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@MeghanEMurphy Being more intelligent than men by realising that they don't need heaps of money to be happy and comfortable.

Obviously we are podcasting x.com/BowesChay/stat…

@wil_da_beast630 As is the case with all arguments of this nature, even taking the entire argument at face value and agreeing with it, there is no nonarbitrary cutoff line for what constitutes a "burden".

Come ON, guys. I'd obviously phrase Matt's OP very differently for my academic audience. But, the reason that literally 90-95% of people abort T-21 (much less T-13) babies is clearly not actually that they "do not want our UNIQUE miracle from God to be sad on this cold world." More honestly put, they do not want to spend the rest of their lives as caretakers for a mentally retarded person who will never be able to function normally, and pay $3,000,000 or so for this privilege. Abortion is a "moral" decision for each woman/couple to make, but the continued existence of rational human survival instincts is very good.

Rational amorality saves a LOT of time.

@wil_da_beast630 When they said autism was a superpower I never thought it was this

@wil_da_beast630 Race is not real and we should help minority races

Same. Black Americans are very obviously of West African descent, many people in cities are very obviously ~1/2 Black, etc.

@PaulVanderKlay Not to worry pastor - the people at my church don't know squat about doctrine AND they don't know how to talk to their neighbours either!

@chrbaxter_yt wrote a really good substack.

@MeghanEMurphy I would feel sad if they were destroying an expensive dishwasher, and not because the dishwasher looks like a person.

Watching this video makes me sad. The robot looks like a little person! x.com/ma1ybe/status/…

@charlesmurray Dropping in to say I know Kac from his "shape of a drum" paper and nothing else. Peace & love to all

When it comes to describing transcendent genius, I love this quote from mathematician Mark Kac, talking about Ramanujan.

@wil_da_beast630 Pedophilia: when a guy I find attractive is attracted to a woman younger and prettier than me

Reassuring results - but it is worth noting that 11% of women agree with the sentence "Attraction to adults is pedophilia."

Genuinely curious, by now. Do you think that men - say, over 25 - being attracted to young but fully physically/legally, over-18 adults is "pedophilia?"

@Ericwilken1 @peterboghossian Thank you for saying this.

As a 30 years tradesman, this conversation is extremely missleading and offensive to those of use that actually do theae jobs. Trades are great ways to make money, but these situations are extremely rare and generally require marriage distribution, long week away from home and hazardous environments.

Become an electrician.

Many such cases

Teaching means forming people to listen to the heart, to inner freedom and the capacity for critical thinking. In this dynamic, faith and reason neither ignore nor oppose one another. They should both be traveling companions in the humble and sincere search for truth.

@ProfDBernstein No love for the young lady on the right? I know that's definitely the face I make when I think about children being torn from their families.

Who is this young woman holding the sign? If she's a law student, no firm in its right mind would hire her.

@wil_da_beast630 Remote-controlled toys. Don't fall for this. youtube.com/watch?v=oBBJQm…

They can catch you.

@ArchLobster @wil_da_beast630 Same thing for Colombia.

@wil_da_beast630 In Ecuador we have two last name's dad's first then mom, no hyphen. Usually the woman's last name is "Francisca Recalde (maiden name) de Gil (Husband's name).

Interesting that the "Global Latina Belt" - the famous zone where women are stereotyped as highly sexual, domestically skilled, anti-feminists - is made up ~totally of countries where wives keep their own name and money. Unexpected...or very expected by people with game?

@RFultonBrown I remember not being able to attend Holy Mass at all.

I remember attending Mass in a church filled with people whose faces I could not see because the diocese mandated masks. People’s memories are very short.

