Well, that's odd

@dissproportion It’s getting worse. I read a passage that said “Chris completed his life in 2020” only to find out he committed suicide. Completed? What the euphemism?

just a man and his father’s brother’s nephew’s cousin’s former roommate

@newstart_2024 Theo had “clearer thinking”? Haha, have you ever listened to him? Also he’s chatting with the known crackpot with pseudoscientific beliefs, Tara Swart

Theo Von got surprisingly open about how pornography quietly became his longest “relationship.” For years it felt safe — no rejection, full control, instant reward — while real intimacy stayed difficult. He described it as a constant “leak of his masculinity,” like a dripping pipe that left him feeling less intact. At the time of this conversation (September 2024), he was 77 days off porn and 70 days off masturbation. He noticed clearer thinking, more respect for his own energy, and the ability to see women as whole people instead of sexual targets. Intimacy with himself started to feel deeper. As of 2026, Theo continues to speak openly about his ongoing journey with addiction and sobriety, using his platform to share raw reflections that resonate with many. It’s a candid look at how stepping away from an old habit can quietly rebuild parts of you. Have you ever taken a serious break from porn or masturbation and noticed meaningful changes in your energy, focus, or sense of self? What shifted?

Only a small exaggeration

@avidseries But research suggests that these databases do NOT help reduce crime naacpldf.org/what-happens-w…

Antiracism in action: > People do bad stuff > Efforts are made to stop that bad stuff > Those efforts involve identifying the people who do bad stuff > But those identified people are virtually all black and brown > Therefore the efforts are racist and must stop

@JoyceCarolOates So when most universities in the country recommended left-coded materials (eg, CRT or books like White Fragility)…this wasn’t far left? How about when universities compiled lists of no-no words?

anyone who says "academia went far left" has spent little time at a university department meeting or senate. in fact, anyone who says "academia" isn't on any university payroll.

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@homerjahsimpson endlessly vindicated

@Skint_Eastwood1 The issue is Murray assumes that small % of Islamic extremism will always be let through. “Less Islam” is inexact b/c what he really means is “less islamic extremism”

🚨 Douglas Murray DESTROYS BBC Newsnight Presenter Douglas Murray calmly dismantles the BBC on his “less Islam” comment: Nick Watt: “We should have less Islam in this country. Was that a wise phrase?” Murray: “Perfectly wise phrase… This country had a wildly stupid and lax immigration policy for decades.” On the bomber Salman Abedi: “One of the sons they gave this country was Salman Abedi who at 22 killed 22 young girls… one for every year of life this country gave him.” Then the key logic: “Jihadist extremism, jihadism comes from Islam. Therefore, if it’s 1%, 5%, 15% of people of the Muslim faith who follow that version of it, you’ve got a hell of a problem. And the more people, this is simple math, the larger the number of people who are followers of a faith that has not solved the extremism problem in its midst… the more extremism you will have. You don’t get that from the Catholic Church… or the Anglican church.” Murray closes powerfully: “Nobody else is as incredibly slow in learning as the British media and political class when it comes to this problem. Why is it the case that Saturday after Saturday we have thousands of people going through major British cities who support the death cults who would murder Jews and the rest of us next? That’s a question you and Newsnight should answer.” Countries with less Islam have less Islamic terrorism. Straight talk the BBC clearly struggles with.

@avidseries Source: news.utexas.edu/2024/03/11/ut-…

Antiracism in action: University of Texas makes SATs optional for applicants, and then automatically accepts those students in the top 6% of their HS class — even if it doesn't know their SAT score and even if the high school from which they're graduating has almost no students proficient in math or reading. So what's the college GPA difference between those students accepted by Texas who opt out of submitting their SAT score, and those who submit their SAT score when they apply: A whopping 0.86 grade points. The difference in their SAT scores: 260 points.

this is actually the worst case scenario because it means you no longer have a research topic.

I've never sen anything more accurate

@mksin149 @LocasaleLab Int’l workers in STEM contribute >$1B to the US GDP annually. What you described is a general issue, which will worsen with slashes to NIH funding. The US will lose its high academic status if it cannot recruit the best talent across the globe

@whatdouwager @LocasaleLab We don’t need many more international students than we already have. We don’t even have enough jobs for these international students after they complete their PhDs and then end up getting into endless cycle of postdoctoral fellowships without any future prospects.

If the NIH budget were $100B tomorrow, you would just get a bigger version of the same system. Medical schools would expand soft-money positions to capture the funding. More people would be pushed into grant-dependent roles. You would not get new directions. Instead of 500 grants on mTOR or sirtuins, you would have 1,000. Paylines might go from 8% to 15–20%, but more people would flood in. Some writing 10 R01s might write 5. Administrative centers that waste money would expand. Overhead would scale. The same duplication and redundancy across institutions would increase. The reproducibility problem would not improve. It would get worse.

@norabird This literally sums up much of the discourse

I wanted to like this piece, but it takes needless stabs at gender identity questions and also has a bizarre and incorrect definition of what Millennials Feminism is. Alas

@UjuAnya x.com/whatdouwager/s…

This is molecular rape. The egg chooses specific sperm that its own conditions favor. Implanting nanobots to force sperm into the egg and override its selection process is a violation of a human being’s body at the most basic level.

Conundrum: you have an adult conscious woman consenting to nanobot help but her non-conscious cells (eggs) don’t consent. Is the woman helping to rape herself? Sociologists are on the case!

“Molecular rape” So, the social construct of consent is a normal part of fertilization? More like “cellular” rape, no? But why stop there? Atomic rape? Is invasive surgery tissue and organ rape?

@NewsHour Genuine question: how does hiring the most competent pilots harm the image of that profession? Arguing that merit-based hiring is bad and will worsen the pilot shortage necessarily means that you want less qualified pilots

As U.S. airlines face a pilot shortage, a new federal directive is adding turbulence to the conversation around hiring. As part of the Trump administration’s shift away from diversity, equity and inclusion policies, the Federal Aviation Administration is requiring airlines to formally pledge that pilot hiring is based strictly on merit, not race or gender. But many in the industry say that's already how hiring works, and they worry this change could harm perception of airlines and pilots. Here's a closer look at the rule change and what it means for pilot hiring, recruitment and training.