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Hollow Ground, Carbon Steel Knives and More:

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@Empty_America

VB Knives

7 months

A Tale of Two Knives. Both are hollow-ground carbon steel. But what are the key differences between my 2 models? The Nessmuk on the bottom is a classic modified skinner, with a slight point on it. Notice that the entire blade is curved, it's all "belly" in knife terms. VB…

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@Empty_America

VB Knives

25 days

The death of Adult nightlife is another weird thing. My grandparents gave/attended cocktail parties that went until the wee hours until at least their 60s. Nightclubs were also a thing for adults. Now American nightlife is lame and tends to end in one's 30s, if not before.

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DHacker615 🇺🇸

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@Empty_America The median American of any race is 38.5. Someone would make a lot of money figuring out a way to revive the Adult Nightlife that died in the 1960s.

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This is the most "American" video ever made. It's the combination of the food, her appearance/mannerisms, and the expensive new kitchen. Working class people eating tatter-tot casserole in a physical environment that couldn't be afforded by a Doctor in Europe.

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"Kingdom of Heaven" was arguably the Last Movie in the lineage going back to old Hollywood. Intense attention to color, costuming, sets, large cast, beautiful stars. Almost everything after it was a combination of tasteless CGI effects, weird casting, and "grey" filming style.

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1 year

The primitive horse was quite small, really a pony. Likewise, should be possible to breed ostriches to be 50% larger and thus make them really usable mounts. Indeed, prehistoric ostrich were up to 1,000lbs. .

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Extinct 11-Foot "Super-Ostrich" Was as Massive as a Polar Bear

The giant bird roamed Europe more than two million years ago

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Before a certain date, Americans had essentially zero body modesty in same-sex settings. If you read an old book and they talk about "swimming" it means what we would call skinny-dipping. Old Barracks and locker rooms have open shower rooms and group toilets.

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@heatdaddy69420

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They really made this for dudes and were like ok piss in it

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A billionaire has only a single chance at normal love. Has to be the "old" girlfriend. That window closes forever once the $$$ hits.

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I feel like we are losing the aesthetic of hot weather languor. The Veranda, the Julep, linen shirts unbuttoned at the bar under the sleepy drone of the ceiling fans. It's supposed to be too hot to work.

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What exactly do people want? Apartments are "pods." Suburban houses are "corrosive to the human spirit." Rural areas are "dumps in the middle of nowhere with no jobs and no girls." Is there any acceptable form of housing?

@StatisticUrban

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29 days

This is infinitely more corrosive to the human spirit than NYC lol

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There are so many men who would be thrilled if their wives slacked off 50% on housekeeping but suddenly became happy/friendly/upbeat. They wouldn't even notice the reduction in housekeeping, TBH.

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100000% dead on

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Much of what we see today in America isn't really "high trust" or "low trust" society. It's more like an exploitation of high trust norms. In actual low trust society, you can't harass people on public transit, or "peacefully" roadblock. People will beat/shoot you.

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The Calvin Coolidge Project

@TheCalvinCooli1

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🚨Just in: Pro-Palestinian protesters have shut down the Golden Gate Bridge.

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4 months

The architectural "Year Zero" mentality of the 50's and early 60's is hard to believe. But they really were like that.

@lindahubbardart

Linda Hubbard

@lindahubbardart

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Historical facade in Cincinnati discovered when renovation works began.

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India in 2050 will be the most surreal and interesting place on earth. The Chinese mostly just built skyscrapers and LED lights when they got rich. The Indians are a bit different.

@culturaltutor

The Cultural Tutor

1 month

This is Swaminarayan Akshardham, a colossal Hindu temple in Delhi built with marble and limestone and covered in thousands of sculptures. But this is not an ancient temple — it is less than twenty years old. And it might change the future of architecture...

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1 year

So how does that work? If you are chill and have the right vibes it doesn't eat you?

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Interestingasfuck

1 year

Believed to be the biggest great white shark ever recorded near the island of Oahu, Hawaii - Notice the multiple scars caused by other sharks, nets, propellers, mating, breeding, etc.

