I think about this pretty much every day

In a study on race and juror decision-making, participants evaluated an identical defendant whose name was either Bradley Schwartz or Jamal Gaines. Black respondents were significantly more likely to convict and more harshly sentence the white-named defendant, while white respondents showed no statistically significant bias in either direction.

If you were disgusted when I reported that a judge sentenced an asylum seeker to 30 months for kidnapping and sexually assaulting a 7 year old. then how will you feel when you find out that the Judge put him down for Labour's early release scheme and he will only serve 6 months?

“How could the grooming gangs happen in England?” This here. This media we have. Because of their class and the fact they appear “tough” *children* like this were made out to be consenting participants in their own abuse. “Ahh it’s just chavy kids who cares”.

As a Japanese watching the UK right now, I have one simple question. A Sudanese asylum seeker just tried to behead a local man in Belfast. The victim lost an eye. This comes after years of grooming gangs raping thousands of British girls — gangs that police and councils deliberately ignored because they were afraid of being called racist. In Japan, even one case like this would have triggered national outrage and immediate policy reversal. But in Britain, the conversation is still about “not being far-right.” British people, at what point does protecting your own children become more important than protecting your reputation? We genuinely do not understand this.

Wanting a "better life" does not make you an asylum seeker, and leaving your wife and child behind is very poor behaviour.

Isn't it so weird that every British teenager gets examined on their ability to produce a readable piece of literary criticism without ever reading any literary criticism, just going by mnemonics, a bit like medieval people drawing elephants

This dopey poem implies that members of these groups would have spoken out for me. lol. lmao, even

Incredible how quickly the left went from environmental NIMBYism to "cut down every tree on the planet and pave over every field so we can battery farm Bomalians."

throughout this, I have been reminded of how last year, when 𝐴𝑑𝑜𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑐𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 was released, we were encouraged to have a national conversation about a fictional murder

Almost all street activism is secondary to and proceeds from a prior elite consensus. Most protests are for things the government is already doing, rainbow bullshit to climate to civil rights. Protests don't influence regime policy, generally, they express it.

How do you know she’s a witch? She looks like one. How do you know he’s a racist? I perceive him as one. Same thing.

I used to watch good people and pity them. they were so careful with others, so deliberate in their kindness, and it went unrewarded every time. the cruel ones got the promotions, the clever ones took their ideas. the world seemed designed to punish goodness and reward the exact opposite. that was all there was to it, it was a law, as immutable as anything i could observe. Until enough time passed, maybe five years, maybe ten, and i check back in, and the clever cruel ones are sitting in some kitchen alone, looking old. and the good ones walk into a room and you can feel everybody soften. they didn't win anything you can measure, but people are glad they're alive. and no amount of success has ever replicated that. and it made me realize i didn't understand what fruit meant. i was looking for the wrong crop

String theory is probably a field that has set back quant trading by at least 10 years. Stealing top tier trading talent to do make believe 26 dimensional geometry, inflate boomer professors’s grant budget, and produce zero testable hypotheses or applications after 50 years

How I first studied Shakespeare so I could actually learn it and understand what he was talking about: 1. I listened to audio versions of the play while following along with the text. Actors provide emotions/tone to help you understand the scene. This also meant I could stop when I needed to so I could look up words or context. 2. In a 3 hour play, I would stop about every 30 minutes and watch a summary or listen to a lecture about that section. Then continue to the next section. 3. Then I would watch a performance (usually on YouTube). Lots of Shakespeare performances on YT for free. 4. Now I can read entire plays or just certain sections, and I enjoy them. I actually know what's going on. I can appreciate the language (without wondering "What the hell does this word mean?")

i've realized the longevity of six seven is b/c its the opposite of The Game [ie: you 'win' each time you find it in an unexpected place and loudly proclaim it]

Oh my god

Bateson used to give his students the exercise below, as a way of answering, "what is this course really about?"