From ACX October links: T Greer on Trump’s flip-flopping Ukraine-Russia policy (X): “Every administration since Clinton comes in determined to reset US-Russian relations, to clear away old legacies and bad blood. Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump I, even Biden. It is the swampiest of all swampy ideas, resetting relations with the Russians. It never works.”
A Billion Years of Sex Differences
The Science of Snickers Caramel has to be done at 240-245 degrees Fahrenheit. That seems like a narrow window.
Political Extremists are the same under the skin
Political Symbolism and Social Order The study argues that Confederate monuments actually reduce violence against Blacks because they reinforce the white supremacist order and white people feel comfortable with that. Tearing them down makes the white people insecure and they get more violent to reassert supremacy. I think a couple of things are being missed here. First, white-on-black crime is very low to begin with, and political versions are even lower, so the amounts being measured are small. Secondly, the whole study is related to data from Reconstruction and a century ago, with this hand-waving idea "and it's just the same now." The modern data is...more sparse. Thirdly, if you go into any town and start tearing down its monuments there is going to be a baseline level of people who feel interfered with and annoyed, and that doesn't seem to be accounted for here. All measured violence is because of white supremacy, not for the insults, accusations, assumptions, or disruptions. The study does have formulas which give it an air of precision, though.
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