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@agraybee Casting a very racially mixed, ethnically ambiguous beauty queen who could plausibly pass as being from some corner of the Mediterranean as a supernatural goddess is one thing. Trying to pass off a Kenyan as a Greek woman is quite another.
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What about Megan Markle? Most people do not see her as black and snicker when they hear her refer to herself that way. They see her as mixed and unfamiliar people might just think she was white. As European ancestry rises within the overall black identifying population with every generation, we are seeing half-black children who are probably 70%+ white by genetics and look unmistakably not African. The labeling convention cannot hold forever.
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Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼
It's time to stop automatically counting all half-Black people as just "Black". The One Drop Rule is a legacy of segregation, and it erases the reality of American diversity.
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Pink Dragon Pill@LisaFenDragon·
@jakozloski Ass & titties Every time. Lol. They say that's "just for fun", but no, that's also wifey. Notice nothing about sandwiches, or clean floors At least women prioritized "funny", a personality trait. I have no clue what "fluffy" means Men are unknowingly lying about makeup though
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Jake Kozloski@jakozloski·
Men's and women's stated preferences in a spouse from Keeper, showing which words skew most by gender, split between wants and don't-wants.
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Random Lurker@myisonly·
@BadreNicolas I do wonder about viral exposures as a kid or young adult. I think they have shown a connection between past herpes infection and Alzheimer’s risk. But maybe it goes well beyond this one virus? Is there any connection with smoking?
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Nicolas Badre@BadreNicolas·
The odds of having dementia at age 85 were close to 1 in 3 in the 80s; now they are 1 in 10. I don’t think we have a great explanation: better cardiovascular health, diet, and education are often mentioned. Good news nonetheless. Carnall Farrar. (2025, March 27). Dementia trends.
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The reason they are an “ex-wife” is frequently because polygamy is illegal. In many situations the ex-wife is receiving support payments and may have children with her former husband. They are functionally the same situation. If the problem is supposed persecution that all female spouses need to be saved from, why would this ex-wife be in any less danger than one of multiple current wives? The UK is well within its rights to extinguish anyone’s multiple marriages upon settling in the country, whether as an asylum seeker or not. They are not asking anything of the newcomers that they do not impose on themselves. These “left-behind” other spouses are free to apply for asylum themselves.
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Wesley Yang
Wesley Yang@wesyang·
Polygamy is illegal in the UK. But foreign migrants with multiple spouses can continue receiving public benefits for their multiple wives. One rationalization I heard for this two-tier provision of benefits granted to non-natives denied to native Britons was that it’s cheaper to give reduced benefits to additional wives than it is to treat each as a freestanding individual recipient. Now they’ve increased the benefit level. The simpler and more cost saving (and morally correct and politically sane) approach is to exclude from eligibility for entrance to those who engage in banned practices entirely.
Toby Young@toadmeister

Husbands with second, third and even fourth wives living in the UK have had their benefits allowance increased by the Department for Work and Pensions. dailysceptic.org/2026/05/10/hus…

