Winners University Bureaucrats – Admins will grow to staff the department needed to figure out a way around SCOTUS narrowly striking down affirmative action. Some Colleges – A college dependent on government money could modify the incoming classes and not fear the feds dropping the hammer. There is a market for those colleges if they…

Submitted by a politically active anon Looking at the political landscape, it is difficult for right wingers to find green shoots. Some of the populist energy has channeled into odd pursuits. All bureaucracies are controlled by the left and idea generating entities are left wing aligned. Seek patrons! That is not for everyone. A positive…

Submitted by Alan Schmidt In Bologna during the mid 1800s, a nanny working for a Jewish family baptized a child named Edgardo Mortara during a life and death emergency. Five years later, the Baptism came to light and a furor of controversy flared within and outside the church of how to deal with this situation….

We see it everywhere in the memeplex. Cognitive dissonance occurs when individuals hold conflicting beliefs or ideas. In the context of advocating for open borders while automation and artificial intelligence (AI) threaten job opportunities, a sense of cognitive dissonance arises. It is easy to see the apparent contradiction of promoting open borders to spur economic…

The air hung heavy with a somber sadness as I stood before the small gathering of mourners in the funeral parlor home. It was a stark contrast to the bustling funerals of my grandparents just a decade earlier, where friends, neighbors, and distant relatives joined together to bid farewell to their loved ones. In the…

Eliezer Yudkowsky has the graphomania of someone who came of age when the Internet was still capitalized and interlocutors on any random forum were selected for a subpopulation that was worth talking to. His corpus spans billions of words. He will happily inform you of this fact to claim preeminence – “how can you disagree…