Guys, I think he's onto us #philosophy

Isn't that wild? Tylenol, introduced in 1955, caused no rise until the DSM-III added autism and the government started paying schools to diagnose kids. 25-year-lag makes a lot of biological sense, right?

The right is often better at recognizing problems and worse at developing solutions. The left is often better at executing plans and worse at understanding root causes.

Those who would compromise principles for popularity deserve neither.

Ok. Here’s the deal: RFK Jr. overpromised an autism report with a tight deadline to his base and to Trump, who is curious about autism in a sort of hobbyist way. He had to deliver something that would satisfy them. He has insisted forever that epidemics are *only* caused by

Legal Phil I'm well past Pearl clutching about basically anything Trump might say or do. But I can recognize that it's still pretty awful when the POTUS conducts himself like a child.

It's the preparedness paradox. It's a mirror of sleepwalk bias. Sleepwalk bias is to ignore our agency ahead of an event - predicting we'll sleepwalk into disaster. The preparedness paradox is to ignore our agency after the event - claiming the risk was never real.

This article was interesting but misses a key factor: NYC banned construction of new hotels, largely banned Airbnb, and filled up tens of thousands of hotel rooms with illegal immigrants instead of tourists. Policy choices to make hotel rooms scarce are bad for theater.

“First they came,” but it's just a collection of slurs (both explicit and borderline) that we can't say anymore…

The fetishization of the Amish that you see from some quarters is just an updated version of the Myth of the Noble Savage. To be clear, that's not meant as an insult to the Amish but a commentary on the mindset of those fetishizing them.

Legal Phil And in both cases (tho arguably slightly less re the Amish), the fetishizers have no real interest in *going native,* as it were. It's like that poll about people who want factor jobs brought back vs people who actually wanna work there.

Eileen Inez Stepman ⚪️🔴⚪️ Telling women to "just get pregnant younger" IS a reasonable solution.

I can handle excessive shitposting. I can tolerate borderline offensive skits and bits. I can forgive political cringe (within reason). But I draw the line at a week's worth of AI slop gifs. Sheeesh.