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Every non-Muslim who is fleeing persecution from abroad has to leave any ex-wives and mistresses behind, even though these other women are functionally the same as a Muslim man’s multiple wives. They only get to bring one person as their wife. Indeed if these other women in their orbit are really in danger they can apply for asylum directly on their own. The law should apply equally. Other polygamous “marriages” should not be recognized in any situation. Once arrived in the UK a polygamous family of refugees becomes a monogamous family with some ex-wives who are free to remarry and will be living on their own.
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Derek Pakora
Derek Pakora@DeathlyAcorn·
@wesyang It's not foreign migrants that get granted these benefits but more specifically asylum seekers. It's an exception applied where people are fleeing persecution that they shouldn't have to pick which wife they'd like to save. It impacts a tiny percentage of a tiny percentage.
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Sure. But I was responding to a comment about IQs of 130, not 150, and the IQ of the base population in say the Congo, mentioned above, is nowhere near 100 (not as measured in the Congo itself, not as measureless by Congolese abroad, nor as measured by African Americans as a proxy). So ending up closer to 100 in the next generation is actually pretty close to right in that situation.
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W@p41697538·
@myisonly @RichardHanania @Steve_Sailer Reversion to the mean happens for just one generation, it’s not that if a few thousand 150 IQ people from a 100 IQ base population will magically end up with ~100 IQ descendants after a few generations. There will be a drop for one generation (environmental effects) and no more.
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Richard Hanania@RichardHanania·
How you know the race and IQ people are just bigots: if you take IQ seriously, your main cause should be getting everyone on earth with a 110 IQ or higher into your country. This would be the only logical position one can hold. But that's not what these people support!
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@NoahCarl90 Haiti may be the perfect example of net negative migration. The mass emigration of the top half of the Haitian bell curve to the West managed to lower average IQ in both places.
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Random Lurker@myisonly·
Reversion to the mean is a consideration. Plus if you plan to strip the sending country of their entire smart fraction, better make sure it is extremely heard to travel from there to the US. Because as that country inevitably deteriorates, the IQ 110-130 bunch head for the exits followed by mass out migration of the general population to a border near you (see Haiti).
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Richard Hanania@RichardHanania·
@Steve_Sailer I don’t know why you’d reject 130s. Maybe to make you happy we can reject them from countries that are adversaries like China and Iran? Will you at least take all the Filipinos, Congolese, and Kazakhs with IQs of 130?
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It would take 6 months just to plan out the tax optimization, long term spending and investment strategy, wills to update, how to avoid attracting publicity and scam artists, etc. I doubt I would spend much before 6 months even if I could. I will note that it is quite common for more sophisticated lottery winners to wait out the maximum time (usually a year) before coming forward to collect their winnings. The reason is exactly to plan before anyone else knows.
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Free Northerner@FreeNortherner·
This is the most third-world coded question possible. Think of how present-time oriented you'd have to be to not just go about your life unchanged for six months.
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One the advantages of locking this guy up, even for a few months. is that he would likely soon display disturbing behavior in prison and end up getting a psych eval, where they would identify that he was nuts! No guarantee starting treatment or other meds in prison would change the outcome, but it may have.
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brandon@BrandonMH1·
@AustinJustice I'm confused. You think this guy should have been locked up for being high and having a gun? How is someone supposed to know they're going to murder their family based off of that?
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Austin Justice@AustinJustice·
AUSTIN MAN murders his parents and brother inside their home Thursday morning -- just months after prosecutors dismissed his weapons charge. Travis County prosecutors had Joshua Dahan in custody twice before. They let him go both times. March 2024: Police respond to a reckless driver call and finds Dahan unconscious in his Mercedes. The car reeks of marijuana. A Glock 23 sits in plain view on the front passenger seat. He admits the gun and weed is his. - Charge: Unlawful Carrying of a Weapon - Outcome: DISMISSED, July 2025. July 2024: Arrested again, this time on a felony drug charge -- while the gun case was still pending. - Outcome: DA REJECTED. No charges filed. So nine months after the weapons charge was dismissed, he murders his family.
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Communists weren’t fans of unions either. Once in power they were quickly dismantled as independent entities. Nazis saw unions just as the Soviets did: obstacles to directing their collectivist projects and potential sources of political opposition. The Nazis greatly expanded the German welfare state. They had among the most generous cradle to grave welfare programs of any country at that time. They also created the epitome of a “nanny state” concerned with regulating or incentivizing all manners of activities in the name of public health and welfare. Perhaps the best way to think about them is the opposite of Libertarians. They are kind of an authoritarian version of early progressivism, including endless rants about capitalists while being comfortable with private companies as long as they virtue signal all the right ideological bromides and send money to the right political coffers.
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i/o@avidseries·
Hitler busted up unions, privatized or divested from certain industries (e.g., big commercial banks, utilities, heavy manufacturing, mining, shipbuilding, some public works, steel, mass transport, railway subsidiary companies, ship lines, a lot of state-owned property), didn't remove private property protections, dismantled social welfare programs, outlawed all (actual) socialist parties and organizations, and rounded up and executed people on the left (before he did the same to Jews). Hitler's involvement in the economy was consistent with the principles of fascism: The means of production were not seized, but the party maintained a more direct role in some regulatory aspects. Hitler argued that both social-economic hierarchies and inequalities were good for the country. How socialist of him! Combining the terms “national” and “socialism” was briefly popular across Europe in the 20s, but these movements tended to be interested in creating “social solidarity” based not on class, but on race or ethnicity or nationality. “Socialism” in this context bears no relationship to the term in its present one. I'll add: “But the German Nazis had 'socialist' in their name” is the same level of genius argument as “North Korea and East Germany were democracies because they had 'democrat' in their names.”
Mike Lee@BasedMikeLee

