not creator of the avatar, agnostic/atheist
Socratic method
sub-superchimp/meat puppet
blame controversy on free association
Socratic method can get you killed.
V-Dem's Electoral Democracy Index is informative: The US has undeniably declined in democracy (.73 on a 0-1 scale, vs .91 in 2013 and .79 during the Bicentennial) but still no where near being an autocracy, and far freer than most of the world. https://t.co/Z4ql4fcQ6v
This Mamdani-style anti-American chic that gets gushing reviews from self-hating upper class neurotics is just a revived late-sixties/early 70s fad that was boring and stupid then, and still is now
“The doctrines of Europe, were that men in numerous associations cannot be restrained within the limits of order and justice, except by forces physical and moral wielded over them by authorities independent of their will …. We believe that man was a rational animal, endowed by nature with rights, and with an innate sense of justice, and that he could be restrained from wrong, and protected in right, by moderate powers, confided to persons of his own choice and held to their duties by dependence on his own will.”
Jefferson, contrasting the new philosophy with the old world's.
Some of you have informed me that being in America this year & having real-life Yanks to tut at is no justification for not engaging in our long-established. Twitter tradition. Fair enough. Bring on the eagles. You've been preparing them, haven't you?
@Holy_Cow_Pod@OMApproach idk
crust density and temperature differential, subduction forced in part by plates growing at ocean depths.
even without the moon to stir things up, there's still cooling alone, however extraordinarily small and slow.
How statistics became propaganda. New @reason Interview with Wrong Number author Aaron Brown, former risk manager at @AQRCapital and a @business columnist. Learn how to see thru misleading media abt everything. https://t.co/0IWleVIfRf