@BarneyFlames - Button A: Nothing happens to you but you will have killed (up to) half of humanity. Anywhere between one and four billion-ish.
- Button B: You might die. But if you live you will have saved all of humanity.
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- Button A: nothing happens to you
- Button B: <you might randomly die>
Sorry no one except total weirdos would choose B
Total NIMBY Death@BarneyFlames
The red/blue thing is happening again, I am 100% sure if that happened IRL something like 99% of people would press red and all the people who donate to NGOs would just kill themselves into extinction
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@theEconBlog @peterrhague No. Game theory assumes all agents are aligned with the logic of game theorists, which they must define as rational by necessity.
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@peterrhague Game theory assumes all agents are rational and have full understanding of the situation. Theres no real stakes for an online poll, make it real and the results will change.
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Amazing how lots of self appointed game theory experts confidently asserting that blue is the stupid choice. But every time this poll is run blue wins. Not only is the “game theory” answer predicting the wrong outcome, its explanatory power is based on it being able to predict the right answer. So it’s doubly wrong.
Tim Urban@waitbutwhy
Everyone in the world has to take a private vote by pressing a red or blue button. If more than 50% of people press the blue button, everyone survives. If less than 50% of people press the blue button, only people who pressed the red button survive. Which button would you press?
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@LibbyValkyria @BrandonLuuMD I have a theory that reading male focused testosterone studies raises (temporarily) testosterone in men who read them.
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@NedPerkypal @BrandonLuuMD It's almost as if these nebulous things that are subjective weren't the focus of the study...
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Testosterone supplementation erased the audience effect in male generosity.
Men on placebo became more prosocial when watched; testosterone-treated men did not.
In other words: they didn’t let an audience dictate their behaviour.
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@ChrisCuilla @ShamashAran Maybe some of them are?
I strongly suspect there are many people on twitter on SNAP who conveniently withhold that info when sharing their opinions on it
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@NedPerkypal @ShamashAran Then they should be outraged too when that $ is spent on non-essential or junk foods.
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Nobody is policing what people eat.
We are policing what my tax dollars pay for you to eat.
if you want to eat whatever you want, get a job and pay for it yourself.
C. Brooks@Photo_Mayor
Why do so many people feel the need to police what poor people eat?
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@DanielleBFranz It’s always a yogurt commercial mom with a C suite job who’s pictured in these articles
Show us a nurse or cashier with their babies riding shotgun and we’ll take you seriously
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We lose a lot when we design public life around the assumption that children don’t belong in it.
Worth reading on who’s actually welcoming moms & babies into the fold. ⬇️
Ivana Greco@IvanaDGreco
There’s a lot of criticism of the New Right for how [parts] of it treat women. Some of it, to be clear, written by myself. But other parts of the New Right are doing a superb job of integrating women, especially moms, into policymaking. For @commonplc, I’m so pleased to write about those efforts, and how they lay out a larger roadmap for how and why to seek work/home integration.
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@WereInHellYT @maiamindel It’s Fortune. They’d headline an article about a man bleeding to death at work as “Are Healthcare Costs Bleeding Employers Dry?”
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@Strangeland_Elf ‘Origins’ includes the origin of her bob
I hope it’s lesbianism, but it will probably be a saw blade booby trap
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Velma needs shorter hair.
Pop Base@PopBase
First look at Netflix’s live-action ‘SCOOBY-DOO: ORIGINS.’ Now in production.
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This one is funny because I know the game theory correct answer, and yet am instinctively leery of people who pick it
Tim Urban@waitbutwhy
Everyone in the world has to take a private vote by pressing a red or blue button. If more than 50% of people press the blue button, everyone survives. If less than 50% of people press the blue button, only people who pressed the red button survive. Which button would you press?
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@IterIntellectus Because a society comprised only of people who pushed red is dead too. It’s just a more painful death.
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why would anyone even press blue?!?
Tim Urban@waitbutwhy
Everyone in the world has to take a private vote by pressing a red or blue button. If more than 50% of people press the blue button, everyone survives. If less than 50% of people press the blue button, only people who pressed the red button survive. Which button would you press?
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@ChrisMartzWX You’re right. That’s why it’s important for taxes to target your easy-earned money.
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Fun fact: The “fair share” of someone else’s hard-earned money that you are entitled to is exactly ZERO dollars.
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@NoAlgae69 You have a gross misunderstanding of the relationship between skill and income.
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The more sinister & likely truth, is that this was a corrupt patronage system. Where loyal partisan democrats were rewarded with millions in taxpayer funds for little to no work in exchange for partisan loyalty while the rest of us work 50 hrs/week & can’t afford rent or premiums
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One of the things you wonder, is if these are jobs that require legit skill and expertise, and not corrupt patronage jobs, why are these people unable to find *anything* else?
Theoretically if they have skills & connections, they should get something better than $19/hour, right?
Alec MacGillis@AlecMacGillis
"Sheryl Cowan, 57, was making $272,000 a year as a senior VP at a U.S.A.I.D.-funded nonprofit when she was let go at the end of March 2025. Last month she had an online interview for a $19-an-hour job managing a Penzeys Spices store in Falls Church, Va." nytimes.com/2026/04/21/us/…
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@JayVTheGreat Tell us how you would identify gender dysphoria in someone attempting to hide it
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I went to school in the 2000s.
There were 0 kids that had gender dysphoria.
Thrilla the Gorilla@ThrillaRilla369
If you went to school in the 70s, 80s, or 90's. How many kids did you know with gender dysphoria?
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@HeapBigMuckMuck @2Philosophical_ It doesn’t imply it. The act of choosing what to correlate is what provides implication.
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@2Philosophical_ Correlation always ‘implies’ causation.
But it doesn’t ‘equal’ causation.
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“Correlation doesn’t imply causation!”
Okay, then what does imply causation?
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@MichelleDLesley You’re denouncing something as a man-made construct with another man-made construct
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"Sexual compatibility" is a man-made construct. It didn't even exist until about five minutes ago.
Husbands and wives are sexually compatible by virtue of God creating husbands male and wives female. If there are issues, you lovingly work it out together, end of story.
HOT LEGS BIBI🙄@ButterBibi
Sexual Compatibility is valid like mad. As a Christian, how do you know you’re sexually compatible with your partner before marriage?
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@GoodAMLiberty Change Funded to Invested
Doesn’t sound as much like a net loss, but has the benefit of being true
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Any time you see the word “Universal,” replace it with “taxpayer & inflation funded.”
-Taxpayer & Inflation Funded Basic Income
-Taxpayer & Inflation Funded Healthcare
-Taxpayer & Inflation Funded Childcare
Doesn’t sound as free, but has the benefit of being true.
Scott Santens@scottsantens
If you're complaining about too few kids being born, their cost is what you should be focused on. The solution is universal basic income, universal healthcare, and universal childcare. That's how to make raising kids more affordable.
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@BlaireWhite I wish there was a way to bet real money on your consistently bad takes
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White supremacy in America is such a non-issue that it requires millions of dollars of funding to even pretend it's slightly alive.
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@hayasaka_aryan Bitching about not having something to bitch about seems the natural evolution of the pop culture racist
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You know how hard was for Netflix to keep them all white
Pop Base@PopBase
First look at Netflix’s live-action ‘SCOOBY-DOO: ORIGINS.’ Now in production.
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