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USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving. Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free. I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these." "They just come with the table, man." They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner. This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat. I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then — I must report this calmly — the basket emptied, and a new one appeared. "Did we…?" "Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless." Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined. My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude." Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished — an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man. I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy. Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived. I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most. Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.

Leftists are utterly incapable of understanding that there already is a class consciousness and political education in this country. We received that education at their hands over the last 12 years, and the class consciousness that developed as a result led us to conclude that they were the enemy. Middle America harbors a deep and almost indescribable level of contempt for the Progressive managerial class that runs this country's formerly prestigious and now utterly compromised institutions. Of course, Leftists will never admit this. They'll simply try to say that "billionaires" or "the 1%" are deluding or manipulating "the people" into blaming the litany of sacred victim classes that Hasan rattled off in that tweet. These people will never concede the fact that enormous swaths of the general public reject Leftism not because they've been told to do so, but because they have years of lived experiences seeing with their own two eyes that Leftist activists and agitators are the elites ruining this country. Hasan is utterly blind to this. He can't see that millions of Americans hate him, personally, and everyone like him. Whether he wants to admit it or not, Americans do not see him as a revolutionary outsider. They see guys like him as the ruling regime that they want to overthrow.

The addendum to this is that if you do have a large number of citations committed to memory, they will tell you that you're weirdly obsessed with the topic

Tourism bans, Airbnb bans, these are bad ideas Hypertourism should be taxed into manageable levels with Pigovian tools like this 👇 You don't need a ban, you need an aggressive but thoughtful tax regime that moderates hypertourism & yields wide public benefit

Japan punctures pretty much every liberal story about the source of racial resentment Cultural appropriation is cute/encouraged, historical grievances apparently don't matter, we're very different but that's not a problem

“Modern women are playing a collective game of chicken to avoid wasting any more of their youth and beauty on their future husbands than they absolutely have to.” —Dalrock

I’m a chemist. I need to say this - because it’s getting dangerous out there. The biggest health myth in the world isn’t about vaccines. Or GMOs. Or fluoride. It’s the root of all of them. It’s called chemophobia - and it’s killing science. Fear of “chemicals” now drives vaccine rejection, GMO bans, food hysteria, and entire political movements. From tampons to tap water, people have been taught to fear chemistry - the very thing that keeps us alive. Chemophobia tells us: “Natural is good.” “Synthetic is bad.” That’s a lie. Botulinum toxin is 100% natural and one of the deadliest molecules known. Aspirin is synthetic and life-saving. We’ve gone from banning harmful substances for good reason…to banning safe, well-tested molecules for emotional reasons. You’ve seen the slogans: “If you can’t pronounce it, don’t eat it.” “Paraben-free.” “Clean beauty.” They sound empowering. But they’re not science - they’re marketing. And they’re making the world dumber, poorer, and sicker. Your body doesn’t care if a molecule comes from a plant or a lab. Vitamin C is vitamin C. Formaldehyde is formaldehyde and your body makes more of it every day than any vaccine ever could. Dose matters. Source doesn’t. This fear isn’t harmless. It shapes public policy. It blocks innovation. It raises food prices. It slows down cancer treatments. Chemophobia is now mainstream and it’s costing lives. Scientists aren’t losing because we’re wrong. We’re losing because fear spreads faster than facts. Because influencers sell fear for clicks. Because lawyers monetize doubt. And because scientists are too tired to fight back. So here’s my message, as a chemist and as a citizen: Learn how toxicology works. Call out chemical fear-mongering. Support policies based on evidence, not emotion. Chemistry isn’t the enemy. It’s the reason you have clean water, safe food, and modern medicine. If we let fear win, we lose all of it.

Everyone misses the point on mouse utopia. The standard reading of it is essentially Malthusian: too many mice, not enough space, behavioral collapse, "beautiful ones" withdraw, population dies. The popular takeaway becomes either "overpopulation doom" or "decadence causes civilizational collapse", which are moralistic framings that don't really explain anything. What actually happened is that the mice were placed in an environment where all constraint navigation was removed. No need to explore, forage, compete for resources in any meaningful way, build or maintain territory through actual competence. The environment was fully provisioned from outside. That's a system where agency has no functional role. The mice couldn't do anything that mattered. There was no feedback loop between behavior and survival. The problem isn't resource scarcity or abundance, it's that a centrally provisioned system destroys the local constraint gradients that agents need to develop and express competency. The mice couldn't form functional social structures because functional social structures are the solution to distributed constraint problems. Remove the problems, and the structures have nothing to coalesce around. The 'beautiful ones' are the clearest example. Mice that withdrew from all social life and did nothing but groom themselves. They weren't lazy or broken, they simply never had anything real to do. Nothing to solve, nothing that needed them. So they turned inward, endlessly, with nowhere else to go. The actual lesson is that agency is constituted by constraint navigation, and an environment that removes constraints doesn't liberate agents, but makes them slaves of themselves.

