The Monks In the Casino for, um, one meaning of the word "monks"
The dark side of the rainbow: Homosexuals and bisexuals have higher Dark Triad traits than heterosexuals. Aporia notes that this is strong evidence against the Sociosexual Hypothesis. I don't have numbers, but I do have a career of observation of a subset on the group. Borderline and Antisocial personalities have high percentages of bisexuality that I used to characterise as omnisexuality, pansexuality. Both sexes, children, animals, fleshlights, vacuum cleaner hoses...anything. They were often traumatised by relatives, which brings in questions of environment vs genetics again. Were those parents also antisocial/borderline? Is there more than one wheel turning here? Should we take them out of the studies or are they the far extreme of the same spectrum? I do not have an opinion.
That was a serious subject, so lets be insensitive and consider it from a light perspective by that beloved children's author Shel Silverstein.
Copycat effect of mass shootings. Like plane crashes versus auto deaths or drowning in a flood vs a bathtub, we fear things that are much less likely to happen. Mass shootings take up an enormous amount of media space, fundraising, and legislative time, but the odds of you dying in one are vanishingly small. Because they often involve (seemingly) random victims who are entirely innocent, it offends our sense of justice and control over our worlds as well as our realistic fear. B ut paradoxically, our obsession with keeping them in the news makes them more likely.
The survival of Swiss watches Quartz watches were cheaper and more precise, but a small number of watchmakers kept Swiss watches alive after two-thirds of the watchmakers had already gone out of business.
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