An interesting history:
By the 1500s, England's murder rate was lower than the murder rate in modern-day Africa 🏴
— Sam Bidwell (@sam_bidwell) December 23, 2024
And by the 20th century, Britain was one of the least violent societies on Earth – but why was this the case?
A 🧵 on the history of how England crushed crime pic.twitter.com/uripa0j2Eu
Can removing them cause anxiety later in life?
I still have mine, and I suspect that a lot of these procedures (if not all of them) are unnecessary and even harmful.
I hadn’t been aware of the degree of anti-Semitism in the Emerald Isle. It makes me less inclined to want to revisit it.
Are they (finally) ending? Many seem to think so.
An interesting discussion that has great explanatory power (including perhaps the most recent election results).
Four possible drone explanations.
Related thoughts from Roger Kimball.
Sadly, it’s not a new thing.
If you re interested in why Ireland is so weirdly, unreasonably antisemitic and antiIsrael, here is some of the answer….
— S Sebag Montefiore (@simonmontefiore) December 16, 2024
In 1997, I made a tv series @Channel4 about Ireland, Irish nationalism and antisemitism. It happened that my own family were Jewish immigrants to…
…is rotting from within. And it’s been doing so for decades, and the stench is starting to get overwhelming.
From Marc Andreeson.
A glimpse into @pmarca’s alternate timeline that we barely avoided
— Shaun Maguire (@shaunmmaguire) December 11, 2024
pic.twitter.com/UH9WBlO1z6
BTW, I’m in DC this week at events, so posting will be light.
The preference cascade has arrived.
I certainly feel it.
I’m going to DC tomorrow, so posting may be sporadic, but I hope to find out what’s going on. So posting may be light this week.