britain, a country where being able to remember things that happened is considered cheating in a political discussion

— milo edwards (@Milo_Edwards) September 30, 2022

This is considered cheating everywhere.

Watch what happens if you mention that Russia already invaded Ukraine in 2014, or that Ukraine voluntarily gave up its nuclear weapons in 1994 in exchange for security guarantees from Russia and the US. If you bring up either of these facts, it’s considered to be in bad taste and somehow is either a “conspiracy theory” or that you’ve drawn upon esoteric knowledge that no one could possibly know and that is now too antiquated anyway to be at all relevant.

It is very fucking odd.

Every Putin speech is him rambling on about shit like “the effete West is trying to ‘cancel’ Russian culture for believing there are only two genders” and then people on here will nod sagely and say “yes, we must grapple with his well-articulated concerns about NATO expansion”

— Quantian (@quantian1) September 30, 2022

Ha. Yes. Our “left” has left all sense behind.

I am genuinely sad that Ian Welsh can only spout Russian propaganda these days. It’s like watching someone previously interesting and intelligent get Alzheimer’s. I think Covid (not having it, witnessing it) broke his brain and it was all downhill from there.

It’s disturbing that things like that can just…happen to people. One day you’re normal and the next, you’re dancing to Putin’s tune. I shudder to think that something like that could happen to me.

If you elect me to Congress with a Republican majority, I promise to enact my "No Dancin' Act" and we will finally use the power of the federal government to keep Baby in the corner. https://t.co/ijDQrYPmW9

— Oliver Willis (@owillis) September 29, 2022

Yeah, that tweet from Noah Smith…what the hell? Who the ever-livin’ fuck sees little kids’ dance recitals as sexualized?

If you see them that way the problem is with YOU, not the with damn dance recital. I mean what the fuck.

The pandemic may have changed young adults’ personalities, study finds.

But (fake) scientists tell me there are no generational differences and that even thinking so is absurd. When in reality, everyone but clueless numpties know there are such differences and that they can matter a whole lot.

What young people went through during the pandemic — how we tortured them for no purpose — has changed them forever. This will be another huge generational difference that scientists will declare doesn’t exist because it can’t be captured neatly in an Excel spreadsheet but that nevertheless is and will be completely obvious to anyone who isn’t an utter clown.

RSV is typically not given the attention it deserves, but has an annual hospitalization rate of 2,300 per 100,000 children under the age of 1. (In comparison, the estimated hospitalizations rate is 30-40 per 100,000 children for flu and 48 per 100,000 children for COVID-19, pre-vaccine.).

This was why I was making fun of the COVID WILL KILL ALL THE KIDS 900 TIMES!!!!!! people, as RSV is far worse for kids and until now no one has given a crap about it ever.

i’m pretty sure that a 600dB horn would rip a hole in space time, decibels are logarithmic, 600dB is 100 quintillion times louder than a saturn v pic.twitter.com/vdxr1x3rck

— henry 🏳️‍🌈 (@Hieywiey1) September 21, 2022

Indeed. As the decibel scale is as noted logarithmic, so 600dB would be significantly more energy than the largest supernova ever. That much energy released at once would tear apart the entire galaxy (really) and probably any neighboring ones too.

(In other words, no way that horn does 600 decibels.)

Humans have an impressive ability to recognize faces. Is our face processing system adaptable?

A clever paper shows it isn’t, by measuring our ability to recognize masked faces over the course of the pandemic. Despite lots of practice, we didn’t improve. https://t.co/Cc6UnhM8Po pic.twitter.com/sgYWsJc6kr

— Ethan Mollick (@emollick) September 27, 2022

So human facial recognition is like an ASIC.

One of my basic takes on wokeness is that essentially all of the problems it identifies are real, but very few of the solutions it came up with are effective.

— Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 (@Noahpinion) September 26, 2022

I agree with that. Nearly all of what “woke” people are concerned with actually does occur to some extent, but how they plan to combat it either would intensify the problem or have no effect at all. For example: racial disparities. The woke solution is left-inflected resegregation which would make society massively worse and not even help those they believe to be harmed.

Somehow, the woke manged to identify a real problem but then propose the worst solution imaginable other than outright genocide. A bit puzzling to say the least.

Almond milk is a vile abomination not fit for humans nor animals.

the complete moral capitulation by some segments of the left has been something to watch. In the year 2022, intellectual descendants of rosa luxembourg criticizing iranian women and propping up an imperialist warmonger

— Seva (@SevaUT) September 25, 2022

This was inevitable when hijabs and burqas started to become “feminist” in their minds. The rise of the New Puritans was always going to lead to this sort of retrograde insanity.