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To be fair, none of those 180 people, if they had lived, would have cared if I died. 150,000 people die each day, of whom 50,000 die of causes not labelled as “age related causes”.…

You could well be right, maybe Iran’s air defences are on a par with Syria’s. I’ve suddenly realised something important — I’m commenting on important issues based on nothing but i…

If casualties are zero, we can laugh it off as an impotent hissy fit by an incompetent adversary. If casualties are non-zero, the President will be obliged to carry out his “52 tar…

As always, thinking about flat Earthism is a terrible exercise for your brain. The fact that a few people exist who are utterly and obviously wrong about something, and that you’re…

Counteranecdote: I made a fake account for work purposes (needed to look at certain things on Facebook that you can only see while logged in, and didn’t want to use my personal acc…

Is anyone aware of any compelling evidence that these fires were meaningfully worsened by climate change?

Given that most Chinese know perfectly well that theyand their families will wind up dead or in a concentration camp if they express dissent, in what way is it useful to ask them w…

Pretty easy to get the “consent of the governed” when you kill anyone who comes close to expressing dissent.

I’m guessing you’re not an Uyghur?

Bushfires haven’t got any worse over the decades, but the writing about them sure as shit has.

Good. The Chinese people won’t rise up against their government until the economic (relatively) good times end. What can we as citizens do to help?

Sure, in the same way that trying to build a ladder to the moon might eventually lead to inventing rocketry.

Money terrible spent, just another billion poured down the drain on inefficient renewable energy technologies that would have been much better spent developing better technologies.…

If people choose to give their money to others, then that’s fine. The problem with society is that it is taken from us against our will.

What’s really odd is that this is an article at all. In a world where billions of things happen every day, how does a garden-variety franchisee contract dispute in Japan become an …

Yes, which gives you an idea of what the standards of rigour in the field of psychology are like.

I would say there’s no evidence whatsoever which would tell us whether CA was more or less effective than any other agency might have been.

Investment idea: build a bunch of projectors that fool orbiting satellites into reading empty parking lots as full, then short retailers’ stocks at earnings time, knowing that all …

If this were really true, you’d expect to see most people with full freedom to set their own hours gravitate towards that 30-hour mark. Professors working 30-hour weeks would write…

As a pretty good estimate, roughly zero? Do you have any proposed mechanism for how Australia’s coal production would lead to increased property losses, aside from the very margina…

My solution: “Thanks for posting your review on goodreads! As a final step, please enter the fourth word on page 93 of the book you’ve just reviewed”

Personally, I buy the big brand name drugs over generics for the somewhat-rational reason that I trust the quality control and deep pockets of a Johnson and Johnson or GlaxoSmithKl…

I still remain unconvinced that was really “Russia” (as opposed to, say, some bored Russian teens). The reason for my skepticism is the crappy podunk nature of the leaked material.…

Since having kids I’ve been realising that a lot of the things in life that other people do, that have never made sense to me, suddenly make a whole lot more sense in the context o…

Lawns are aesthetically pleasing to humans. It has been widely observed that humans, having adapted to life in the African savannah, have a tendency to turn everything into an idea…