YinsYang

Don't blame me. My subconscious made me do it.

[YinsYang @KeysorPWM]

@glukianoff Honest question. Do these universities not have anyone in the administration with any legal background?

[Greg Lukianoff @glukianoff]

Disappointed to see this using the “conservative pounce” formulation.

I’m Gen X. All of us, including liberals like me, were there when we watched a nation filled with brilliant people put its best minds to making socialism work. It was an unparalleled disaster — not just economically, but environmentally, and certainly from a human rights perspective as well.

The fact that we now have people on both the right and the left who think Lenin was on to something, or that “real socialism has never been tried,” is mind-blowing. It represents a massive generational failure of our K–PhD system. They didn’t learn the history, philosophy, or economics that would have prevented them from falling for the same midwittery that too many of our grandparents fell for.

Sure, it sounds nice. Utopia always does. But it was a colossal disaster that we must not repeat.

So no, Axios. The news isn’t that the GOP is sounding the alarm. It’s that more genuine liberals aren’t.

[YinsYang @KeysorPWM]

@ArenaNet Login bois.

[ArenaNet @ArenaNet]

Stand ready - and tune in to Summer Game Fest on 06/05/2026. Big things in the #games industry are brewing. Will you be watching?

[YinsYang @KeysorPWM]

@NeverSinkDev What option do you suggest for someone trying SSF for the first time?

[YinsYang @KeysorPWM]

@lthlnkso @OrevaZSN No no, you don't understand. Right now is the moment we need radical change. Everything is bad and only my brand of revolution can fix it.

-Every status seeking primate with underdeveloped impulse control

[Hank Green @hankgreen]

@gbrl_dick Same reason everything’s happening, we put the recommendation algorithms in charge.

[YinsYang @KeysorPWM]

@glukianoff @TheFIREorg I deeply respect both you and @JonHaidt , yet from a naive perspective you seem to have taken opposite positions on social media. Have you discussed these differences publicly? It would be helpful to understand them as someone who isn't entrenched in either position.

[YinsYang @KeysorPWM]

@goob_was_here @lthlnkso @MarcoFoster_ @grahamformaine "it could easily operate without Musk"

This is just factually untrue. If productive companies did not require labor to organize them, they would pop into existence randomly every day. Yet, this never happens. Organizing assets into a productive system is not trivial.

[YinsYang @KeysorPWM]

@lthlnkso I'm always surprised by how many otherwise educated people fail to understand the point of democracy. It isn't aiming to find the best leaders; we would have philosopher kings if we wanted that. Democracy, like free speech, is an outlet to resolve tension and avoid violence.

[YinsYang @KeysorPWM]

@lthlnkso In a vacuum it is congress and by a wide margin. Regrettably we live in a dark timeline where we are reliant on serious people having been appointed to the Supreme Court for our most functional branch.

[YinsYang @KeysorPWM]

@lthlnkso @blackroomsec Existence of AI and robotics are genuinely new, but unstable power dynamics are not. The lack of leverage individual members of this society will have is worrisome to say the least. Relying on perpetual generosity from a hegemonic power has not gone well in the past (or present)

[YinsYang @KeysorPWM]

@lthlnkso @esjesjesj Half the conversations I see on this platform cause me to spontaneously imagine two male deer locking horns and jostling for dominance. Any advice on what type of brain damage I could give myself to stop imagining this?

[YinsYang @KeysorPWM]

@StefanFSchubert Oh, you sweet summer child. Nobody can ever be forced to believe anything. If there is a demand for falsehoods, the market will create a supply.

[YinsYang @KeysorPWM]

@StatisticUrban People are so shortsighted. Do we want peaceful transitions of power? If we do then limiting the pardon power is a dumb idea. All we are doing is creating an incentive to hold onto power at all costs. Why leave office if you are going to end up in jail?

[YinsYang @KeysorPWM]

@chucktodd People are so shortsighted. Do we want peaceful transitions of power? If we do then limiting the pardon power is a dumb idea. All we are doing is creating an incentive to hold onto power at all costs. Why leave office if you are going to end up in jail?

[YinsYang @KeysorPWM]

@coffeebreak_YT The pardon power feels dumb, but it is big part of why the US has a long history of peaceful transitions of power. If a president has to worry about being prosecuted by his/her successor (even rightly) the incentives become to never leave office...

[YinsYang @KeysorPWM]

@dccommonsense This is a silly argument. The question has always been what cost, both monetarily and morally, we are willing to pay to prevent nuclear proliferation. There is room for reasonable disagreement now just as there has always been.

[YinsYang @KeysorPWM]

@glukianoff A genuine appreciation for free speech, and not just my tribe's speech, strikes me as a curious cultural ideal for group of primates to adopt.

[YinsYang @KeysorPWM]

@lthlnkso @GaryMarcus Interactions like this thread lay bare the inescapable nature of the human condition. All parties know and likely agree on all substantive facts, yet we are primates and our status seeking and dominance needs are deeply rooted. So, we have a "debate" over nothing.