@Smirkley
@Smirkley
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Only teachers are smart enough to educate children. Education majors, training to become certified teachers, score an average of 1029 on the SAT. While homeschooled students (taught by parents with no formal teaching credentials) score 1190. ...

3 months, 3 weeks ago
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@jonatanpallesen
@jonatanpallesen
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Pretty crazy poll from France where a large number of people are asked about population replacement of the French people with people from Africa (in those terms), and whether they think this is a good thing. And a significant percentage of various groups think it's a good thing. ...

3 months, 3 weeks ago
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@cremieuxrecueil
@cremieuxrecueil
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How do people in different groups differ in their self-reported levels of horniness?🧵 Here's how that varies by sex and occupation. The least horny group was female machine drivers. The most was male sales associates. ...

3 months, 3 weeks ago
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@Smirkley
@Smirkley
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What closes the ideology-mental health gap?🧵 Education actually doubles the gap. Thus the gap isn’t caused by uneducated conservatives refusing to seek help. 1/5 ...

3 months, 3 weeks ago
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@BowTiedPassport
@BowTiedPassport
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It’s a persistent myth that the military is mostly the poor. In reality, the force skews heavily middle and upper-middle class. Low income applicants fail entrance requirements due to education gaps and criminal records. Modern warfare requires intelligence and adaptability. <a target="_blank" h...

3 months, 3 weeks ago
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@cremieuxrecueil
@cremieuxrecueil
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We know that aristocrats were heavily involved in physical combat because they used to have an enormous number of excess deaths on the same dates—the dates of battles. ...

3 months, 3 weeks ago
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@cremieuxrecueil
@cremieuxrecueil
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Being a European noble was a deadly affair. Emperors (1) and Kings (2) lived shorter lives than nobles in general. Nobility who weren't involved in combat (like most Gentlemen and Esquires; 12) clearly lived longer than those who were expected to fight. ...

3 months, 3 weeks ago
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@akarlin
@akarlin
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Statistics on the biographies of 75 of Russia's leading aviation specialists who worked with Igor Sikorsky after 1914: * 1 died in WW1 combat * 25 died between 1917-1924 * 32 emigrated * 8 subsequently repressed under Stalin Only 9/75 had a minimally "normal" life. ...

3 months, 3 weeks ago
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@chetaslua
@chetaslua
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HOLLLLY SHIIIIIT 😳 GPT 5.5 xhigh in codex made this paper physics website with wind effect one shot check the physics , ui and interaction @sama you guys cooked and this is my first time i can suggest chatgpt is go to ai solution for everything <a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/chetas...

3 months, 3 weeks ago
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