The Nuclear Family is a Technology of Western Civilization – So It Needs to Be Destroyed With All the Others.

The nuclear family is not a natural unit. It is a technology – the most successful child-rearing, wealth-transmitting, civilization-building technology ever developed. And like every other Western technology that works, it is currently being systematically dismantled.

1. Every society in history has organized reproduction and child-rearing somehow. The Eastern clan, the tribe, the loyalty network – these are the alternatives. They work, up to a point, for the societies that run on them. They produce strong internal solidarity and fierce external competition. They also produce nepotism over meritocracy, loyalty over competence, the network over the individual. Low-trust societies stay small and family-based – unable to build the large institutions, the corporations, the rule of law that require trust between strangers. The nuclear family is the Western solution: small enough to invest maximally in children, open enough to produce citizens who can cooperate beyond the clan.

2. It is a technology in the precise sense: a solution to a problem, developed through trial and error over millennia, encoding accumulated wisdom that is not immediately visible to those who inherit it. It aligned incentives with extraordinary precision – the man invested in children he was certain were his, the woman had a committed partner for the most vulnerable years, the children had two adults with maximum skin in the game. And crucially: it introduced a free market for mating rather than arranged marriage. Individuals chose their partners – which meant attraction, compatibility, and genuine commitment rather than clan negotiation. The most intimate human bond brought into the competitive, meritocratic framework that produces everything else the West does well.

3. The attack follows the standard pattern. Reframe the technology as oppression. Celebrate the alternatives as liberation. Restructure the incentives – welfare systems that replace the husband, legal systems that make marriage a liability for men, cultural systems that mock the committed father. Then watch the institution dissolve.

4. The data is not ambiguous. Children raised by married biological parents outperform children from every other arrangement on every measurable outcome. This is one of the largest and most replicated findings in social science. The nuclear family is not one lifestyle choice among many equivalent options. It is the arrangement that produces the best human beings at scale. Which is precisely why it had to go.

5. The deepest damage is not measurable. The nuclear family was the primary transmission mechanism of civilization – values, habits, language, culture, and identity passed from one generation to the next in the most intensive possible environment. Destroy this transmission mechanism and you don’t just produce worse outcomes for individuals. You break the chain. The torch cannot change hands if the hands are gone.

6. The replacement is the state. When the family dissolves, the state expands to fill the functions the family performed. This is not a coincidence. It is the design. Tocqueville described it: the soft despotism that replaces every horizontal bond with a vertical dependency on the government shepherd. The nuclear family was the primary horizontal bond. Its dissolution is the prerequisite for the complete vertical dependency the administrative state requires.

7. The nuclear family is not a conservative preference or a religious requirement. Defend it not because it is traditional. Defend it because it works – and because what is offered in its place doesn’t. The clan and the tribe produce loyalty. The administrative state produces dependency. The nuclear family, with its free market for mating and its maximum investment in the next generation, produces citizens. That is the one thing the system replacing it cannot afford to produce.

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#SupremeCourt hears PIL seeking to restrain livestream and video circulation of court proceedings

Sr Adv Vikas Singh: Livestream - personally I don't see any problem

CJI Kant: Now this forces everyone to read things

J Bagchi: Regulating data is one of the biggest challenges in digital space...so we should ensure limited access and therefore restrict live stream itself. Parties must expressly make prayer that I want to see...IT CAN'T BE 24/7 ENTERTAINMENT CHANNEL BY COURT

Singh flags what happened in J KV Viswanathan's court: it has become a joke.

SG Tushar Mehta backs Singh's submissions

Issue of short clips of court proceedings circulating without context flagged

SG: Suppose your lordships are saying something to me and I am responding...there are AI tools...with same lip movement, my and your lordships' words can be changed in our respective voices

CJI - In print forum, I have already experienced. What I never said was thrusted upon me by these people

Singh presses for interim order

SG: In some HCs, some people try to be social media celebrities

CJI: Current example is day before. Morning, mentioning is made before me. Till today 10 AM, no petition is filed. Can an application sent to Secy General be entertained as a writ petition?

Singh: A petition was pending on that in Delhi HC. Probably lawyer did not know HC was seized of issue

SG: He does it every time. Background only lawyers would know.

Notice issued

On oral mentioning, High Courts also impleaded

Order: Union will put up a proposal wrt the nodal ministries to give effect to the prayers made in the petition

Singh presses for interim order

SG: I join Mr Singh

Singh: Even this hearing may be misinterpreted

Order: HCs to submit report on adoption of [...] circulated by this court. They will also explain impact of continuous live streaming

J Bagchi: Requests are made for online access. That link is shared. That also has to be regulated

Singh: It's being used to show I argued this or that

SG - Facebook and Instagram full of such clips

J Bagchi - We cannot stop demon which is out of bag.

