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Best-Selling Author of Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class:

Cambridge, England

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Rob Henderson

3 months

Today is the big day! My debut book, "Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class," is now out in bookstores everywhere! The Audiobook is read by yours truly. US: UK:

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Troubled | Swift Press

‘Masterpiece’ Evening Standard In this vivid coming-of-age memoir, Rob Henderson recounts growing up in foster care, enlisting in the US Air Force, attending elite universities – and what he learnt...

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Rob Henderson

10 months

The most unrealistic part of Barbie is when they get to the Venice beach boardwalk in LA and there are no homeless, no junkies, no vandals. Just guys that look like frat boys from USC. Barbie then says she feels fear because of these boys. Wonder how she'd feel in the real LA.

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Every so often I remember this event. The Asian kid who was diligently studying and said, "Hey this is library" was unaware that he'd be in a better position to ascend in American society if he'd tossed his books and joined the protestors.

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Arthur Schopenhauer on avoiding the Current Thing:

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56% of liberal white women aged 18-29 have been diagnosed with a mental health condition.

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3 years

In 1956, Soviet leader Khrushchev delivered a speech denouncing Stalin's crimes. A heckler shouted "You were his colleague, why didn't you stop him?" Khrushchev barked back "Who said that?" Nobody moved a muscle. Seconds later, Khrushchev said "Now you know why I didn't stop him"

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If a male enjoys dressing up and behaving like a woman, he was born that way. If a female enjoys dressing up and behaving like a woman, she was brainwashed by society.

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3 years

Best books I read in 2020 1. Atomic Habits by @JamesClear “If you show up at the gym 5 days in a row—even for 2 minutes—you're casting votes for your new identity. You’re not worried about getting in shape. Youre focused on becoming the type of person who doesn’t miss workouts”

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They eliminated standardized testing before they eliminated legacy admissions. Tells you all you need to know.

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Columbia becomes first Ivy League school to permanently drop SAT/ACT testing requirement

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I grew up in foster homes, fled as soon as I could by enlisting in the military at age 17, and studied psychology at Yale and Cambridge with the GI Bill + scholarships. Here are 31 things I learned from growing up in dysfunction and deprivation and climbing out of it Thread

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Step 1: It's not really happening Step 2: Yeah, it's happening, but it's not a big deal Step 3: It's a good thing, actually Step 4: People freaking out about it are the real problem

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11 months

Percent of births to unwed mothers 1960: 5 percent 2018: 40 percent

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3 years

"a Chinese billionaire dies every 40 days...unnatural deaths have taken the lives of 72 mainland billionaires over the past 8 years...15 were murdered, 17 committed suicide, 7 died from accidents and 19 from illness. 14 were executed. (Welcome to China.)"

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Singapore: Little to no drug addiction, needles, car jacking, shoplifting, violence, homelessness, litter, or graffiti. Small children ride public transport without parents. Women and elderly can walk alone at night without fear. Hard to see the appeal of this place.

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Firefighters and MBA students were asked how they'd feel if they bought a new car, showed their friend, and next day the friend buys the same kind of car % who report they'd feel: Upset Firefighters: 3% MBAs: 47% Betrayed Firefighters: 13% MBAs: 47%

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People are slowly realizing they held the wrong mental model of young men. The wrong mental model says that young men are natural risk-seekers and will naturally want to approach (and possibly harass) women. Now people are learning that most young men's default factory setting is…

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3 years

A man who is 5 feet 6 inches tall needs to earn an additional $175,000 per year to be as desirable as a man who is about 6 feet tall A 6'2" man can earn $30,000 less than a 6' man and will be viewed as equally desirable

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2 years

Lee Kuan Yew on Japanese culture, work ethic, and IQ.

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6 months

Better that ordinary people in a country die of thirst than their political elites experience an ounce of shame.

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Yahoo News

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While American YouTuber MrBeast’s goal was to provide clean drinking water for 500,000 people, activists say his actions shamed the Kenyan government and helped perpetuate the stereotype that Africa is "dependent on handouts."

