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“African-descended people (Blacks) average cranial capacities of 1267 cm^3, European-descended people (Whites) 1347 cm^3, and East Asian-descended people (East Asians) 1364 cm^3.” https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S016028960200137X
“Helsinki alone has more than 5,500 bunkers, with space for 900,000 people. Finland as a whole has shelter spaces for 4.4 million, in more than 54,000 separate locations.” https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2022/05/the-nuclear-bunker-culture-that-is-finnish.html
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Nanotechnology Enables 3D Visualization of Crucial RNA Structures at Near-Atomic Resolution https://scitechdaily.com/nanotechnology-enables-3d-visualization-of-crucial-rna-structures-at-near-atomic-resolution/
One step closer to a passwordless future https://blog.google/technology/safety-security/one-step-closer-to-a-passwordless-future/
Watch a swarm of drones autonomously track a human through a dense forest https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/5/23058160/drone-swarm-autonomous-navigation-dense-forest-person-tracking
Real-time high-resolution millimeter-wave imaging for in-vivo skin cancer diagnosis https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-09047-6
“Do sexual activities that require no commitment (porn, hookups, masturbation) make single men less eager to marry? Doesn't seem that way. In fact, looking at 2 national data sets, I find higher porn use is associated with a STRONGER desire to be married.” https://www.academia.edu/43502365/Does_Low-Cost_Sexual_Gratification_Make_Men_Less_Eager_to_Marry_Pornography_Use_Masturbation_Hookup_Sex_and_Desire_to_be_Married_among_Single_Men
Polls show that woke activists’ vision of the ideal college-admissions process is wildly out of step with the American public’s. https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/05/on-college-admissions-its-the-woke-fringe-vs-everyone-else/
If only Hitler had been banned from social media the Holocaust might have been prevented.
But seriously, what do you think will happen when Trump gets his Twitter account back? Do you think that someone who could be convinced by Trump's inane tweets is not already consuming other sources that regurgitate Trump's ideas or worse?
Trump isn't a cause but an effect. Remember how he was met with boos when he revealed that he got the booster? No, he did not create those people. They created him.
Many of the same people who now subscribe to QAnon previously argued in favor of 9/11 conspiracy theories and chemtrails. This mindset existed even before the Internet when it manifested itself in ideas such as the Satanic panic of the 1980s or John F. Kennedy assassination conspiracy theories.
A certain share of the population is born with a psychology that manifests itself this way and no amount of fact-checking or censorship will change them.
Nobody who is willing to commit acts such as attacking the United States Capitol will be kept from doing so by banning Trump from tweeting.
It's more likely that allowing Trump back on Twitter will harm his campaign. Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. Trump's Twitter stream has always been a giant public relations disaster.
That’s not to say that censorship doesn’t work. But banning a few Twitter accounts makes virtually no difference in preventing the most extreme fringes of society from holding crazy beliefs or committing extreme actions. You would need a totalitarian climate of fear and suppression to achieve that.
I would venture that you might be at least partially mistaken in your evaluation of Trump. He is for sure an effect rather than a cause, but that doesn't discount that he can was (and can be again) a very high profile amplifier of stuff like QAnon or attacks on the Capitol.
In other words, whilst banning Trump from tweeting won't necessarily prevent the committing of acts such as attacking the US capitol, tolerating inflammatory discourse from a high-profile media actor in an un-challenged manner I think has quite high likelihoods of increasing the number of people who are willing to commit such acts. In the case of an acting US president all the more so because it is in effect seen as an official endorsement of such acts imo.
Should be noted that "un-challenged" in the above does not mean that I think the right solution is a social media ban. Sadly I am not quite _what_ the right solution is or even if one is technically possible within the current formulation of social media.
"Trump isn't a cause but an effect. Remember how he was met with boos when he revealed that he got the booster? No, he did not create those people. They created him."
Dumbfuck take.