Tigers have eye spots to avoid attacks from predators while drinking water.
Getting a drink is one of the few times they are vulnerable so this affords a good backup intimidation strategy.
this is actually seems incredibly odd, culturally speaking
sharing a meal is probably the most ancient human social ritual
how did sweden lose this? i have to imagine the swedes once had it
There is a whole slew of gender discourse that seems like it would come part at the seams if certain romantic tropes were marketed more equally across the genders. But instead we have a malnourished theory of mind
So uh representation is important?
Imagine being a full grown man and being excited by cooking.
Not war.
Not conquest.
No. You get adrenaline from making an omelette.
Fucking nerd.
Chefs are worms.
OMG WHAT IF THE MEATS OVER DONE OMG 😮
Who cares.
Hardly getting knocked out is it.
Your opinion about this does not matter.
Progress moves in one direction. Technologies do not get un-discovered. This is the worst and most primitive version of this tech that will ever be implemented.
Prepare yourself for the world to come.
one reason to be skeptical of 9/11 conspiracy theories about controlled demolition or whatever is that i worked in a building that was a miniature WTC, designed by the same dude, and they had to structurally renovate it after 9/11 bc they learned the original design was fucked
just watched Drive and it is spurring local gender discourse
what a gorgeous movie
immense cinematography. shot after shot seared into my subconscious forever
occasional reminder that lord of the flies was written because Golding read about boys being marooned and having a good time and this made him angry because he hated children so he wrote a book about dudes being assholes
but no. irl, marooned bros on islands are chill
About 3,000 people go missing in Baltimore every year. There are only 2 detectives in the police department's missing persons unit.
Read
@brenna__smith
on how a Facebook group with almost 12,000 members steps in to help relatives desperate for answers.
if you haven't seen this
its utterly bananas
the scale of potential pwnage seems almost unfathomable to me
idk how you even start going about fixing the vulnerability that led to this
software engineers will notice half a second of latency in something that should be ~instant and will move heaven and earth to fix it, or at least to understand why; and this seems to have blown an operation that had started to install a backdoor on every Debian/Ubuntu SSH server
if indigenous ways of Knowing are so good how did peoples who Knew Indigenously always and everywhere end up getting stomped by peoples who Knew Linear Algebra
watched some of cinderella tonight
it's striking how subdued and stately it is
at any given moment there is typically one thing going on. sometimes there are zero things going on
attention is always drawn to the most charming bits of animation
i just dont feel right bringing children into the world to live in the richest country in history where food is so plentiful that our biggest nutritional problem is obesity and childhood mortality rates are near zero
4,200 Joshua trees are scheduled to be removed are replaced by solar panels for the Aratina Solar Project near Boron, CA in June of this year. They will not be salvaged but funds based on the size of the tree will be placed in a mitigation bank.
On the students arrested at Columbia: “A Post deep-dive into the backgrounds of the protesters shows many list multimillion-dollar mansions as their home addresses, according to arrest records, and come from wealthy and powerful families.”
the interesting thing about the 70s in America is that they were so fucked up that you'll never learn about all of the insane things that went on, and you can keep stumbling across fresh new horrors your whole life
The “De Mau Mau” gang terrorized the Chicago area in 1972: They murdered at least nine Whites - Including with home-invasions that drew comparisons to the Manson Family murders. 🧵/20
NEW REPORT: Are “white people” morally deviant?
We asked over 3,000 Americans about the impact of European settlers (Part 1), racial minorities' ability to succeed in the U.S. (Part 2), and whether it's shameful to be white (Part 3).
Here are our results for Part 1 🧵
Video recorded a few minutes ago and sent to us by a Columbia University student.
The tent city is growing and student protesters have now declared that they have taken over the university, turning it into a “Peoples’ University”
🇺🇸🇮🇱
video shows a dude attacking someone with a knife in london subway
MP says "bring back train guards"
everyone quote tweeting this is a british person incredulously saying "what could a guard do? against a knife?"
i am reminded of our cultural differences
This video is just horrific. I fail to understand how somebody can be so violent. I hope and pray that the victim is ok.
