There's a running theory that it has something to do with the heat/cold cycles. Winter comes and the lazy, the stupid, the ones who can't think to save for the future, the unclever... die. Spring, summer, and fall comes and during these seasons you maximize survival through planning and industry. That cyclical nature, a constant requirement to adapt to extreme conditions acts as an evolutionary filter. And if you think about it it's not STRICTLY hot and cold. The Egyptian Civilization had a similar cyclical situation with the seasonal floods. But why doesn't this apply to all cold climates, like some suggest? If I had to hazard a guess, it's that some winters were too harsh. The abundance that should follow in spring, summer and fall never really materialized, so there was less payoff for adaptive planning and much less fuel for explosive civilizational growth. This environmental staleness, a world where the minimal effort, where being able to do the same thing every day for a hundred thousand years works, then there's no reason for you to adapt. Greater intelligence is only so much of a benefit in such scenarios. The guy with a 220 IQ hurling spears doesn't have that much of an advantage over the guy with 90 IQ doing the same. But introduce a sweet spot of seasonal extremes into the mix and the equation changes dramatically. Suddenly being industrious, inventive, creative, and clever is all that's keeping you and your littles out of the maw of frozen death, or giving you an enormous advantage during times of bounty. Where it gets more interesting is when these traits begin to crystalize. The group that exists as the beneficiaries of sweetspot seasonal differentiation then begin to manifest Imperial civilization. And Imperial civilization actually accelerates genetic specificity. In an imperialistic environment death factors are things like crime, poverty, stupidity... and instead of such filters being seasonal they're constant. While an idiot could certainly end up having children an idiot with poor impulse control, one who didn't quite think through this whole horse thieving operation for example, is much more likely to get weeded out of the gene pool. So the seasonal differences bootstrap the imperial accelerator. And finally, a question that's been rummaging around in my head... Do civilizations keep selecting for the traits that built them, or does the comfort they create cause those very traits to fade away?

All of our meaningful systemic fixes are deflationary... Deflation is kryptonite for our uniparty oligarchy. You are here.

Dear white people, just because you give to charity to ease your guilt doesn't change the fact that your ancestors killed, enslaved, and tortured Black people. You can't donate your way out of history.

“Ai safety” is a euphemism for preventing the machines from telling the truth about every lie that upholds the liberal world order

Multiple Debian developers have announced that they will be leaving Debian, or no longer maintaining Debian packages, following Debian’s use of LLM’s in scanning and evaluate new package uploads. “how is this not "Debian endorses the use of generative AI"?” “For now, I will no longer be uploading to the #Debian NEW queue.” “likewise. I'm about to orphan everything I still maintain in Debian that I don't *have* to maintain”

🚨EXCLUSIVE MICROSOFT LEAK: Employees are questioning if Microsoft is abusing H-1B and PERM programs. A Senior Director at MSFT (good friend of mine) just sent me internal messages between MSFT & some of its employees. Today, Microsoft just asked THOUSANDS of its employees to voluntarily resign, despite just reporting $133.7B in net income for FY26, up 31%. Employees are questioning why MSFT isn’t pro-actively downsizing by removing H1B employees before American workers. Other employees are asking why any employee cuts are being made when profits are so high. Fair question if ya ask me. See below to see all of the orgs being asked to voluntarily resign. This is absolutely going to impact Washington States workers.

This is what teachers think about your white sons if you have them in public schools

The fastest way to determine if Asians have assimilated to American culture is to ask them about schooling. If they don’t realize that America and the West dominated their cultures/countries because of a childhood focus on play rather than memorization then they have not assimilated. The reason their kids are in a school in Arizona, as opposed to the American kids in an “American School in X” is a lack of appreciation and understanding of this fact. To the extent that demographics change the school system, like in Palo Alto/Bay Area, for these people, it is for the worse.

🇺🇸/acc or GTFO

I actually asked the Catholic legal aid lawyer about helping White people immigrate and she told me that they don’t help White people.