Drove from San Francisco to Monterey (120 mi) today, and have no energy left. Driving is dangerous, stressful, and exhausting. Some people love it and are good at it, but it's appalling that we force so many people to do it just so they can have lives.

Southern couples are the least looksmatched couples in the US > This is because of small cities + christian values > You start dating your high school sweetheart that also goes to your church + parents know each other > Girl was always a bit outside his league, but there is no competition, he treats you well and his family has money Then comes college: > Girl starts looksmaxxing to fit in > Guy starts bingedrinking & eating trash to fit in >> Suddenly you have a total rocket dating a dud - because of christian values, breaking up is harder Only two potential outcomes: - Dude gets her pregnant, moves her back to Bama to take over the family business - Couple moves to NYC, where she breaks up with him within 6-12 months With IG & Hypergamy, most cases end in divorce

I believe we are going to see more and more Protestant churches affirm polygamy. It's actually not a huge step once you adopt the sort of hyper-literal Biblicism that's already the de facto approac in that world. It won't be the mainstream view, but could get traction.

before capitalism, everyone assumed most people were only good for farming. take them off the fields and you’d have millions of useless mouths to feed. that’s the ai panic word for word: automate cognitive work and you get billions of useless minds except when farming went from 80% to 2% of people, it didn’t make useless mouths. it made everyone else we don’t know much about the ambitions of people who’ve never had the means to act on them. people learn what’s realistic, not what would need a team, take years, or feel like someone else’s job. after a while the limits feel like preferences. so when someone says “most people just use ai for emails,” that’s not a fact about people. it’s how small they’ve learned to want being able to do more will fundamentally change what we want. which is why every prediction built on how people use ai today is far too small contraptions.venkateshrao.co…

Why do arrogant agnostic transplants love to decorate their homes for Halloween so much but yet for no other holiday? -Just drive around Park slope or Brooklyn Heights or Cobble Hill and you’ll see what I mean. They try to outdo one another with the Halloween decorations. It’s almost like Dyker heights in reverse .

Funny continued finding here that abortion is seemingly opposed basically entirely on relgious grounds but also same sex marriage is seemingly opposed for secular reasons a ton.

❗In the first diplomatic crisis between Amman and Damascus after Assad's ouster, Syria suspends passenger and commercial traffic through the Nassib border crossing with Jordan. Syria protested Jordanian strikes this evening that killed Syrian civilians. xitter.cf/AmmanNet/status/211485…

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.

Younger evangelicals are much more supportive of same-sex marriage compared to older evangelicals. It's ~25% among those born in the 1940s It's ~50% among those born in the 2000s. But on legalizing abortion? Support is ~33% in every birth cohort. Age has no impact.