Fascism and Naziism aren’t the opposite of socialism, as the modern left would have you believe They *are* socialism

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@BradWilcoxIFS And “most” women (50%? 75%? 90%?) having a baby by their forties can easily translate into a catastrophically low long term birth rate that solves for nothing.
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Random Lurker@myisonly·
I have been saying this too! Those of us who majored in STEM used to have to spend hours every week (or even every day) at campus labs doing our assignments since the needed software or equipment wasn’t something we would have at home. It was kind of social! My university had computer labs open 24/7 for this (20+ years ago). All you need to add is proctored computer labs with key stroke monitoring software and overhead cameras. Students can come in, check in their devices and work on their term paper for as many hours as they want. Some Internet access would even be fine if keystrokes are all monitored.
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Jess Riedel@Jess_Riedel·
@MartinTauchman @cblatts Yea the universities have really been doing nothing from what I hear. There should also be centrally managed 24-7 protoctored rooms so profs can assign homework to be done with no AI access.
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Chris Blattman
Chris Blattman@cblatts·
I have returned to blue book exams, and my main issue is how to deal with the students' horrific handwriting.
Luiza Jarovsky, PhD@LuizaJarovsky

🚨 University professors have been saying AI is completely destroying learning and that we'll soon have an AI-powered, semi-illiterate workforce. Here's a glimpse into the educational apocalypse: "Sarah, a freshman at Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario, said she first used ChatGPT to cheat during the spring semester of her final year of high school. (...) After getting acquainted with the chatbot, Sarah used it for all her classes: Indigenous studies, law, English, and a “hippie farming class” called Green Industries. “My grades were amazing,” she said. “It changed my life.” Sarah continued to use AI when she started college this past fall. Why wouldn’t she? Rarely did she sit in class and not see other students’ laptops open to ChatGPT. Toward the end of the semester, she began to think she might be dependent on the website. She already considered herself addicted to TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, and Reddit, where she writes under the username maybeimnotsmart. “I spend so much time on TikTok,” she said. “Hours and hours, until my eyes start hurting, which makes it hard to plan and do my schoolwork. With ChatGPT, I can write an essay in two hours that normally takes 12.” - "By November, Williams estimated that at least half of his students were using AI to write their papers. Attempts at accountability were pointless. Williams had no faith in AI detectors, and the professor teaching the class instructed him not to fail individual papers, even the clearly AI-smoothed ones. “Every time I brought it up with the professor, I got the sense he was underestimating the power of ChatGPT, and the departmental stance was, ‘Well, it’s a slippery slope, and we can’t really prove they’re using AI,’” Williams said. “I was told to grade based on what the essay would’ve gotten if it were a ‘true attempt at a paper.’ So I was grading people on their ability to use ChatGPT.” - AI in education is a serious topic, and many schools and universities are blindly jumping into the "AI-first" wave without considering short and long-term consequences. It would be great to hear more from teachers and educators to understand potential solutions. This might be a great opportunity for rethinking the education system and how students are assessed. - 👉 Link to the full article below. 👉 To learn more about AI's legal and ethical challenges, join my newsletter's 94,700+ subscribers (link below).

