Some influences: Tooby, Cosmides, Symons, Pinker, (EvPsych); James Thompson, Timothy C. Bates (IQ and genius); Kenneth Harl (History, many Great Courses.)
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So, if we have this correct about Star Wars, Han Solo was a drug runner and smuggler for a space mobster whose favorite hobby was feeding sex slaves to his pet Rancor (sex slaves that Han might've trafficked himself). Later, he helped blow up a defense installation, killing millions, mainly because it was getting in the way of his business of drug and sex trafficking. And for all this, the Rebel Alliance made him a General, yet somehow we're supposed to believe the Rebels are the good guys and the Empire is bad? Take a hike, bozo.
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Plus, most people don't seem to understand that about 50-70% of all fertilized eggs don't make it to the point of birth, largely becomes women's bodies are running their own 'quality control' operations to select the healthiest babies.
The maternal endometrium is an active 'biosensor' of embryo quality. If it senses an embryo that's likely to be bad, the moms' body will suppress the key implantation factors, withdraw support, and allow the embryo to disintegrate.
This happen all the time. To the majority of pregnancies.
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35% das mulheres afirmam ter namorado um psicopata
42% afirmam ter namorado um sociopata
55% afirmam ter namorado um narcisista
1,5% dos homens são psicopatas
4% são sociopatas
6% são narcisistas
Penso q as chances d conquistar mulheres são melhores se fores mentalmente doente
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Things in Western Europe will improve when a few hard realities are understood:
1. Europe has no God-given right to be wealthy or stable. Things can & will decline and fall apart if not maintained and adapted to new realities. Things that worked in the 1970s may be counterproductive now.
2. Energy is the basis of the economy. Without it, nothing else matters. While efficiency will be important, any economy where energy is scarce will inevitably be one that struggles
3. Not all cultures are equal. Some create prosperity, some lead to misery, some are outright evil. If Europe doesn't accept this, the cultural basis of its previous success & prosperity will be destroyed forever
4. Have kids, or die out. In the long term, few things matter this much. You can't create a European future if there are no Europeans left for it, and as the experiences of the last few decades show, non-European immigration simply makes Europe culturally less European - and doesn't magically make these people culturally European.
5. The state can not - and should not - save every individual from him/herself from him/her bad choices or ineptitudes. The idea of a nanny state which can ensure that everyone always live comfortably with minimal effort & contributions 100% of time is not feasible. The socialist promises of 30 years of wealthy retirements for everyone and Europe being able to take on endless low skill immigration were lies.
6. If a society has no way for ambitious & creative people to get rich from working hard, everyone will get poorer because of it. The hard truth is that much of our economic future depends on businesses being built & transformed by ambitious & sometimes ruthless individuals. Not everyone is able or willing to do this, and without them, there is no one to employ others and no wealth & growth to tax. But if businesses & wealth are seen solely as an evil force to be taxed into oblivion, they will go elsewhere.
7. In some cases, the best way for society to deal with a criminal is to lock them up and throw away the key. A small percentage of humans are ticking time bombs - low IQs, high aggression potential, psychopathic traits, socialised into criminal structures or a culture of lawlessness. Society can't fix them. They go in and out of court rooms and across Europe states, NGOs & social workers waste billions of hours & Euros to try & fix the unfixable. Not least because of mass immigration from dysfunctional societies, our legal systems & high trust societies built on principles such as the benefit of the doubt & correction via socialisation are overwhelmed by the amount of aggressive young men with no interest to contribute to society.
All of this is fixable. But the first step is accepting reality.
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Yes, Duke Leto fully realized he was being used as a pawn. He and his advisors (especially Thufir Hawat and Gurney Halleck) understood the political calculation: House Atreides had grown too popular and its forces too effective, making them a direct threat to the Emperor’s position and the delicate balance of the Landsraad. The transfer to Arrakis was engineered to strip them of their homeworld advantage on Caladan, place them in a hostile environment controlled by their blood enemies the Harkonnens, and set up their destruction while allowing the Emperor plausible deniability.
What makes Leto’s choice tragic is that awareness did not change the outcome. Refusing the Emperor’s order would have been treated as open rebellion, forfeiting Caladan immediately and painting the Atreides as renegades with the full weight of the Sardaukar and the Landsraad arrayed against them. Accepting bought time, the theoretical wealth of spice, and the slim chance of forging an alliance with the Fremen strong enough to survive the coming attack. He walked into the trap with his eyes open, hoping skill, loyalty, and “desert power” could still turn the game in his favor. That combination of clear-eyed realism and Atreides honor is exactly what made his downfall inevitable.
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Most people know him for a productivity rule. Almost nobody knows he predicted the exact collapse of the modern managerial elite.
