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@fentanylbrownie
Jun 3 • 4 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
Ppl forget the 1st episode of Adam Ruins Everything concerned the manufactured tradition surrounding diamond engagement rings. The denouement was, in so many words, “We can’t stop supporting an evil South African cartel because women are so vapid they need a $10,000 shiny rock.”
They got away with it because at this time “Adam Ruins Everything” was a satirical web video on CollegeHumor. Still, for all the cultural memory Adam Conover commands (still a lot if we’re honest) few mention that’s how it started.
I think the first 3 CollegeHumor videos of the series were the engagement ring, why circumcision is barbaric, and that restaurant tipping should be banned. Then The People Upstairs got involved and they started putting out “Why America Isn’t Special” and “Alpha Males Don’t Exist”
Timeline is hazy but I think the next video after Tipping was that Purebred Dogs are Bad, which marked a shift to exclusively safe targets going forward.

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May 26
Shockingly, people have misinterpreted this. I haven’t said “The baby’s life is worth more than that of the mother” I’m saying that the feminist framing insists on a trolley problem QTE where the obstetrician chooses between pressing LT to save the woman and RT to save the baby.
I’d bet this is less commonly the case as the woman is a developed adult and the baby literally isn’t even born yet. Any complications during birth would naturally threaten the baby more, and in an emergency they would be properly triaged. That’s why they tend to the baby first.
And again, the feminist framing completely sidesteps that we’re talking about the mother’s own baby. You’re not just delivering this child for nobody. It’s *your* baby.
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Dec 2, 2025
Semi-related longpost: For all the money in the fitness industry, health advice hasn’t caught up with the reality that we now have two generations of Americans who were essentially born obese and have never been a healthy weight.
Most fitness and diet advice comes from the assumption that the receiver was, at one point, a healthy weight before “letting themselves go” and they’re trying to get back to that weight; that is, being fat is the aberration and being healthy is the baseline.
This simply isn’t true in 2025. Tens if not hundreds of millions of kids were born that basically never had a chance because their parents were overweight and they adopted their eating habits. These people cannot “trust their bodies” because their body wants to be overweight.
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Apr 25, 2025
The 2010’s saw the creation of a parallel lifestyle enabled by technology that’s preferable, at least facially, to family formation. The only answer is banning that technology and holding tribunals for its inventors. The cat must be recaptured and forced back into the bag.
The thing is if you’re not rich the DINK lifestyle gets stale reasonably fast but you’re one of these PMC couples that earns $400,000+ per year you never have to stop. There’s always a new vacation spot, a new espresso machine, a new expensive impractical hobby, etc
High-earning couples existed previously and they’ve traditionally had fewer children older than their less well-to-do counterparts. The difference is the Joneses they kept up with were down the street, not everywhere on earth, and they ran out of options faster.
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Sep 6, 2024
Reminder: HR departments don’t approve performance raises to force turnover so they can stay busy hiring and onboarding. It’s always cheaper to just give the employee you already have the raise they requested, but they never do that because retention isn’t a KPI.
For example: At my last job I asked for a 15% raise to compensate for my 50% increase in responsibility. I was denied and now I work elsewhere. It will take them two years to train an employee to my skill level when I left, likely at a higher starting salary.
It would’ve been much cheaper at all levels, chiefly lost productivity, to just give me the $8000 I asked for. This is obvious to anybody with a brain. Unfortunately, that decision is made by HR.
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