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3 years

"conservative women are particularly blissful: 40% say they are very happy. That makes them slightly happier than conservative men and significantly happier than liberal women. The unhappiest are liberal men; only a fifth consider themselves very happy"

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2 years

Lee Kuan Yew on American decline:

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2 years

They eliminated standardized testing before eliminating legacy admissions. Tells you all you need to know.

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The Washington Post

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Harvard University won’t require SAT or ACT through 2026, a landmark step in push to limit role of standardized tests in admissions

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9 months

From "Self-Made Man," a memoir of a woman who lived life disguised as a man for 1 year. The author (Norah Vincent) describes her revelation of what it's like to be a man approaching women and trying to attract their romantic interest:

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5 months

A real head scratcher.

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The Warren Buffet test to determine whether you live a blessed life:

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10 months

20% of the population is responsible for... •100% of criminal convictions •99% of govt benefits received •84% of cigarettes smoked •83% of credit card debt •78% of all injuries •67% of fast food consumption •53% of all alcohol consumption •47% of all sex partners

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For those who were wise and instead chose to get some more sleep, here is a PDF of the poster :-) And also here is a link to said poster because I admittedly like my small font:

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Rob Henderson

24 days

Interestingly if you stop recording crimes suddenly crime stats go down.

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Orin Kerr

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The San Francisco police department has basically stopped issuing traffic tickets.

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10 months

Face images computed by averaging people's perceptions of their political out-group. Liberals' perception of conservatives (bottom right) is the one that's "not like the others."

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2 years

Men who can do 40 push-ups or more have a 96 percent reduced risk of heart disease compared with men who could do less than 10 push-ups. Push-ups are a better predictor of whether a man will get heart disease than an aerobic treadmill test.

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How to Master the Push-Up (Published 2022)

With proper technique, you can get the most out of this simple, yet powerful exercise.

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7 months

As much as they supposedly care about oppression, their true north star is power and status.

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Harvard students are legit worried that their open Hamas support will affect future job opportunities with Goldman.

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One reason why working class people resist upward social mobility: many disapprove of the duplicity, savvy self-promotion, and artful deceit required to advance in the world of the upper-middle-class professional.

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7 months

I don't get how people fall for the "intergenerational trauma" meme when up until ten minutes ago every human lived on the edge of death, where disease, predation, violence, and cannibalism were commonplace.

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9 months

Arthur Schopenhauer on the midwit meme:

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Conversation I had last week with a guy I'd just met while traveling. After we exchanged names and basic social niceties: Me "So do you enjoy living here now?" Him "Yeah, it's so much better than when I was staying in Boston." Me "In what way? Him "Well, unlike Boston no…

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In terms of effect on happiness... -Being in good physical health is worth an extra $400K/year -Being married=$100K -Seeing a friend regularly=$100K How nice that cultural and economic elites promote fitness, marriage, & friendship. They clearly want you to be happy.

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2 years

This parolee was then arrested. No emergency declared and they managed to help ruin this guy's life. But at least they got their moment on camera.

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Ford Fischer

2 years

VIDEO THREAD: Yesterday, July 4, activists demanding Joe Biden declare a "Climate Emergency" blocked traffic on he beltway in Maryland, just outside DC. One agitated driver got physical with them while saying that he's on parole and could return to prison if late for his job.

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“Kids.” Many of these protestors are undergrads, many are law and PhD students. All of them are adults. A huge segment of this country faces the full brunt of reality at 18 but if you attend grad school at the richest universites on earth you get to be a kid until your 27th…

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All In with Chris Hayes

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WATCH-- @chrislhayes : It's easier to argue about what college kids are doing than to confront the human misery and destruction that's happening in the actual conflict which is, of course, the source of these protests.

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55% of Ivy League graduates believe that the U.S. "provides too much individual freedom" compared with just 16% of ordinary U.S. voters.

