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Christian or apparently anything else; the specific religion doesn't seem all that relevant actually (which says some things about religion I think). I suppose I am currently mildl…

Interestingly, in other contexts I've heard people say that equality of outcome is an unwelcome suppression of meritocracy.

I believe the biggest correlate is actually religion, and I've suspected for some time now that Nietzsche was really onto it quite early with the whole "Death of God" thing. That s…

In those 11 years fertility has fallen near universally. Speaking as a millennial, I never saw my career as a means towards changing the world or some life mission driven by passio…

Perhaps lower and middle class people want upper middle class children.

What if girls’ biological differences predispose them towards success in educational institutions? Then we need some sort of specialized education in order to provide the boys more…

What does it mean to “fix” school/college?

> we finally start recognizing that men too can be victims of systemic issues. This has always been known to at least some. There are reasons that the left pushes for universal hea…

If we're in a simulation, there's no reason that other beings couldn't have also arisen within the simulation with us.

I'll note that both your options there end in rejection.

Perhaps we could call it putting your best self forward to make a good first impression? The advice I've often seen is to treat a date like a job interview - is full honesty expect…

I live with them rent-free so it would probably go against my own interest as well to force them out via pricing.

Would you have dated her at all if she had been honest about how miserable she is up front? If her inherent personality is just miserable, then how else is she supposed to navigate…

Old people in Texas get their property taxes frozen I believe at 65. But honestly it might be better for them to downsize into something more appropriate and perhaps free up the la…

I once awoke to see a large spider running away from me on my bed. I was a bit displeased with that until I learned that they hunt roaches. I figured if it was running away from me…

I don't know that hydrogen was a "scam" per se - I think of fuel cells as essentially an alternative battery technology. It wasn't clear 20-30 years ago that lithium batteries woul…

You see, this even has echos of Red Scare era hysteria. It's hardly anything novel.

You’ve read far more into my comment than I wrote.

Again, for as long as Hollywood has existed, it has been excoriated by conservatives as a din of leftist libertines (and not without at least a bit of reason on occasion). Before t…

Corporations were also engineered to be un-killable. The way to reach them is to go after the people who run them. Obviously, if that’s the analogy, then the miners are quite secur…

Reminds me of Adam Nuemann's ambition to be the world's first trillionaire.

If you've ever watched the extended edition of T2 (which I can mostly recommend), it actually gives quite a bit more development to Miles Dyson that shows him as a nerdy, focused f…

What's funny is that any time I've suggested increasing taxes on the rich, I hear how I'm jealous and really I should be thankful for the incredible standard of living that I have …

I have to admit I’d love to go to a wedding with realistic vows. I’d imagine something like, “I promise to love and cherish you until such time as it becomes inconvenient or I get …

Perhaps we can derive the core beliefs of the Republican party from their 2020 platform. Given that that is how political parties typically express such things, it seems reasonable…