I'm sure that pointing never before seen technology with objective function set to "as addictive as humanly possible" at children that is forever present and holds their social life hostage if they don't use it will have no bad consequences at all

State politics to federal politics is what college basketball is to the NBA. More entertaining, more dynamic

The most tragic, soul crushing thing you can say to an 8 month old baby is "no" when they are want to do something you don't want them to do

Nepalis are like if you got the best parts of Indians and Pakistanis and put them together, and left all of the bad parts

Remember when you'd get banned from the internet forever for posting these charts? Like not even that long ago

NYT forced to print facts it REALLY doesn't like. SPUTNIK MOMENT = time to compete, no more COPE "After World War II, when the United States faced increased military and scientific competition from the Soviet Union, selective universities began to assign greater weight to academic factors, including the SAT, said Nicholas Lemann, who has written about the history of standardized testing and is a professor of journalism at Columbia University."

indians in india are better (more skilled, stronger, taller) than pakistanis in pakistan, but in the west, i find its the opposite

after sealing the human inside of a small red cube we were finally able to collect the data needed. we confirmed the human's revealed preference is to live inside of small red cubes. the next step is obvious and involves the construction of what we call cubetopia

It’s interesting that for some people changing their mind is incredibly hard and for other people it’s tremendously easy

The really brutal thing about doing this is when you are missing just one part and need to wait an entire day to make more pgoress