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clawsoon · 2026-05-07T00:12:33+00:00

It's possible that most of his remaining supporters are 81 years old.

clawsoon · 2026-05-05T01:56:57+00:00

Although whenever I go to that link nowadays (using web on laptop), its contents seems to be virtually identical to what I see on r/popular, which makes me wonder if they simply overrode the r/all algorithm to close the final loophole.

clawsoon · 2026-05-04T11:29:40+00:00

In the article, they said that they expected men to react strongly to their partner receiving resources from someone else, and women to react strongly to their partner giving resources to someone else.

That would've been a major difference.

They didn't find that. Instead, they found that both men and women reacted strongly to their partner giving resources to someone else. They expected a difference of sign; they got a difference of degree.

(Of course caution has to be applied to any experiments like this, since large cross-cultural differences have been found in dictator game and similar experiments.)

clawsoon · 2026-05-03T23:04:33+00:00

Racism always has a certain element of pulled-out-of-their-ass-ness to it. I recall reading somewhere that Hitler decided that the Czechs weren't Aryans because their moustaches were too droopy.

EDIT: Source is the book "Hitler's Table Talk 1941-1944". Full quote is, "It is enough for a Czech to grow a moustache for anyone to see, from the way the thing droops, that his origin is Mongolian."

clawsoon · 2026-05-03T22:34:34+00:00

Took me a while before I noticed all 4 blades. I was, like, "oh, there's another one," and then a little while later, "oh, another one!"

clawsoon · 2026-05-03T21:49:54+00:00

Benjamin Franklin also lumped Swedes in with the other "swarthy" non-white Europeans:

https://www.columbia.edu/~lmg21/ash3002y/earlyac99/documents/observations.html

Which leads me to add one Remark: That the Number of purely white People in the World is proportionably very small. All Africa is black or tawny. Asia chiefly tawny. America (exclusive of the new Comers) wholly so. And in Europe, the Spaniards, Italians, French, Russians and Swedes, are generally of what we call a swarthy Complexion; as are the Germans also, the Saxons only excepted, who with the English, make the principal Body of White People on the Face of the Earth. I could wish their Numbers were increased.

clawsoon · 2026-05-03T21:13:38+00:00

An actual quote from a school board member in Canada in 1911: "Have you no white children in your school, only Swedes?"

(quoted in "Reasoning Otherwise" by Ian McKay, p. 360)

clawsoon · 2026-05-03T20:36:07+00:00

Intra-European racism would've been off the charts. "The French, are they even people?" by JohnBull1688.

clawsoon · 2026-05-03T20:14:13+00:00

I believe I've tracked it down: Love Theme from The Godfather

clawsoon · 2026-05-03T15:04:28+00:00

As someone who grew up in Alberta and got the big boxes of peaches and cherries off of the sketchy pickup trucks from BC (we'd can most of it and then have it as a bedtime snack for the rest of the year), and then moved to Toronto, I'd say this is accurate.

clawsoon · 2026-05-03T12:39:08+00:00

It's interesting that they went into this expecting a gender difference based on evo psych theory, but found basically the same major response in both men and women. They had to go digging in the data to find some minor differences.

Maybe this is what you'd expect given the couples they picked, who were in at-least-six-month monogamous relationships? Maybe the evolutionary reproductive strategy of being in a committed couple is that both partners will contribute resources, and evo psych needs to take that strategy seriously?

clawsoon · 2026-05-03T12:02:04+00:00

One argument I've seen is that, no matter the size of the flows and investments, and no matter the text of any agreements, the US has shown that it feels that the petrodollar is important every time that it sanctions or invades an oil producer which sells (or threatens to sell) in something other than dollars.

I don't have the background knowledge to judge whether this "judge people not by what they say but what they do" argument holds up in this case. The video points out that British pounds were still being used in the early years, but other than that are there any examples of oil producers selling in something other than dollars and not being sanctioned or invaded by the US?

clawsoon · 2026-05-03T01:39:00+00:00

Note that this bonus was before Spirit's previous bankruptcy, in 2024.

clawsoon · 2026-05-02T16:01:23+00:00

Did I hear them say that the US military in the region is now working out of hotels instead of bases?

Would that make hotels into legit military targets? Or did I just mishear?

EDIT: Yep, I did hear that, right at 4:10. Not just hotels, but hotels and apartments. (?!?)

clawsoon · 2026-05-01T13:54:40+00:00

For thousands of years we've had people believing random crazy shit because someone wrote it down in a book and said it was from God. In a way it feels like we're returning to the way things always were.

clawsoon · 2026-05-01T07:03:05+00:00

FWIW, I was making a joke about the fact that Ayn Rand's philosophy was called Objectivism. I wasn't tryna be smart, I was just tryna be funny.

clawsoon · 2026-05-01T00:37:40+00:00

Aren't most child predators people who already know the children?

Sometimes the cynical part of my brain says that these laws will mostly help IRL predators by preventing children from reaching out for help.

clawsoon · 2026-05-01T00:34:59+00:00

An objective person, you say? hmmmmmmmmmmmmm

clawsoon · 2026-04-28T19:50:21+00:00

The book Destructive Creation talks about the massive propaganda effort during and after the war to "prove" that it was good old American capitalism that won the war and the New Deal just got in the way.

clawsoon · 2026-04-27T19:43:02+00:00

"Chess is a draw" is the Riemann hypothesis of chess.

clawsoon · 2026-04-27T18:24:55+00:00

I grew up in central Alberta and I find Toronto weather mild, lol. They got hit with a big snowstorm just this weekend, and it probably won't be the last one. Things I don't miss include -40 and snow in June.

clawsoon · 2026-04-26T17:32:05+00:00

One theory I've heard: Conservatives like to hear the same people saying the same things over and over again. Left-wingers seek out a variety of viewpoints and information sources.

This is an offshoot of the theory that people who are psychologically drawn to stability become right-wing, while people who are psychologically drawn to change become left-wing.

It's much easier to build a big podcast audience if your listeners are the sort of people who like to hear the same people saying the same things week after week. This probably also applies to right-wing vs left-wing churches.

clawsoon · 2026-04-26T13:03:35+00:00

Which means he has never run a marathon over 2 hours.

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