Long before modern commentators tried to explain why bureaucratic institutions despise the working public, an Italian nobleman named Vilfredo Pareto already mapped the entire crisis. Today, business consultants reduce his legacy to the "Pareto Principle" (the 80/20 rule). In doing so, they conceal his far more dangerous work: a ruthless, mathematically precise philosophy that exposed the grand illusion of mass democracy.
Pareto was an aristocrat, mathematician, and civil engineer who ran Italy's railways before abandoning public life in disgust. Retreating to a villa on Lake Geneva alongside twenty Angora cats, he spent his final decades studying how power actually functions. While Karl Marx peddled the fantasy of a classless utopia and liberal academics preached that voters run the state, Pareto arrived at a colder truth. Society is never ruled by the masses. It is always ruled by an organized elite, and history is merely the battlefield where one elite replaces another.
His most lethal insight was the division of power between two archetypes: the Foxes and the Lions.
Foxes are the managerial class. They are subtle, cautious, manipulative, and obsessed with consensus. They rule through bureaucratic procedures, financial schemes, media spin, and institutional maneuver. They loathe physical courage, despise traditional religion, and avoid direct confrontation at all costs. Instead, they bleed a civilization dry through taxes, regulations, and endless legal pettifoggery, convinced that clever rhetoric can overcome basic reality.
Lions, by contrast, are grounded in loyalty, family, faith, and sovereign borders. They do not care for administrative games. They value strength, decisive action, and the preservation of their heritage. When a nation is young and rising, it is led by Lions who defend its sovereignty with unapologetic force.
Pareto warned that over time, the Foxes always infiltrate the administrative apparatus. They purge the Lions from universities, courts, and civil service, creating an insulated bubble of self-congratulatory managers. Yet because Foxes are fundamentally cowardly, they cannot defend their own borders or sustain the economic foundation they harvest. They mistake compliance for loyalty, and they mistake their echo chamber for reality.
Their rule always ends the same way. As Pareto observed:
"History is a graveyard of aristocracies."
When a managerial regime becomes entirely composed of decadent Foxes, it rots from within. The moment crisis arrives, their paperwork and procedural tricks collapse, opening the gates for a new generation of Lions to sweep them away. What we are witnessing across the West today is not an ideological accident; it is the inevitable historical reckoning Pareto guaranteed more than a century ago.
The recent jet crash, flying into a convention current. The far better safety record per flight of commercial airlines who have the safety of their investment in the plane in mind- Pilots of private jets have to please the owner, who just wants to get to the party on time.
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Long post worth the read. I have a close friend who flies private jets. He flew Lear 60 for over 15 years and now flies a Gulfstream. This is a copy and paste of his response to me asking him if he thought Ice was the issue.
“We always fly in ridiculous cold temperatures.”
“Usually you get the bad ice when the temperatures are like 0 to negative 20. Believe it or not, there's a point where it gets too cold for ice. At negative 40, you pretty much can't get ice. Besides that, the airplane is equipped with hot wings and hot tail.”
“I flew the Lear 60 for like 15 years. It's a no joke airplane and probably the most dangerous airplane I've ever flown. It has a super critical wing. The airflow has to be perfect. When it gets into rough air and turbulence, it will easily stall. It has stalled on me at 41,000 feet just because we got into some turbulence. (On the way to Palm Beach as a matter of fact. ) we recovered and got her flying again around 30,000 ft. Scary
But here's the problem. This airplane has a terrible coffin corner. (At high altitudes) what that means is, you fly in a really narrow window where if you lose 20 knots, it stalls. And if you gain 20 knots, it goes into overspeed. The air goes supersonic over the wing and it goes into a high speed stall, or worse, a Mach tuck.
So if you stall, the normal recovery is to push the yoke forward to lower the nose and gain air speed again. At low altitude, you can push really hard and recover quickly. But in the 60... if you push hard, it will gain air speed and go into a high speed stall, it doesn't take much. It's very sensitive. The 60 has super short wings that don't make much lift. So then you high speed stall, and the computer is yelling at you... OVERSPEED! So then you pull back and enter a low speed stall. And you go back and forth trying to keep it in the air speed window.
This whole thing is pretty scary. And you should recover basically by using your finger tips using super small corrections. You can't over do it. If you try to muscle the recovery, she gets mad and will become unrecoverable. If she enters a mach tuck. You're done.”
“I taught the Lear 60 to other pilots and mentored them. I told them... this airplane has a soul and it's trying to kill you. Do not ever try to top the weather. Don't go over a thunderstorm. Go around it. If it means a half hour longer, then do it. Going over the thunderstorm will go into turbulence that you might not recover from.
