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@conncarroll Here is the distinction. It's true that the most common arrangement in "simple" societies is monogamy... but the fact is polygyny is possible and accepted. So the first legal monogamy (for inheritance) is in Greece. The first legal monogamy, without concubinage, is Christianity.

This is actually mostly wrong. Our species norm is not polygyny. We are not gorillas. Yes, 80% of cultures are polygamous, but polygamy only spread after agriculture. The hunter-gatherer bands we spent hundreds of thousands of years in before that were monogamous. Also, Christianity did not inherit monogamy from Rome. It is true that Roman wives were expected to be monogamous, but Roman husbands could, and were even expected to, have sex with courtesans, concubines, prostitutes, and slaves. Christian monogamy was a sharp break, a true sexual revolution, away from the norm of powerful men monopolizing women. Now Louise Perry is correct that “lifting the monogamous restriction produces worse outcomes.” Monogamy is far better for society than polygamy. But that is because monogamy is our natural state, it was just corrupted for centuries after the dawn of agriculture. We are a species designed to form pair bonds and raise families together. Now there are tons of things in the modern world that are making it harder and harder to do that, but that is our natural state and we should fight to return to it.

@AndrewCMcCarthy A "patriot" who was a major player in the biggest abuse of power in American history?

Robert Mueller, Patriot nationalreview.com/corner/robert-…

@johnkonrad Hookin' up with Larry "Wide Stance" Craig in the airport bathrooms?

Oh how the admiral has fallen….

@BillKristol RIP player in the biggest abuse of power in American history

Robert Swan Mueller III, 1944-2026. Patriot. “For how can you compete, Being honor bred, with one Who were it proved he lies Were neither shamed in his own Nor in his neighbors' eyes?” — Yeats

@buitengebieden Brittney

What would you name this dog? 😂

@DinoDueTre @TheEconomist then all that's left is violence. So you're the fascist.

@VelliMach @TheEconomist bullshit. There is no point in debating a propagandist spreading lies.

Asked whether America First means doubling down on Europe as an ally, Tucker Carlson was clear: “Of course...not just out of sentimental love of Europe,” but to counterbalance China’s ambitions economist.com/united-states/…

@DinoDueTre @TheEconomist Another shallow mind against debate.

@TheEconomist are you fucking out of your mind platforming Tucker Carlson as a serious journalist or commentator??? Seriously, Economist???

@NatureUnedited This side of the story needs to be told. That is, if predators don't provide food for their young like this, in this case at least, they can't survive.

This Mama fox relocated her pups to a new den and provided them with a variety of meals over the week, including rabbit, fish, snake, skunk, goose (or chicken), voles, and more. All seven pups are growing bigger and beginning to explore their surroundings

@alexpriou I think you're supposed to say they're visually impaired.

Received comments on a paper from a blind reviewer, and I think I encountered the rare scholarly type that not only prefers pedantry but can understanding nothing but pedantry.

@JaxJacksonw1fk @Steve_Sailer @jonatanpallesen But they were a lot Viking. Helluva mix all around.

@VelliMach @Steve_Sailer @jonatanpallesen It was the Normans who created Great Britain. It was kind of hick backwater before they invaded.

It's an interesting fact of human history that we have these two similar sized islands, Japan and the UK that are close to a mainland, and have had outsized influence and power throughout history compared to their size. Having an island of a certain size or above separated from the mainland really seems like a powerful starting position. Both held their own historically against the significantly larger continental rival (France, China). Madagascar and the southern African mainland present a similar geographical arrangement, but it hasn't had the same historical importance.

@Steve_Sailer @OleTimeHardball By any chance, did you play APBA as a kid?

@OleTimeHardball Davey Concepcion was the fifth best player on the Big Red Machine. Bench, Morgan, and Perez are in the Hall of Fame and Rose would be. Analogously, Gil Hodges recently became fifth 1950s Dodger (after J. Robinson, Reese, Snider, and Campanella) to make Hall of Fame. So, maybe.

You hold the deciding vote in the Hall of Fame case of Dave Concepcion. Does he get in?

@Steve_Sailer @jonatanpallesen Well if islands are good for developing unity because of their separation from outside forces --- I get the intuitive appeal. But look at England... made up of Celts, Roman invaders, Germanic Invaders, French Invaders, and Viking Invaders. Yet somehow unified.

@jonatanpallesen Good point. England was the first modern nation-state to politically unify, 1100 years ago, c. 927. Being closer to the Eurasian mainland than Japan, it tended to incite similar-sized nation-states to form, forcing enough of the French to unify to withstand English aggression.

@JebraFaushay David Bowie?

You may remember Grace Jones from being an actress, singer, and a model in the 80s and 90s. Well into her 70s, she is still performing but now with a hula hoop, gloves, and thigh-high socks.

@Steve_Sailer @zagrebbi This makes me thinks about how the Brits bred for the short-legged for-wool sheep, so they could build shorter fences. Corgi sheep, if you will.

@zagrebbi Also, old-fashioned tall, spindly wheat plants were more fragile, more vulnerable to wind, hail, and just falling over from being top-heavy. Norman Borlaug's dwarf wheat plants were more rugged. Borlaug did a bunch of other things to improve wheat-growing as well.

Sailer on what Norman Borlaug actually did to wheat

@Gambo987 Always been his problem

Book needs to stop complaining so much it’s killing his game hurting the team

@OldMackIsBack Well there are pilotless drones that return after delivering bombs. Basically pilotless planes, but they call those drones.

Why the fuck are we calling them ”suicide drones”?? They are just guided bombs. There is no “suicide” involved. Normal bombs don’t return home after their shift is done.

@rossi_paulo68 @ClownWorld well yeah that's because it's already wet.

@ClownWorld I've seen cars that were immersed in floods and this procedure would be the first step.

@BuzzPatterson So unattractive.

I’m proud to say I have no fucking idea who this bimbo is.

@GavinNewsom How dumb. How is struggling to read a strength? Dems say all kinds of stupid shit.

To every kid with a learning disability: don’t let anyone — not even the President of the United States — bully you. Dyslexia isn’t a weakness. It’s your strength.

@hepimp this is a karaoke party

When it’s past nan’s bedtime but she’s having so much fun at the hotel family entertainment night.