Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦
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In honor of Netflix's Three Body Problem adaptation, here's my post about why the Dark Forest Hypothesis is actually pretty silly:
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15 years ago, the internet was an escape from the real world. Now, the real world is an escape from the internet.
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The wildest thing about the India-China conflict is that by mutual agreement, both sides fight exclusively with melee weapons.
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He is Lisan al Gaib
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When this person learns where the word Jedi comes from she's gonna have a stroke
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They just...slaughtered a music festival.
How did slaughtering a music festival help the cause of Palestinian liberation?
BREAKING:
Israel confirms that the bodies of 260 civilians were found at the site of the music festival near the Gaza border fence.
The authorities announce that search and rescue operation is over.
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A friend recently came back from China. He spoke in wondrous terms about how safe and clean it was, how easy it was to buy stuff and get it delivered. And he casually mentioned his friend rushing to dinner because her social credit score would get dinged if she was late.
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Russia: Losing a war to a country 1/4 its size
Iran: Massive protests
China: Increasing protests, sputtering economy
U.S.: Record low unemployment, election deniers lost midterms
Europe, Japan, Korea: Economically resilient, politically stable
Liberalism on its last legs, huh?
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We should permanently normalize wearing a mask when you have a cold or the flu, in order not to infect other people. Japanese people do it. Why not us?
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This headline should read: "Americans who dress up as clowns outnumber clowns who dress up as Americans"
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Sigh...FINE, fine, we'll do the joke.
Blows my mind how the modal Indian person is 20 while the modal Chinese person is 50
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Every time I see Ukrainians post photos of the unprovoked Russian shelling of their cities, I think "In 2003 that was how Iraqis felt about us."
About 7000 Iraqi civilians were killed in the first 2 months of our "Shock and Awe" bombing campaign.
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I swear to God, the sight of people with deadly diseases crowdfunding their health care is the most dystopian thing about America right now.
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Most countries: The govt gives you health care.
America: You frantically call the govt to beg for the right to continue to buy health care.
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Yes, they commit crimes at a disproportionately LOW level.
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Conservative friends keep telling me how lefty NPR is, and then once a year or so I listen to NPR and it just boggles my mind how much they bend over backwards to present conservative viewpoints.
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Basketball fans are being kicked out of games for pro-Hong Kong signs IN AMERICA.
these are the signs that led to two fans being kicked out of Tuesday’s 76ers vs. Guangzhou Loong Lions game *in Philadelphia*
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Men have paid off a significant portion of their student loans since 2009. Women have not.
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IT IS VERY IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT NOT ALL OF THE SLAUGHTERED BABIES WERE BEHEADED.
JOURNALISTIC ACCURACY, PLEASE!!!
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I still kind of can't believe Russia sent in their tanks to conquer a neighboring country, then screamed that anyone who resisted them was against "peace", and some people with an IQ greater than a radish actually bought that.
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HOLY SHIT there are a lot of American companies doing pro-China censorship!!!
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This is just an incredible graph. India is making absolutely amazing strides against poverty.
(ht
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Right-wingers have absolutely beclowned themselves by turning on Zelensky, who has embodied their supposed ideal of brave virtuous manliness in defense of his people and country, as well as kicking the ass of America's most dangerous enemy.
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The cool thing about cyberpunk coming true is that we got ALL the cyberpunk futures.
China: universal surveillance and social control
America: cool gadgets and staggering inequality
Russia: shadowy plots, covert ops, and assasins
Japan: Japan
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I basically missed this whole news cycle.
Are you telling me that the front page of the New York Times reported that Israel bombed a hospital and killed 500 kids, and it turned out that what actually happened was that an Islamic Jihad rocket fell on a parking lot???
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It is just bizarre that instead of forcing Jordan Neely to stay at the facility to get treatment, we relied on the threat of prison to try to encourage him to stay there. If they had kept him there so he could get the treatment he needed, he’d still be alive today
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Nobody rioted over this one, but it was one of the worst.
