Pee Doom

Warning: partisan politics. Cognitive candy. I don't expect this to be consequentially useful on its own. I'm just really curious about something wild. The fully expanded, less clickbaity question in more than four words: Did U.S. presidential primary candidate Robert F. Kennedy post neo-Nazi symbols as a dogwhistle on Twitter?...

Content warning: nuclear doom Previously on last week's episode: A Few Terrifying Facts About The Russo-Ukrainian War You have probably thought about prepping at some point. You have probably also not prepped as much as you'd like. Neither have I. And neither of us likely will be prepared "enough", in...

Epistemic status: trying to summarize the news and predict, post is under revision, too lazy to citation everything I wanted to collect a few observations I've made, as best I understand them. This PBS article does a good job of explaining much of it. 1. Vladimir Putin has announced the...

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Previous post: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/7X3BWzAt62yvvtyQX/announcing-the-center-for-applied-postrationality Content Notice: Mild to Moderate NSFW language, Defective Altruism, Infoblessings A lot of progress has been made here at CFAP in the past two years. After posting on the SL5 newsgroup, a shadowy cryptobillionaire reached out. They not just met but drastically exceeded our funding goal. We...

This article claims over 40,000 people have died in Wuhan alone. Is that true?