The salvation of inspiration is the motivation

Smart character written by a smart writer: "Here's my simple plan with several alternative routes in case unforseen complications arise." Smart character written by a stupid writer: "Here's my extremely elaborate plan with an absurd amount of moving parts, several of which are dependent on assumptions about how other people will act, and if any one thing doesn't go according to plan, then the whole thing falls apart, but that won't happen because I'm a super genius who can literally see the future, not because that's a superpower I have, but because the writers think smart people can predict anything, even with a near total lack of information."

I’m glad the NFL is cracking down on this. Kids watch these games. No need for stuff like this in the NFL presented by DraftKings. Let the kids find out about beer the way they should… through the hundreds of NFL sponsored Bud Light commercials per game.

american: I lost all my money on the unregulated limitless gambling website american government: that's not fair. you should be able to lose more money than that

#REPORT: Mark Carney's lawyers in federal court admitted that female inmates in Canadian prisons have been raped by transgender prisoners, but argued that this is a "reasonable limit" on their charter rights to accommodate the "needs of gender diverse inmates."

I've been talking about this sort of thing since the 2010s. By their actions — such as gutting standardized testing and gifted programs and professional certification exams, reducing course rigor, enforcing "antiracist" grading approaches, removing long-standing graduation requirements, and so on — it's been clear for quite some time that progressives gave up on the idea that actual racial equality in academic performance could ever be achieved (the evidence from previous decades provided substantial evidence that it couldn't), and opted instead for measures that would remove or obfuscate any remaining indicators of inequality. They'll never directly admit to this, but their actions speak louder than their words.

I disagree with you, Jemele. Slavery was an enormous moral evil, and it unquestionably generated wealth. Black Americans were also deliberately excluded from housing, credit and economic opportunities long after emancipation. That history is real. But “slavery contributed to American wealth” is very different from “slavery is how America became a world economic power.” Slavery existed throughout much of the world. What distinguished America’s eventual rise was not slavery, but what came after it: industrialization, abundant land and resources, immigration, entrepreneurship, technological innovation, enormous internal markets, relatively strong property rights and institutions, and eventually unmatched productive capacity. And we have to be willing to discuss the present too. At some point, constantly explaining Black economic underperformance through white supremacy becomes its own kind of intellectual prison. We have agency. We once built Black Wall Streets under conditions dramatically worse than those confronting us today. We built businesses, banks, churches, schools and communities while facing actual legalized racial discrimination. So where is that same economic solidarity now? We should absolutely remember what was done to our ancestors. But remembrance cannot become an excuse for refusing to examine ourselves—our family structures, our educational priorities, our attitudes toward work, entrepreneurship, faith, discipline, ownership and whether we consistently support Black-owned institutions with our own dollars. White supremacy is part of our history. But, it does not get to become the permanent explanation for our future, and black Americans are not permanent victims.

In the most significant study of its kind to date, published in Nature, scientists have identified 1,260 genetic variants associated with human personality traits, including more than 800 that had not been linked to personality before.

What exactly is the "discredited pseudoscience" that Nathan Cofnas argues for? Here are the main claims he's made that have offended people: (1) Cofnas believes there are differences in average measured intelligence between population groups: Mainstream science fully agrees with him. (2) Cofnas believes that recent human evolution outside Africa has increased human intelligence: Mainstream population genetics now mostly agrees with him. (3) Cofnas believes that the measured differences in intelligence between population groups are at least partially due to genetic differences between those groups: Although this claim remains scientifically disputed and unresolved, the most recent published survey of intelligence scientists found that most agree with him. The research that has been most often used to support a genetic explanation — and which has been published in established peer-reviewed scientific journals — is hardly pseudoscientific. You may not believe that it's convincing, but that's quite another thing than saying it's "pseudoscientific." The people writing about Cofnas either know this or do not care to know it. The vast majority of the public reading about Cofnas has no idea of the current status of intelligence research because its "dangerous" findings are rarely reported in the non-scientific media, and most people treat the subject as too icky to take the time to investigate.

Five facts about IQ and twin studies. 1. Identical twins raised apart have more similar IQs than fraternal twins raised together. 2. The effects of the shared environment on IQ essentially go to zero in adulthood. 3. Twin studies consistently show the heritability of IQ is ~70% in adulthood. 4. Unrelated children reared together show IQ correlations that drop toward zero by late teens. 5. Even when identical twins were reared in different countries, their IQ scores still tended to converge and the correlations increased with age.

Does he actually not know?

"The world makes no sense if you think everyone is born exactly the same." @KonstantinKisin asks @nathancofnas what motivates him to tackle controversial topics despite pushback from all sides. His answer: ignoring natural group differences forces society to blame "mystical injustice" for inequality, meaning there will be no peace until we accept biological reality.

JUST IN: Support for data centers jumps a net 31 points after voters are told modern facilities can reuse the same cooling water for up to 10 years, new poll finds.

“Mehdi Hasan Claims Islam Is Peaceful - Then This British politician has A BRUTAL Response” Speaker: My side of the argument is regularly told that we are demonising Islam and whipping up fear of Islam. But let me tell you what actually whips up fears of Islam. 9/11. The London bombings. Madrid. Mumbai. Bali. Death for apostasy. Death for blasphemy. Death for adultery. Death for homosexuality. Gender discrimination. Child marriage. Beheadings. Imprisonment for being raped. The murder of Theo van Gogh. Death threats. Sharia patrols. Polygamous marriages. This is what causes fear of Islam. It is not me. We'll be told this is just the extreme fringe of Islam. Well, look at Saudi Arabia the birthplace of Islam and custodian of its holy sites. People are executed for blasphemy and apostasy. But apparently, that's the extreme fringe? Calling Saudi Arabia the extreme fringe of Islam is like calling the Vatican the extreme fringe of Catholicism. Sorry, it just doesn't work. Then we're told violent Muslims have misunderstood Islam. Saudi Arabia has misunderstood. Iran has misunderstood. Yemen has misunderstood. Has there ever been a more spectacularly misunderstood religion than Islam? I'm constantly told that I need to respect Islam. But I'm under no greater obligation to respect Islam than any other belief. I am under no obligation to make compromises with an ideology I simply don't see as peaceful. Why don't I see it as peaceful? Because of the evidence. If I look around the world and see the countries where Islam calls the shots, all I see is brutality and violence imposed by the state.

80% of North African asylum seekers in Switzerland commit crime. Reported by the public government TV broadcaster SRF with figures sourced from the department of migration.

Lee Kuan Yew, founding father of Singapore, visited London after WW2 and couldn’t believe how high-trust Western society was… Unsupervised shops where people would take items and leave the exact change. We need to go back.

Fascinating. Some data centers came to a struggling town in Washington state. Did it run out of water? Was the community destroyed? Let’s see. The town…built a new high school, hospital, library, sewage systems, and police & fire stations. Poverty fell from 29% to 6%. Oh.

Absolutely incredible… University of California professors are now asking the school to reinstate the SAT for admissions because their new students are unable to do high school-level work. They stopped using standardized tests for admissions in 2020 to promote "equity".

A woman so deserving of her job she is known as "Stephen Colbert's daughter"

Lex Fridman: “Only 4% of slaves in the Atlantic slave trade went to the United States.” “Slavery was ubiquitous.” “It existed in virtually every major civilization in human history.” “Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, Rome, China, the Islamic world, Africa, and the pre-Columbian Americas all practiced slavery.” “The story of human slavery reaches deep into our history and is geographically much larger than the United States.” @lexfridman