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What in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support; That to the highth of this great Argument I may assert th’ Eternal Providence, And justifie the wayes of God to men.

Interesting how our leaders see their role not as representing our interests, but in shaping our interests. There exists an entire subject in political science dealing with how to …

Macroscopic politics is a phenomenon in its own right. Something that should be studied like one would study chemistry or physics. No one person or party controls the course of eve…

A population of ignorant and illiterate peasants is great for maximizing political capital. They are receptive to propaganda. They are an energetic bloc of voters. They know someth…

All that brilliance and knowledge, used to get vulnerable, suggestible teenagers addicted to mind-numbing, anxiety-inducing media. The shame of software engineers is that we have b…

No offense but the logo looks disgusting.

Looks like we have some old timers in here

> If there is not enough of a flow of cooling water, the rods can overheat, and the entire facility is at risk for a nuclear meltdown. This is not true. Water is the moderator in a…

The GDP of Singapore is around $340 billion. Goldman Sachs manages $2.5 trillion dollars worth of assets.

Of course I want the gay people in Singapore to flourish. That's not what I'm saying. What I'm saying is that it is illegitimate for private companies to use their vast wealth to i…

What you're saying is effectively: "But we're right and they're wrong, so I don't care." Everyone thinks they're right about what they believe in, especially moral beliefs. The pur…

> Goldman Sachs partners had something to say about this law Don't you think it's absurd that an investment bank has influence over a country's social policy? For all the cheerlead…

Safetyism in regards to nuclear power is nothing more than the environmental lobby attempting to derail the only viable solution to climate change. They will lose an excellent sour…

Love the idea, will definitely try it out. One bit of feedback I want to give is: when I'm answering questions on the iPhone app, there's a dialog that shoots up from the bottom...…

This is the kind of subject where your typical engineer, who took 10s of high level math and science courses, who proudly carries the torch of empiricism and scientific skepticism,…

They burnt through all the cultural capital they had by spending it on short-term political victories. Now people see the media not as a source of information, but as an instrument…

At this rate, Europe will become 2nd world by the end of the century. Instead of focusing on innovation and competition in the global market, Europeans are busy legislating their f…

> Environmental review has become a tool of environmental extremist militants to derail and progress in energy. Hmm... I wonder why they are so bent on blocking the only viable sol…

No a/b testing?

right, because people who live in small towns are known for their knowledge of electromagnetism

Because the elites are a bunch of right-wingers, right?

Yes. Nuclear Is a threat to socialists/environmentalists because it would deprive them of an excellent source of political capital. Namely, the justifications required to artificia…

For years, fraudulent “academics” have pushed phony concepts like “white empiricism”, and no one aside from far-right types, hungry for ammunition to use against their ideological …

makes you wonder what’s so threatening about religion that they want to ban it… maybe because in totalitarian systems, the state is the source of moral truth?

Vitamin C and Ivermectin aren't experimental. I'm not against the vaccine, but to say that an emergency approved drug is as circumspect as older drugs (e.g. Ivermectin was approved…