Sick sick sick lock them up for life!
Also hope that those who witnessed it are seeking help.
Bring back train guards, needed more than ever.
On October 7, this Arab man living in the UK recorded a video saying that October 7 is “a right to fight back” because the Arab colonizers are the natives of the land.
He has now been elected to public office in Britain.
What is going on in the UK?
there's a parallel phenomenon to the whole lucky 10,000 thing where an earnest, sharp, and perhaps mildy autistic person encounters for the first time the concrete reason we dont talk about certain subjects
Do people really believe the heritability of traits is eugenics? This would seem to be a factual claim, like gravity or the function of kidneys, to be assessed as true or false in the same way.
extremely common smart young person failure mode:
1. notice the conventional rationale for some thing is bullshit
2. conclude that therefore the thing is bad actually
3. make opposition to the thing a pillar of their identity
Stanford dismantled its famously spontaneous campus life. The cost may be what made it great: cultivating free, independent agency in its students.
Today from Ginevra Davis (
@ginevlily
)
i see why this is appealing but in practical terms corruption investigations also also an excellent mechanism for removing rival power structures and centralizing flows of bribery under one's own roof
so there's that
Remarkable video from El Salvador.
Nayib Bukele gathers every single official in the executive branch of his government and then announces a surprise.
He asks the Attorney General to investigate all of them for bribery.
did we just ruin an entire decade of kids with zoom school
i am hearing wild rumors of like. entire classes being three years behind in reading and kids showing up to college not knowing how to write
im sure its exaggerated but how badly did we wreck the zoomers
>rittenhouse
>grosskreutz
>rosenbaum
>huber
dudes this wasnt about blm and it wasnt about white supremacy. this was a failure of american society to integrate german immigrants despite centuries of effort
we need to ban teutonics from the country until we figure this out
theory: if you dont regularly interact with children in even the slightest way your instincts will tell you that your tribe is dead and has no future and you get depressed and crazy
>dont understand what is "gacha" game
>read wiki
>article describing the games consists mostly of a series of methods designed to break psyches of people who play the games like a c-string celebrity from the 70s pulling grandmas to casinos
why would you play these voluntarily
BREAKING: Hail storm in Damon texas on 3/24/24 destroys 1,000’s of acres of solar farms.
Who pays to fix this green energy?
@StateFarm
?
@FarmBureau
?
@Allstate
?
Or you the taxpayer?
the positive relationship between marriage and men's wages is correctly understood as a causal effect of marriage on earnings
no joke my wife watching kiddo and making dinner every day lets me exert myself to a degree i would have once believed superhuman
if you had told me swedes hold their women in common or sacrifice their children on altars or mutilate themselves i wouldve said sure, theres precedent for that
but not feeding guests feels indicative of profound and general anomie
one of my beliefs is that hormonal birth control is plausibly the greatest driver of unhappiness among modern american youth and certainly far more psychoactive than ppl realize but i dont know how to convince ppl of this and even talking abt it makes you seem weird so uh welp
i dont know who needs to hear this but the inner core of your "personality" is the series of tricks you used to get your parents' attention when you were two, which is to say your first survival mechanism, which was so load-bearing you never were able to abandon it and instead…
two years of ukraine
four years since covid got real
eight years since hillary v trump, sixteen since the financial crisis, nearly a quarter century after 9/11
good grief
Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele’s crackdown on street gangs has facilitated a dramatic drop in crime—but it has also come at a serious cost to democracy and human rights, writes
@Gustavo_F_M
.
my guess is that this is related to (eg) the moon scandal from samsung from abt a year ago
is it even possible to get an unmodified photo from a phone camera at this point?
