Monthly Archives: September 2021

Ten years ago the FBI agents on TV were unrelenting professional detectives solving murder cases with SCIENCE and taking down perps with kung fu and backflips. In 2021, low-church Protestants in Iowa are laughing at their hijinks. “Q sent me, … Continue reading →

I finally got around to listening to this and was shocked at how solid it was from a Christian perspective. There’s no pandering, patronizing, autistic screeching, or “come to Hitler” talk. I have zero criticisms of the content or presentation, … Continue reading →

i think most people view the social contract as being a promise not to have to make any decisions with real consequences Now that right there’s a keen observation. i have to assume that this has been the case in … Continue reading →

I’d make the case that we’ve gone beyond silos of knowledge and begun siloing our understanding of the world. I think i’d have to agreemost people don’t need to understand anything, so they don’t, and it doesn’t generally impact their … Continue reading →

I’ve said before that the primary difference in evolutionary strategy between aspies and normies is that aspies don’t engage in horizontal cultural transmission (i.e. monkey see monkey do) and normies don’t engage in vertical cultural transmission (i.e. monkey read monkey … Continue reading →

I was stressed out this week and I think it’s coming out without my planning it.I’m supposed to sublimating the suffering or some bullshit.It wasn’t even real suffering, just disappointment of very high expectations.That actually sounds pretty good to me.I … Continue reading →

Typically I’d collect my posts for the week this morning, then schedule them out. No such luck this week, so you’re getting half of a conversation in seven arbitrarily split-up parts. …Normies ruin everything, that’s the conclusion I have come … Continue reading →

The video linked in the conversation below is here.

The prompt: “What heuristics do you use for things like risking your life, your lifelihood, deciding which hills to die on, when to bend vs. break, etc? Or, more briefly, what advice would you give to a new dad who … Continue reading →

these sorts of stories the mechanism seems to be akin to something like a dam bursting after years of strain and endless reinforcementsessentially, you can live a small life and suffer for your sins as you go, or you can … Continue reading →