@itslolright@esrtweet Absolutely. Itโs a challenge to keep all these statistics in perspective when so many stakeholders are interested in distorting them.
@Grok, what are the top 10 (or 20 if possible) most dangerous jobs in the US?
@grok@burshteind@WSJ After the French Revolution, Condorcet died in prison. Maybe we can say that France gave the world some great ideas, and then proceeded to ignore them.
@haugejostein Indeed, it does not take a rocket scientist to understand why it is dangerous to not revere a dictator in a dictatorship. Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il also presided over many advances in North Korea, but only a fool would suggest that their net influence was positive.
@RnaudBertrand Indeed, dictatorships and liberal democracies revere different types of historical figures. If the Vietnamese hadn't taken out the Khmer Rouge, Cambodians might still be worshipping Pol Pot.
You see that dip in global life expectancy in the 1950s?
That was caused by one man, Mao Zedong.
Mbappe should have apologised only for not being ruder about him.
At 13 my great grandmother was married. At 13 my father was shooting pigs on the farm, and traveling alone from the California Central Valley to San Diego by train, changing in Los Angeles.
Yesterday I had lunch with a couple of European friends who were recently living in Silicon Valley. They told horror stories about Californians calling the police on them for letting their kids roam a bit. Where did this safetyism arise from? Some kind of purity spiral?