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Harvard loses no time in calling attention to the loophole saying they will comply with it.

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There was a superb study of honesty around the world in 2019. Leave 17,000 wallets (with contact email) containing various sums of money in 355 cities across 40 countries. Would finders email the owner? The result: rates of honesty vary a LOT.

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Journalists increased their use of the term "white supremacy" by 2,862% between 2010 and 2019 across 47 news outlets. This level of social contagion is pathological.

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"NO evidence" Singapore drug use death rate: 0.26 per 100k. USA drug use death rate: 21.28 per 100k. NO. evidence.

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Two people are due to be executed in #Singapore this week for drug-related offences. There's NO evidence that the death penalty has any impact on the use and availability of drugs. The death penalty must end everywhere.

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Fertility rate keeps dropping in the Nordic countries. I guess gender parity, welfare state, & public childcare is not the solution to the fertility crisis.

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Fertility in the Nordics keeps falling. What was earlier a rather gradual decline has accelerated in 2022. Inconsistent with explanations when societal gender regimes are the primary explanatory factor for cross-national differences in fertility.

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French opinion on the rioters: 78% no impunity for minors 77% financial punishment against parents 75% strip dual nationals of French citizenship 71% reduce migration 69% cut social media during riots

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Anna Krylov, a chemistry professor, has published several pieces on how left/woke ideology is undermining science. Here's her latest. She gives examples of four main issues: 1. Policing of language. Ever longer list of forbidden words like "healthy weight".

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China paid for a shiny new National Library in El Salvador. It has very few books. It does have a Harry Potter section, a LEGO section, a Star Wars section, Pokemon stuff, video game consoles, a VR area, and lots of couches. You can't fake high human capital.

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How racial groups rate themselves and others

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Remarkable and high-quality Swedish study: If men win the lottery, they marry and have children. If women win the lottery, their fertility does not rise. (Indeed, low-income women get divorced.) You might think more resources means more kids. Yes with men, not with women.

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This will be fascinating information. The Sweden Democrats made the government agree to calculate and report the costs of immigrants from different countries. It will be done by the Swedish National Institute of Economic Research. Economists are supposed to be interested in…

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Vilka invandrare är värst? Tidöpartierna ska reda ut frågan: "Tidö 2.0" läggs fram. Invandringens kostnader ska räknas ut – och redovisas efter härkomst.

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Settler colonialism is trending. Some current examples. 🧵 1. China. Settled loyal Han in disloyal Xinjiang (from 90s). Settled 1m loyal mainlanders in disloyal Hong Kong. A road across Xinjiang's Taklamakan desert China built to entice settlers.

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Twentieth century anthropologists: we completely reject the idea of martial races and warrior peoples. It is a stereotype that reflects harmful assumptions of ethnic hierarchy. Chechens: we completely reject the idea of twentieth century anthropology.

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Percent of students that are virgins, by Wellesley major. (Wellesley being an elite women's college.)

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This is one for all those who say poverty is the root of crime. India is poor, but homicide is low.

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Map of homicide rates in 4 countries and Europe. (map by u/XDescen)

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The best scenario for Gaza was to become a self-governing Charter City on the shores of the Mediterranean: a hub for commerce, airlines, tourism. Be nice to Israel, work hard, create a beautiful city. Instead they chose resentment, dreams of vengeance and genocide. Why?

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Two conclusions: (1) In recent times, the vast majority of settler colonialism has been in the non-Western world. (2) But it gets little attention because it is "brown-on-brown". If whites aren't involved, it's invisible.

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"The court also ruled that colleges and universities may consider ... 'an applicant's discussion of how race affected his or her life, be it through discrimination, inspiration, or otherwise.' We will certainly comply with the Court's decision." Or, "they gave us a loophole!"

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El Salvador's President Bukele has 88% approval. This one weird trick: he rounded up 1% of the population and put them in prison. What if Mexico put 1.3M people in prison? Haiti?

Inside El Salvador's brutal gang crackdown

Bukele's violation of human rights is winning votes

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Canada is a fascinating experiment in high immigration. Non-homeowners have suffered greatly from rising rent. Income per person is stagnating.

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The birthplaces of Nobel Physics Prize laureates.

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El Salvador's Nayib Bukele must be the most remarkable political leader of the current moment. 94% approval rating. The absolute madman now says he will charge prisoners for food in prisons -- after he led a mass arrest of 60,000 criminals.