SitRep - 23/07/26 - A Su-57 crashed

An overview of the daily events in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Today, a Russian Su-57 crashed in the Moscow region. According to Russia due to a “malfunction”.

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As usual we start with Russian losses

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𝟭𝟬 𝗔𝘀𝘆𝗻𝗰 𝗠𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲𝘀 𝗞𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗔𝗦𝗣.𝗡𝗘𝗧 𝗖𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗔𝗽𝗽

I've reviewed dozens of .NET Core backends that suffered mysterious slowdowns and memory spikes.

Every time, the root cause was the same: bad async code.

These async mistakes aren't obvious.
They don't throw errors. They just slowly kill your app.

Here are the 10 most common async pitfalls I see (and how to fix them):

Stop making these costly errors 👇

𝟭/ 𝗡𝗼𝘁 𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗧𝗼𝗸𝗲𝗻
↳ Requests keep running after clients disconnect
↳ Wasted CPU cycles and memory leaks
✅ Always pass CancellationToken through your async chain

𝟮/ 𝗕𝗹𝗼𝗰𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝘀𝘆𝗻𝗰 𝗰𝗼𝗱𝗲
↳ Using .Result, Wait(), GetAwaiter() .GetResult()
↳ Thread pool starvation = application freezes
✅ Use await consistently, never block on async calls

𝟯/ 𝗡𝗼 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲𝗼𝘂𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗯𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝗿𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝘀
↳ HttpClient calls hang forever waiting for responses
↳ Resource exhaustion brings down your entire service
✅ Set HttpClient .Timeout and use CancellationTokenSource with timeout

𝟰/ 𝗡𝗼𝘁 𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗮𝘀𝘆𝗻𝗰
↳ Mixing sync/async patterns breaks everything
↳ Deadlocks and poor scalability under load
✅ Go async all the way: controller → service → repository

𝟱/ 𝗨𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗧𝗮𝘀𝗸.𝗥𝘂𝗻 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗿𝘀/𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲𝘀
↳ Offloading I/O work to thread pool unnecessarily
↳ Context switching overhead kills performance
✅ Use Task .Run only for CPU-intensive work, not I/O operations

𝟲/ 𝗕𝘂𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗵𝘂𝗴𝗲 𝗽𝗮𝘆𝗹𝗼𝗮𝗱𝘀 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴
↳ Loading 500MB responses into memory at once
↳ OutOfMemoryException crashes your app
✅ Use IAsyncEnumerable and Stream .CopyToAsync instead

𝟳/ 𝗨𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗧𝗮𝘀𝗸.𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗻𝗔𝗹𝗹 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗶𝘁𝘀
↳ Firing 1000 concurrent requests to external APIs
↳ Rate limiting and cascade failures
✅ Control concurrency with small chunks or Parallel .ForEachAsync

𝟴/ 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝘀𝘆𝗻𝗰 𝘃𝗼𝗶𝗱 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗽
↳ async void methods outside event handlers
↳ Unhandled exceptions crash your entire process
✅ Always return Task or Task from async methods

𝟵/ 𝗙𝗶𝗿𝗲-𝗮𝗻𝗱-𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀
↳ Starting background tasks without proper tracking
↳ Silent failures and resource leaks everywhere
✅ Use OutBox or BackgroundService to process background tasks

𝟭𝟬/ 𝗠𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗶𝗴𝘂𝗿𝗲𝗔𝘄𝗮𝗶𝘁(𝗳𝗮𝗹𝘀𝗲)
↳ Library code captures synchronization context unnecessarily
✅ Use ConfigureAwait(false) in all library async methods

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The instant I grow balls people don't show up anymore seriously I don't get people anymore like continue to show up or don't do it at all you people get me intrigued and thinking weird shit and then people pull this fucking crap getting sick of it and this is why I hate thisworld

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Cops I am outside if you want me I'll be here at this link might go down but don't count on it I got 0 energy for anything I just want fresh air and listen to music in the quiet and I am 99% positive that dude won't show up again seriously fucking stupid......

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This is an open letter to @andyburnham the PM of the UK @10DowningStreet.

Why are you in total denial about the climate and ecological crisis?

You claim to have all these plans to address the cost of living crisis, and to fix the economy in the UK. But absolutely none of these plans take into account, real climate change and biodiversity collapse, as it is happening. The current heatwaves and the threat to our food supplies, make it clear that your economic policy, is just fantasy, until you acknowledge that we are in the midst of a full blown climate and ecological emergency, caused by the failure of not only the UK government, but all major governments around the world, to respond proportionally to the climate and ecological crisis outlined at the 1992 Rio Earth Summit, and which world leaders promised to address.

Instead of addressing these existential threats to our civilization, world leaders just carried on with business as usual, as if the climate and ecological crisis, did not exist. Now we are in deep shit, because of this 30 year procrastination.

