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I am the result of 14 billion years of cosmic evolution. I am a thermodynamic miracle. I am the waking universe looking back at itself.
Mar 10 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
There are at least three very different conditions which are lumped under "autism spectrum disorder" (possibly more) – and they're actually different enough from each other that they each have their own associated phenotype:

assburgers
true autism
the chud https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-014-2290-8 They vary significantly in cognitive scores. It is quite obvious that of the three, only the cluster 2 is significantly abnormal in all aspects – true autism.
Cluster 1 corresponds to the traditional Asperger syndrome.
And cluster 3? "PDD-NOS" – diagnostically never well-defined. Image
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Mar 8 • 82 tweets • 42 min read
What did our ancestors eat? Of course there's no singular answer but let's go through the examples presented in an article on the nutritional habits of 19th century Slovenia. 🧵 (source & summary will be at the bottom) Image Peasantry mostly ate 3 meals per day (morning, noon, evening), up to 5 with in-between meals during hard labour. Farm work did not allow women to stay in the kitchen, often only one meal was cooked or all the meals were cooked in the morning at once – except on Sundays. Image
Feb 4 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
There's a dirty secret about why this regulation is being passed and, no, it is not about "eat ze bugs" – it's because the grain storage is increasingly being infested by weevils (because we banned most aggressive insecticides that were used to get rid of them in first place) Currently the stored grains are mostly disinfested by irradiation methods – this is why "UV-treated mealworm powder" is to be allowed – it's about trying to bury this issue under the rug
Dec 4, 2024 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Something to keep in mind is that people generally don't learn about how the world works from studying historical examples objectively, or simulating and rehearsing situations, but from popular culture tropes
Consider for example: the mass popular protest trope The popular image goes like this: if you can gather a huge enough crowd, it will create public pressure on politicians to change their mind.
(because the power comes from the people)
Dec 3, 2024 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
Oh, I do.

The problem is that coups used to work because of a variable that has drastically changed over the last two decades: that is, the means of dissemination of information. So if you use the old playbook, you're going to fail laughably. There are two aspects of this:
1) informational fog of war is no longer local but coherent – public information can reach everyone equally fast
2) effective group coordination, likewise, no longer requires physical assembly.
Aug 22, 2024 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
I've been reading a lot on how "leftism is a biological phenomenon" on here but given the takes I've seen last couple days from the worst of shart right I need to stress: you too are biosludge if you think the right is good and the left is bad in examples below
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Image indeed: the most outspoken about this are the oversocialized phags among the rightoid memeplex, with some libetardians thrown into the mix (another deeply unserious group)
echoes also of the same phags signalling disgust at ilona maher at the olympics earlier (anons pushing back) Image
Jul 4, 2024 • 16 tweets • 5 min read
"declining individual religiosity"
"every cohort is somewhat less religious than its predecessor"

I think the problem is that we're dealing with mass conversion to a religion that we do not recognise as such.
A new religious movement so weird that it requires extra commentary. And no, I'm not talking about "animistic Buddhism" here. Though it's a good indicator: people have *not* abandoned spirituality. And usually, spirituality and religion go hand in hand.
But, no, this is not the case.
Mar 19, 2024 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
a lot of this new world variety neo-nazi-adjacent thought basically boils down to ascribing high-caste traits (ambition, intellect, lack of content with just comfortable life) onto europeans as a whole due to living somewhere without a commoner-derived white population when I first started interacting with them on 4chan, it struck me how most of the complaints about self-evident racial inferiority of "niggers" based on observed behaviour apply almost exactly also to the "čefurji" (population of balkan extraction, mostly serbs) in slovenia
Mar 18, 2024 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
children's books in the past: intended to prime you for real life issues in a playful manner

children's books now: le epic trope subversion

and then we wonder why new generations are increasingly delusional I don't care about the authors much but if you're a parent or educator and use those with the children you're raising, that's child abuse comparable to - no, it literally is equivalent to cult indoctrination
Jan 18, 2024 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
I'll go out and disagree on this: Romans lacked one crucial ingredient

Efficient implementation of steam power which made industrial revolution possible relies on understanding of thermodynamics and concepts like latent heat and Boyle's law.

Romans lacked the maths to grasp it. Song China utilized coal and had mass production of steel. Nonetheless an industrial revolution couldn't take place - they, likewise, didn't understand what they're sitting on due to lack of mathematical understanding
trial and error doesn't scale!


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Dec 21, 2023 • 24 tweets • 10 min read
People often ignore that a lot of aspects in which Europe (and to a lesser extent, North America) look especially hospitable is usually not something that was intrinsic to the region, but achieved through organized effort to fix things

Let's look at the example: malaria Image Malaria (= Italian for "bad air") is fairly well documented from classical Greek and Latin sources, connection to marshes seemed to work well with miasma theory but mosquitoes specifically were not recognised as vector