Mesa, Arizona will pay $8 million to the widow of Daniel Shaver, who was unarmed when he was shot while crawling toward police:
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I think France is the wisest country. They really have it figured out, man. They just eat good food, ride the train, have sex and riot
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Protester: *punches baby in the head*
Normal person: Hey, you can't just punch babies in the head
Protester: OK I think we can all agree that what's happening in Palestine right now is a LOT MORE IMPORTANT than this ONE BABY getting punched in the head
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What's weird and creepy about the "drunk sex is rape" discourse is that if both people are drunk, the man is concluded to have raped the woman, rather than the other way around.
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"Let's help poor Black kids by just not teaching anyone math" is the most fucking boneheaded idea I've ever heard. Those kids are behind in math because they get less parental help. And now you're going to give them less help at school, too? Fucking brain-dead!!!
Cambridge Public Schools eliminated advanced math in middle school with the aim of reducing disparities between low-income children of color and their more affluent peers. But some families and educators argue the decision has had the opposite effect.
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Hamas rapes and murders hundreds of Israeli civilians --> Right-wingers issue strong condemnations and thunder for blood
Russia rapes and murders tens of thousands of Ukrainian civilians --> Right-wingers make excuses for Russia and try to cut off aid to Ukraine
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It really shouldn't be possible to steal someone's house.
Thriving how-to squatter internet forums reveal home takeover secrets: ‘You can’t stop it!’
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I don't think I've ever seen a meme that represents our current political era as well as this one does.
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The U.S. can't build housing. Or transit. Or solar power. Or transmission lines. Or semiconductor fabs.
We are the Build-Nothing Country.
And this needs to change, and it needs to change fast.
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Biden has passed so many laws, funded so many things, and forgiven so much debt, and these people have no idea because they never read the news and they don't actually know anything
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It's difficult to overstate just how deeply much of the Western Left has morally disgraced themselves.
“And as you might have seen, there was some sort of rave or desert party where they were having a great time, until the resistance came in electrified hang gliders and took at least several dozen hipsters” Speeches held at the ‘All Out For Palestine’ protest outside the Israeli…
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A picture of downtown Houston in the 1970s.
It looks like it was hit with a nuclear bomb, but no, it just really really loved parking lots.
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One of the greatest and most important memes ever created.
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You read about the Trail of Tears, the Japanese internment, etc. in your history classes.
You read about all the countries where the government threw people into camps en masse, and you wondered, "How could it happen? How could people allow that to happen?"
Well, now you know.
They're calling them "tent cities" but yes, they are camps. They're going to construct camps for children.
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Holy shit, Republicans.
Someone needs to go to jail for this.
#NC09
GOP candidate
@MarkHarrisNC9
’s campaign appears to have sent people door to door in rural Robeson & Bladen Counties to steal absentee ballots from elderly black voters and complete them for Harris. There were 1300+ such ballots in those counties in a race Harris won by 905.
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Satya Nadella, best turnaround CEO of the modern age
BREAKING: Microsoft has overtaken Apple as the world's most valuable company
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Refugees are legal immigrants, and yet all the anti-immigration people get just as freaked out about refugees as they do about illegal immigration.
It was never about the legality.
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One reason cats and rabbits tend to get along is that for cats, grooming others is a sign of high status, but for rabbits, being groomed is a sign of high status.
Thus, each of these cuties is thinking "I'm the boss":
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I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that it's fascist to throw a man in prison for 20 years for giving people food, water, and a place to sleep.
Scott Warren, a 36-year-old academic, faces 20 years in prison if convicted and sentenced to consecutive terms for providing food, water, and a place to sleep to two undocumented men over three days last January.
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If this isn't a sign of capitalism's total victory, I don't know what is.
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"Canadian woman is diagnosed with cancer, told she has 2 years to live at most, that she is not a candidate for surgery but would she like medical help committing suicide? She declines, comes to the US, spends a lot of money, and is treated within weeks."
