This may be the saddest thing ever seen on twitter: Scott Walker cropped a picture of a pizza he had in October 2019 and RTd it as "Great Pizza tonight"
(H/t @IFNAlphaMale)
Many people are commenting on the pizza itself, but it is important to remember that Scott Walker is not exactly a pizza aficionado here
If Walker ever invites you over for a bite to eat, you should say no.
For many reasons.
But chiefly because you will probably catch food poisoning from his positioning various (unseasoned) meats and veggies with different cooking times on the same skewer.
Walker tweets about food a lot, especially ham sandwiches. He has extraordinary faith in the visualization of food as conveying magical properties, like a personality, or a winning argument. Like, why does he add the pic here? theguardian.com/us-news/2016/n…
To summarize:
Do: support your local businesses, esp. great restaurants
Don't: do it by pretending to be eating out there with 14 month old photos
It’s amazing that Wisconsin got more acknowledgment of error with Walker’s fake pizza photo than it has over the Foxconn multi-billion boondoggle theverge.com/21507966/foxco…
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There is an actual field of sociogenomics, but its just not doing enough race-IQ studies for these guys.
FWIW here is a debunking of much of Murray's long-term project of connecting race and IQ by people who work in genetics. vox.com/the-big-idea/2…
More on Kirkegaard here. rationalwiki.org/wiki/Emil_Kirk… whose work connecting IQ and race has been rebuffed by people who study sociogenomics google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j…. His highest degree, a BA, is from Aarhus University, who described him thusly:
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I understand the appeal of Rand Paul's Festivus report: the story is ready-made click-bait. Lizards on a treadmill! You can use a Seinfeld image! And its almost the holidays, so hard to reach the people the story is about. It is made for social media news sharing.
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