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The clucking about whether Harvard Extension is the real Harvard reminds me of George Orwell in The Road To Wigan Pier explaining how upper middle class snobs "while theoretically pining for a classless society, cling like glue to their miserable fragments of social prestige."

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2 months

People of El Salvador: vote in a landslide to re-elect a president who arrests violent criminals Ivy League professor 3,400 miles away: "as appealing as a Bukele-style crackdown might seem, these punitive campaigns against organized crime come at a serious cost to democracy"

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Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele’s crackdown on street gangs has facilitated a dramatic drop in crime—but it has also come at a serious cost to democracy and human rights, writes @Gustavo_F_M .

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9 months

Some are surprised that 40% of U.S. women have tattoos. A major social class divide. Very few upper and upper middle class women have them. But just about every working class woman under age 40 I know has at least one tattoo. My guess is 70-80% of non-college grad women.

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Rob Henderson

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"Nearly twice as many women are tattooed (39%) as men (21%). This holds true for the rates of both hidden (30.2% vs. 16.7%) and visible tattoos (8.5% vs. 4.1%)."

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9 months

Three interesting findings: 1. People who believe that it's wrong to have children (anti-natalists) are much more likely to score highly on Dark Triad personality traits (psychopathy, narcissism, and Machiavellianism).

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3 interesting findings: 1. Men in cohabiting relationships are just as satisfied in their relationships as married men, but women in cohabiting relationships are much less satisfied than married women.

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10 months

Naturally, rich people will continue to have top-notch doctors and everyone else will get a doctor who got the job due to "disadvantage." Luxury beliefs are ideas and opinions that confer status on the upper class, while inflicting costs on the lower classes.

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The New York Times

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To build a diverse class of students, the medical school at UC Davis ranks applicants by the disadvantages they have faced. The disadvantage scale helped turn UC Davis into one of the most diverse medical schools in the U.S. Can it work nationally?

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10 months

Many upper/upper middle class people have more respect for criminals than for ordinary people working low wage jobs. They consider menial work humiliating and couldn't imagine doing it themselves. But they could easily imagine, in response to such indignities, committing crimes.

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One reason for insane helicopter parenting: Upper middle class parents taught their kids to not judge people based on appearances. But they themselves are well aware appearances matter a lot in predicting whether someone might do you harm. So parents are now forced to provide…

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3 years

A former CIA officer reveals that the most attractive incentive you can give to someone to get them to betray their country and become an informant: Give their children admission to an elite U.S. college

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Step 1: It's not really happening Step 2: Yeah, it's happening, but it's not a big deal Step 3: It's a good thing, actually Step 4: People freaking out about it are the real problem

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In the Soviet Union, facts and figures in the historical record were subject to modification Old Soviet joke: “The future is certain; but the past keeps changing.”

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8 months

A core feature of a luxury belief is that the believer is comfortably insulated from the consequences of his or her belief. Once that insulation dissipates, so does the luxury belief. Meanwhile, thousands of poor people suffer.

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Shivanthi Sathanandan, police hater, just got carjacked by reality

Shivanthi Sathanandan demanded police action after a carjacking, even though the woke Minnesota pol once demanded cops be abolished.

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Rob Henderson

11 months

Something going on with admissions at medical schools. # of Asian admits at UCLA medical school: 2018: 84 2020: 63 2021: 54 And latest data for 2022 reveals only 45 Asians. Nearly cut in half since 2018.

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2 years

When I first arrived at Yale, an undergrad quietly told me “Whatever people say in public, you’ll usually find that in private their views shift about three notches to the right.”

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2 months

Based on internal sales data Troubled should have debuted at #4 on the @nytimes list but wasn’t listed at all. The list is pro-wrestling for intellectuals; everyone knows it’s make-believe but still fall for it. In the mean time, it’s up to all of us to support bold authors.

