There's a sort of Dark Tetrad of topics: social identity, intelligence, religion, and genetics-and-culture. People who only ever talk about those 4 things... I tend to run from them. For mental health, those topics should not consume >20% of your intellectual bandwidth.
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They also attract prolific producers of banal politicized schlock, making them rather unattractive topics to learn about.
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Replying to @Rationalbot @vgr
Yes. It gets old hearing about how someone is a bold rebel for pronouncing verboten bromides. Conversation should command interest of its own accord; the urge to épater le bourgeois is tiresome and jejune.
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German, French, English, woven together into one tweet, a true polymath
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Replying to @androgynandre @PereGrimmer and
TIL the French for "freak the mundanes"
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