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A lot of striver types are going to gene mod their kids to have IQ of 160 . . . And then scream when the over-clocked kids won't strive. IQ 130 Daddy is a surgeon, IQ 160 junior spends 50,000 hours perfecting the inflectional system of personal artificial language.

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Bill Clinton may be the ultimate example of IQ selection processes in the USA. Born a genuine white trash nobody in Hope, Arkansas. Progressed through Georgetown, Rhodes Scholarship, and Yale Law to POTUS via what appears to be sheer natural intelligence.

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Possibly the least discussed and most counter-intuitive environmental story is the drastic increase in forest cover and large mammals in Europe since WWII. All while human populations grew. A direct result of urbanization getting people off the land.

@MythicalIberia

Mythical Iberia

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@Empty_America In Spain, the forest area has increased by 64% in the last 50 years.

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There is a level of intelligence beyond which many people sincerely do not care about material things, beyond the minimum necessary for survival. You can't convince a guy like that to grow up and worry about kitchen cabinets and 401K. He just won't.

@PhysInHistory

Physics In History

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Grigori Perelman, mathematician who proved the Poincaré Conjecture and who refused to accept a Fields Medal and the $1,000,000 Clay Prize, spotted at a traffic signal.

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@Hieraaetus I think another issue is we get used to how "pristine" the natural landscape looks with lower large animal numbers. And perceive the natural "disruption" caused by lots of large animals as habitat degradation. Like wallowing, knocking down trees, muddying water, etc.

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Employment is Killing Us. So I solved the "TFR Issue." It's comically simple. Jobs destroy fertility. That's it. Total W-2 employment hours per family correlate perfectly with reduced fertility. Fertility hits bottom in the cohort most likely to have dual professional…

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VB Knives

5 months

Tomahawk steak babies aren't even going to look like the same species as Mt. Dew, Tablet, and Capt. Crunch kids.

@ShannenPill

Shannen Michaela

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New evidence-based dietary guidelines for feeding infants from birth to 24 months old recommend meat as an ideal first food My baby loves Tomahawk 😂

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8 months

Perhaps 15% of the entire US population (about 50 million people) live in a reality where nearly everyone around them is slim, healthy, affluent. Average IQ is probably 110+, and they all are going to marry each other.

@nealjclark1

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You may not like it, or be invited to participate, but America has a eugenics program in place. It’s probably the most successful one there’s ever been. I wasn’t invited and probably not you either or you wouldn’t, like me, be annoyed by everything.

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11 months

Do you all want to know something *really* strange? Much of Italy's pasta is made from wheat grown in Yuma Arizona. Not a joke. It's grown in AZ with irrigation and shipped all the way to Italy.

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Home Grown: From Yuma wheat to Italian pasta - KYMA

YUMA, Ariz. (KYMA, KECY) - In today's Home Grown, Italian cuisine is known for its pasta dishes that are as much local culture, as they are food, but what most people don't know is that the durum...

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New "Boomers" are still being born. Football quarterback born in 2008, marries HS girlfriend and progresses into lucrative career in RV sales. He will grow into a Boomer.

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@loobah_l Probably no one. Those generations had dramatically different expectations for parenting.

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Class behaviors are becoming more extreme and sorted over time. In 1950, middle class guy might drive a purple car and get into a fist fight, smoke cigs, drink at lunch. Now all that is underclass behavior. Middle class drives grey car to grey house, total restraint.

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Jash Dholani

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"In 1952, 3 cars out of 4 sold were either red, green, or blue. Today, 3 cars out of 4 sold are either white, grey, or black."

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Both my Dad's recollections and my reading suggest that "low trust" behavior was common in America before about the 50 and 60s. Con men were a stock Old American character and mechanics would brutally cheat you if you broke down away from home, etc. People were hardened.

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3 months

Most people don't "do anything." Your average American just eats, drinks, and goes to the bathroom exactly the same as an Egyptian. If you look at human life that way, you might not like what you see in the mirror every morning.

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VB Knives

8 months

Every single worker at a job site showing up in their own 50K pickup is one of those things that demonstrates immense, almost impossible wealth, but it's so normal we don't even think about it.