@MsMelChen The realpolitik clock is right twice a day

Singapore is the first and only Asian country so far to publicly refuse negotiating passage with Iran. Many others have made deals with Tehran to allow their shipments through. Some vessels are reportedly paying as much as $2m in fees to Iran to cross the waterway without coming under fire. This speech which was given for a domestic audience in Singapore's parliament but somehow, it has ended up triggering a diplomatic incident with Malaysian politicians who are friendly and supportive of the Iranian regime. Singapore refuses to accept the principle of turning transit through international straits as an extortion racket or a modern pirate toll booth. It’s a right under UNCLOS transit passage rules, the same rules that keep the global economy breathing. Partly, this is due to self-interest as Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia lie at the crossroads of another chokepoint - the Malacca Strait. The narrowest point is the Phillips Channel in the Singapore Strait is barely 2 nautical miles wide, squeezed between Singapore’s islands and Indonesia’s Riau chain. Compared to the Strait of Hormuz’s 21 nautical mile pinch point, Singapore’s narrowest stretch is ten times tighter. Every eastbound ship on the planet is funneled through its Traffic Separation Scheme. If anyone had a temptation to start charging “protection fees,” it would be Singapore. Negotiating with Iran would shred the legal norm that protects every strait used for international navigation. Malaysia, Indonesia, or anyone else with "geographical privilege" and a grudge could do the same. And before you say “but Israel and America violated international law so why can't Iran," let me just reiterate that two wrongs don’t license Iran to play 17th-century privateer with 21st-century oil tankers. Clearly the same people making this argument don't extend the accusations of flouting of international law to an Iranian regime that has cut the internet off for its people, murdered several tens of thousands, and has been found in breach of international nuclear safeguards and IAEA obligations due to undeclared nuclear materials and activities, particularly in violating the 2015 JCPOA deal by enriching uranium up to 60% and limiting inspector access. Selective outrage is the refuge of people who only care about rules when they hurt their preferred side. Singapore has never played that game. During the 1973 and 1979 oil crises, Singapore faced a severe shock and given that it was an oil refining hub, it could have nationalized foreign oil stocks and kept the lights on for two years. But Lee Kuan Yew didn't do that. Singapore honored contracts and kept the system running. Part of its brand in a chaotic world is that of being a responsible actor. This decision prioritized long term global trust and reliability over short term national gain. It positioned Singapore as a dependable partner in the eyes of multinational oil companies and international business. As a result, it attracted even more investment, expanded its role as a major refining and trading hub, and strengthened its economy far beyond what hoarding the oil would have achieved. Building credibility pays dividends for decades. Furthermore, every single dollar funneled to Iran’s “safe passage” scheme ends up subsidizing the very terror networks rebuilding Hezbollah and Hamas. Singapore knows it.

@fletcher_rt @freddiesayers @unherd Key point: you live in Singapore but are not a citizen of it.

There’s certainly stuff the right shouldn’t worship about Singapore - bureaucracy, censorship, statism - but this is real nitpicking. Singapore’s GDP per capita is twice that of Britain while its housing to income ratio is half that of Britain. Crime is almost nonexistent & there is much less of the ostentatious inequality that characterises other low-tax jurisdictions. I can see why a Singaporean might think the country has problems. But living here as a designated ‘foreigner’, one sees it has it a lot better than most. It would be foolish of the right to ignore.

Stop worshipping Singapore, right wingers! @UnHerd 👇👇👇 unherd.com/2026/04/stop-w…

@gmiller @michaelshermer The late @ScottAdamsSays Principle of Slow-Moving Disasters: If we can spot the apocalypse about to happen, it won't happen. (With respect as well, I do not understand the doomerism even slightly. AI will never walk my dog or do my laundry, let alone annihilate humanity.)

With all due respect, Michael, it seems like you are not aware of the main arguments concerning the extreme difficulties of ASI alignment, or the central reasons why AI could become very dangerous. Every single CEO of a frontier AI company, including Sam, Dario, Elon, and Demis, has admitted that building Artificial Superintelligence would impose a serious risk of extinction on humanity. Every single one. Are they all delusional 'Doomers'?

A number of the AI doomsayers in the trailer for "The AI Doc" say they will not be having children bc they're so afraid for our future. Good: Selective breeding out of the population irrational fear mongering propensities. Since the 1990s I've been hearing that AI will doom humanity and when it doesn't happen I get "just you wait!" or "next time will be different!" In What Technology Wants @kevin2kelly shows why this can't happen: such complex systems have countless checks & balances to prevent doomsday. Also self-refuting: AI is so smart it can cure cancer & drive cars...but so dumb it will turn us all into paperclips. These AI doomsayers are no different from the sandwich-board wearing doomsday preachers announcing "The End is Nigh" Ridiculous. youtu.be/xkPbV3IRe4Y