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Bari Weiss

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BAD THERAPY by @AbigailShrier is the #1 book on all of Amazon. But didn't make the @nytimes bestseller list. 👀 Buy her book. And listen to our conversation here:

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Clarence Thomas’s grandfather (who he called “daddy”) raised him. Had him and his brother work at a farm from sunrise to sunset. Even removed the heater from his truck so the boys wouldn’t grow soft. Thomas later had a son, and describes seeing his grandfather interact with him:

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4 years

% of Americans who say they are better off now than they were 4 years ago Sept 2020: 56 percent Dec 2012: 45 percent Oct 2004: 47 percent Oct 1992: 38 percent July 1984: 44 percent

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8 months

Yes. The whole reason a man should work so hard to become rich and famous is in order to marry a 42 year old woman.

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Do you think Chris Evans (42) marriage to Alba Baptista (26) is problematic due to the 16 year age gap? Are you male or female?

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No one would ask him about where he went to college so he learned to drop Boston enough times until he could finally release this crucial piece of information.

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"Boys, however, can only win by winning in the male hierarchy...Boys can’t (won’t) play truly competitive games with girls. It isn’t clear how they can win. As the game turns into a girls’ game, therefore, the boys leave."

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BOOK COVER REVEAL "In this raw coming-of-age memoir, Rob Henderson vividly recounts growing up in foster care, enlisting in the US Air Force, attending elite universities, and pioneering the concept of 'luxury beliefs'—ideas and opinions that confer status on the upper class…

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2 years

With @jordanbpeterson and @MrAndyNgo

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"'IQ tests don’t predict anything important.' That’s absolutely true—so long as you don’t think grades, jobs, money, health, or longevity are important...intelligence test scores are highly correlated with just about every outcome human beings care about"

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You’re sitting in your living room. Roommate asks you to stand up, walk once around your chair, and sit back down. Says, “It’ll make me feel safer.” You don’t. Roommate starts crying. “Why not? It’s such a simple act.” His friends shout “Just do it! Why are you hurting him?”

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2 years

Dark triad personality traits (psychopathy, narcissism, Machiavellianism) correlate with victim signaling (e.g., the extent to which people agree that they have “Disclosed that I don’t feel accepted in society because of my identity") at r = .52

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New study suggests people with dark personalities weaponize victimhood to gain advantage over others

New research provides evidence that narcissism, psychopathy, and Machiavellianism -- maladaptive personality traits known as the "Dark Triad" -- are

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Sowell writes that before he was scheduled to debate Kenneth Arrow (Nobel prize winning economist), someone asked him if he was nervous because Arrow was so smart. Sowell replied "I don't mind debating smart people. It's debating stupid people that's hard"

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Lessons I Learned From Thomas Sowell’s Memoir

Notes on A Personal Odyssey

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"depending on skin tone, sexual orientation, or religious views, Ivy Leaguers earning 5 times the median income may be categorized as oppressed. Conversely, janitors may be considered, within the intersectionality matrix, to be irredeemable oppressors."

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The Moral Decline of Elite Universities

Too much of academia cares little for universal human dignity, leaves no space for forgiveness, and exhibits no interest in shared progress.

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Luxury beliefs are ideas and opinions that confer status on the upper class while inflicting costs on the lower classes.

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Lots of discussion at the sexual revolution debate about whether the revolution failed men, or failed women, or helped men more than women, or helped women more than men. Nobody asked whether the sexual revolution failed children. People already know. Too depressing a topic.

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"I have never understood why it is greed to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money." —Thomas Sowell

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The dating market is also a modern novelty. Your grandparents met someone in their neighborhood, got married, and made it work. In poor countries, marriage rates are higher; people rely on one another for survival. Not so in rich countries, so you can remain single indefinitely.

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It's funny how young women complain about how bad the dating market is AND young men complain about how bad the dating market is. And they're both right. It's garbage. Perhaps modern men and women are just not as good as they used to be and/or have unrealistic expectations.

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“Kids.” A huge segment of this country faces the full brunt of reality at 18 but if you attend grad school at the richest university on earth you get to be a kid until your 27th birthday.

