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https://twitter.com/WhisperSpy88/status/1926853038695702959Mid-19th century medicine was so bad that they not only dismissed the idea of washing their hands but mocked the guy who suggested it to the point he was committed to and beaten to death in a mental asylum. To be fair, I guess he was technically a doctor too!
https://twitter.com/BrankoMilan/status/1922758843034948019Many even found it natural and relaxing to simply switch from taking orders from impersonal institutions in Moscow to taking cues from impersonal institutions in Washington, and joyfully imposing both on their populations, whom they view as primitive cavemen that need uplifting.
https://twitter.com/levelsio/status/1916805071309877580Crossing your fingers and praying for AGI is not going to cut it as a solution. We all have a collective responsibility this century to do the intellectual, cultural, institutional, and ultimately political work to reorient and repair our civilization.
https://x.com/mmjukic/status/1692171783557005502
https://twitter.com/signulll/status/1914816668544500071In 19th century Sweden, this guy founded a successful bank and then fathered 21 children with three women—never divorcing, they just died and he remarried. That was wealth.
https://twitter.com/BirthGauge/status/1911078039955394646Until 2022 or so, Poland, Croatia, Hungary, and Japan were all supposedly staunchly culturally conservative anti-immigration strongholds. Then, suddenly, all at once, they all caved and began importing low-wage labor from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Philippines, etc.
https://twitter.com/AHVanBuskirk/status/1910420509172654176Japan's growth was driven by a kind of centrally-planned dynamism overseen by a generation of unusual talents and experiences, most of whom were adults before WWII even began.
https://twitter.com/Valen10Francois/status/1906658602732990736We are in the process of finding out that what looked from the outside like a sincere bipartisan commitment to the impartial institutions of democracy in the West was really just a fragile but comprehensive consensus among social, intellectual, and administrative elites...