Sameo Kora

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[Everything Price Sufferer (but especially eggs) @agraybee]

I didn't know Helen of Troy could generate so much conflict.

[Captain Allen @CptAllenHistory]

The word “Nakba” (catastrophe) wasn’t invented by Palestinians to describe Jewish “ethnic cleansing.”

It was coined in 1948 by a Syrian Arab historian, Constantin Zureiq, in his book The Meaning of the Disaster.

He used it to describe the humiliating failure of the Arab world — their leaders’ arrogance, their lies to their own people, their military incompetence, and their refusal to accept a Jewish state.

Zureiq wrote that the Arabs had “imaginary victories” and put their public “to sleep” with boasts — until the real disaster hit: they couldn’t wipe out the Jews.

The original Nakba wasn’t about refugees. That a rebrand from several decades later.

It was about the Arab leaders’ catastrophic decision to launch a war of extermination ... and lose.

They’ve spent 77 years rebranding their own failure as Jewish guilt.

That’s the only real "Nakba" they can’t forgive.

[Sameo Kora @KoraSameo]

@mhp_guy Grifters be grifting

[Sameo Kora @KoraSameo]

@ramit @AOC Should be quite embarrassing for someone advising people on financial matters to be so glowing about this economically illiterate clown.

[Yogi @Houseofyogi]

Spirit Airlines died tonight at the hands of the socialist crusader, Elizabeth Warren

She must be so proud to add another casket to her achievements.

Tonight at 3am, Spirit turns off the lights. 14,000 jobs gone. 30+ smaller airports lose service.

JetBlue offered $3.8 BILLION in cash to buy Spirit in 2022. Shareholders, flight attendants union, literally everyone voted yes.

The combined company would have held 9% of the US market against a Big 4 that already owned 80%.

For anyone who understands numbers: 9% isn’t a monopoly against 80%.

Warren said no.

She wrote letters. She pressured Buttigieg. Biden’s DOJ sued. A federal judge killed the deal in January 2024.

Her argument: the merger would cost consumers $1 billion a year.

Now look at her collateral damage she dusts under the rug.

510 pilots gone in the months after. 1,800 flight attendants furloughed in December.

14,000 jobs in 2023. 7,500 last week. Zero tonight.

And that’s just the people in Spirit uniforms.

Catering goes. Fuel guys go. Baggage crews, gate agents, airport coffee shops, hotels and rental cars in 70 cities Spirit flew to. Every airline job carries 3 more on its back.

40,000 people out of work because of one woman’s moronic crusade against the market.

And the math ain’t mathing.

Spirit abandoned 90 routes during the death spiral. Fares on those routes are up 14% on average. Oakland to Newark: $135 to $288. Fort Myers to San Juan: $92 to $219. Kansas City to Newark up 66%.

That’s reality. Not some BS number from a “study.”

So @SenWarren tell me how this saves the consumer money?

Cheap carriers in a market drop fares 21% across the board. Southwest did this in the 90s and saved Americans $68 BILLION over 20 years.

Warren killed it. That’s what moronic politicians led by socialism do.

Then with her own blind arrogance, she tweeted Spirit’s collapse is “a Biden win for flyers.”

A win.

14,000 people are reading termination letters tonight.

And she’s taking credit.

This is socialism in 2026.

A senator who’s never made payroll thinks she knows how to run a market better than the people who own and work in the company.

She saved you a billion on imaginary paper.

She cost you ten times that in real life.

She didn’t protect consumers from anything.

14,000+ will go from working to welfare.

She will make sure to blame billionaires, hardworking tax payers, AI, capitalism and whatever monster they will make up tomorrow hiding under your bed.

Higher taxes. Fewer jobs. More expensive everything.

She called it a win. I hope you enjoy winning.

[Timothy Bates @timothycbates]

Lewis Terman can't defend himself against this travesty from Malcom Gladwell, but we can do it for him.

Here's the real study results from Terman's own volumes (Genetic Studies of Genius) and later analyses.