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No economic growth in South Africa for the last 15 years. A new report on the main proximate cause: useless state-owned enterprises that fail to maintain electricity, rail, roads, ports and water/sanitation.

Harvard's Growth Lab

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Our report summarizing the findings of our two-year engagement research in #SouthAfrica is out! This thread highlights its main points. 1/12🧵 🔗

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Despite full Maoist Communism in China, descendants of former landlords and rich peasants today earn 16% more than descendants of others. They couldn't inherit wealth from grandparents, parents were barred from university in Cultural Revolution, but they inherited something

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Chinese money builds a warehouse for Western and Japanese pop culture franchises. Seems to encapsulate something about the world.

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A decade ago there was a dubious academic study claiming evidence that wealthy people are selfish and greedy. Academia loved it! 1300 citations! Journalists too: it got reported in the news. Now there has been pre-registered replication. Guess the result ...

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Zemm's clever baby bonus policy: 10,000 euros per baby, but only to families in rural areas. Nothing for the urbanites who hate him. Politics is about rewarding your supporters.

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Je mettrai en place une bourse de naissance de 10 000 € par enfant né dans une commune rurale. Comparez ce montant aux 50 000 € dépensés chaque année par mineur isolé clandestin ! #HDPros

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The Great Decarceration. Most people are unaware that incarceration rates have fallen a lot in recent years. The black incarceration rate fell by 35% in 2006-2018.

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The World Bank has developed a rating of how well governments collect statistics. About what you would expect. Many countries are incapable of gathering proper info. Others are capable, but dislike telling the truth (China, Argentina).

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Brave Swedish PhD researcher investigates how Islamists linked to the Muslim Brotherhood operate in Sweden. But Ethics Review board doesn't like it. Asks the public prosecutor's office to investigate and charge him with a crime! Apparently, he didn't get their permission to…

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It took the "stupid" Sweden Democrats to force the "smart" economists to recognize the obvious: immigrants are heterogeneous. Different ethnicities have have different costs and benefits.

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Anna Krylov grew up in the USSR. Similar kinds of ideological abuse of science are now happening in the West.

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New study using fictitious job applications in Sweden. Men applying in female-dominated occupations are discriminated against. Women applying in male-dominated occupations are not. HR is dominated by feminist women. They are the gatekeepers.

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3. Suppression of viewpoints and research results. Paper retractions, censorship of valid research. E.g. in 2022, Nature Human Behaviour (NHB) published an editorial stating that the journal will not publish valid research that the editors consider ‘harmful’ to groups.

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2. Rewriting the history of science. More and more scientists having their names stricken from buildings, textbooks, awards, etc. Some examples:

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Philosophy of science: now that AI can recognize gay face, such research should be censored. Woke: physiognomy is false. Bespoke: physiognomy is true, but cannot be allowed.

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All countries in South America have become richer over the past 40 years -- except the socialist paradise of Venezuela. (Note: Guyana discovered oil and is now very wealthy.) IMF estimates.

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New paper: before the Counter-Reformation, Catholic and Protestant cities had comparable numbers of scientists per capita. Afterwards, Catholic cities experienced a persistent relative decline. Counter-Reformation's search for heresy was a negative shock to science.

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@TheRabbitHole84 The thing that never happens does happen

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Where Physics Nobel Prize winners were born

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2. Indonesia. Settled about 300k loyal Javanese in West Papua. Many around the giant Grasberg gold and copper mine, which had been a target of attacks by Papuan independence activists.

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4. Replacing merit-based publication by quotas for editors, authors, reviewers, ‘citation justice’, etc. E.g. Royal Society of Chemistry journals have a target quota of 36% of women editors and reviewers.

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New study of white residential choice in US and UK. White liberals in US and UK choose to move to whiter areas as much as conservatives. Progressives vote for diversity but don't practice what they preach.

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If Russia conquers Ukraine, or China conquers Taiwan, we can be sure that they will try to settle loyalists in their new territories.

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Journalists increased their use of the term "transphobia" by 4,669% between 2010 and 2019 across 47 news outlets. Have we ever seen a craze like this before?

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The town which voted 99% for Trump in 2020: per capita income $9k (that's India on a PPP basis); 8-10 children per family; median age 13 (nationally 38); 40% on food stamps.

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3. Morocco. Sent settlers to Western Sahara, which it has occupied since 1975. One source says Moroccans are now a majority of the half-million or so population.