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Vivek Ramaswamy

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The Harvard student groups who co-signed the anti-Israel letter are simple fools. But it’s not productive for companies to blacklist kids for being members of student groups that make dumb political statements on campus. Colleges are spaces for students to experiment with ideas &…

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"There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.”

Text of J.K. Rowling's speech — Harvard Gazette

Call it magic, but the rain held off while Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling delivered the keynote address this afternoon (June 5) at Harvard University’s annual meeting of the Harvard Alumni...

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9 months

But nobody wants to admit that the collapse of the family has been terrible for children. Instead, we retreat to discussions of poverty and economics because talking about family and parenting makes people feel weird and judgmental.

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The average high school graduate in the 1960s was as intelligent as the average college graduate today.

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3 years

“early Roman aristocracy was more likely to be killed in wars than the average citizen...wealthy classes were the first to volunteer extra taxes when needed...officers and centurions (but not common soldiers!) served without pay...the greatest burden was placed on the wealthy”

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People ask if these recent tragedies contradict the luxury beliefs concept. No. For every 1 upper middle class person killed, 20 poor people you never hear about are murdered. You never hear about them. They don’t get identified by name in the media.Their stories don’t get told.

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"You can’t cite the Daily Mail. You can’t cite Fox News on socio-political issues either. It’s banned. So what does that mean? It means that if a controversy does not appear in the mainstream centre-Left media, then it’s not going to appear on Wikipedia."

Wikipedia co-founder: I no longer trust the website I created

Chances are, if you’ve ever been on the internet, you’ve visited Wikipedia. It is the world’s fifth largest website, pulling in an estimated 6.1 billion followers per month and serves as a cheat...

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Successful people tell the world they got lucky and tell their kids about the importance of hard work and sacrifice.

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"It is easier for a working-class kid to pick up an SAT prep book and study it intensively than to go on a community-service trip to South America, play travel lacrosse, or flatter the sensibilities of an upper-middle-class admissions official"

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Why Elite Colleges Do Affirmative Action for the Rich

Rich alumni are worth more.

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IQ is 60-80% heritable. Among scientists who study intelligence, this is a completely unremarkable and uncontroversial finding.

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Jesse Singal

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The New Yorker, on Jon Haidt: "He has been beset by a troubling fixation on the heritability of I.Q.—a contention widely dismissed as scientific racism" This is completely false. The heritability of intelligence is accepted by mainstream researchers. The debate is over *race*.

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Rob Henderson

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1. You are what you do. Not what you say or what you believe. People use words to strategically justify their actions and blind you to who they really are. Don't be fooled by cheap talk. Pay close attention to how people actually spend their time and effort.

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Rob Henderson

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"Interestingly, we don’t resent the royal family, nor do we resent people who win the lottery. We resent people who earned their riches...we are subconsciously resentful that that person is making us look bad"

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Elon Musk Is Better Than You

People are complaining about Elon Musk more than usual after his takeover of Twitter. At first, people complained that he was wasting money, since he could have instead solved world hunger for a...

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3 years

“84% of working women told ForbesWoman that staying home to raise children is a financial luxury they aspire to...more than 1 in 3 resent their partner for not earning enough to make that dream a reality.”

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Is 'Opting Out' The New American Dream For Working Women?

84% of working women told ForbesWoman and TheBump.com that staying home to raise children is a financial luxury they aspire to. what's more, more than one in three resent their husbands for not...

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Rob Henderson

6 months

Fat woman takes Ozempic to lose weight. She is surprised to discover her thin friends support her and her fat friends judge her. Normal healthy people want their friends to triumph, an alien mentality for those who find comfort in dragging others down.

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Rob Henderson

3 years

A few years ago I read about how Rousseau abandoned his 5 children to an orphanage, where most died before reaching adulthood. Then Rousseau wrote about ethics while failing to apply those principles to himself. Discovering this snapped a lot of puzzle pieces into place for me

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Rob Henderson

1 year

While Marx's wife was pregnant, he impregnated their housemaid. To hide this from Marx's wife so she wouldn't get angry, Engels pretended he was the father. Then they gave the kid away. Both Marx and Engels abandoned him, pretending the kid didn't exist.