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You could likely train chatbots to do decent oral exams for standard, first year, undergrad classes, which is where you see the bigger, unwieldy class sizes anyway. The students would sit in a proctored room with headphones and orally respond to AI probes. I worked for a major consulting firm that has been doing oral chatbot screening interviews for new hire candidates, especially in India, for a few years with success. They are used to whittle down all the applicants to a manageable number for proper interviews. In person oral exams could be reserved for upper year classes.
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Will Kinney@WKCosmo·
@jim_crumley You do not want TAs giving oral exams to undergrads. Just ... no.
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It seems like third party designed and credibly proctored exams will be needed for every major to ascertain any real knowledge or skills. Things like the bar exam or CFA exam series may be a model. I am surprised that the universities haven’t acted more rapidly and aggressively toward mandating in-person, proctored exams and assignments done in a keystroke monitored computer lab. It seems existential, and the solution is mostly to adopt eval methods from pre-internet days. It’s solvable.
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Kevin Bass@kevinnbass·
There will be an entire cohort of high school and college graduates whose degrees employers don’t trust
Luiza Jarovsky, PhD@LuizaJarovsky

🚨 University professors have been saying AI is completely destroying learning and that we'll soon have an AI-powered, semi-illiterate workforce. Here's a glimpse into the educational apocalypse: "Sarah, a freshman at Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario, said she first used ChatGPT to cheat during the spring semester of her final year of high school. (...) After getting acquainted with the chatbot, Sarah used it for all her classes: Indigenous studies, law, English, and a “hippie farming class” called Green Industries. “My grades were amazing,” she said. “It changed my life.” Sarah continued to use AI when she started college this past fall. Why wouldn’t she? Rarely did she sit in class and not see other students’ laptops open to ChatGPT. Toward the end of the semester, she began to think she might be dependent on the website. She already considered herself addicted to TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, and Reddit, where she writes under the username maybeimnotsmart. “I spend so much time on TikTok,” she said. “Hours and hours, until my eyes start hurting, which makes it hard to plan and do my schoolwork. With ChatGPT, I can write an essay in two hours that normally takes 12.” - "By November, Williams estimated that at least half of his students were using AI to write their papers. Attempts at accountability were pointless. Williams had no faith in AI detectors, and the professor teaching the class instructed him not to fail individual papers, even the clearly AI-smoothed ones. “Every time I brought it up with the professor, I got the sense he was underestimating the power of ChatGPT, and the departmental stance was, ‘Well, it’s a slippery slope, and we can’t really prove they’re using AI,’” Williams said. “I was told to grade based on what the essay would’ve gotten if it were a ‘true attempt at a paper.’ So I was grading people on their ability to use ChatGPT.” - AI in education is a serious topic, and many schools and universities are blindly jumping into the "AI-first" wave without considering short and long-term consequences. It would be great to hear more from teachers and educators to understand potential solutions. This might be a great opportunity for rethinking the education system and how students are assessed. - 👉 Link to the full article below. 👉 To learn more about AI's legal and ethical challenges, join my newsletter's 94,700+ subscribers (link below).

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It’s a touching epitaph for the sect, to be sure. But nothing makes Catholics, clergy or laity alike, more confident in their current rejection of progressive social positions than pointing to where they led the Episcopalians. It would be very helpful to the cause of gay marriage acceptance to identify a religion that has embraced the position and is not in a spiral of terminal decline.
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Jack@tracewoodgrains·
@myisonly @mattreedah I'm less concerned with filling the pews than I am with orientation towards the good, and the way the Catholic church has exploited and harmed gay people is a black mark on it that the Episcopalians overcome. Virtue isn't a numbers game.
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Jack@tracewoodgrains·
Interesting. My post-hoc guess is that priests who grew up with gay marriage as a live issue were more likely to make the issue itself constitutive rather than seeing their faith tradition as the core principle to follow. Even with that, surprised to see pre-1950 clergy so open.
Ryan Burge 📊@ryanburge

A national survey of religious leaders included this question, "Would you perform the wedding of a same-sex couple if your religious group allowed it?" Among Catholic priests born before 1950: 61% said yes. Among Catholic priests born in 1970 or later: 19% said yes.