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The three stages: Stage 1: HBD cannot be true! Stage 2: Let us hope HBD is not true! Stage 3: Let us ensure that HBD will not become generally known!

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A baby bump is happening. Cautiously optimistic that the advent of remote work makes it much easier for educated women to combine babies and jobs. If so, we have stumbled upon a partial amelioration of dysgenics.

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"In 1950 the global average genotypic IQ was around 94. Currently, it is around 85 and by the end of the century, it will be 74." Top priority to figure out what is to be done about this.

Dysgenics by the Numbers

Quantifying the Fall of Civilization

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In a coin toss, what's the chance of getting two heads in a row? Someone had the brilliant idea of asking politicians. 77% of UK Labour MPs didn't know, only 23% did. It was about half and half with Conservatives.

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Hilarious that Muslim governments don't care about China's war on Islam in Xinjiang but go ape over some random in Sweden who burns a book.

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BREAKING: Iraq expels Sweden's ambassador over Quran-burning protests

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Lesson: we know much of academia's output on race, sex, and sexuality is not to be trusted. Same is true on class.

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The Star Wars section

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New paper on current natural selection. Correlation between 33 polygenic scores and each person's number of children across two generations (in 400k Britons from UKBiobank). Modern society is selecting for bad traits and selecting against good traits. Sad!

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The rest of the statement reiterates and repeats the credo: "people of many backgrounds, perspectives, and lived experiences" "diversity and difference" "a vibrant community whose members come from all walks of life"

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New paper on national differences in time preference. Combines many different measures (e.g. survey questions and field studies), standardizes them and extracts a common factor. Blue: people on average wait for future rewards Red: people on average want immediate gain

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Academia encourages students to be self-righteous, morally superior, indignant, sanctimonious. The faces show indignation. (To the idea that families sticking together is a good thing.)

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Swahili coast people are genetically Persian men + African women. NYT today has a story. Older histories of the coast up to about the 1960s inferred this correctly. How many times have we seen this? Older histories (dismissed as "racial") proven basically correct.

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Now a replication in China, with two measures of honesty: -did finder email owner? 27% -did owner recover the wallet after visiting the institution they were dropped a week later? 70% with full contents Seems like China is more honest than in the original study.

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West Papuans are not pleased.

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Immigrant Nation: 4000BC Early Farmers immigrate and replace 99% of previous people; 2500BC Indo-European migrants replace 90% of them; 900BC Celts replace 50%; 400AD Anglo-Saxons replace 40%.

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Hilarious how Turks in Europe vote for the socialists in their adoptive country and for the Islamist back in the motherland. (Overseas Turks are allowed to vote in Turkish elections.)

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King of Twitter

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"two direct, well-powered, and preregistered replications of the field studies by Piff and colleagues (2012) ... we find no evidence of a positive relationship between SES and unethical/selfish behavior"

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Ethnic Chinese in SE Asia: about 3% of the population but 70% of the billionaires. Which explanation of this is most humane and reasonable? 1. Woke: "systemic racism" in SE Asia. 2. Socialist: Chinese are greedy exploiters. 3. IQ-hereditarian: human capital differences.

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This may help explain why some child subsidies (like cheap daycare or child benefits paid to the mother) do little or nothing to boost a country's fertility.

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This says Chinese are ambivalent: feel superior to Africans but inferior to the West. Claims it's because Chinese learned "white supremacy" from the West. My take: East Asians are materialistic. They respect those who are wealthy, and look down on those who are poor.

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6. Iraq. In the 1960s to 2003, Iraq had a policy of Arabization of Kurdish areas. It burned Kurdish villages, deported the people, and settled Arabs, especially around the oil fields.

Ba'athist Arabization campaigns in northern Iraq - Wikipedia

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The ideology of journalists -- as measured by who they follow on Twitter. Huge tilt to the Left, as expected. Far to the Left of the average Twitter user. pdf

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Apparently, 137 million Africans face acute food insecurity. (I doubt anyone can know the exact number, but let's say 100+ million.) What amazes me is that the West set up a vast system of logistics that keeps all these people from starving.

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The four big population replacements in Britain. Anatolian farmers 4000BC: 99% Steppe pastoralists 2500BC: 90% Celts 900BC: 50% Saxons 400AD: 40%

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This is hilarious. Countries (in the post-Soviet zone) with obese politicians are more corrupt.

