I've spent a fair amount of time in the developing world, at one point for about half a year living out of a tent in a climate where it is rarely much...
31% of US Coronavirus deaths are from people over 85, 58% over 75, 80% over 65. Just 6,900 under 45. Whatever effects the virus will have, it won't di...
Does their expansion into Central Asia count? Tajiks, Chechens, and Uzbeks were their own peoples, so I would argue that those are obvious examples of...
Based on your pro-Nazi screed earlier, I assume you'd do better at /pol/ or 8kun, lovely places I got to observe at my old job, no beta cuck simps at ...
Why is that? It certainly took over a lot of area from sovereign peoples, extracted resources, and peopled them with its own demographic. If the US wa...
That's how people here in Kentucky see it for sure. In reality, dense coastal states pay significantly more in federal taxes than they get in back in ...
American imperialism in its Manifest Destiny form in North America wasn't particularly more benign than any European project. Arguably the only differ...
The "largest witch hunt in history," by Presidential declaration actually. It's interesting to compare to the old record holder: the Würzburg witch tr...
I too recall the part in the Holocaust where the reasonable Nazis said "enough is enough." If only BLM was as reasonable. Alas, the battle is lost for...
Interesting thread. I had sort of a "symbol" kick over the summer, starting with Jung and other Jungians, which led me to Guenon on the one hand and p...
No, not an ascended being such as myself. But let me tell you, I once worked with people who would eat co-workers' lunches straight out of the fridge....
Ha, funny considering humans show a remarkable amount of neoteny compared to other great apes. We basically look like adolescent versions of past homi...
I was thinking "wealthy in comparison to the people they colonized." The English were vastly more advanced technologically, economically, and organiza...
Cheaper to prosecute at least. The American prison system is horrendously expensive and also ineffective on terms of recidivism, undercutting more glo...
I think it's dangerous to fall into the trap of "differences between group outcomes = discrimination." For example: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EJde8C...
Neuropath, a short thriller by R. Scott Bakker. It's about a neurologist serial killer and incorporates a lot of interesting neuroscience findings int...
How is On Tyranny? I read Snyder's Blood Lands and I thought it was excellently presented and researched, although I didn't finish it (I had just fini...
The 92% conviction rate is because only 2% of cases go to trial. Additionally, if a person faces multiple charges, but are found innocent of all but o...
Speaking of affidavits, there are three sworn ones by women who were allegedly trafficked by Jeffery Epstein who said they were abused by Donald Trump...
Keep in mind that the idea of the "Bible" as a codex containing all canonical books of the Bible, and nothing else is a post-Reformation invention. Mo...
Maybe the problem is one of relation: some people (BigBrains like me) are Spirit filled pneumonics and have qualia. Some folks are automata-like hylic...
To build off this, not only did colonies have an ambiguous relationship to the long term economic success of host nations, but many of the most prodig...
Did Trump clean up with blue collar voters? Neither set of exit polls suggest this. You have to restrict your definition of "blue collar" to "older bl...
I'm most familiar with Evangelical American churches. I don't see Nietzsche's thought meshing with them at all since, in general, theology essentially...
I suppose free will and the concept of choices in general presuppose temporality. There must be a before and after in which to make a choice. However,...
Solipsism is the general term for this I believe. I used to buy this, even though I had done a neuroscience degree for undergrad, which should have ma...
>Prosecutors are bound by ethical rules that prohibit them from pressing charges they can't win Such as? The entire US justice system would grind to a...
Perhaps there is free will, or perhaps existence is at least stochastic, as quantum mechanics suggests? Maybe it's that the omniscient deity conceives...
Don't know about God, but a quick look at our world, of the cruelty of sticking qualia into a being whose actions are ruled by determinism, of shoving...
Isn't all postmodernism about a transvaluation of values? Maybe Ayn Rand goes beyond Nietzsche in transvaluation. However, I also think she's dumbing ...
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