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Poor Americans who attend church regularly are happier than rich Americans who never go. Behavioral scientist William von Hippel thought he'd made a coding error. He hadn't. "Regularly attending services has a bigger impact on your happiness than wealth," he writes. "Money buys a fair bit of happiness but connection gives you more bang for the buck." What's happening? Rich people already have most of what money buys. What they lack is what churches provide for free: weekly, repeated contact with people who know your name. Von Hippel is direct about the cost: "I suspect that wealthy, educated urbanites are paying a steeper price for their lifestyle than they realize. Many of us have paid too great a price in connection for our increased autonomy."

5 hours of sleep for one week lowered testosterone by 10-15% in healthy young men. Not in older adults. Not in sick patients. Healthy young men. That is a drop normally seen over years of aging.

"For reading and science as personal strengths, they found larger sex differences in more gender equal nations - an example of a common phenomenon known as the gender-equality paradox, and a decisive refutation of the social-constructionist view." stevestewartwilliams.com/p/the-gender-e…

Good luck getting new immigrants to fight and die for a post-national economic zone whose now strained welfare state was made possible by outsourcing your defense budget.

Daha fazla küfür kullanımı, daha az yalan söyleme ve daha yüksek dürüstlük göstergeleriyle pozitif ilişkilidir.

In 1971, Pierre Elliott Trudeau adopted multiculturalism as official policy. He soon changed Canada’s immigration system. The results. Toronto. 1/

Emotional suppression is associated with an earlier death.

Sitting by a window is associated with significantly improved cognitive performance.

Ancient cultures were extremely violent, not “peace-loving ecologists” at all!

From the paper: "Several high-quality trials have shown that universal mental health interventions based on mindfulness, cognitive behavioural therapy, dialectical behavioural therapy and general mental health awareness can all have negative outcomes, including an increase in internalizing symptoms." As critics have been arguing all along, individualised, medicalised and decontextualised models & narratives are not only net ineffective, but even contribute to and exacerbate social & psychological issues and distress. We dont face a crisis of 'mental disorders' in need of medical or cognitive treatment, we face a socio-psychological crisis and a crisis of medicalisation in need of a societal rethink.

Matematikte iyi olan birinin müzikte de başarılı olma olasılığı yüksektir; çünkü her ikisi de IQ ile bağlantılıdır.

"While boys and men corner the market on direct, face-to-face aggression, girls and women engage in as much or even more indirect aggression - that is, gossiping, social exclusion, and the like." stevestewartwilliams.com/p/12-things-ev…

That is literally their plan

Stress is not just what happens to you. It is what you believe it is doing to you. Among 28,753 adults, high stress was linked to 43% higher risk of premature death. But only in people who believed stress affected their health “a lot.”

@ConceptualJames they won't. US annexation or bust

Canada needs to get its act together, fast.

