RWL

Just here to blurt out my thoughts about the current situation of the world.

Substack:

[Libertarian Party NH 🦔 @LPNH]

Beef is probably the most consequential and symbolically important food created in America. This is a canary in the coal mine.

[Karen McGee @karenmotherof2]

The vibes at a men’s bathroom at a wedding is the closest you’ll get to a locker room after high school

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

The year is 1925. Your doctor says you look run down and writes down the name of a tonic, and you drink it the way you drink anything a doctor names, a bottle a day, feeling marvellous. It is radium in distilled water. Four hundred thousand bottles are sold on medical endorsement, and the steel magnate who got through fifteen hundred of them is buried in 1932 in a lead-lined coffin.

The year is 1948. Your baby is screaming with teething, so you do what the health visitor says and work a fingertip of powder into his gums, morning and night, for months. Then his hands and feet go raw and pink, daylight becomes unbearable, and the child who was babbling in the spring stops speaking. The powder is mercury, a fifth of the babies it does this to die, and it stays on the shelf until 1954.

The year is 1958. Your wife is seven months gone and they send her down the corridor for the routine X-ray, and she lies on the cold plate with her coat over the chair and thinks nothing of it. An Oxford epidemiologist has just shown that one abdominal X-ray in pregnancy roughly doubles the child's chance of dying of cancer before adolescence. The profession declines to believe her, her funding dries up, and the radiographers carry on for twenty years.

The year is 1983. Your son has haemophilia, and the new treatment means no more nights in hospital, just a vial from the fridge and a needle at the kitchen table before school. The vial is pooled from thousands of paid American donors, some of them prisoners. Around twelve hundred and fifty British haemophiliacs are given HIV this way, and the inquiry that finally says so out loud reports in 2024.

The year is 1989. You are on a ward after your heart attack watching the monitor throw an extra beat, and they start you on a tablet to stop it doing that, because obviously a heart that skips is a heart about to stop. Somebody finally tests the tablet against a placebo. Seven point seven per cent dead within ten months on the drug, three per cent on the dummy, and the trial is halted early.

The year is 1995. Your sister takes the high-dose chemotherapy with the bone marrow transplant because her oncologist calls it her best chance, and you sit in that corridor for four weeks while it takes her hair, her gut lining and two stone. Forty thousand American women go through it. In 1999 the trials find no survival advantage over ordinary treatment, and in 2000 the data that convinced everybody turns out to have been invented.

The year is 2016. Your daughter is epileptic and pregnant and stays on the medicine that has kept her seizure-free since she was nineteen, because nobody at any appointment has ever told her otherwise. That is the year the warning finally reaches the box. The risk had been in the literature since the seventies, and roughly twenty thousand British children were born into it while the paperwork caught up.

Now it is today.

Your doctor has new drugs, new numbers and a fresh consensus, and he can tell you exactly what the evidence shows.

So could every doctor on this list.

None of it was quackery. All of it was the standard of care, taught in the schools, printed in the guidelines, paid for by the state.

That is what a wrong answer looks like from the inside, and you are standing in one now.

[Harrison H. Smith ✞ @HarrisonHSmith]

People who love the Constitution

are going to have to violate the Constitution

to do the things necessary to protect the Constitution

from people who hate the Constitution.

[RWL @MindOnEcon]

The west has fallen

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

Chinese PHD student asks Nolan if he Christiniazed The Odyssey’s Greek morals and why he changed Oddyseus emotional journey while Jimmy Fallon does Cyclops Beer Pong with The Oddsey cast

[Keith Woods @KeithWoodsYT]

Fascinating interview that demonstrates just how shallow Christopher Nolan is.

A Chinese interviewer confused by Nolan defiling his people's cultural inheritance asks him why he Christianised Homer's Odyssey, he says he hasn't really thought about it but Xenia sounded like the golden rule to him.

She asks him why Western filmmakers feel like they need to apologise for depicting greatness, he says we have to contextualise greatness now because we believe in equality and democratic values.

She asks him if the gods are real in his film and he says they seem real to people that believe in them.

It's actually incredible how little he seems to have thought about any of this. Every time he speaks it makes a mockery of every conservative cuck and midwit intellectual larper that acted like his film has some kind of esoteric message or is anything but the most trite Hollywood boomerslop.

It says a lot that the only person willing to question him on any of this was a Chinese podcaster.

[Hunter📈🌈📊 @StatisticUrban]

Similarily, France has a law where hiring a licensed architect becomes mandatory for housing units >150 sq m.

Consequently, the graph of house sizes each year looks like this.

[Bonky @Bonkytheidiot]

People call this suicidal empathy, it's not, it's homicidal empathy.

If you release a violent felon that has victimized you by chance, you're not the one who's likely to be victimized by them again. Its someone else. Your "empathy" is actually just apathy toward the victim.

[RWL @MindOnEcon]

LeBron James could do the funniest thing ever right now

[Clay Travis @ClayTravis]

Indiana Fever coach says she “isn’t educated enough from a scientific standpoint” to say if men should be able to play women’s sports. These people are batshit insane.

[Peter Bernegger @PeterBernegger]

Francesca Hong was diagnosed with 1) bipolar disease, 2) had a mental breakdown, 3) was placed in psychiatric hospitalization, 4) did self-harm by cutting, and 5) experienced a lithium overdose. My source: Francesca Hong in a 2023 interview. Her own words. She is running for Governor in Wisconsin (D). @DavidCCrowley @TomTiffanyWI @joeltbrennan @VickiMcKenna @DanODonnellShow @TiffanyWarRoom @RegJoeShow @JayWeber3 @EricLDaugh @EmeraldRobinson @DanEastman2023 @doranchad @bgalsWI @MattWhitlock @amuse It's always in the eyes....

[VB Knives @Empty_America]

"You’re either alive or dead. Those are the only two ages."

Pretty classic line.

[Basil the Great @BasilTheGreat]

WOW.

A student at the Oxford Union tells Tommy Robinson he is lucky they've put security on for him otherwise their Pro-Islam supporters outside would beat him to death

This is the Oxford Union, how far it has fallen as an institution when this is the sort of argument made

[Skate Coach 𓅄 @Sk8Couch]

People on here will ask “Is it too late to start over at 28?” and everyone will reply “Yikes. Hate to break it to you gramps but it was over for you 10 years ago.” Meanwhile my 63 year old neighbor is taking the bar exam because he has a list of pharma companies he plans to sue

[sarah @sahouraxo]

700 tons of explosives.

Israel detonated 700 tons of explosives beneath Beaufort Castle in South Lebanon, in the middle of the night.

A 900-year-old Crusader castle that UNESCO just listed as endangered heritage.

[devsDefaulter @devsDefaulter]

When the junior dev asks if we can "just use a for loop" to search through ten billion database records in real-time

[Nick, 30 @an0n_Nic]

Don’t forget to scan your fingerprints for the EES system next time you go on holiday

[Cernovich @Cernovich]

Within 10 years, Europe's nuclear arsenal will be under the control of third world primitives. Why would Iran need to create a bomb when their proxies will have all of that and more in the blink of an eye? Note, too, it's neocons who support open borders.

[vittorio @IterIntellectus]

reopen the fucking asylums

[Geiger Capital @Geiger_Capital]

There it is…

Italy is considering ending the Schengen agreement, which allows free travel between European countries, due to Spain’s mass immigration. They realize one far-left leader could destroy Europe internally.