Bloody Shovel 4

Back to Shanghai after a week in Tbilisi and a week in Tashkent. Old timer Jim Rogers has been making positive noises about Uzbekistan (https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3k0OHJk0Oec , https://www.youtube...

I assume most people here are proponents of TND but there's some logistical problems to solve before that is feasible.

What if instead we make Robert Kagame Lord Protector of Black Africa and let him ...

Salko Spandrell understood so much, and yet he couldn't understand regression to the mean.

Spandrell ?

Salko Hi! Big fan. I didn't realize you were back on twitter! Your old blog had a post suggesting...

Someone recommended Silo recently; it's a sci-fi-ish Apple TV show.

It's alright. The general setting is interesting, production values topnotch. Casting is perfectly diverse, to an absurd degree.

Wha...

There are quite a few Telegram channels that I follow, so not here as much due to that, but a couple of the channels have interesting observations on life, Europe and the Ukraine conflict. Now, that d...

Goethe: The much-talked-of “Age of Werther” . . . belongs in truth not to the course of world culture but to the course through life of every individual who, born with a sense of freedom and natur...

Anything and everything: history, philosophy and politics.

Ever since the assassination attempt against Anatolij Sharij (Ukraine's second most popular opposition party leader who lives in exile in Spain), likely ordered by the Ukrainian government according t...

Might be best to think of LGBTQ as a modern eugenics program. Using this lenses is LGBTQ a success?

While the first gen of LGBTQ might have been higher income generators and looked more like Will & Gr...

Many years ago, I read Umberto Eco's the Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum.

Foucault's Pendulum is based on a delightful conceit, that all conspiracy theories are ultimately true because they b...

Tabbarok summarizes a study on differences in attitude toward collectivism and competition between rice and wheat farmers in China, using a kind of unnatural experiment, in which de-mobilized soldiers...

Weebs love love love this sort of woman so much

Surrogacy is a disgusting practice but WYB

Pretty fascinating stuff. Wonder if they have tried going back

https://x.com/ecdalton/status/1775187935064957386?s=46&t=4b3Fy4OYo9XWcx1I10PeA

What do you think of 'Climate, the movie'? I was impressed that pretty much everyone interviewed in the film was an actual scientist, with a lot of them being climate scientists and physicists. That s...

Richard Dawkins is doing the rounds now after going full boomer on live TV calling himself a “cultural christian” and looking outraged at Islam inroads in Britain