@Qagggy

Qagggy!

8 months

It should probably be no surprise that a lot of construction workers in London take the Tube to work. They use toolboxes on wheels with a telescoping handle that you can roll like a suitcase. Ford F-150's are not widely available in the UK.

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It's weird. From beginning of time until 20th century, about 50% of humans died before reproducing. Then we figured a scheme so that nearly 100% made it. At once, exotic new "memetic" diseases and social disfunctions appeared. Headed back towards 50%. Nature is cruel.

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1 month

I'm sorry but that is how it works. "The last shall be first." Parable of the Vineyard, etc.

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Haiti is one of the strangest questions on earth. Understand that the geography is idyllic. The French valued it far higher than the entire Louisiana territory. The devil chose paradise to live in.

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Hemlock Hobo

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@Empty_America We could add Haiti tomorrow by just doing a humanitarian aid mission and never leaving.

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2 months

This is "Western Exceptionalism." We actually are different from all other people and it sometimes shows in the oddest ways.

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VB Knives

8 months

10 years ago, if you argued that the N. Korean system was long-term superior the the S. Korean system, people would think you escaped from a mental hospital. But it appears that the S. Korea system is the one that actually exterminates the people subjected to it.

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Spain objectively won the game of history to a profound level. Permanently impressed its language (as a mother tongue), culture, and blood on most of a hemisphere. Only real modern competitor is England, and that war is still being fought!

@VonTacowitz

TexasFren 🇺🇸 🤝🇷🇺ZOV

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"Spain was a shithole for 400 years" > colonizes an entire continent > gets massive wealth from it > Spanish tercios dominate Europe militarily for over a century > Be a major power until Napoleon ruins you for good Most historically informed western communist

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8 months

The "Dinner Party" is nearly extinct. People will come if invited but it's not normal anymore and most families never host one. My Grandparents probably hosted/attended dozens per year. It requires good house keeping, someone who cooks, etc.

@cboyack

Connor Boyack 📚

8 months

Over the past decade, my wife and I have had scores of families over for dinner. Maybe 2% of them reciprocated. For a while I thought it was something about us, but then I heard from others who are outgoing/inviting that they experience the same thing. What do you think?

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I think a mostly passive $60K a year is worth more than making $300K a year but working 60 hours a week.

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7 months

There is so much food in the world that people living in $32-a-year huts are notably plump. Starvation basically only occurs in war-zones where the food can't get in, or in societies that deliberately starve their underclasses. And there could be a lot more food if needed.

@Molson_Hart

molson 🧠⚙️

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Her rent is $32.50. Not per day. Not per week. Not per month. Per year! Crazy amounts of intellectual capital is trapped in Africa.

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It's weird. If you cut your expenses and living standards enough, everyone thinks you have a trust fund. But often these people really do just live in a van, there isn't any secret stash.

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aimee

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so many people people have been QTing this calling her a trust fund kid, but I just found this on her insta…

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100%. If you go into the most distressed, lowest income rural areas you don't see anything quaint and old timey. You see a lot of purple hair, young kids with gender issues, obesity, the music is rap, etc. While Arlington VA looks like an old LL Bean catalog.

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Joseph

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this is an aspect of the hicklib phenomenon that doesn’t get a lot of attention. now that secular liberalism is the default the lowest SES people are mostly secular liberals not as popular culture would tell you religious fundamentalist.

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Remember there are as many 80IQs as there are 120s. And as many 90s as there are 110s. Biggest defect in libertarian ideas is the fact that ~50% of human beings have severe difficulty making "good choices" in absence of clear prescriptive norms. Why we have a society.

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How did people come to believe that if everyone went to college we could all just get jobs sending each other emails and someone else (who?) would maintain all physical elements of modern society? It sounds so dumb when you say it explicitly.

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Basically every kid in the USA is "IQ screened" and if they score high enough they are given a fast ride to the big leagues. If you live in Moonshine Knob WV and get a perfect PSAT score, you suddenly get free college offers, campus tours. All this already happens.

