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Dave Stephens retweeted
Terrifying Study Reveals There Are Still People Getting Vaccinated For COVID buff.ly/bMcJ6oa
The problem with certain very high end restaurants is they seem to believe that food is an acquired taste.
If they place a sufficiently fancy dish in front of you and you find it disgusting: you’re just too ignorant to realize that it’s delicious.
I have always wondered why everyone gets out of the pool when it starts to rain.
There were 50+ people in there. Light sprinkle started. Everyone now under umbrellas. Strange.
I gotta figure out a way to chill out.
I figured Wordle would help.
Today the word was "THETA."
I now want to find the sick sonofabitch that chose that word and . . . deep breath . . . have a stern conversation with him.
Dave Stephens retweeted
The First Amendment starts with a pretty radical bet: people can be trusted with ideas, even bad ones.
That experiment has worked out pretty well.
Happy Constitution Day to the amendment built on the unfashionable idea that nobody gets the final word on what may be said!
Dave Stephens retweeted
I was surprised to see my work discussed in expansive detail in a PhD thesis, and then I read the page-length footnote that sounds like one long preemptive apology from the author for taking my work seriously. You’re not allowed to talk about “cancelled” pariahs in a world where allegations are convictions and ideological conformity is more important than the actual work, and it’s extremely unsettling and depressing to me.
@jmasseypoet Did you see this in the WSJ today?
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I'm gonna go to Amazon and buy another copy of your book now. lol
Dave Stephens retweeted
If you want evidence that capitalism is a force for good, just visit a grocery store.
My ode to the humble American supermarket, for @WSJFreeEx
Most (or about half) of us would be dead or never born without Haber-Bosch technology, and most of us have never heard of it.
And if the "Stop Oil" kids got their way, millions of people would starve to death. 95% of all fertilizer relies on fossil fuel production.
I love LOTR, read it many times.
I still have heartburn over the name of Gandalf's horse, "Shadowfax."
Why TF would you name a WHITE horse "Shadow" anything?!
I read the series many times between 12 and whatever old ass age I was when the movies came out. I was outraged at the white horse that they put under Gandalf. "Shadowfax is pitch black! As everyone knows who has read the books, you ignorant fucks!!"
Then I went back and read the book carefully.
It's a white horse named "Shadow-whatever the fuck."
WTF, JRR? WTF?!
Dave Stephens retweeted
The famous Hindsgavl Dagger, found by a young boy out walking with his mum on the Danish island of Fænø!
A masterpiece of flint knapping from Late Neolithic Denmark, c. 1900-1700 BC.
📷 National Museum of Denmark
#Archaeology
ALT A photo of the Hindsgavl Dagger by Arnold Mikkelsen for the National Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen. It is knapped from flint which appears a burnt orange colour in the photo, displayed against a black background. The Hindsgavl Dagger is a type of late Neolithic flint blade known as a ‘fishtail’ dagger. It has a leaf-shaped body and a distinctive fishtail-shaped hilt. There is zig-zag knapping on the hilt which is said to mimic the stitched seam on leather handles of bronze daggers. The blade is less than 1 cm thick. The Hindsgavl Dagger is famous in Denmark and features on the Danish 100 Krone bank note. Dimensions: 29.5 cm in length.
Dave Stephens retweeted
Something is at war with us, “us” being regular citizens who want things to work and to be left alone. We’re slow to react because we think in terms of nations. Our enemies are mafias that wear our governments like a cloak to defeat our eyes, and fly our flags to disarm our minds
Dave Stephens retweeted
Be aware that major AI companies are not above inventing or exaggerating the risks of their models for hype.
Dave Stephens retweeted
Elon Musk just put a price tag on obedience. It costs $200,000.
Musk: “You don’t need college to learn stuff. Everything is available basically for free. You can learn anything you want for free.”
Every lecture. Every textbook. Every framework ever written. Free on any screen in any country right now. The entire knowledge monopoly collapsed in a decade. Nobody updated the price tag.
Musk: “Colleges are basically for fun and to prove you can do your chores. But they’re not for learning.”
Strip the ivy and the branding. What’s underneath is a four-year obedience trial. Can this person follow instructions on a schedule without asking why.
Musk: “There is a value that colleges have, which is seeing whether somebody can work hard at something, including a bunch of annoying homework assignments, and still do their homework assignments.”
That is the entire six-figure value proposition. Not what you know. Not what you can build. Whether you can be managed. The establishment doesn’t need you educated. It needs you domesticated.
Musk: “If you’re trying to do something exceptional, you must have evidence of exceptional ability. I don’t consider going to college evidence of exceptional ability.”
The system doesn’t produce exceptional. It produces manageable. It takes the most creative years of your life and teaches you to wait for instructions. That is not education. That is containment.
Musk: “Gates is a pretty smart guy, he dropped out. Jobs is pretty smart, he dropped out. Larry Ellison, smart guy, he dropped out.”
They didn’t leave because they couldn’t keep up. They left because the ceiling was underground.
8 billion people now carry the same library in their pocket. The one these institutions charged a lifetime of debt to access.
The only product the university still sells is the belief that you need one.
Dave Stephens retweeted
To the Americans:
I've travelled all over the world. I've familiarized myself with many places, and met many people. And I'm a Canadian, although I’m privileged to reside once again in the States.
And here's something I've noticed, and it’s a key element of America's continuing greatness:
You bloody Americans value success, and you believe in its existence.
This is something that doesn't really happen anywhere else in the world. Even in other free democracies—the United Kingdom; Finland, Sweden, and Norway; Australia, New Zealand and Canada; Germany, France, and the Netherlands (great countries all)—a counterproductive cynicism too often reigns.
Success is equated with exploitation.
Ambition is looked upon with contempt.
This happens sometimes in the United States too—particularly among the miserable progressives, who confuse their resentment, ingratitude and unearned skepticism with wisdom.
But in your great country, by and large, striving is admired and success celebrated.
This means that more people strive and succeed in the US than anywhere else. And it's increasingly obvious. You remain stunningly more innovative and productive than any people anywhere else on the planet.
And so I say, as all should who are fortunate enough to live in the western world, let alone America:
Thank God for the United States.
Thank God for the wisdom of its founders.
Thank God for its faith in the free market and in the natural rights of man.
Happy birthday, you damn Yankees and Southerners.
Long may your admirable country dominate the world.
Long may your freedom and hope provide an example to those suffering everywhere at the hands of their malevolent states.
May your two and a half centuries of unparallelled success be just the beginning.
Your country is the light of the world, and the city on the hill.
Thank God for the USA.
Happy 250th.
Dr. Jordan B. Peterson
