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@Noahpinion he praised america for having the greatest opportunities for immigrants in a recent intervie (trevor noah?)

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@dela3499 this is one of those things like 2 people on the planet appreciate

hello im that other person

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@Noahpinion [citation needed]

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@ContraPoints if you werent an obsessive weirdo your videos would be shit

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@ToKTeacher @KonstantinKisin what happens when you tax land

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@JonahDispatch some people sure but not AOC
https://t.co/HJazdPMDFU

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

@nypost Wrong!

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@perrycynic @FrankBraconi why should i care that rent-seekers are outvoted

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@JonahDispatch none of those have positive first order effects

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@VividProwess @grok what would Ben-Gvir do?

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@mattyglesias which would be preferable to the rigged lottery where the same small number of people always get the winning tickets

right?

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@Noahpinion @paulg i dont want the demography to be centrally planned by the government

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@EconTalker i want to hate him but dammit if i dont like almost every movie he has ever done

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@mattyglesias you are just figuring this out?

https://t.co/zouoXkPIYq

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@ToKTeacher @harari_yuval @JoHenrich @DavidDeutschOxf https://t.co/nUIpKLPndw

[Richard Hanania @RichardHanania]

I review Joseph Henrich’s The WEIRDest People in the World. It’s a book that provides deep insights into human history while also having some of the hallmarks of the problems of modern social science. https://t.co/r9AHUf2EYK

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@mungowitz human interaction in stores is good actually

the other day i had to wait in line at the gas station and the conversation was the highlight of my week

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@vocalcry kinda based
i bet they wont call themselves fatty again

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@areyouawitchor2 ed coan surpassed all his competition in powerlifting by 15%
(rules/equipment have since changed making comparison with current day lifters more difficult)

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@SaracenBoi @ToKTeacher @harari_yuval @JoHenrich @DavidDeutschOxf good thing us popperians are antifoundationalists and know that there is no tethering to be had

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@ToKTeacher @harari_yuval @JoHenrich @DavidDeutschOxf i think of henrichs first book as explaining human history from 2 million years ago until ~1000 years ago
his second book explains ~1000 years ago til 500 years ago
deutsch explains 500 years ago to present

maybe theres some tensions between them on careful reading

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@ToKTeacher @harari_yuval @JoHenrich @DavidDeutschOxf i think henrich tends to call it "overimitation" and i dont think he says its "mindless" but i could be wrong

the important bit is that humans but not apes tend to copy behaviors with no clear purpose

apes have a purpose in mind and will only copy behaviors that help achieve it

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@ToKTeacher @harari_yuval @JoHenrich @DavidDeutschOxf as an example many cultures nixtamalize (treat with potash) corn, nobody in the culture knows exactly why, but now we know it prevents pellegra and its a disease that takes decades to manifest so the causation is very difficult to suss out