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We've talked about cheap meat. Let's talk about expensive meat. Just got done processing a sheep, medium sized adult ewe that I raised. Yielded 25lbs of boned, trimmed meat. I have probably $100 of feed into it. Processing took about 6 hours x $20 per hour = $120. So my…

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So my father said that of the span from the 30's to today, the 50's were the most enjoyable time to live. With the proviso that "the bills hadn't come due yet." Everyone had a car, but the air was still mostly clean. Lots of factory work but Love Canal and burning rivers were…

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8 months

This is what $100 worth of groceries looks like in the year 2023.

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10 months

Another vaguely related "mass affluence" thing is lawn mowers. You see $5k Zero Turn machines everywhere now. They are often mowing the same lawn that was mowed 30 years ago with a push mower. A few thousand here, a few thousand there, lifestyle inflation adds up.

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@TornadoNate

Nate

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Mass affluence is a $700 steak cooker, which will ensure that you need no knowledge, skill or time, only money and a willingness to consume, to create a magnificent steak experience on your very own backyard patio.

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11 months

Not everyone is like us. They just had a 20+ year war and after a year of peace they are bored and want a new Jihad. They don't want to grill, to be safe and cozy. Important to understand.

@0HOUR

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Taliban declaring war on Iran #Taliban official Abdul Hamid Khorasani: Iran has a corrupt regime. We will fight Iran with a zeal greater than that we fought America. If our leaders allow jihad, we shall conquer Iran soon.

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VB Knives

2 months

There is pent up market demand in USA for areas like what is pictured below. They can't be built anymore in any major metro due to legal obstructions, and thus the value gets "bid up" endlessly. If legalized, developers would waste no time in meeting this demand.

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@DanteRondo1

Dante Rondo

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@SAcerton @Empty_America Yes, it does. ‘Cramped villages’ are some of the most in demand real estate in the country. Just look at the prices of any ‘cramped village’ neighborhood in any city. Those are always the most expensive neighborhoods. We don’t have more of them because we zone against it.

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My Covid testimony is I *personally* saw hiking trails and fishing lakes chained off. But I drove past open big box stores on the way there. And at the same time independent retail was closed for months while the Walmart's were packed. Total madness.

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One big sign that someone doesn't "get" America is hostility to the idea that American Indians had a formative influence on the country. Woodsmanship, warfare, etc. Old America always accepted this and celebrated them almost immediately after getting done fighting them.

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Leaving the Parthenon as a stabilized semi-ruin is a very odd aesthetic choice that is (as far as I know) unique to our civilization. Would have made no sense to the Greeks nor to of the other civilizations that have owned the structure.

@ArysPan

Arys🏺🪶

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Parthenon's many lives

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6 months

10 gallons of Walmart milk a week, Pork Butts. These boys weren't grown on organic crackers and arugula from Whole Foods and Trader Joes.

@e_cdalton

Erik

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Maybe atrazine isn’t so bad

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A certain type of aspirational "fanciness" used to be critically important to middle class people . . . and it isn't anymore. It was really important to own China and Crystal. It meant a lot. Some MC people even owned tuxedos, evening gowns.

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@Brandon93Smith

Brandon

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Sometimes just lying to your mom about what’s going to happen to the fancy dining set when she’s gone is the right & noble thing to do. It’s fine, It’s like reverse Santa Claus.

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Possibly related to increased number of single mothers. Very few women will buy or serve enough protein for growing boys unless dad is there agitating for it. It seems crazy to most women, they have no idea how much fat and protein a 14 year old boy actually needs to eat.

@TruueDiscipline

True Discipline

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this is true even among native born white Americans who are not seniors:

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Like it or not, the American middle class lifestyle is migratory. Often 4-5 moves. Born in a suburb, leave for college, post-college scene, back to a different suburb to spawn, retirement. If you miss the movement of the herd, can be left wondering "where did everyone go?"

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People would love this. But be prepared to receive a hyper-boring genealogy lecture.

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The way that fire departments dictate urban planning is very simple. Standard fire trucks are very big, and if you want to build truly old style, they say "fire truck won't fit." Tail wagging the dog. We should built as we like and they will have to buy smaller trucks.