The thing you are completely missing is that it is climate and ecological impacts, driving the cost of living crisis, and they will eventually drive food prices up to unaffordable levels, with food shortages, in a system with a free market economy, where supply and demand determines price. You appear to be primarily advised by economists, none of whom have any understanding of ecology and climate science. You ignore real experts like Professor Kevin Anderson, @kevinclimate, who has been warning for years, that current climate policy, Net Zero by 2050, after the 2015 Paris Agreement, will not reach Net Zero, and puts us on course for 3-4C of warming by the end of the century, which is globally suicidal.

I have been consistently warning for 16 years that it is the leading edge of climate change, what is happening now, which will cripple our societies, most likely through food shortages.

There are multiple warnings about imminent food shortages in the UK and that the current Super El Nino, just starting to unfold, which will likely cause serious food supply problems until 2028. Yet your recently policy announcements, falsely assume that this is just a temporary problem, caused by the "weather". Whereas climate science has been warning for 40 years, that it is going to get warmer and warmer. This year is not even the new normal, because it is going to progressively get much worse and worse, for perhaps hundreds of years.

Your recent policy announcements, seem to be based on the premise that the UK economy will just carry on, somehow unaffected by the unfolding climate and ecological emergency, even though the UK is struggling to cope with the current heatwave, and Europe is even worse affected. The major premise of your thinking, and that of your economic advisers seems to be that this is just a temporary effect, and things will return to normal, when this might actually be the coolest it is going to be for the next few thousand years, on the current trajectory. Climate science, says it is going to get much worse in the future. Why are you ignoring this? You certainly can't address this with a bit of renewable energy, or the government's, quite frankly laughable, and totally inadequate Net Zero policy.

Your own intelligence chiefs produced report, that predicted major ecosystem and biodiversity collapse by 2030-50, causing global food supply collapse, and conflict. Many of the worse conclusions, your government redacted.

The climate and ecological emergency, are the overall parameters, which will determine what is possible in our societies and economy, in the near future, not your economic policy, when the economy is totally reliant on global ecosystems, which your own intelligence chiefs, have said are in a state of collapse.

See below for the Natural Security Report, by UK intelligence chiefs. It is on the governments own website, but you are just ignoring it.
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
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Here is the National Security Assessment by UK Intelligence Services, which your economic advisers are blatantly ignoring.

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Everyone wants results. Almost nobody wants the boring stuff that creates them.

This isn't another list of theory. It's 15 short scenes that show what these ideas actually look like when real people live them.

1. Consistency creates capacity:

Six months ago he couldn't run a mile without stopping. No dramatic turning point, just daily miles. Now he runs 10k without thinking. The capacity was built, not found.

2. Discipline builds brilliance:

Everyone praised her talent at 19. At 29, the ones still working aren't the most talented ones from back then. They're the ones who kept showing up after talent stopped being enough.

Imagine still calling Vic a sexual predator without evidence and you still bullying people because you are a spineless coward again if you’re gonna talk shit at least back it up and say it to my face not hiding behind a screenshot so I wouldn’t see it because I’m gonna find out

https://twitter.com/b_rabbit843/status/2080365407039271268

Also affidavits and court documents with no reliable sources, no real evidence to prove that they are legit and I read the court documents you didn’t and you admitted that you didn’t read the documents months ago if they claimed to have seen Vic do what he was accused of

And if Monica was allegedly sexually assaulted and did nothing about it and didn’t report him then it didn’t happen and the accusations are false and the affidavits and court documents are baseless but you don’t care about the facts do you @B_Rabbit843?

🧵Russia just released official video proof that it captured a new Ukrainian town.

Analysts checked the coordinates and found a minor detail: The flag-waving soldier was generated by AI, and actual Russian troops were 11 kilometers away. 1/🇺🇦🦩⬇️🇷🇺🧵

Blahodatne was not an isolated incident. At Hrafske, another Russian channel posted footage of flags going up, which analysts also identified as AI-generated imagery.

The military is manufacturing virtual victories on video to feed Putin a false picture of progress. 2/

The Defense Ministry promised Putin that Russian forces would capture all of Donetsk by December 2026.

Inside the military, officers are quietly admitting that December is impossible and that the campaign will bleed well into 2027. 3/

@evikokalari The Quincy Institute was explicitly launched as a transpartisan project with initial $500,000 contributions each from George Soros's Open Society Foundations and the Charles Koch Foundation.
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@evikokalari This "Koch-Soros alliance" on foreign policy restraint is widely reported as unusual given their opposing ideologies elsewhere, uniting around reducing U.S. military interventions and promoting diplomacy.
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@evikokalari See. George Soros and Charles Koch team up to form new think-tank

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