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24 Jun, 4 tweets, 1 min read
I'd flip the script here: a government big enough to scoff at militias is too big
Wish I'd thought of this response!
Every time POTUS wants to start a war, he should have to get all the governors together in a drafty castle and grovel until one of them steps forward and starts a slow clap
"Oh, shit, we can't bomb Durkastan because Kristi Noem has the nukes and won't bring them"

That's how a proper war works.

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23 Jun
1\ With panic back in vogue, moral entrepreneurs are finding "epidemics" under every rock

Puerto Rico declared a state of emergency this year over a supposed outbreak of femicides

Press coverage of the issue is histrionic

Let's look at the data..

abcnews.go.com/US/puerto-rico…
2\ Using the expansive interpolations of a lobbying outfit, there were 60 femicides last year, up 62% over 2019

62% is a huge increase!
3\ Well it turns out that so few women are killed in Puerto Rico that what you're seeing is just the high variance of tiny samples

2019 is dead flat with, for instance, 2014

And 2016

And 2018:
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18 Jun
1\ BofA was started by Italian immigrants, who figured out that by *discriminating* between Northern and Southern Italians (whom US lenders couldn't tell apart), they could lend to the good Northern credits
2\ Thus, the one-time biggest bank in the world succeeded because they figured out how to make finer and finer distinctions between individuals, which had a "disparate impact" on Southern Italians

But the alternative was no loans for any Italian immigrants. It was a win!
3\ Thanks to the Civil Rights Acts, "disparate impacts" are now illegal. E.g. a company asking about criminal history will incur the ire of the EEOC, because of the disparate impact on blacks

So a rational company just pulls out of black areas, leaving deserving blacks worse off
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13 Jun
You can be jailed for standing up to Wokeness: Image
Government is always happy to take up the banner of a new religion. It has been on every single side of the Gender & Sports issue, except the principled side of "not our business": Image
Prole Nouns! Image
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10 Jun
1\ It's odd: the collective kabuki dance in which we all pretend to be fragile and afraid of giving or taking offense

Meanwhile, we thrill to the Hollywood trope of "comfortable American place": the black barbershop, the construction site, the police precinct locker room
2\ These tropes are lovable because they reveal our real values, we know their boundaries, the friction is out in the open and honest

They are earthy, jocose, ribald, a bit harsh, and we *like that*

Humans LOVE it when a spade gets called a spade
3\ Non-PC culture is the seedy but essentially harmless uncle who would drop everything to teach you how to change a flat tire

PC culture is the hyper verbal mother with borderline personality disorder; what confected rage might she fly into next?
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5 Jun
The jury unanimously recommends banning the practice of "city planning"
City planners are their own constituency

Each generation decrees that what its predecessors built was racist, and sets about planning something new...
First there was "slum clearance", later euphemized as "revitalization"

Then grids of public housing grew out of fashion, and planners discovered "mixed use" developments

Lately there's been a fetish for "organic spaces" with Old World fractal dimensionality
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4 Jun
Pupil dilation and constriction reflect memory storage and retrieval

Is this related to the fact that we squint a little when trying to recall some fact?

I also notice that when completing a timed pattern puzzle, I let my eyes go open and wide initially. Related?
Apparently pupil size corresponds activity of the locus coeruleus, which plays some sort of regulating role in brain function

h/t @michaelbyrne for alerting me to this data
More on locus coeruleus function
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