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The difficulty for someone like this is that many post-college jobs feature the same sort of busywork as High School. Important to consider this. A person who won't do homework but scores 90th+ percentile probably won't be able to hold a typical boring white collar job.

@geoljills

Geology Jill

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My kid, who barely made it through high school, just scored a 30 on the ACT, including a 35 on the math and a 34 on the science. He did well on exams during school, but would not turn in the relentless piles of busywork that were assigned, despite many negative consequences.

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The property tax death spiral in places like Upstate NY and Downstate Illinois is bizarre. They are hemorrhaging population, and almost everyone who leaves will cite property tax as a major cause. Cutting an annual check for $6k to live in your own house is enraging, it…

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Everyone in this video is clean, healthy, and appears comfortable and happy. They will bury you.

@schizarella

misha꙳

6 months

nobody talks about the type of child abuse where parents will pop out ten children and be incapable of giving them proper attention or fulfilling their physical needs

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7 months

Is there a word for someone who is basically "manic" but doesn't ever have the depression phases?

@Defendthewest17

Crusader of Christ ⚔️

@Defendthewest17

7 months

"I hate going to sleep at night because I can't wait to wake up and live, Im so wired I wake up at 3:30 every morning and I don't need coffee because Im so wired" - Steve Irwin

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Virtually all the money "spent" on cathedrals was directly paid to the poor and working class in the form of wages. It was a massive transfer of money from the wealthy to the poor. And you got the building also!

@Know_More_News

Adam Green - Know More News

@Know_More_News

5 months

If Jesus were real, he would've rebuked the Church for spending so much money on extravagant buildings while the plebs were poor and hungry. It was all about exuding power and supposed divinity. The architecture of ancient times is breathtaking, but it has nothing to do with the…

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You see this in the school fight videos. In 1980s, middle class boys fought, it was pretty normal. In 2023 you see the middle class kid attacked by an underclass, MC kid goes "limp," gets brain injury. They don't even have a "fight" response anymore. Never throw a punch.

@Empty_America

VB Knives

6 months

Class behaviors are becoming more extreme and sorted over time. In 1950, middle class guy might drive a purple car and get into a fist fight, smoke cigs, drink at lunch. Now all that is underclass behavior. Middle class drives grey car to grey house, total restraint.

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US Suicide Map is pretty odd. Low risk in most of Cali, Deep South, E. Cost and Upper Midwest farm belt High Suicide belts are the entire Mountain West, PNW, the Apalachin-Ozark corridor, and the N. Woods.

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If this is what's actually required for clean electricity, it's not worth it. We should just deal with 2 degrees Celsius. Or just pack it all in.

@RizomaSchool

Ashley Fitzgerald

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Greece. These were once cultivated fields.

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At least part of the reason that White people no longer produce many street gangs is that there is almost nowhere where whites are *young enough* and *dense enough* to generate a critical mass of young male criminals.

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"Birthrates will go up if we increase the average house from 2,500 Sq. Ft. to 3,000. People are cramped, you can't expect anyone to have kids under this standard of living!" House when birthrates actually were up:

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moosh

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A photograph of Mr Sutton Pownall, a gravedigger, with his wife Joyce and their five children in a 150 year old house at Number Two Court, Dickenson Street, Oldham. Taken on the 1st June in 1962

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The other thing nobody wants to talk about is the extreme rates of orthopedic injury in girl's HS sports. Nearly every participant is intermittenly injured, in knee braces, surgery is not uncommon in HS kids. Often with lifelong consequences. For what?

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VB Knives

3 months

Germans: "Of course the end user will lubricate this part with our proprietary compound every 30K miles! It says so right here on page 235 of owners manual!" Japanese: "Lets build a truck that runs for 40 years in the Congo."

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Meme Gene

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@no2monkeypox @CentipedeMouse @Empty_America Japanese people managed to build the most durable products in the world by engineering with “every other people are degenerated morons” as their central design principle. Germans can’t imagine everyone else isn’t a German. Who was right?

