Hegar

Also mentions breakfast with bill gates, who has been mentioned so many times in connection to epstein because Bill Gates almost certainly raped children.

Empires always collapse and states still fail all the time. I don't think the C word is very useful here.

Our russian regime is doing everything they can to pull apart our disaster mitigation infrastructure and planning capacity. Wait for a big enough quake in CA, long enough power grid failure in TX, widespread flooding in the gulf, a couple of back to back Katrina level events, etc etc.

There are plenty of foreseeable events that could start a cascading system failure and smash our capacity for imperial control of global trade routes.

Congyoubingius

How will I know that you're a university lecturer if you don't have this on your office door?

That link gives me a 404 error

Meh, you probably should.

Most of his students that we know of were vicious oligarchs who abolished democracy in Athens until they killed so many people that there was an uprising against them.

If he was around today, there's a good chance he'd be part of the trump regime.

Yet another problem that wouldn't exist with a properly unionized work force. If your boss tells you to work when sick, there's only one person who should be shat on.

This is /possibly/ part of a long term trend of decreasing human reliance on brainpower.

Brain size doesn't neatly correlate to intelligence, but it's still kind of used as a proxy, over human evolution. It gets bigger for a long time, then starts getting smaller again, starting maybe 20k-3k years ago.

This has been attributed to group size, agriculture, writing or statistical error. So maybe it's not a thing.

Pointless distraction

This is so accurate. Like priests, business types possess a specialist knowledge that misrepresents an entirely made up complexity as arcane truth that the plebs could never understand.

Like priests, their real job is social control in service of the powerful. The early mesopotamian temples have some of the earliest examples of accounting because they were largely for craft production and resource storage and management.

And just like every delusional ceo, they claim responsibility for anything good that happens and blame others for anything bad.

their quest to control women’s bodies entirely.

I think they're just trying to kill more women. Similarly to how they're doing everything they can to encourage trans people and non whites to die more frequently. We're in the pre-holocaust phase.

Targeting tylenol further endangers women during pregnancy - one of the riskiest times for a woman's health. The way they rolled out their abortion ban with so much ambiguity also maximizes the chance of women dying.

New and arational beliefs seem to always proliferate at times at times of widespread cultural strain, especially when empires are starting to fall apart. Iconoclasm, the fists of righteous harmony and taiping christianity are the first examples I can think of.

I suspect it's (at least partly) an inevitable way that societies react to stress or change.