These pilots went right over a thunderstorm. I think it stalled which caused them to drop down into the thunderstorm and ended up in mach tuck. They picked up so much speed that it ripped off the horizontal stabilizer. At that point... chuck Yeager can't fix it.
These same pilots did something similar a couple months ago. ATC got mad at them. They poked the bear one too many times.
This is not a beginner airplane. The Gulfstream would never do this. It has HUGE margins of error and won't stall like that. But then again... it's got HUGE wings. It's a pussy cat.
The Gulfstream is like driving a 4 wheeler. The Lear 60 is like riding a uni cycle.”
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Insulin resistance at 55, memory loss at 75.
Finnish researchers measured insulin resistance in people around age 55, then tested their memory and scanned their brains for amyloid two decades later.
Over 5 years of late-life follow-up, memory declined about twice as fast in those who had been insulin resistant in midlife. Brain amyloid, the Alzheimer's protein, explained the link.
Small study, but it fits with everything else we know.
Fix your insulin in midlife, before the memory goes.
doi.org/10.1016/j.neurobiola…
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Nietzsche
Proust
Richard D. Alexander
Robert Bresson
Bach
Edward Hopper
Schopenhauer
Michelangelo Antonioni
Takeshi Kitano
Cormac McCarthy
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One NGO made $115,000,000 to traffic children across the United States.
This is how it worked:
- Kids trafficked by cartel
- Sent to an NGO
- NGO receives millions of your tax dollars from the government
- Then sends kid to “sponsor,” no biometrics, no DNA testing
- Never see or hear from the child again
These NGOs are more secure than the border, with high spiked gates, cameras, and no access to the front desk. Ask a question and they will call the police. This is why it's important to vote.
🚨 Inside the Largest Government Funded Human Trafficking Ring in History: Your tax dollars trafficked over 300,000 children across the United States while NGOs enriched themselves with millions of dollars.
One NGO received $895 million to traffic children across the US. Others got $100+ million, and NGOs in areas like Tucson, Arizona pocketed millions but now receive nothing since the border shut down.
In this video we break down the contracts, speak with former Border Patrol, and confront the NGOs. It’s a must watch, like it and share it. Make sure no one forgets the hundreds of children lost in the government’s hands.
Some people literally worry themselves to death, and anxiety drives most of or all of the psyche-soma 'psychosomatic' disorders, including CVD. But people avoiding trying this to explain to those that excessively worry, lest they be accused of being dismissive of their feelings.
Well, we tried to check this as extensively as possible in our paper. Across 23 diagnoses in ~36k UK Biobank siblings, no disease was more common at lower depression PGS. All 12 significant associations ran the other way (hypertension, asthma, T2D, CAD, VTE, bipolar, schizophrenia…).
In ABCD kids (9-17y) we looked at 2,328 behavioral and psychiatric outcomes. Of 1,494 significant associations, ~97% pointed the expected way: lower PGS, fewer mood, anxiety, psychosis-like and mania symptoms, less bullying, better sleep, more exercise. The exceptions were small. Lower-PGS kids were a bit more thrill-seeking (“I’d like to ski very fast down a mountain”) and did slightly less art, music and boxing. The thrill-seeking didn’t replicate within families, and low PGS was also correlated with fewer injuries and less substance use.
Afaict this fits the general literature - depression liability correlates positively with nearly every psychiatric and cardiometabolic disorder. We know of no well-replicated disease on the other side.
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Riots in the '60s really did screw up neighborhoods permanently. Building on astonishing data, this paper shows that large negative shocks are sufficient to tip cities into new equilibriums altogether, while small shocks can be recovered from. 1/
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FYI, I have written a 50-page treatise on why this nonshared environmental theory is wrong and why it drives misplaced resistance to genetic explanations for human behavioural differences, but don't be put off by the length! There is a 2-page Executive Summary that outlines the whole argument at the start, and the central argument is prosecuted in Part 2, which is only 13 pages long. zenodo.org/records/22110727
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And as you've been told my others, if the employer knows you can't quit, and that if he fires you you're going to be deported, you have essentially no negotiating power over anything.
It's funny how often 'capitalists' turn out to actually hate free markets, always want a way to thumb the scale.
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A philosopher has created a new ranking of philosophy journals based on how often their articles are cited in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. dailynous.com/2026/11/03/new…
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🥀"Through inventive rewards (yes, including sex), tailored punishments, teasing, and other techniques, you will learn how to get better gifts out of him, how to make honesty his default, how to manage your own jealousy, and so much more."
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🔴New finding! More advanced societies came first. Higher genetic scores linked to intelligence followed.
Could civilisation have helped select for intelligence? Could the influence also run the other way?
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