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1 year

I think as a general rule all activities that show a disregard for future consequences are attractive. Unsure why.

@EBasilion

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1 year

Why is smoking so sexy? @DUALIPA

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VB Knives

4 months

It's quite possible that these drugs broadly eliminate the type of compulsive or obsessive behavior required to accomplish anything of note. Be careful.

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There is a certain unique "American" look you see among very old stocks. Quite different from any Euro ethnicity.

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My Dad (94) remembers that people born in the 1800s were really "different." Pre-WWII American could be a very hard, violent, and clannish place. Hyper-capitalist also. The culture of niceness and broad social trust came in with the post war boom.

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VB Knives

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If engineers want to take zero humanities in college, I don't care. Have at it. But understand that course leads to being nothing but a servant. A tool. You will always be ruled by those who studied law, literature, history and so forth.

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VB Knives

5 months

This isn't even weird or ironic. Most NFL players were built on fast food. The glut of protein, fat, and calories is basically why the NFL as we know it exists. Usain Bolt ate nothing but McDonalds at the 2008 Olympics.

@APompliano

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5 months

One of the best football players in the world is eating McDonalds before Monday Night Football and you think your 13th cold tub this week is going to help you answer emails better 🤣

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VB Knives

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You know what Americans really like? Acreage properties. You can look at the most remote/depressed/no job counties in the USA and there will be high $ acreage properties. For many, an acreage property is the Dream. Always in demand, never cheap, anywhere.

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VB Knives

1 year

Interesting map I've not seen before. TFR for non-Hispanic whites. All of New England, the entire West Coast, and Colorado are have sub-Japanese TFR. Graveyards.

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If you put a gun to my head and asked "what remotely plausible intervention would actually raise TFR?" My answer would be "A very signficant, progressive income tax on childless/empty nest adults which is directly redistributed to parents of minors as cash payments." When I say…

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VB Knives

1 year

This school is evidently in Carmel Indiana (not CA). Ideal example of middle American mass affluence. Not costal elites or 1%ers. Just the top 20% or so of a midwestern metro area.

@barstoolindy

Barstool Indy

1 year

This tour of Carmel High School is going viral on Tik Tok. America cannot believe how big it is 💀

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VB Knives

5 months

This post is silly, but notice how having a 9-5 job has started to pop up in lists of disqualifying factors. That's a pretty new thing.

@savannahvicario

𝑆𝑎𝑣𝑎𝑛𝑛𝑎ℎ 𝑉𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑜🪞🪷🕊

@savannahvicario

5 months

To me, a physically, mentally, emotionally, & spiritually healthy man — - doesn’t vape - doesn’t smoke weed - doesn’t get vaxxed - doesn’t watch porn - lift weights weekly - prioritizes his sleep - eats lots of steak & eggs - doesn’t drink tap water - doesn’t use AirPods - would…

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That's the other HUGE forgotten past thing that people can't believe. Read "Coming Apart" by Charles Murray, there are many other sources also. Before 1960 even the poor or minorities mostly had intact families. And drug addiction wasn't a common part of life.

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VB Knives

1 year

@RizomaSchool Drugs and broken families mainly. Even the very poor in 1960 mostly lived in 2 parent homes and didn't ever do drugs.

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5 months

People think that NW Europe has a climate more or less similar to the Northern USA, but it doesn't. Even an inch of snow is an unusual event in much of Western Europe. Temps of 0 Fahrenheit are essentially unknown, etc.

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The "homestead" fad crashed because it solves a non-existent problem. Default living standards today are very high, no one is unable to buy potatoes at Walmart. Old homesteaders were excited to live in a hole and eat jackrabbit. Alternative was starvation, homelessness.

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VB Knives

1 year

Have you considered that there might not be a collapse? Innovative energy solutions arise, food production remains high, systems like global shipping continue to function. Maybe there are plenty of smart people to keep it running. Maybe you are wrong about everything!

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I can't think of anything more positive than high functioning people depicting an aspirational family life on social media and having 10 kids. Her Instagram account is more effective than 1,000 pro-natalist think-pieces.