Someone once observed that in any conflict, leftists will always side with whichever demographic causes the most social harm. This creates a hierarchy, with White men (the primary civilization-builders) at the bottom, and third-world Muslims at the top. Here's why how this works. In a healthy society, people who build civilization are revered, and people who cause social harm are despised. And there is a hierarchy that runs in the opposite order, with respect and resources going to those who serve civilization. This creates a natural opportunity for power-hungry subversives. They can recruit each layer of this hierarchy by exploiting their resentment against those above them. All they must do is frame their merit-based status as unearned "privilege". White women were recruited to leftism by stoking their resentment of White men, and promising elevation above them. What the White women were not told is that they would be placed beneath everyone else. Often literally. Black people were recruited by exploiting their resentment of Whites... but they weren't told that every benefit they received would eventually be taken away and given to third world immigrants. Homosexuals were promised elevation above the "breeders" (because children are needed for civilization, and sodomy is not), but no one told them that the trannies would rule over them. And no one told the trannies that Muslim community would be allowed to segregate and oppress them far more brutally than the most ardent of White bigots. The most brutal irony of all is that all of these groups who are recruited to fight for leftism end up far more brutally oppressed that they ever were by mainstream prosocial White society. Because natural civilizational hierarchies are based on contribution. There's a certain amount of prejudice which exists because people can reason inductively, but if you are a mixed race lesbian engineer who can actually who build useful shit, then it's at least possible for people to eventually overcome their surprise, and break you off a nice house in the suburbs and some forbearance wherein people don't really talk about the real relationship between you and your "roommate". Under leftism inverted hierarchies, you have no such chance. Sure, during the transitional phase you'll be elevated for being a mixed-race lesbian, regardless of whether you can do anything useful or not. But then, the Muslims will be allowed to throw you off a roof when it's time to pander to them, in turn. This White (or White-passing) woman probably voted straight democrat and cheered for "MeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeToo", to avenge her resentment against White men in general. She probably never dreamed that she would, in turn, not only be thrown under the bus, but that she would be targeted by the precise same weapons her sisters were given to unseat White men with. And @jk_rowling found out in vivid, larger-than-life detail what happens to White feminists when the left has a new darling to cater to, who can be used to unravel some still-intact piece of civilization. You see, by the early 21st century, the left had no more use for White feminists, because everything the left wanted to use them to destroy was already destroyed. Women were already spending their twenties and thirties on cubicle jobs and abortions, instead of marriages and children. The workforce was already doubled, and the price of labor had already crashed. Fertility rates were already dropping, and people were already marrying late, or never. It was time to recruit a new wrecking ball, to turn against some other corner of the edifice of order, and the price of that was easy to pay... just confiscate everything you once gave them, and give it to the trannies instead. The actual bodies of the White feminists (as well as all other women, and their daughters), could be used again, sold out to third world men who want to rape them, all by simply turning a blind eye. And the best perk of all of this is that they'll still vote for you. Because reversing course requires admitting a mistake.

@athenaeumbc there is a massive difference between knowing how to write and using AI to streamline that writing vs. using AI to write because you yourself cannot the latter is a serious civilizational threat

So it turns out that writing is thinking. It's the same process. "Writing compels us to think — not in the chaotic, non-linear way our minds typically wander, but in a structured, intentional manner." Outsourcing writing to LLMs is THE SAME THING as outsourcing thinking.

The past year or so I have been fascinated with IQ and the data / discussion surrounding it. Sufficiently obsessed so that I bring it up in conversation opportunistically. Believe it or not, I’m convinced a deep unfiltered discussion of IQ and what we can learn from it is at the heart of what is needed to continue healing from the woke mind virus. Entirely too many broken mindsets and policies orbit the idea that all people are essentially interchangeable and that culture, education, and nutrition are more influential than genetics. This is obviously untrue to anyone who bothers to think for a few seconds. As an extreme example, the most well fed human on earth will never ever grow to the size of a blue whale. Similarly, the most well fed and educated blue whale will never win the Boston marathon. Our human genes have an upper bound to the size we can grow, and blue whales have their own limitations. These are silly and obvious and indisputable because they are easily measured and without exception. They are also entirely uncontroversial because they are cross species. To discuss and understand IQ in depth requires you to accept that human sexes and races also have measurable differences. This is a far more dangerous discussion, figuratively but perhaps also literally. There are many exceptions, but they don’t change the rule. I was talking to a psychologist about the topic. They considered themselves an IQ expert, and so I knew the conversation was going to get interesting quick one way or another. Unfortunately I wasn’t surprised to hear them immediately make a point that the test is biased against certain cultures. It’s always that, or the uninformed argument that IQ only measures one type of intelligence… She pointed out California case Larry P. v. Riles (1979) which prohibits testing African American students in CA for the purposes of special education placement. I started to push back, asking to clarify how that was proof the test was bias. Their response was to insult my own intelligence. To assume I have no idea what test norms are or how they are created and applied. I tried to respond to that, but they were already upset and made it clear they were finished with our talk. Look, I get it. It’s not fun or convenient to admit that much of our success or failure is fate sealed in our genetics. But it’s critical in the face of a delusional population to start facing difficult truths instead of denying them. Else we end up with men playing women’s sports and entering their locker rooms.