Terman identified ~1,528 California schoolchildren with Stanford-Binet IQs of 135+ (average around 150).

He followed them studiously for decades with follow-ups continuing after his death.

His goal was to replace myths about "geniuses" with data on their development. People thought IQ might cause lower health, physical weakness, susceptibility to disorder. Terman tracked not only IQ but personality, health, family background, and life outcomes.

The result? The group as a whole crushed general population benchmarks.

By their mid-30s (and this is close to the Great Depression) ~70% of the men and ~67% of women had bachelor's degrees vs. ~8% nationally at the time
Close to a 10x out performance !!

At a time when few entered let alone stayed on at University, many "Termites" pursued and achieved graduate degrees (97 PhDs, 57 MDs, etc.).

By their mid-40s, 96%+ of men were professionals or semi-professionals (doctors, lawyers, engineers, academics, etc.).

Incomes were roughly double the national white-collar median. Imagine: A single level to pull and you double national incomes!

They produced thousands of scientific articles, books, and patents. This was then replicated in wonderfully detailed and prodigious Vanderbilt studies.

Their health, far from poorly, was better and they had lower rates of divorce and fewer psychiatric problems.

The sample, which based on Gladwell's presentation we should expect from regression to the mean to be downwardly socially mobile , was massively upwardly mobile.

Even relative to their (already fine) childhood homes. High IQ predicted climbing the socioeconomic ladder, not coasting on family money.

Hoping to obfuscate all this success, Gladwell spins a yarn for y'all.

His claim that "rich smarts" had a silver spoon in their mouths while poor smarts were "utter failures" (imagine saying THAT in 2026…) is nonsense and betrays Terman's own words and findings.

Terman did examine differences in adult achievement (A: highest ~top third or so; B: middle/moderate professionals; C: lowest ~bottom 20–30%).
There was a correlation with childhood family socioeconomic status (SES): A's had more parental education/support/resources on average; C's had less.

But the "C" group ("failures" according to Gladwell) far from "produced nothing" Most won college degrees. Most won professional or semi-professional jobs. Most had incomes and achievements well above the general population. Framing these people as underachievers is a disgrace, TBH.

Terman was one of those leading the emphasis on both the need for opportunity and a society which encouraged education, had capital to allocate, enforced the rule of law etc.. And to emphasize the role of "non-cognitive" traits of conscientiousness (persistence, drive, goal setting and ambition). He also emphasised the need for good health.

He didn't pretend that we do not stand on the shoulders's of giants (those who gifted us our current SES) but he did show in staggering detail, the amazing accomplishments of all of these children, identified at a young age as having already college-level knowledge and ability.

Puff like poverty "reduces a one-in-a-billion brain to a lifetime of worse than mediocrity" is debunked in the American context by the whole cohort outperforming expectations massively. Not just the tippy top, but the cohort as a whole . Resoundingly.

Terman, and no scientist you will find, ever claimed IQ alone guarantees universal leadership or output - the idea of "just one thing", here as everywhere is a distracting red herring.

What Terman did was revolutionize what we know about just how strong a predictor of life success high IQ is. And how precious those point-1 percent are.

It is curious that Terman missed William Shockley and Luis Alvarez (future Nobel physicists). Shockley was co-inventor of the transistor and father of Silicon Valley (along with Frederick Terman, the son of Lewis Terman, who in turn created the "Stanford Binet" IQ-test and did much to promote Stanford and IQ).

As the late Danny Kahneman would have point out, calling out this miss of two people in a sample of 250,000 is to commit the fallacy of low base-rates: Sampling ~1,500 out of ~ 250,000 kids makes missing a 2 people in the extreme tails a likelihood, not a fatal flaw.

This is classic Gladwell: Storytelling with punchy examples, but under scrutiny, the specifics on Terman all fall apart.

