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Nov 1, 2024 • 3 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
Among health "experts" who tweeted about Monkeypox, there was a dramatic tendency to get basic facts wrong.

For example, many claimed risk wasn't especially heightened among gay men.

PhDs were among the worst misinformation spreaders. Image
Being an "expert", being "credentialed", having "studied" something and so on, is not sufficient to make someone truly credible, to endow their words with reliability.

Being right is, and most popular "experts" were usually not right.
Source: doi.org/10.1101/2023.0…

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Dec 31, 2025
The male advantage in strength is insanely large.

Even when men and women are matched on muscle, men tend to be far stronger.

Add in that men tend to be to women like what linebackers are to normal men, and you might wonder how more women aren't constantly in fear. Image
This logic applies very strongly.

Consider this: female athletes are generally weaker than average men! Image
Sex differences in strength are profound.

Sources:

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aj…

link.springer.com/article/10.100…
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Dec 31, 2025
Let us never forget:

The Father of the American pit bull, one John P. Colby, didn't stop breeding them even after they

KILLED HIS NEPHEW and MAULED HIS SISTER

This breed has been malign since its creation. Excerpt from Pit Bull: The Battle over an American Icon. Page 70.
Pit bulls were also killing disabled people shortly after their invention.

This headline is from 1901.

Basically, what happened is that this woman had an epileptic fit, so her pit bull, being the nanny dog it is, decided to eat through her neck.

Helpful! Image
Even a single year after they were recognized in 1896, they had begun hurting people.

In this instance, one mutilated a woman in front of her four-year-old grandchild. Image
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Dec 30, 2025
Pit bull breeders often have Instagram accounts where they post stuff like this, showing the creations they've made through having dogs from the same litter rape each other.

For example, "2x Pimpy 3x Bape" means this one was inbred 2x from a dog named "Pimpy" and 3x from "Bape". Image
Typical pit bull family tree: Image
These are advertised on here, unfortunately:

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Dec 30, 2025
There is a problem at pet shelters:

They're full because no one wants to adopt the dogs.

Why? Because they're pit bulls, and only the unaware or dim want them.

So, shelters often blatantly lie. Here are some examples. These four are *not* really "Labrador Retrievers": Image
Adoptee: 'What breed is that?'

Employee 1: 'It's a p-'

Employee 2: 'You can't just tell them.'

Employee 2: 'Sir, that's a Corgi.' Image
'Do you think they'll believe this?' Image
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Dec 29, 2025
The whole "nanny dog" thing is made up. There is no historical evidence that pit bulls were ever bred to be stewards or friends to children.

The evidence for that myth is basically 'someone said it on Facebook'🧵 Image
Even many sources that are favorable towards pit bulls or active promoters of them will occasionally admit there's no real basis for the "nanny dog" claim.

Example: Image
Another example (and yes, I know "loyal and loving demeanor" is a lie; this is posted for the admission of myth): Image
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Dec 22, 2025
The Australian pension system is funded through mandatory contributions into private retirement accounts

During the COVID pandemic, the government allowed people to pull up to $20,000 from those accounts decades early

What happened?

Firstly, uneducated people pulled the most: Image
Australia did this because they needed fiscal stimulus.

If they didn't allow people to make early withdrawals from their accounts—which normally remain inaccessible until retirement age—, they would have ended up in a very bad position.

But people did withdraw. Image
About a quarter of those aged >34 withdrew.

The most common amount to take out was $10,000 each time the possibility became available.

All said and done, that typically meant pulling down 51% of the total balance. That also meant foregoing $120,000 on average by retirement! Image
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