Since we were kids, we’ve been told to hang out with high quality, talented ppl and avoid trash & idiots.

Same logic works for countries, particularly in international cooperation.

Like the chinese saying: "Don’t be afraid of god-like rivals, fear pig-like teammates."

— This is the biggest leak in Apple history. Hackers stole 630GB from Tata (Apple’s India supplier) and dumped it on the dark web. Verified authentic by AppleInsider & Reuters.

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This happened because the HR staff are Indians. Once Indians get in they’ll just hire other Indians and won’t care about their credentials

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Fable 5 is so nerfed. sometimes it feels like anthropic shipped the max version of opus 4.8. anthropic owes us an explanation

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Europoors: if we stop using AC we will solve climate change

China: 1M sq ft indoor ski resort that has 10 MW of refrigeration running 365 days a year

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Lately there's been an explosion in Western women dating Chinese men because they have discovered that they simp hard over them and treat them like princesses. This is all thanks to the gender ratio of 25 million more men than women in China

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JUST IN: IRGC members seen mourning as Iran prepares to bury Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei

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That’s a really interesting trend. Seriously, WTF happened in 1971?

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How it feels to be professionally unemployed

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"Women are bad drivers" being treated as a malicious stereotype is really funny once you realize the scientific consensus more or less spells it out as being directionally true

The sexual disparity in spatial reasoning is a highly reproducible and well documented phenomenon

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Japan has been divided according to escalator doctrine

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"Dinner for Six" at 13,000 feet over Arizona — Nitro Circus skydiving stunt STUNS millions

The worst part is that half of their food fell with them

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The Atlantic: "How Britain Became as Poor as Mississippi."

Highlights:

-The NHS backlog is six million patients, 10% of the population

-Dental care is so out of reach that 10% of Britons report "do it yourself" dental care like extracting teeth

-Junior doctors went on strike, their starting salaries are $44,000 a year. The average civil servant makes $41K a year

-Keir Starmer faced a scandal for going to a "luxury" hotel, which was $230 a night.

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Lee Kuan Yew:

“Air conditioning was a most important invention for us, perhaps one of the signal inventions of history. It changed the nature of civilization by making development possible in the tropics. Without air conditioning you can work only in the cool early-morning hours or at dusk. The first thing I did upon becoming prime minister was to install air conditioners in buildings where the civil service worked. This was key to public efficiency."

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Anon gets healthy

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White nationalist on the London tube gets knocked out by an African immigrant for telling him that he wants immigrants to go home. Feminists just laugh and step over his unconscious body

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Men are more sexually jealous in cultures where paternal investment is higher.

Plain language: Men are more worried about cuckoldry in cultures where it would be costlier to be cuckolded.

Always remarkable, to me, how context-sensitive and adaptable our evolved psychology is.

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Asmongold explains why his "bottom 2%" take makes people so angry

"People are mad because it destroys two narratives they live their lives around. The first is that poor people are poor because of structural reasons with no fault of their own. The second is it inverts the guilt they try to pin on the top one percent."

"If you took the top 2% of people and they just vanished, every single functional societal system would totally collapse. Businesses would fall apart, machines would stop running. They're the only ones smart enough to understand the systems. That's the truth, you might not like it, but it's the truth."

"Now contrast that. If you lost the bottom 2%, the world would astronomically improve. Everybody's lives would instantly get better. You'd get rid of 95% of violent criminals, probably the majority of criminals in general. There is not a single aspect of your life that would get worse in any way."

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