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Liberal white women’s love of Islam should be proof of a mass psychosis worthy of scholarly study.

This meme annoys the fuck out of me because it misunderstands invisible labour as stupidity. Women don’t ask “roughly when will you be home?” because we think you can predict the future. We ask because someone has to organise dinner, childcare, and the rest of the household around your absence.

I have no idea why campist tankies On Here freaked out specifically about Persepolis given it is by far the most pro-communist piece of Iranian diaspora literature. Nearly half of the book is about how the IR brutally crushed socialists!

Next in line.

Underrated consequence of fertility collapse is that hundreds of millions of people will never acquire the real-world experience to dispute the model of human nature that they receive from the TV So the delusions compound

So you want to mock Islam the way you mocked Christ. Well, you can't, John. You can't always get what you want. You still, to this day, do not understand. You were not allowed to mock Christ because of what the law said. You were allowed to mock Christ because Christianity permits this. Islam does not permit you to mock Muhammad or Allah. If you do, Muslims will kill you. And it doesn't matter if the law says you can, because they will not follow the law. They will follow Islam. Your society cannot simultaneous have Muslims and freedom of speech. These two things are fundamentally incompatible. You can either have freedom of speech because you have no Muslims, or no freedom of speech because you have Muslims. When are you going to realize that "Life of Brian" couldn't be made today, and that it couldn't made today partially because of the cultural influence of people like you? When are going to realize that you spent your entire career deconstructing the very things that allowed you to have a career at all? We, the younger generations of Western Civilization, are in an existential crisis that you had a hand in. And we realize that you are starting to wake up, that empirical knowledge is starting to permeate through your thick boomer skull. But there are so many preconceptions in there that we simply don't have time for the process to complete. Which means that we are going to have to simply ignore you, shut you out of the conversation, and let you catch up, if you ever do, after we have already moved on ahead. That's a sad moment for me, because you made me laugh as a child. Rather a lot. But I have come to realize that the ability to spot and lampoon the ridiculous does not necessarily translate to the ability to understand Chesterton's Fence.

“Moderna’s CEO announced the company will no longer invest in new Phase 3 vaccine trials for infectious diseases: ‘You cannot make a return on investment if you don’t have access to the U.S. market.’ Vaccines for Epstein-Barr virus, herpes, and shingles have been shelved.”

"No one likes that idea" Jordan Peterson: IQ is largely unitary, highly heritable, and brutally unfair. It predicts long-term success in complex jobs better than almost anything. Smart parents → smart kids (but regression to mean pulls toward average 100). Identical twins separated at birth? By age 60, IQs so similar it's like testing the same person—environment barely diverges them. You can't train general IQ up with games/puzzles (task gains don't transfer). But cardio + weights help maintain it as you age; early nutrition (breastfeeding adds ~3-4 points per year) + stimulation matter in childhood. No one's figured out how to meaningfully raise it—yet. This 3:58 clip confronts why the "cards aren't dealt equally." Does knowing IQ is mostly genetic change how you view opportunity, merit, or inequality?

Kind of funny how there is basically no real famous academic on either side of the debate. It is no name leftist activist academics on one side and mostly people who are not affiliated with academia on the other.