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Who could forget the classic OKCupid findings on how men and women of different races rate each other for attractiveness. Long ago deleted, but archived by Gwern

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Who led the way? NYT journalists increased their usage of "white supremacy" by 4,196% WaPo journalists by 5,913%.

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@jburnmurdoch March 2020, scientists publish a paper in Nature Medicine denying the lab origin theory of COVID even though they themselves (it now emerges) believed it was likely true. In other words, they lied. Is it rational to trust these scientists?

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"Leaked messages..show..the 'proximal origin” paper..was the product of..a conspiracy and was intended to mislead the public about..origins of Covid.[T]he..messages show..all..the authors..expressed the exact opposite views of the conclusions in..paper."

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Countries further from the equator tend to be more democratic. Why?

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Source: Prevalence of Prejudice-Denoting Words in News Media Discourse

Prevalence of Prejudice-Denoting Words in News Media Discourse

Summary of manuscript “Prevalence of Prejudice-Denoting Words in News Media Discourse: A Chronological Analysis”

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Nothing Orwellian about this ...

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4. Bangladesh. After defeating an insurgency (1970s-90s) by the local ethnic group in the Chittagong Hills, Bangladesh settled loyal Bengalis in the area.

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This was their "evidence": They paid some student assistants to observe if upper-class cars wait their turn at a 4-way intersection. Apparently, some don't. They didn't say how their students coded what is an upper-class person's car!

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My snobbery about books may have led me astray. See this:

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@whyvert The video games are to draw kids in to read books In order to play 1 hour of video games you need to read 1 book and successfully answer a quiz on the content

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Maybe we need a society, as was the case in the baby boom, where men have sufficient resources to marry and reproduce.

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In Africa, it's easy to find outsiders to drill some wells. The hard part is maintaining the wells for years afterwards.

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holy shit mrbeast just built a 100 wells in africa

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Political irony alert: since the MeToo campaign people are now ... more doubtful of sexual harassment allegations.

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1960s-2015 archaeologists: NOOOOOOO!!!! YOU CAN'T POSIT MASSIVE INVASIONS BY ARYANS FROM THE STEPPES CONQUERED AND GENOCIDED BRONZE AGE EUROPE!!! 2015: hahaha DNA sequencer go brrrr

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Link (open access): Critical Social Justice Subverts Scientific Publishing

Critical Social Justice Subverts Scientific Publishing | European Review | Cambridge Core

Critical Social Justice Subverts Scientific Publishing - Volume 31 Issue 5

www.cambridge.org

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Women on average have a double standard: men's infidelity is worse than women's. Liberal women have a considerably larger double standard than conservative women.

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One option for Israel is to do what China is doing to the Uyghurs. The Muslim world and the whole Third World is OK with what China's doing. So should be no problem! Internment camps, destroy all mosques, sterilization, indoctrination.

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5. Sri Lanka. During the civil war (1983-2009), the Sri Lanka government settled Sinhalese in Tamil areas as a loyal bulwark.

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The protests seem to be animated more by anti-white than anti-semitic feelings. E.g: --Telling Israelis to "go back to Europe". --Equating Israel with whiteness, settler colonialism, and white supremacy. --Plus: they hotly deny being anti-semitic.

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Coincidentally, Long COVID affects people prone to neuroticism and mental instability.

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Mass migration makes housing expensive. Expensive housing depresses fertility. Low fertility means mass migration is needed. Long term doom loop. That's what you get for all that immigration.

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So what is Canada getting for all that immigration anyway?

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@francis_scarr What a colossal blunder for the West to allow Ukraine to lose momentum and enable Putin to gain the momentum.

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Funny how IQ either exists or doesn't exist, depending on tribal feelings. This guy's bio says author, TV writer, Obama WH alum.

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One of the effective altruist policies was Europe's turn in the late middle ages towards executing criminals. Homicide rate plummeted. The pool of violent men dried up. Effective long-termist altruism making the life of succeeding generations far better.

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Recent human evolution: A gene variant that aids metabolism of plant-food into essential fats is much higher in traditionally vegetarian Indians. Present in 70% of South Asians, 53% of Africans, 29% of East Asians, and 17% of Europeans. (Euros need to avoid veganism)

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New race science arising from the humanities

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Populations differ in patience. Anglos + Northlings are patient. Russians are more impatient that I would have thought, if this measure is correct.

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International Mathematical Olympiad upcoming in Japan in July. This is the New Zealand squad. I wonder what the US, Canadian, Australian, etc, teams look like.

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