If you ever doubt how magical this world is, one day you will decide to go to a World Cup watch party in Oakland that you found online to root for a country where you spent two years trying to coax English out of the mouths of Cape Verdean teenagers. 1/7
@DirectorsCut69@mcuban What “nature” do you think natural selection selects for? It’s certainly not artistry. Artistry is an important component and outgrowth of our ingenuity but which is built upon the fundamental structure of industriousness and cohesion (yes, agreed on love).
@DirectorsCut69@mcuban Hilarious misinterpretation of human nature. A life of leisure and excess is not a life of purpose, happiness, or fulfillment. Evolutionary change is a fraction the speed as technological innovation.
@TennisWagerer@golz_tv Big clubs in the sense that the supporter base, and therefore the pressure, is huge. Not pandering, common framing, esp in England.
@ratlpolicy@Noahpinion The force of arms for both Iraq and Iran, and the funding of the force of arms in Syria, comes primarily out of the United States’ blood and treasure. The US shoulders the vast majority of the cost w/ the majority of the benefit going to Israel who’s far more directly threatened.
@Villgecrazylady It’s just a roundabout way of saying human rights are abstract, not that they’re meaningless. The thesis of his first book is that humans’ greatest competitive advantage is the ability to create shared abstractions that encourage cooperation and altruism.