One lesson of the war is that Iran's missile capabilities survived the 6-week air campaign. Tunneling works! Also used by Hamas and Hezbollah. Not sure if Taiwan also uses it, but they should. Would another 6 weeks of air strikes have destroyed the missile launchers?

Think of this. He murders his girlfriend in 1963. He is tried, convicted and sentenced to life with a chance for parole after the jury deadlocks on the death penalty. He spends 21 years in prison and gets out in 1984. The year after his release he meets a new girl who is a drug addict and prostitute. They become roommates. He stabs her within the year and dismembers her corpse while high on crack cocaine. He admits to the murder, but claims it was in self-defense. For some odd reason, the charges are downgraded to manslaughter even though the autopsy results found 33 stab wounds. Only 12 years are added to his revoked life sentence. He applies for parole 15 times over the next 34 years, but is denied until 2019 when he is released due to his advanced age of 81 years. He quickly finds another roommate, a 68-year-old lesbian woman. Less than three years later, he murders this roommate and (again) dismembers her corpse. He pleads not guilty, claiming another female associate did it. This case finally makes it to trial in 2026 - a full four years after the murder. Think of the waste. The two unnecessary deaths, the unnecessary trials, the wasted prison space - all for a guy who should've been put to death sixty years ago after his first murder. And now we are having to waste space again in a prison for some 88-year-old serial killer psycho. It's just absurd.

Last year a Scottish girl was filmed defending herself from a hostile man. The police insisted this was "misinformation", and charged the girl. A Bulgarian man has now been found guilty of assaulting a 12 year old, with the judge finding he made "sexual remarks"

Smart people know how the economy works. So much so that economic knowledge is an excellent IQ test. Lin, C.-A. and T. C. Bates (2022). "Smart people know how the economy works: Cognitive ability, economic knowledge and financial literacy." Intelligence. doi.org/10.1016/j.intell.202…

On his Substack, Bryan Caplan still sticks to the claim below, which he first made ten years ago. I find it to be a ridiculous exaggeration.

Philosophy is as male-coded as Football. Across 4.1M listed interests on Keeper, men are 5x likelier to list Philosophy — tied with Gaming, Politics, and Football. The women's list starts at 9x (BTS, a South Korean boy band) and goes to 26x (Acrylic Nails).

Average SAT by major at Columbia. Classics improbably edges out Math and Physics for the top spot at 1529. Sociology is on the bottom (1422), though "Ethnicity & Race Studies", "Public Health", and "Human Rights" aren't too far in front. The within-school spread is 100 points or so — around half of a standard deviation of the SAT-taker population.

A recent survey of ~1,500 professors found 22% identify themselves as "political activists" (including 40% of education faculty members). These #'s have increased since 2006 (e.g. the % "political activist" grew from 14% to 22%).