Where I live, one of the earliest signs of spring is the American cockroach. While the American cockroach doesn’t infest homes, it does wander into them, and they’re big enough that you can hear them moving. (often 7 or 8 cm)

Maybe if they could wear a suit and say thank you once in a while.

This is next level because only Charles Murray stans could be persuaded that molecular bonds imply emotional strength.

The Milligram experiment is almost as big a humbug as the Stanford prison experiment.

When the study was run without a “scientist”, but instead a policeman or military officer, the participants who went full voltage dropped from 90+% compliance to 90+% refusal. This completely contradicts the supposed “findings” that people uncritically obey authority.

After the war, a whole cottage industry of psychologists and philosophers tried to answer why it was that ordinary Germans could participate in horror. Simple, but wrong explanations like “humans obey authority uncritically” were in high demand.

There is an excellent Science channel on Youtube and Nebula with a Physics PHD who’s made some eye-opening content about harassment and misogyny in STEM and Academia.

https://www.youtube.com/@acollierastro

Well, according to my ex, even 30 or 90 seconds is an interval unworthy of consideration.

To be fair, that’s an insignificant distance for light to travel.

When left-handedness became acceptable the number of left handed people was far higher than experts had predicted.

Tomatoes, peppers, and potatoes are native to the Americas. That means that before Transatlantic trade, there were no hot peppers in China, no potatoes in Ireland, and not tomatoes in Italy.

By the time RFK jr. is done, the vegetables will have a warning label for Haber–Bosch nitrogen and MAGA will insist their food be grown on untreated human feces.

You know, it’s perfectly OK to group voters by identity, so long as that identity cannot exclude “Normal” people. Soccer Mom, Six pack Dad, Middle class, working poor, labor, Small Business owner, Rural, Urban, and Suburban are all perfectly fine to promise these groups political power. But you do the exact same thing for queer people or black people and that’s identity politics all of a sudden.

The problem isn’t that we pet birds, it’s that we eat them. Or more specifically we gather them in huge, unsanitary populations in close contact with humans as they are raised and slaughtered.

This reminds me of how people think AIDS spread from other primates through bestiality, when bushmeat was the correct answer. I guess it’s easier to imagine bestiality than the consequences of carnism.

*not vegan, Just finding it harder and harder to dismiss them.