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This should be obvious, but the reason people jumped on the "Israel bombed a hospital and killed 500 people" story was because the demand for one big splashy headline Israeli atrocity to balance out the Hamas baby-slaughter is outstripping the supply of same.
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It's difficult to overstate what absolute utter charlatans these people are.
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This is the dumbest, most ignorant thing I've heard from a public figure in quite a while
“We spent $16 trillion on the lockdowns. We got nothing for it. $8 trillion on the Ukraine war. That’s $24 trillion that they had to print to pay for nothing. That money, the way they’re paying it back, it’s a hidden tax called inflation, and it hits the poor and the middle…
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Japanese poor people do everything right - they get a job, avoid violence, don't do drugs, and don't have kids out of wedlock - and yet they're still poor.
This suggests that poverty is NOT mainly caused by bad behavior.
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This is a chart that big-city progressives really need to grapple with.
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Every leftist argument about the Ukraine War is just literally this meme.
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This is a professor at Yale.
Vile.
Settlers are not civilians. This is not hard.
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The fact that stuff like this got wild applause six years ago and now gets ratioed to hell every time suggests that America has turned some kind of corner
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Leftists continue to just slip Korea into their list of bad U.S. wars, expecting the rest of us not to notice
Most Americans likely associate US foreign policy with Normandy and the fall of the Berlin wall. "We're the good guys."
But most people around the world associate US foreign policy with overseeing massive civilian casualties or overthrowing governments we don't like: Philippines…
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"Can we talk about the orientialism" LOL how's the weather in 2015
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Blows my mind how the modal Indian person is 20 while the modal Chinese person is 50
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There is so much talent out there in America, hidden by the class divisions that we pretend don't exist.
Michigan "uncovered" hundreds of college-ready, low-income students just by requiring high schoolers to take the SAT
#BackToSchool
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Does this guy know that Indian Americans are the highest-earning ethnic group in America?
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Nuclear is good, keep the nuclear.and don't listen to Greta.
Tomorrow the European Parliament will decide whether fossil gas and nuclear will be considered "sustainable" in the EU taxonomy. But no amount of lobbyism and greenwashing will ever make it "green".
We desperately need real renewable energy, not false solutions.
#NotMyTaxonomy
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Wait I thought the protesters wanted a ceasefire
Columbia University students chanting:
“Hamas make us proud, kill another soldier now”
Young American trust fund girls chanting “free all our prisoners” as if they were members of Hamas
Madness…
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Though FTX turned out to be a gigantic mix of scam, fraud, and insanity that tricked most of the world's top investors, I am sure Binance is a boring safe institution that never does anything shady or nuts with your money and is in no danger of ever collapsing
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What psychopath taught average people in America that average-ness represents complete life failure?
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The pro-Palestine movement's complete lack of sympathy for Ukraine has been a giant red flag from day 1
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Ukraine is usually displayed next to Russia, which makes it look small. But in fact it's bigger than France, and much bigger than Iraq. Not easy to occupy something that size with just 190k guys. To say nothing of the extremely angry 44 million people who live there.
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Today a friend (a biologist) told me that she intends to wear masks indoors and avoid indoor socialization for the rest of her life, in order to avoid Long Covid.
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China threw a million Muslims in concentration camps, demolished thousands of mosques, implemented an apartheid regime in a Muslim province, and got away with it completely
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I've had three friends who committed suicide, all of them men. Two were married, one had a 4-year-old daughter, all of them had lots of close friends. One was a highly paid surgeon. "Lives not worth living" is bullshit intended to pander to a social media audience.
Dr K: "Most of the suicidal men that I work with - their mind isn't malfunctioning - they genuinely have a life that is no longer worth living"
damn :/
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Socialist utopia 100 years ago: If we all work very hard, we can build a society where we all have enough to eat
Socialist utopia now: If we destroy the economy, it will somehow lead to infinite paid vacation
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Why did the L.A. school police have GRENADE LAUNCHERS?
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Leftists have only one guiding moral principle, and it is anti-Americanism.