im astonished by the notion that dozens of adults surrounding a handful while screaming, pushing them against a barrier, throwing shit at them, and preventing them from leaving might somehow be construed as "nonthreatening"
what is the theory here
A Member of the Columbia University Facilities Department has possibly been taken Hostage by Pro-Hamas Rioters that have now Barricaded themselves inside of Hamilton Hall.
idk who needs to hear this but shes holding back the Whole Truth
the Whole Truth is that women talk with each other about the sex they have so explicitly and directly that the modal Locker Room Talker would be left speechless and aghast if he heard it
and women name names
I feel I should inform you all that the girlies occasionally talk about which of our male friends are hot, and why, and we tend to mostly agree — and the deciding factor is basically never looks. It’s always about their personality, and how they carry themselves
i basically support brutally crushing the campus protests and exiling the surviving participants from public life forever
i had enough riots in 2020. i dont want my children to inherit a society where they are a regular feature.
and they would kill me if they had the chance
Btw BLM 2020 was far at peak in intimidation factor, deaths, destruction, and institutional support than this SJP stuff.
The SJP stuff is worrying because of red-green axis + future elites.
honestly. how do ppl keep falling for project veritas honeypots
this is the worlds easiest situational awareness test and purportedly smart ppl keep failing it
can you imagine being a right winger right now
the kind thats hated jews for years and spent years making holocaust jokes at them online
suddenly out of nowhere the left grabs your signature issue and immediately it goes viral and your still deeply unpopular
btfo
they literally built this. like it exists. verbatim science fiction to reality. you’re living through it right now.
at the end of this book they throw the machine into the Grand Canyon to get rid of it but it gets found by some hikers. those hikers? the Anthropic founders
autistic women turning 15: oh no i need to learn how to interact with people. i shall check out the library's entire psychology collection
autistic men turning 15: oh no i need to learn how to interact with people. i shall read half a book about game theory for general audiences
reading that the navy's response to fucking up at breathtaking scale is to simply refuse to talk about it, my impulse is to refamiliarize the admiralty with the tale of Viscount John Byng
the fact of the matter is that theft is universally understood to be wrong and a fundamental purpose of government is to prevent it
when a government refuses to do justice it is undermining its own legitimacy and it opening the way to a successor that will enforce laws
Clown world.
The Sikh convenience store clerk who beat the piss out of a shoplifter with a stick in is under investigation from Stockton, California police for assault.
The clerks also said the same man stole from their store two other times.
College seems like it is really easy now even at elite schools. When I was in college it was already like that in some classes but there were still ones where the professor was a hardass. Yes of course there are exceptions like being a CS major at Stanford or whatever
protip
if you're falling off a very tall bridge into deep water and you have a gun you can survive by shooting the water where you're going to land several times right before you hit
is it just me or does gaza seem like it has the highest number of hospitals per capita of any large city in the world, a number especially striking when you consider that barely anyone is over the age of 40
intellectual western fine artists in the 20th century really adopted the attitude of “its your fault if you dont get it” and “you get what you bring to it”
if im bringing my own “art” to the art museum and its my job to understand it, we have to ask: uh whats the artist job then
i have this theory that 90% of this shit is the result of having to forcibly "educate" a relatively badly socialized bottom quintile who dont want to be there and whose marginal value of school is probably local to zero but hey we gotta goodhart our graduation rates amirite
how are people intimidated by university students these are BABIES
LITERAL CHILDREN
how do people let themselves be pushed around by these neotenous dweebs instead of doubling over laughing
NEW: Protestors occupying the chancellor's office at Vanderbilt try to shame a black police officer:
"You are black in America, and you're NOT standing with the marginalized people of the world. What does that make you?!"
this poster is an anthropological wonder
layers of accumulated norms and customs, each contradicting the last but not quite overriding it
a veritable midden heap of gender relations
it has something to infuriate everyone
I study war and politics so that my children can study engineering and science so that their children can study art and philosophy so that their children must study war and politics