The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan discredited interventionism in the eyes of the American public. What the last few years have done in contrast is discredit anti-interventionism, or the idea that American power cannot be used for good. First came the Abraham Accords, where contrary to every prediction made by practically every Middle East expert, Israel signed peace treaties with several of its neighbors without taking care of the Palestinian issue first. Throughout the first Trump administration, the maximum pressure campaign had Israel, the Arabs, and the US all on the same side against Iran. The Syrian regime falls, the new leader in Damascus is pro-Western. We ended up fighting both Assad and ISIS, and defeated them both. Then you had the Venezuela operation. Without losing any American soldiers, we removed the Maduro regime, and replaced it with a government that has been freeing political prisoners and opening up the oil industry to American companies. Cuba will probably be overthrown without any cost next, ending the over half-century nightmare there. Now, after taking a detour during the Hamas war and wiping out Hezbollah's leadership, Israel along with the US slaughter the entire upper echelon of the Iranian regime. What's next in Iran? Who knows? But isn't there at least a chance it'll be better than the old theocrats? Why would anyone dismiss the possibility? People deny this is possible just because they want America and the West to fail. Russia and China remain problems and North Korea is an exception. But when it comes to weaker enemies around the world, we can just kill them and everything will be fine. As it turns out, we misunderstood the lessons of Iraq and Afghanistan. The lesson wasn't "never do regime change" or "never kill bad people." The lesson we should've taken was "don't do social engineering through war." Killing bad people and removing bad government is fine, both in terms of American interests and from a humanitarian perspective. Now that we've seen how easy it is, we arguably have a moral obligation to keep doing it. There is a lot to be gained by just removing the worst of the worst. Going from Stalin to Khrushchev and Mao to Deng made things much better. Same with going from Maduro to Delcy, and the same is likely to be true with regard to whatever comes next in Iran and Cuba. Don't waste your time on micromanaging the country and having feminist art exhibitions like we did in Afghanistan. Just remove regime you don't like first, and then be pragmatic with the next steps. America is powerful and good. We just need to understand that it is ok to admit it.

Sin justificar lo que está sucediendo… La gente se olvida que en Noviembre del 92 fueron las tropas leales a Hugo Chávez Frías quienes bombardearon Caracas con su golpe Militar contra el gobierno legítimo de Carlos Andrés Pérez. Más de 400 muertos dejó aquella asonada

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This tweet is going to age like the Maginot line.

Death was ever present, because [we] hungered after endless life unchanging. Childless foids sat in open offices musing on word porn; in livestreams withered divorcees compounded strong elixirs from their sons' blood, or in group houses asked questions of the LLMs.

Ok, let me explain this in a way that you can understand it. You no understand law. You smash all law together like caveman with rock. Some law say "don’t hurt other human. Kill man for his things, bad. Man dead, family sad." This bad thing. Everyone know bad. That big smart man term called "malum in se." This means "bad even if no law." Law just point and say "Yes, that bad thing, Big chief hit you on head if you do, so don't do." Other law say "government no like thing." Thing hurt no one by itself. No blood. No victim. Just rule on paper. Big law term smart man call "malum prohibitum." Bad only because chief say so. You think both same because both word "illegal." That caveman thinking. Jaywalk same as murder in your head. Big dumb. Man holding tool hurt no one. Man murdering man with tool hurt someone very much. If you can't tell difference, problem not law. Problem is you skull empty. "Cut deaths in half" by banning tool thing not killing anyone on its own is magic spell thinking. Stick not swing itself. Rock not jump and smash skull. Bad man do murder. Stop bad man that murderer. Not man that hold tool. This not "no laws." This "know which laws matter." Punish harm. Not punish existence. Caveman learn this. Why you not?

Sorry everyone, I'll be locked into A.I. all week having fun with shit like this

Imagine if you as a woman at 35 was looking for another woman to carry your kids as a surrogate, would you be looking for a 35yo woman to carry the pregnancy for you or would you look for someone younger? Be honest.

Rightists need to understand that great immigrants often come from terrible countries. And progressives and libertarians need to understand that not every single immigration wave is beneficial.