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Nobody on this board wants a segregated neighbourhood. Each person only asks that at least 3 in 10 of their neighbours look like them. If not, they jump to an empty spot where that is true.
Then the colours pull apart into big blocks, and the average person ends up with about 3 in 4 neighbours like them, far more than anyone asked for.
Thomas Schelling showed this in 1971 with pennies and dimes on graph paper, and he shared the 2005 economics Nobel for work on how individual choices add up to patterns nobody chose. The lesson is that a pattern in the whole does not prove a wish in the parts.
In the second run each person asks for 5 in 10, and the blocks are even sharper.
Cunningham retweeted
Elon Musk is hiding this video of Bill Burr ripping him apart.
So don't RT it.
Or do if you don't like Elon Musk.
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So much of left-wing antisemitism sounds like "Vatican city needs to be destroyed."
"what do you mean I'm attacking Catholics? I didnt even mention Catholics".
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Ukrainians keep showing enormous courage in defending their country against Putin’s immoral and indeed evil efforts to conquer a neighbor. They have resisted now for four years and eight months and we should do all we can to help them.
Cunningham retweeted
They don’t vote Republican to improve their life. They vote Republican to destroy the lives of the people they hate.
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You may have noticed that the word for ‘night’ in many languages appears to be that language’s word for ‘eight’ with an ‘N' in front of it.
English: N + eight = Night
German: N + acht = Nacht
French: N + huit = Nuit
Spanish: N + ocho = Noche
Italian: N + otto = Notte
Portuguese: N + oito = Noite
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Cunningham retweeted
The AIs are now the smartest mathematicians in the world. Given how mathematicians have seized control of governments, corporations and the culture, I fear what comes next.
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How come no one demands Jordan return its land to Palestinians?
How come no one calls Jordanians colonizers?
Weird how it’s only “stolen Palestinian land” when it’s in Jewish hands and not Muslim ones.
Cunningham retweeted
when i got my POTS diagnosis my neurologist told me that i should absolutely not get involved with online communities for it bc most of the people there were obsessed with being sick forever. and at the time i was like wow that’s fucked up huh but actually she was 1000% correct
Cunningham retweeted
In all the discussion about colonising Mars, I don't see much about how the soil is poisonous to us.
This was only discovered in 2008. It contains perchlorates, which are environmental toxins here on Earth.
Any human contact with Mars dust? Bad news in the long run.
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Cunningham retweeted
So much San Franciscan culture is computer nerds refusing to learn about anything before 1990 and tediously relitigating entire intellectual histories except in their annoying reddit dialect and cadence.
They call this “working from first principles”
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Indo-Americans are well under 2% of the American population. Their parents have insipid suburban lives that are basically "Leave it to Beaver" on steroids. Their kids grow up to be tanned White kids who obsess over fantasy football and would rather cut their balls off than go to a temple.
There is no way you can attribute anti-Indian animus to numbers, behaviors, or political shifts. The math doesn't math for that.
What's really going on is a mix of bigotry and political opportunism. Republicans want to burnish nativist credentials for their White Boomer base, while avoiding a backlash among working class Latinos. The way they square this circle is by going after a small, inert, and politically fractured minority.
