Where I live, one of the earliest signs of spring is the American cockroach. While the American cockroach doesn’t infest homes, it does wander into them, and they’re big enough that you can hear them moving. (often 7 or 8 cm)

Maybe if they could wear a suit and say thank you once in a while.

The thrust of the article is good. However the Chamberlain/Munich “appeasement” is a bad reading of history.

First, Chamberlain had a mandate to prevent another war. 1914-18 was fresh in his constituent’s minds. Second, he had fresh intel that if a Czechoslovakian resistance existed, Britain was not in touch with it. Thirdly, Chamberlain had zero leverage because Britain was powerless to prevent German tanks from rolling East. The idea that Chamberlain didn’t do enough implies there was something else he could have done. Something Churchill would have done! But what was it that they could do?

Czechoslovakia was not “given away” by Chamberlain any more than Poland was “given away” by Churchill. What Chamberlain achieved was to make Britain 5 years behind when war broke out instead of 10 years behind.

This is next level because only Charles Murray stans could be persuaded that molecular bonds imply emotional strength.

The Milligram experiment is almost as big a humbug as the Stanford prison experiment.

When the study was run without a “scientist”, but instead a policeman or military officer, the participants who went full voltage dropped from 90+% compliance to 90+% refusal. This completely contradicts the supposed “findings” that people uncritically obey authority.

After the war, a whole cottage industry of psychologists and philosophers tried to answer why it was that ordinary Germans could participate in horror. Simple, but wrong explanations like “humans obey authority uncritically” were in high demand.

Reproductive rights, the right to healthcare, prison reform, within a system that accommodates if not encourages parents in different situations to work and live with children is the best way to support young fathers and boys.

We just need something to call this besides feminism.

There is an excellent Science channel on Youtube and Nebula with a Physics PHD who’s made some eye-opening content about harassment and misogyny in STEM and Academia.

https://www.youtube.com/@acollierastro