It's good to see the country waking up to this fact.
america IS bad. there’s a mountain of evidence as to why. we live in a world where the us is the hegemonic power. it takes tremendous amounts of violence and coercion to get there and keep that power. you think that’s good. i think that’s bad and america should change its ways.
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Israel does a lot of sucky stuff, but Iran's proxies killed over half a million people in Syria and Yemen, and Iran mostly gets a pass from all the people who claim to be concerned about the "Global South".
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Biden: I just cut child poverty in half
Left Twitter: Screw that, where's my $600
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Kroger's profit margin is 1.52%
What happens when only a handful of giant grocery store chains like
@Kroger
dominate an industry? They can force high food prices onto Americans while raking in record profits. We need to strengthen our antitrust laws to break up giant corporations and lower prices.
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The Black-White employment gap has closed for the first time in American history.
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Leftists: Israel bombed Iran!!
ISIS: Uh actually, we bombed Iran.
Leftists: ...ISIS is an Israeli plot!!
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Remember that in the time since California started one high-speed rail line that will never be completed, China built this entire high-speed rail network from scratch:
The California high speed rail project is an insane boondoggle and they should stop throwing good money after bad
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Four facts:
1. U.S. total carbon emissions were at the same level in 2021 as in 1979.
2. Per capita emissions were at the same level as 1912.
3. Outsourcing of U.S. emissions to other countries is very small.
4. U.S. emissions are less than half of China's.
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Your periodic reminder that Nobel Prize winning is mostly driven by chocolate consumption.
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Libertarians: Government sucks, let's hollow out the civil service
*Pandemic comes, hollowed-out civil service is unable to respond effectively*
Libertarians: See, told you government sucks
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Americans’ insistence on using Fahrenheit is a primary indicator that they are not a serious civilisation
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Just in case there was any ambiguity...
“But do you condemn H—“
No, actually, I hope they fucking win. Get out of my face.
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Even Hamas people know that Hamas did an evil thing. It's only psychotic Western leftists who seem not to know it.
Hamas spokesman says Hamas only attacked military targets on October 7th.
When the interviewer points out that they massacred hundreds of civilians in their own homes, he gets angry and walks out of the interview
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Or when she learns that the initial script for A New Hope was cribbed from Kurosawa's "Hidden Fortress"
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The reason euthanasia is a dangerous policy is not that people don't have a right to decide when they die, it's that the system will see the benefits of having more people die and start encouraging them to do it more, and people are impressionable and tend to trust authority
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One interesting thing about panoramas of Chinese cities is that very few of the shots are ever at ground level.
When it's Tokyo or Seoul, the montages are of people shopping and electric signs. When it's Shanghai or Shenzhen, it's all just infrastructure and skyscrapers.
This is what Chinese cities look like.
We can deny that they are ahead.
Or we can build startup cities to get back in the game.
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This is one of the best and most impressive things happening in the world today. India is conquering poverty.
There’s been an extraordinary decline in poverty in India 🇮🇳
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I dunno, man, looks to me like capitalism's doing a pretty good job of kicking world hunger's ass.
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Do people realize that immigration to the U.S. has dropped by half just since 2016?
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Government takes 2% of your wealth every year to fund health care, green energy, etc.: Damn it, that's COMMUNISM!!
Asset manager takes 2% of your wealth every year to invest your money in a portfolio that underperforms the index: Well that's just good ol' productive CAPTITALISM!
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When I say that that pro-Hamas leftists "dream of blood", I'm not exaggerating. This Cornell prof, talking about Hamas' massacre of innocents, declares "I was exhilarated!"
Cornell University Professor Russell Rickford speaking about Hamas terrorist attacks. Shameful
@Cornell
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Bruh, Hamas massacred a music festival, and you're telling Israel not to do a military response?
You've lost the plot.
My statement on the ongoing violence in Palestine and Israel ⬇️
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When I look at this graph, I have a very hard time concluding that capitalism is failing the human race.
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