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@tracewoodgrains @mattreedah After all, what religion is filling the pews better than the Episcopalians? Last check the religion is predicted for extinction in 2040.
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Random Lurker@myisonly·
No, but you can make them come to a 24/7 camera monitored computer lab with banks of key stroke monitored desktops. You check in all your devices upon entry and scan in any notes. There you work on your paper and can come as much as you need to during the term. You may balk, but 25 years ago this is what those of us in many stem fields did to work on assignments / projects. We needed to use software or other equipment that you didn’t have at home so you would go to the lab. Sometimes for 10-15 hrs per week! Our engineering computer labs were often open 24/7. Monitoring was less rigorous as it was less needed, but I don’t think that changes much.
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Luiza Jarovsky, PhD
Luiza Jarovsky, PhD@LuizaJarovsky·
🚨 University professors have been saying AI is completely destroying learning and that we'll soon have an AI-powered, semi-illiterate workforce. Here's a glimpse into the educational apocalypse: "Sarah, a freshman at Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario, said she first used ChatGPT to cheat during the spring semester of her final year of high school. (...) After getting acquainted with the chatbot, Sarah used it for all her classes: Indigenous studies, law, English, and a “hippie farming class” called Green Industries. “My grades were amazing,” she said. “It changed my life.” Sarah continued to use AI when she started college this past fall. Why wouldn’t she? Rarely did she sit in class and not see other students’ laptops open to ChatGPT. Toward the end of the semester, she began to think she might be dependent on the website. She already considered herself addicted to TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, and Reddit, where she writes under the username maybeimnotsmart. “I spend so much time on TikTok,” she said. “Hours and hours, until my eyes start hurting, which makes it hard to plan and do my schoolwork. With ChatGPT, I can write an essay in two hours that normally takes 12.” - "By November, Williams estimated that at least half of his students were using AI to write their papers. Attempts at accountability were pointless. Williams had no faith in AI detectors, and the professor teaching the class instructed him not to fail individual papers, even the clearly AI-smoothed ones. “Every time I brought it up with the professor, I got the sense he was underestimating the power of ChatGPT, and the departmental stance was, ‘Well, it’s a slippery slope, and we can’t really prove they’re using AI,’” Williams said. “I was told to grade based on what the essay would’ve gotten if it were a ‘true attempt at a paper.’ So I was grading people on their ability to use ChatGPT.” - AI in education is a serious topic, and many schools and universities are blindly jumping into the "AI-first" wave without considering short and long-term consequences. It would be great to hear more from teachers and educators to understand potential solutions. This might be a great opportunity for rethinking the education system and how students are assessed. - 👉 Link to the full article below. 👉 To learn more about AI's legal and ethical challenges, join my newsletter's 94,700+ subscribers (link below).
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It seems one question is whether being in a same-sex marriage is an identity or a decision. Being same-sex attracted would seem to be an inherent state of being but choosing to marry is trickier. If a religious school wanted to bar the children of a proud porn star, a self-declared polycule member or a polemicist against the existence of God, can they do so? Their rationale would be the same: that a family who publicly and continually disavows a major tenet of the very faith that the school is going to teach can only end up in conflict with the school and likely the other parents as well. I.e., do you really want us to educate your child that we think their parents may go to hell? Cause we suspect that when that day comes, you are not actually going to be ok with it.
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Jack@tracewoodgrains·
The "admissions practice rooted in their faith," to be clear, is denying kids because they have gay parents. If you have a sincere religious belief that my kids do not belong at your school, I have a sincere political belief that my tax dollars do not belong there, either.
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David M. McIntosh@DavidMMcintosh

"Colorado created a 'universal' preschool program, promising every family in the state free preschool at the school of their choice, public or private. Then it barred Catholic schools from participating unless they agreed to abandon admissions practices rooted in their faith." x.com/jcnseverino/st…

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