Unlike Gladwell, Terman's results stand the test of time far better than any pop-psych retellings.

h/t @charlesmurray

[Sameo Kora @KoraSameo]

@AdamBouchareb8 @ArthurMacwaters Imagine complaining that 200 servants no longer dress you or wipe your ass, while ignoring the thousands of invisible servants modern life gives you.

[Sameo Kora @KoraSameo]

@seasoner10 @RnaudBertrand No intermediary payer is the prerequisite of speed and efficiency. If you have national coverage, or insurance coverage - you necessarily have to slow things down because of access or approvals. Hence the year-long wait times and gatekeepers.

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[AnechoicMedia @AnechoicMedia_]

In CCW class they tell you you have a heightened duty to avoid potential fights while armed, as a matter of legal and practical self-preservation. You don't want to raise the stakes to death in a fight, and you don't want to have to argue to a jury later about whether you provoked a fight while armed to bait someone into a self-defense situation.

The anti-ICE protestors have inverted the duties of being an armed citizen (or a citizen in control of a lethal instrument, like a car in a traffic stop). They are deliberately creating situations of maximum ambiguity with a low level threat of lethal danger to bait law enforcement into making them heroic victims or martyrs.

Being an "observer" of law enforcement, while also armed and getting into shoving distance with them, is just a bad idea, even if you think the law empowers you to play the "I'm not touching you" game with acts of defiance or minor assaults. It's also hazardous to the public trust to create a situation in which every protestor is regarded as a potential threat, and every cop seen to be on the edge of shooting someone.

I can't tell from the video whether this guy drew his gun at any point in the struggle. Regardless, getting into a struggle with a cop while armed has a serious chance of ending in your death. Even if the resulting shoot is ruled unjustified or in error, you're still dead, which is only good for people who profit from chaos and mistrust (protestors who cause is bad).

The shooting will not have been *unjust* or criminal, just a tragedy. It's also not proof of government oppression, because every government has to enforce laws, and you can't use the chaos of choosing to interfere with law enforcement as proof that having laws is unjust.

[Sameo Kora @KoraSameo]

@divya_venn That's a really insightful analogy (or metaphor, whichever is the correct term).

[Sameo Kora @KoraSameo]

@businessbarista Claude

[Sameo Kora @KoraSameo]

@nickshirleyy Maybe next project - California's rail? Everyone knows the money is gone - but where is the list of politicians and contractors and people involved. Would be thrilling.

[Sameo Kora @KoraSameo]

@BenSasse Same diagnosis as a close relative, they just underwent a round of histotripsy treatment (targeted ultrasound), will see if it works.

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[Sameo Kora @KoraSameo]

@BharukaShraddha ML

[Sameo Kora @KoraSameo]

@sahilypatel I, Pencil, 2025 edition

[Mykola Kuleba @MykolaKuleba]

Imagine soldiers breaking into your home, killing you and your spouse, and taking your child hostage.

This is not a movie scene — it’s the everyday reality of Ukrainian families.

As Russia seizes new Ukrainian territories, its soldiers execute entire civilian populations — killing parents in front of their child, then taking the girl hostage and using her as a human shield.

And this is happening while world leaders stand at the UN General Assembly podium discussing the plight of children in armed conflicts.

A reconnaissance drone in Donbas captured Russian troops storming a civilian home, murdering the parents in front of their daughter, and dragging the girl away. You can even hear the voice of a Russian commander ordering: “Kill everyone except the children.”

Her fate is still unknown. And tragically, there are thousands of such stories. Russia claims it is “saving” children of Donbas. In reality, it makes them orphans by killing their parents — then distributes them into Russian families, where they are trafficked and sometimes turned into child soldiers.

At Save Ukraine, we will keep searching for this girl and rescuing others like her. Our team has already saved nearly 900 children from occupation, including more than 160 orphans — those most at risk of being lost to Russia’s system.

To rescue more children, we desperately need your help — to keep searching and saving while there’s still time. Because every child deserves life, safety, and a childhood.

[Sameo Kora @KoraSameo]

@daryazorka What a fantastic read. Thank you Darya