This is one of those things that sounds good but doesn't hold up when you look at history. The Romans, Celts, and Germanics could tear you limb from limb, but they were also shame cultures which means hyper-socialized, ultra conformist, and obsessed with "honour", which is basically just what other people think of you. They were as conformist as the modern bugman and more, the only difference is that the social consensus they lived in was actually healthy.

This idea of a whole bunch of individualist chads going their own way in a proto-liberal democracy is a modern invention. Complete ahistorical fan-fiction.

Why Women Blow Up Their Marriages

Their reasons are often surprisingly mundane

https://sigmagame.substack.com/p/why-women-blow-up-their-marriages

An Incorrect Theory

Author Devon Eriksen expounds his theory of why George R. R. Martin can’t finish A Song of Ice and Fire. While he’s correct that Martin cannot, and almost certainly will not, finish it by himself before he dies, he’s totally and utterly incorrect as to the reason. He’s also wrong about what the saga “actually […]

https://voxday.net/2024/09/06/an-incorrect-theory/

What an insult to the family of Tom Roberts! Utter disgrace. The Home Office has been spared an inquest into how a violent Afghan asylum seeker entered the country before murdering an aspiring Royal Marine.. Rachael Griffin, senior coroner for Dorset, ruled on Wednesday that there was "no need for a full inquest into the circumstances surrounding Roberts’s death." https://archive.ph/MEj2S

Der Spiegel: During your career, you have kept your distance from Western style democracy. Are you still convinced that an authoritarian system is the future for Asia?

Lee Kuan Yew: Why should I be against democracy? The British came here, never gave me democracy, except when they were about to leave. But I cannot run my system based on their rules. I have to amend it to fit my people's position. In multiracial societies, you don't vote in accordance with your economic interests and social interests, you vote in accordance with race and religion. Supposing I'd run their system here, Malays would vote for Muslims, Indians would vote for Indians, Chinese would vote for Chinese. I would have a constant clash in my Parliament which cannot be resolved because the Chinese majority would always overrule them. So I found a formula that changes that."

www.spiegel.de (2005). Der Spiegel International - Interview with Singapore’s founder Lee Kuan Yew: ‘It’s Stupid to be Afraid’. Available at: https://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/spiegel-interview-with-singapore-s-lee-kuan-yew-it-s-stupid-to-be-afraid-a-369128.html.

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🇺🇸🏴‍☠️ Interesting revelations by Wesley Clark from 2007.

Probably just correlates with the intelligence to use something other than the default choices...

TIL: Economist Michael Housman used to data from 30,000 employees to find correlations between their preferred browser and job performance. Employees who used Firefox/Chrome stay 15% longer and were 19% less likely to miss work and had happier customers than employees who used IE or Safari.
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Here’s Why Democrats Want To Censor Grok's AI Images

https://modernity.news/2024/08/30/heres-why-democrats-want-to-censor-groks-ai-images/

Book Discussion: The Last Closet by Moira Greyland

Carnage  Again I sing my cheerful song What can I control today I’ll sort the books, I’ll file the files Pretend that nothing’s wrong But then my bubble bursts My illusion of contented control disappears And I dissolve in tears Confusion and helpless rage But still I sort, still I file Cheeks wet and makeup […]

https://arkhavencomics.com/2024/06/15/book-discussion-the-last-closet-by-moira-greyland/

“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?” - The Lord of the Rings

NEW - United States to resume mandatory reporting of "COVID hospitalizations" from November 1st.

https://www.disclose.tv/id/t3ly5g05vy/

@disclosetv

In 1975 the New Zealand National party hired the animation company Hanna-Barbera to produce an anti immigration election advert. They would go on to win the election

https://redd.it/1bx6kzo
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