John D Stats

You have to understand that this is the way a communist thinks about lying. Any idea that political mendacity is wrong has vanished from his soul. Trying to shame him is like expecting a junkie to have moral compunctions about shoplifting

One of the more fascinating aspects of French military culture is its exaltation of glorious defeats. I get it, but I don't get it.

As Restore Britain's mass deportation policy is implemented, there will be resistance or even riots. A Restore Britain Government would use the full power of the state to enforce what the British people elected us to do. Mass deportations. Don't like it? Get out of the way.

If interested in the curious belief that fat, rather than sugar, makes you fat, read the late John Yudkin's book 'Pure, White and Deadly', and then discover what happened to him and the book.

Tyler Cowen

my point is that the low hanging fruits of physics were all picked in a brief window from about 1820 to 1970. Before that, it was difficult to get anything done at all, there was no funding and almost nobody worked on physics professionally. After that, there were ~millions of people working on physics research but nobody really made any important progress because it was all too hard, too data-poor and unconstrained. If you were born such that your productive years were outside this window, well bad luck

This is a fun history lesson that takes me back. In 1795, French revolutionaries were building the metric system from scratch. They needed a prefix for “thousand” and went to Ancient Greek. The Greek word is χίλιοι (khílioi). The correct prefix should have been “chili.” Problem: in French, “chi” sounds like the start of “chier,” which means “to shit.” The scientists couldn’t have every unit of weight in the new system start with a word that sounds like a bathroom verb. So they swapped it to “kilo.” Technically incorrect Greek. But it kept the world’s measurement system dignified. Before this, France had 700+ different units of measurement. A “league” in one province was almost twice the distance of a “league” in another. Total chaos. The Revolution gave scientists the mandate to replace all of it with one clean decimal system. Greek roots for the big prefixes (kilo, hecto, deka). Latin for the small ones (milli, centi, deci). The whole thing became law on April 7, 1795. Then it took another 45 years of Napoleon banning it, people ignoring it, and political upheaval before France actually committed to using it. 230 years later, that “K” from a mispronounced Greek word, filtered through French revolutionary politics, now sits on every social media platform, salary negotiation, and bank statement on earth. The entire abbreviation you use every day exists because French scientists in 1795 refused to say “shit” every time they weighed something.

🚨INSOLITE Pendant ce temps-là, des généraux de l’armée française font des TikTok avec leur assistante. Ne rigolez pas, c’est avec notre argent.

Scientist claims: Nothing we see is real — everything we experience is part of a mental “visualization tool” we use to interact with the world.

Prussian troops parade on the Champs-Élysées in Paris after their takeover of the city during the Franco-Prussian War, January 1871.