jstaju

zoom zoom. cloaking under a new account. practicing thoughtfulness (not here tho); stumbling.

[Scott Hamilton RTM @SikotiHamiltonR]

1/4 Jimmy Corry is a Belfast Protestant man whose house was burned down by a Loyalist gang hunting for non-whites. After Corry appeared on TV & protested that the gang was picking 'on its own', something very revealing happened. Corry lost his racial status.

[Stefan Schubert @StefanFSchubert]

Indian fertility is interesting because it's not about women having children later, but about them stopping earlier.

Throws theories that the fertility fall is about people delaying having kids until it's too late into doubt.

[Woland 🇵🇸 @stendhalist]

@Enbyyrevived Average Caliph: Coexist 🫶 ☪️ ✝️ ☦️ ✡️

Average secular nationalist: GENOCIDE!!

[Bryan Caplan @bryan_caplan]

Crucially, most of these companies would never have been founded in the founders' home countries. This is a prime example of the GLOBAL benefits of moving labor from low-productivity countries to high-productivity countries.

[Max Shen @maxkshen]

every winter the ground squirrel basically dissolves 60% of its synapses, and its heartbeat slows to around 2 beats per minute.

somehow it is able to recover ~all its connection within 2 hours of waking, and recalls all its alliances

[Slazac 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇹🇼🌐 @TrueSlazac]

I absolutely love reading stories of confused peasants who have no notion of national identity being told they belong to a greater heritage and they just respond “idk man I just live here”

[Richard Hanania @RichardHanania]

This is actually quite telling. You can be as racist as you want, there’s practically no limit. There are limits on women and gays.

[The Cutlass Magazine®️ @cutlassmagazine]

Many Indian indentured labourers were told they were going to “Chīnīdād” (land of cheenee or sugar, another name for Trinidad), “Srī-Rām” (Suriname), and “Damrailā/Damrā” (Demerara area in Guyana); believing those were the names of places in India.

[Mad Milton @PhilipPanass]

For the Dehaat Mazdoor Tanzeem, a Pakistani Maoist group organizing in the Punjabi countryside, Harappa became the rallying point for imagining a more egalitarian future. Its heirs, they argued, were neither Indians nor Pakistanis, but the subcontinent's landless laborers. (2/n)

[Michael (Allegedly) @MichaelAlleged]

fun fact about Texan culture: because Texan society emphasizes egalitarianism, everyone age 2+ is referred to as Mr. or Miss/Mrs.

[Nαтe Blαncнeтт @NateBlanchett]

James Talarico is not gay fwiw. I tried to cruise him in an Austin gay bar men’s room in 2019 and he told me I was a child of God then gave me an informational pamphlet on PrEP

[Daniel Schteingart @danyscht]

Alguna vez se dijo que Brasil era "Belindia" (porque convivían territorios parecidos a Bélgica con otros parecidos a India).

La verdad es que era una buena caracterización. Los pobres brasileños tienen un nivel de ingresos muy similar al de los pobres de India, mientras que los ricos brasileños uno bastante cercano al de los ricos belgas.

[Ishaan Tharoor @ishaantharoor]

Wow. @derspiegel has made millions of Nazi party membership cards searchable so Germans can look up their ancestors and get a glimpse of what they were doing under Hitler

[Nikolaj🇺🇦🇵🇸 @nikicaga]

Zohran keeps doing the thing where some Republicans use coded phrases to signify to white supremacists that they're TheirGuy, but with YIMBYs

[Hunter📈🌈📊 @StatisticUrban]

I guess we should remember Biden only lost Texas by 5.6 points.

A very blue national environment + the uniquely awful Paxton could put Texas genuinely in play. Democrats need to recover some of their losses with Asian and Hispanic voters while gaining more in the suburbs.

[jstaju @justajoooo]

@NikePS5 to understand this stuff we gotta think about the landscape of evolutionary fitness for the algo. there was always a frat boy foot shaped chasm.

[Emily @writerofscratch]

Pope calls for a Butlerian Jihad and suddenly all the larpers who were begging for a new crusade are nowhere to be seen.

[François Valentin @Valen10Francois]

There's a funny American version of this:

1) Enthusiastic pro-US non-western moderniser goes to the US

2) Is disgusted/disappointed by what he sees

3) Becomes a massive anti-American reactionary

Wang Hunin, Solzhenitsyn, Edward Saïd, Sayyid Qutb...

[jstaju @justajoooo]

@blancmontagnard $200k at 35 compounded over 30 years at 8% real returns is literally $2 million. That 35 year old will be further than the 65 year old when they’re 65.

[Evan McGarvey @evanmcgarvey]

During his divorce, Jack Welch’s first wife busted out decades of dinner invitations, seating charts, and correspondence to prove that he could not have written to the top of the corporate world without her meticulous cultivation of relationships among the elite