affective autist

Its not Simcity, but business school students who were good at Civ V also turn out to be better planners, organizers, and problem-solvers in this small experiment.

This from Paul Ehrlich will make you think "If I'm always wrong so is science, since my work is always peer-reviewed, including the POPULATION BOMB and I've gotten virtually every scientific honor." Link in reply

my girlfriend is very high functioning autistic, and her favorite meal is Caesar salad. She picks out all the tomatoes and bell peppers and discolored pieces of lettuce. She once ate only chicken nuggets for lunch for an entire year.

People who like people are pro-birth and pro-immigration.

i don't get why people read fiction. it feels like something a child would do

Richard Feynman’s savage takedown of pseudo-science still burns in 2026: “Social science is an example of a science which is not a science. They follow the forms… but they don’t get any laws. They haven’t found out anything.” He goes harder: Experts who “sit at a typewriter and make up” claims — “organic food is better,” “this diet cures everything” — as if it’s settled science, when no rigorous experiments or checks have been done. Feynman: “I know what it means to really know something. How careful you have to be. How easy it is to fool yourself. I see how they get their information… and I can’t believe that they know.” The Nobel physicist calls it straight: most of what passes for “expert” opinion is noise dressed up as knowledge. In an age drowning in TikTok “science,” influencers, and clickbait studies — Feynman’s 1:52 rant feels more relevant than ever. Who’s the biggest pseudo-expert that grinds your gears right now? Clip is timeless fire — watch it and feel the clarity.

My only piece of romantic advice for men is: As soon as you know you're romantically interested in a girl, ask her on a date. Use the word "date". Amazing how many pitfalls and problems this avoids.

I’m 25. Give me oddly specific life tips. No general ”surround yourself with positive people” tips. I want the most random, specific advice possible.

Do people become more conservative as they age? If they were born between 1940 and 1954, the answer is clearly "yes." Among people born from 1955 to 1979, there's really been no change. For those born in 1980 or later, it looks they are becoming more liberal as they age.

Holy shit If your town elects a Republican prosecutor, firearm homicides go down and young men have MUCH lower death rates. As it turns out, you can just choose to prosecute criminals and that saves lives!

The one bit of female sexuality not celebrated is sincere attraction and love for men; genuine, mutual love between a heterosexual couple went from commonplace to rare in media [cf, Frozen, Modern Family.

hot person: wow everyone here is so nice

Will AI become smarter than humans? If so, is humanity in danger? I went to Silicon Valley to ask some of the leading AI experts that question. Here’s what they had to say:

I'm not in favor of regime change wars and I don't want to be world police, but taking out a monstrous scumbag who's been killing Americans for decades and staged an attack on our embassy is neither of those. It's appropriate, just, and necessary. Anti-war absolutism is silly.

Incredibly obscure Rubio fact, but he was given a communist-slaying golden blade by Jeb Bush that once belonged to Chiang Kai-shek.