13. Assuming Biden wins in the fall it's gonna be hilarious watching him and the gang try to impose their vision of normalcy on *all this*.
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24. Most academic "science" done today is the product of high-output low-impact research cartels finding ways to spend their grant money.
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25. The vast majority of "experts" who are cited in the press are actually just administrators who might not even deal with indentured grad students anymore.
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26. The scariest thing about the university system collapsing is that we don't have a replacement waiting in the wings because that would be impermissible in a university-dominated culture. The collapse itself is long overdue and well-deserved.
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27. Though I use it a lot, I'm skeptical of the word "institution", which seems bound up in industrial bureaucracies that clearly no longer work.
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28. Proust questionnaire answers are only interesting when viewed longitudinally.
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29. The "replication crisis" is a very self-serving frame for institutionalized social science to critique its bullshit production process.
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30. Clausewitz famously said that "war is the continuation of politics by other means", but I think that that's inverted. Politics is war by other means.
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31. Most of the evidence of Sino-Roman relations is underwater. If maritime archeology were somewhat more sophisticated I think we could build a much, much more interesting picture of Eurasian antiquity.
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32. Culture moving more slowly than technology is an artefact of modernity. Premodern societies had astonishingly complex cultures that could change a lot despite underlying agricultural occupations remaining static. Catastrophe brings change, and we know they had a lot of that.
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33. We know way more than we need to about the fall of Rome and way less than we need to about the Bronze Age Collapse.
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34. Sinophobia and Russophobia are very real strains in Anglo politics, but far nastier, far more open Anglophobia is a central strain in Chinese and Russian politics.
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35. Russia is the successor state of the Golden Horde and mostly still behaves like it.
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37. Systematic, large-scale voter fraud happens all the time in the US, usually in the form of dead or demented people voting absentee in Democratic primaries.
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38. Fraud is, by its nature, difficult to detect directly, but it's not hard to see when you look at demographics. Either Detroit or Chicago have many times the proportional number of politically engaged centenarians than Okinawa or something is fishy.
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39. The "there are almost no convictions for voter fraud" line reflexively trotted out by Democrats is correct, but only because we spend next to nothing on election integrity and investigating or prosecuting voter fraud.
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40. This is unfortunate, because the primary victims of voter fraud are Democrats running against big city political machines. Early-20th century-style fraud on a scale significant enough to tip general elections at the state level doesn't happen much anymore.
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42. You are obligated to hit like on videos that you enjoy, but not obligated to subscribe unless you enjoy three or more of a channel's videos.
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43. Lorne Micheals is personally responsible for making mainstream of American comedy devolve into a series of inoffensive chuckles.
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44. The hardcore blue routine trend of the post-2000 era was an equally lame reaction to this.
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45. Joe Rogan is a much better interviewer than he is a comedian.
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46. "Starship Troopers" is one of the greatest scifi novels ever written, and the vast majority of people don't understand why.
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47. "Starship Troopers" is not about militarism, that's just the topsoil that the movie burrowed into. The bedrock of the story in the novel is an examination of human nature in extreme circumstances, all the way down to how soldiers become attached to working dogs.
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48. Western society will pay dearly for its hostility to family formation.
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49. Electronic music is having a moment again, and I think it's because we're all in need of a soundtrack for the future.
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50. If life is going to increasingly resemble a Gibson novel, we owe it to ourselves to at least dial in the A E S T H E T I C S
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51. If you're not closely following the homefab (mostly 3d printed) firearm world, you're missing something truly earthshattering.
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