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Rob Henderson

1 year

“Marx lived the life of a parasite. When his wife was pregnant, suddenly the maid became pregnant too—Marx was the father. Marx wrote to Engels ‘Dear friend, I have news for you about yourself.’ He hoped Engels would assume paternity of the child, so Mrs. Marx would not be angry"

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Rob Henderson

1 year

Best books I read in 2022 1. The Daily Laws @robertgreene "long term goals tend to generate anxiety...break tasks into smaller bites...have microgoals..what you are after is a series of practical results and accomplishments, not a list of unrealized dreams and aborted projects"

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Rob Henderson

2 years

The best books I read in 2021 1. Envy by Helmut Schoeck "Envy is above all a phenomenon of social proximity...Envy is always between neighbors. The envious man thinks that if his neighbor breaks his leg, he will be able to walk better himself."

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Rob Henderson

4 years

"more attractive individuals are more likely to identify as conservative and Republican than less physically attractive citizens...results are consistent across datasets and persist when controlling for socioeconomic status and demographics"

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Rob Henderson

3 months

“The general public believed the average profit margin made by American corporations to be 46.7%, while the actual average that year was just 3%.”

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Rolf Degen

4 months

Humans have an inbuilt, anti-capitalist tendency to fundamentally dismiss trading relationships as a form of scam where the seller profits disproportionately.

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Rob Henderson

1 year

People raised by divorced parents described experience that individuals raised in a single house don’t understand/consider.

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Rob Henderson

2 months

A real head scratcher.

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Rob Henderson

18 days

It's unfair to make someone pay off a loan they signed up for. But it's perfectly fair to make others pay off a loan they didn't sign up for.

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Karol Markowicz

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750,000 of households receiving loan payoffs from Biden are making over $312,000. From @NellieBowles :

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Rob Henderson

2 years

What men really want, according to 18th century Scottish philosopher Adam Ferguson:

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Rob Henderson

8 months

In continental Europe and Asia it’s not uncommon to see attractive people working ordinary service jobs—airport staff, drivers, security guards, etc. Seems like in the US (and UK) hot people quickly figure out how to capitalize on their looks or maybe there is a greater economic…

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Rob Henderson

5 years

Children living with both biological parents Affluent families in 1960: 95% Working class families in 1960: 95% Affluent families in 2005: 85% Working class families in 2005: 30%

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Rob Henderson

3 years

% who support defunding the police Income less than $50K: 22% Income $50-100K: 23% Income more than $100K: 32% Luxury beliefs are ideas and opinions that confer status on the upper class, while taking a toll on the lower classes

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Rob Henderson

4 years

When people say “there’s no such thing as cancel culture” it reminds me of season 1 episode 5 when Tony Soprano tells his daughter “There is no mafia.”

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Rob Henderson

3 years

"boys raised in a single-parent household were more than twice as likely to be incarcerated, compared with boys raised in an intact, married home, even after controlling for differences in parental income, education, race, and ethnicity."

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No, Kids Raised by Single Moms Don’t Do as Well

At first glance, I might qualify as the poster boy for Katie Roiphe’s recent Slate article defending single mothers and their children. Raised by a...

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Rob Henderson

1 month

"the mediocrity trap: situations that are bad-but-not-too-bad keep you forever in their orbit...Terrible situations, once exited, often become funny stories or proud memories. Mediocre situations, long languished in, simply become Lost Years"

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So you wanna de-bog yourself

What I found in the mire

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Rob Henderson

1 year

% of Asian Americans who feel that they belong and are accepted in the U.S., by age Ages 65+: 51% 55-64: 38% 35-54: 31% 25-34: 27% 18-24: 19%

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Rob Henderson

2 years

Study says men are generally taller than women but I’m confused because my aunt sally is taller than my uncle jimbo

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