Jacob Poulsen

[Richard Dawkins @RichardDawkins]

This unqualified bore says his secondhand opinions are “not up for debate.” Yes they are. At a university all opinions are up for debate. If you cannot defend your opinions rationally, either they are indefensible or you are too stupid to defend them. In either case you have no right to force them on students who have expressed their wish to attend a lecture by doing so.
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[Jacob Poulsen @drjakester]

@LukeGundy @scottew In lava hot springs now. That is the dark red spot in Idaho. Should I buy real estate?

[Jacob Poulsen @drjakester]

@hubermanlab @LaraWeed DST, all the way. Too many fun things to do in the evening after work. Mornings are boring.

[Jacob Poulsen @drjakester]

@kirawontmiss I almost got stuck in that same spot. Used to visit Nutty Putty caves as a teenager and I climbed in a hole that was getting progressively steeper, but I was able to wriggle myself out backward before dropping further.

[Jacob Poulsen @drjakester]

@hubermanlab I love it. More light in the evening so you can do things. No one cares about early morning sunlight. I am an ER doctor so my circadian rhythm is constantly changing anyway. I think we should keep daylight savings year round so we don’t have to change our clocks.

[Jacob Poulsen @drjakester]

@BasedMikeLee I am a Utahn. Definitely agree.

[Jacob Poulsen @drjakester]

@BasedMikeLee Please please keep daylight savings year-round.

[Jacob Poulsen @drjakester]

@hubermanlab Why would anyone want a sunrise before 7am? Who would be awake at that god-awful time to even see it? Daylight savings year round please.

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

For my British and European friends who are "shocked" and "surprised", here are 10 reasons you didn't see this coming.

Read this short post and then read the replies from our American friends who will confirm what I'm saying.

1. Americans love their country and want it to be the best in the world. America is a nation of people who conquered a continent. They love strength. They love winning. Any leader who appeals to that has an automatic advantage.

2. Unlike Europeans, Americans have not accepted managed decline. They don't have Net Zero here, they believe in producing their own energy and making it as cheap as possible because they know that their prosperity depends on it.

3. Prices for most basic goods in the US have increased rapidly and are sky high. What the official statistics say about inflation and the reality of people's lives are not the same.

4. Unlike you, Americans do not believe in socialism. They believe in meritocracy. They don't care about the super rich being super rich because they know that they live in a country where being super rich is available to anyone with the talent and drive to make it. They don't resent success, they celebrate it.

5. Americans are the most pro-immigration people in the world. Read that again. Seriously, read it again. Americans love an immigrant success story. They want more talented immigrants to come to America. But they refuse to accept people coming illegally. They believe in having a border.

6. Americans are sensitive about racial issues and their country's imperfect history. They believe that those who are disadvantaged by the circumstances of their birth should be given the opportunity to succeed. What they reject, however, is the idea that in order to address the errors of the past new errors must be made. DEI is racist. They know it and they reject it precisely because they are not racist.

7. Americans are the most philosemitic nation on earth. October 7 and the pro-Hamas left's reaction shocked them to their very core because, among other things, they remember what 9/11 was like and they know jihad when they see it.

8. Americans are extremely practical people. They care about what works, not what sounds good. In Europe, we produce great writers and intellectuals. In America they produce (and attract) great engineers, businessmen and investors. Because of this, they care less about Trump's rhetoric than you do and more about his policies than you do.

9. Americans are deeply optimistic people. They hate negativity. The woke view of American history as a series of evils for which they must eternally apologise is utterly abhorrent to them. They believe in moving forward together, not endlessly obsessing about the past.

10. America is a country whose founding story is one of resistance to government overreach. They loathe unnecessary restrictions, regulations and control. They understand that freedom comes with the price of self-reliance and they pay it gladly.

[Jacob Poulsen @drjakester]

@beepboopsloane I almost got stuck in that same area in Nutty putty when I was 17. I crawled in an opening that started to angle down and I was able to wriggle my way back out before the section that drops down. Tight space even before the drop.

[Jacob Poulsen @drjakester]

@LukeGundy Well, I haven’t had a phone call yet. Must be going all right.

[Utah Archers @PLLArchers]

Welcome to the Archers family, Utah. 😌👪

Happy to call the Beehive state home. 🤝

[Jacob Poulsen @drjakester]

@LukeGundy We will be there on Saturday

[Jacob Poulsen @drjakester]

@JordanGundy Thank goodness I practice emergency medicine in Utah County. It could be so much worse.

[Jacob Poulsen @drjakester]

@LukeGundy @AaronGundy We were there. Too bad we missed you.

[Jacob Poulsen @drjakester]

@StephenKing @Jim_Jordan I think it was other humans. Guns are fairly inert with no will of their own, thus no accountability.

[Jacob Poulsen @drjakester]

@LukeGundy Donde?

[Jacob Poulsen @drjakester]

@therabbithole Sam has a good point. Right now we have many people sitting at the top of the Dunning Kruger curve. It is easy to get to that point, but it takes a lot of work to climb the second hill. Most people don’t go that far.

[Jacob Poulsen @drjakester]

@jakeshieldsajj I have rarely touched it. I work in the ER and see the terrible consequences every day. Doesn’t interest me.

[Jacob Poulsen @drjakester]

@harvey_io @daniel_l_mills @jordanbpeterson @spectator Absolutely