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VB Knives

1 year

The grocery looting is part of a bigger thing where the illusion of police power has been broken. Various groups (inner city criminals, anti-fa) have discovered that if you can get together 20+ people, the police stand down. You can block highways, burn down buildings, etc.

@David_Griso

David Griso

1 year

@Empty_America Is this happening frequently in the USA? Who does this type of looting? It’s so bizarre

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1 year

One of the biggest signs of Mass Affluence is average adults now having "identities" that revolve around recreation. Shooters, gamers, surfers, bikers, hikers, hunters, etc. People used to be "farmers" or "coal miners" or "lawyers." Vocational identities.

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1 year

Everyone has his price. I suspect that the "key" to unlocking the motivation of the mega-IQ underachiever is providing a frictionless daily life. You work on the fusion program and *everything* is passively done for you. Never pay a bill, cook a meal, clean your bedroom.

@CleanSlateSolar

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@CleanSlateSolar

1 year

@dalton20017 @Empty_America Def bad that some of our brightest minds are working on optimization of a advertising algorithm or something instead of useful work. But many 140+ iq people just aren't interested in productive work in general, idk what if anything can be done about that

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VB Knives

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Fetishization of sleep deprivation is one of the oddest memes infecting the modern west. Goes well beyond the military. Who had the genius idea that medical doctors should work 24 hour shifts, etc.? Don't get up a 4am.

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VB Knives

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It would be strange to be an Indian. In one lifetime you go from being a brown immigrant to a quasi-officially classified oppressor group.

@eyeslasho

i/o

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National Geographic "permanently discontinued" its GeoBee competition in order to replace it with "more equitable participation," adding that its "increased focus on racial injustice challenge us to find new... ways to engage young people." The top 10 at the last GeoBee.

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@PlastiqSoldier I think that was the only time it was worth remarking on.

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People think we need to sell the national parks to building "housing" on them, but we can't even fill up Tulsa. There is literally some program that will pay you to move to Tulsa. That's not even talking about the infinity declining small towns all across the country.

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VB Knives

6 months

Almost everyone over 35 or 40 remembers adults being incredibly neurotic and anxious about money in the 80s and early 90s. It wasn't a carefree and prosperous time like people imagine. In 2023, no one gives a shit if you eat a candy.

@PicturesFoIder

non aesthetic things

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VB Knives

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The first issue would be that (too the best of my knowledge) there are no contractors in the USA who build houses with load-bearing solid stone walls. You could get a replica of that style but it would be veneers over frame construction. Wouldn't have the mass and majesty.

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Many dream of building their own custom home someday, but those who get the opportunity often launch into the endeavor with very little training as to what makes a home beautiful and timeless. I've got three book recommendations that I think every future builder needs to read:

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Mass Affluent America is by far the largest + richest "country" on earth. It's a "nation" of at least 50 million with an average household income in the mid 6 figures. Greatest concentration of wealth on earth.

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If you aren't religious and want to have grandchildren the best thing you can do is set up a life where your kids will have household incomes in excess of 500K before age 30. Good luck, no one said it was easy.

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Another interesting thing about High Trust societies is that men from such societies tend to turn into absolute savages when "released" by war. Canadians are known for this. And men from violent societies are often "cowardly" soldiers.

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I fear that a real recession would be socially crushing at this point. These women screaming in 65K SUV's about the price of Chipotle aren't about to start boiling potatoes and turning off the A/C. The behaviors needed to deal with these things have been lost.

@WallStreetSilv

Wall Street Silver

@WallStreetSilv

5 months

What should a burrito bowl from Chipotle cost? 🔊 ... "my burrito bowl from Chipotle just cost me $19.82. Yes, I got guac, but that shouldn't make it $19.82. That is so much money for one bowl. What is happening?" That is crazy. One person eating at a fast food place shouldn't…

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There is no point in a High Speed Rail network if it has security and hassles just like an airport. But you know it will. Amtrack is very very chill because it's a marginal relic of the 70s. HSR will have TSA. So why bother?

@AtlWinKnee

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The Chinese HSR system overlaid over the United States

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