours later, his iPhone was still there. I walked by a KPop concert. The fans who traveled from outside of Seoul to attend just left their luggage outside the subway station. No locks. No security. Koreans take this for granted. They don’t realize this is not normal for most the world, especially America. When I ask about it, they just respond, “of course, why would someone take it?” Can you imagine any of these things happening or being possible in NYC or LA or *insert city*? And IF, something were to be stolen in Korea, the police would investigate. Because in a high trust society, rules and norms matter. There’s no “under $1000” law. Theft is theft. And trust is trust. Will this social norm ever be possible in America?

@RokoMijic Hope you straighten those out, Roko! Health is critically important.

@PersonJPE I had some side effects and I want to deal with some other health issues and life issues first

Another video, this time on "skilled immigration and legibility"

@dieworkwear The handsome, broad shouldered men look so much better.

The reason why you think style is about money or body type is bc the only info you consume is from the fashion industry. You do not pay attention to culture and you know little about tailoring. Here is a broad shouldered, muscular man who dresses better than two slim men

@nexta_tv What are they all saying? Is this what people in games chat like?

The “dead internet theory” in action In World of Warcraft, a server without humans has appeared — instead, 1,800 DeepSeek-based bots are playing there. The bots behave like regular players: they chat, level up characters, run dungeons, and even fight each other. As a result, the game world looks completely alive.

@newstart_2024 Nine minute mile? For a man? I don’t run but I am sure I could run a mile in seven minutes just from being healthy

Tom Segura learned a game-changing running hack: Stop training at max effort. On 2 Bears, 1 Cave, he explained that when he trains for a 5K by pushing hard (heart rate in the 170s), he hits a wall and doesn’t improve much. Instead, he now trains at a much lower heart rate, around 135–145, which feels slower at first, but over weeks and months, you get faster at that same heart rate. Then on race day, when you push it, your times drop significantly. Training at max effort all the time can actually make your times worse. It’s counterintuitive but makes total sense, you’re building the engine instead of constantly redlining it. Have you tried training at a lower heart rate zone to build endurance? Did it make you faster?

@RokoMijic @ArtemisConsort Most people did not ride horses nor have archery practice.

There's also the point that as society becomes more capable and more complex, the opportunity cost for everything goes up. Think of all the things that people did 2000 years ago: riding horses, manual farming, praying, archery practice on Sunday. We've stopped doing almost all of them, because of opportunity costs. You could grow potatoes in your garden to eat. But that's rare nowadays. Most of what we do has been heavily upgraded by technology, and getting a given result got much easier and we had more time to spend on other stuff. Child-bearing and rearing is somewhat exceptional. The real-terms cost of creating a human child has not been meaningfully reduced by technology. Partly this is because biology is hard but it's also partly a result of moral squeemishness around "eugenics" and vast over-regulation and over-taxation of things like private schools and childcare. Children also haven't gotten better. Again, we ignored eugenic breeding for "moral" reasons and the results are that people don't actually want to have children.

No matter what your theory about birth rate collapse is, there’s some data point that disproves it. Japan didn’t have the pill when fertility collapsed. There are highly patriarchal countries where fertility is collapsing. It’s collapsing in countries that are still poor. It’s collapsing in places with more generous social support for families. It’s almost like a psychic alien just decided to phase humans out.

@foolmealex I met my husband through work (not at work). I still think it is normal.

Dating your coworker used to be one of the top ways to meet your spouse and now there’s a massive social taboo against it

@elonmusk @Coinvo What matters is the population IQ, and lack of insanity. This is why Korea went from little to everything in a few generations (same for Singapore, HK). You can't claim Korea did not suffer: Japan, China and a war tore the country just as much, if not more as African countries

It wasn’t. With rare exception, colonies were unprofitable, meaning more was spent building infrastructure like roads, railways, buildings, etc. than was exported. And look at places like Singapore and Hong Kong. Both were colonies for a long time and yet they are extremely prosperous.

ELON MUSK: "I don't believe Africa's poverty is caused by colonialism."

@brianluidog I worked under female managers early on in my career. Never again.

A common female blind spot is that they miss most of men's invisible work. This leads them to overestimate their contribution and value. Especially true at work, like, imagine two equivalent 100-person companies, one is all male, the other is all female. Which will do better?

@royllovians Wow I pegged her at mid 30s, not high school! She can wear a Chinese or Korean dress for all I care though

Eight years ago this month, a defining brouhaha of the Great Awokening broke out: An 18-year-old high school senior posted her prom pictures, in which she wore a qipao, a type of Chinese dress. Thousands of Twitter users attacked and condemned her for "cultural appropriation."

@HillaryClinton I have nothing in particular to say other than I want to comment that most posts on your account seem to not allow people to reply. Seems censorious.

I was proud to call Barney Frank a friend. He was a trailblazer, a brilliant legislator, and a champion for American consumers. I'll miss his humor, his courage, and his heart, and my thoughts today are with his friends and loved ones.

@Rationalbot It would work if the prices were high. Obviously it won't work if the prices are low.

Yeah so take a guess about why this would never work

@dwarkesh_sp Bring Steve Hsu back

Who should I interview on my podcast? Open to more AI, but also to random history/econ/etc professors that I might not have heard of before.

@AlecStapp @paulg Is there an actual list of specific individuals ? I am surprised east Asia is not represented outside of china and Taiwan

Nearly half of the founders of billion-dollar tech startups are immigrants

@StefanFSchubert @jburnmurdoch Is there a set of these stats for only White and Asian men and women above say 100k annual income

The US is narrowing Western Europe’s life expectancy lead. By @jburnmurdoch