ChukarBlog

Love birds. Main interests: science in general, evolution, psychology, philosophy, comparative religion, travel, music, reading especially science fiction.

[ChukarBlog @ChukarBlog]

Psychologist Margaret Thaler Singer's Six Conditions of Mind Control, based on American POW's in Korea & decades of working with former cult members:

1. Gradually Mislead: Keep the person unaware of what is going on and how they are being changed one step at a time.

[ChukarBlog @ChukarBlog]

@gtconway3d Just saw you on Firing Line. Agree 100%, tho I prefer psychopath diagnosis (have you read Hare's PCL-SV 12 criteria?) over narcis socio, but NS sounds less frantic. I have some info. possibly of great use to you.

[ChukarBlog @ChukarBlog]

This sounds like what I've read about the early days of the rise of National Socialism in Germany: step 1 - shout them down, step 2 - beat them up.

[FIRE @TheFIREorg]

Last week's shout-down of @RepRaskin at @UofMaryland is another example of the meteoric rise in heckler’s vetos, cancellations, and deplatforming attempts at universities since 2014.

FIRE’s @glukianoff explains why it's happening—and how we can stop it.
https://t.co/sOdLJJ23Kq

[ChukarBlog @ChukarBlog]

I loved his book, which everyone should read. I've heard/seen him interviewed so many times in the past two weeks that it seems like he's just stepped out of the room.

[Greg Lukianoff @glukianoff]

Campus censorship set for a record-breaking 2024 me in @UnHerd https://t.co/vL45q9ypoj

[ChukarBlog @ChukarBlog]

It came back!

[Greg Lukianoff @glukianoff]

I think it's safe to assume the sun is doomed.

[ChukarBlog @ChukarBlog]

Steve @SteveStuWill Thanks for this. It took me quite a while searching thru my email to re-find this, based on my shoddy 7-month-old memory. If you still find it worthwhile, you could repost it.

[Steve Stewart-Williams @SteveStuWill]

Psychologists have posited hundreds of cognitive biases over the years. A fascinating new paper argues that they all boil down to one of a handful of fundamental beliefs coupled with confirmation bias. https://t.co/bDDmNfsSie

[ChukarBlog @ChukarBlog]

Colin Wright is right.
IMHO the trans-crowd is trying to "Nemo"-brainwash everyone else into submission. Please, no more Nemo! You're turning the rest of us into drooling idiots!
That's how propaganda campaigns work.

[Colin Wright @SwipeWright]

@PeterTatchell This is absolute pseudoscience, Peter. None of these animals challenge the binary nature of sex. Stop spreading scientific misinformation.

[ChukarBlog @ChukarBlog]

Last in the series where our study of birds in the Bible ends most unexpectedly – but rationally – with " our daily bread."
https://t.co/YlpJLFZQjH

[ChukarBlog @ChukarBlog]

@Smith_Surge Not sure what AF means, but I'd say such phrases gain nuance over time & comes to mean far more than the original intent. "Meine Ehre Heisst Treue" means "My honor is true" which sounds great, but as it was the motto of the Waffen SS you might hesitate to use it.

[ChukarBlog @ChukarBlog]

Nanoplastics. It's what's for dinner. They poison you, get stuck in (& probably attract) arterial plaque. They replicate human hormones. Are they also at least partially responsible for our gender dysphoria and trans-problems of recent decades?

[ChukarBlog @ChukarBlog]

Definitely that too. Each exacerbates the other in the world of the woke.

[RB @RBtw33ts]

@ChukarBlog Or just being manipulated when vulnerable.

[ChukarBlog @ChukarBlog]

Woke Axiom #47b.c.22.f: Feeling unsafe is far more dangerous that actually being unsafe.

[Payton McNabb @paytonmcnabb_]

Just getting back from my second doctor appointment this week, a year and a half later, I’m definitely going to have to disagree. My life is forever changed because of an injury by a boy.

So yeah… men have harmed women in our sports. But as long as your feelings don’t get hurt, right?

[ChukarBlog @ChukarBlog]

Of course not. Obviously you've forgotten that ciswomen are forbidden from opining on gender matters.😜

[ChukarBlog @ChukarBlog]

And the dysphoria is likely the results of plastics messing up their hormones and altering their personality.

[RB @RBtw33ts]

@RepJayapal Trans women are not women, they are men with gender dysphoria.

[ChukarBlog @ChukarBlog]

Why yes, of course, except 90% of dogs can outrun 99% of humans. No one seeks THAT kind of competition. They want to win, however unfair it might be.

[AlyLeggé @RealAlyLegge]

@RepJayapal So if you legitimately felt like you were a dog, would you be allowed to participate in dog races? 🤔

[ChukarBlog @ChukarBlog]

Not just nonsense, but nonsense on stilts. Did Jayapal flunk Phys Ed? She sure wasn't paying attention. How did this dingbat get into Congress?

[Rep. Pramila Jayapal @RepJayapal]

Categorical bans on trans women competing in sports hurt ALL women.

These insulting rules only promote fear, dangerous stereotypes, and invasive examinations that are completely absurd and inappropriate.

[ChukarBlog @ChukarBlog]

Installment #9 of Birds in the Bible. Four translations of the list of twenty "unclean" birds results in over 40 different species. An Owl or an Ostrich? What happened to "Biblical Inerrancy?" And was it the "Red" or the "Reed" sea?
https://t.co/yyDvKAv6bF

[ChukarBlog @ChukarBlog]

Ben Llywelyn's series on the four types of human languages finishes with Polysynthetic Languages like Cherokee and Ainu which create words composed of many morphemes and are very highly inflected.
https://t.co/OSmyWsalaZ

[ChukarBlog @ChukarBlog]

Ben Llywelyn's series on the four types of human languages continues with Agglutinative Languages like Japanese, which contain multiple morphemes linked in a chain.
https://t.co/txrV117bCu

[ChukarBlog @ChukarBlog]

Ben Llywelyn's 4-part series on the four types of human languages continues with Fusional Languages like Welsh, which use a single inflectional morpheme to denote multiple grammatical, syntactic, or semantic features.
https://t.co/tAeQ4gaHbw

[ChukarBlog @ChukarBlog]

Bel Llywelyn's series on the four types of human languages begins here, with Analytical Languages.
https://t.co/z5UxeNb4vf