RT Drop Site (@DropSiteNews)The UN is demanding an investigation after Israeli forces killed two Gaza children, brothers ages 8 and 10, with a targeted drone strike while they were collecting firewood. Israel acknowledged the attack, claiming they were “two terrorists” crossing the yellow line who posed an “imminent threat.” UN’s spokesperson said, “It’s hard to see how two boys, eight and 10, can be considered a threat. There needs to be an investigation and accountability.” ...

RT The Free Speech Union (@SpeechUnion)David Lammy is spearheading the biggest assault on our ancient liberties — especially free speech. We can’t let it happen.The Free Speech Union has launched a petition calling on the government to guarantee the right to trial by jury.In less than 24 hours, we’ve already reached 10,000 signatures.The message is clear: if Lammy gets his way, you’ll be far more likely to be banged up for exercising your right to free speech.✍️ Sign our petition: https://t.co/xPotJM6DNORea ...

RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)But defining what "real needs" are leads to a slippery slope, one that could ultimately lead to, for example, arguing that low IQ itself is a handicap which a person needs help overcoming. What is considered a need that deserves special help varies greatly between cultures and subcultures and institutions. Elite universities have long been considered places for very talented people -- people with maximum abilities and minimal needs. Get too far away from that and they simply aren' ...

Global Health Trends - Humanity has largely eliminated hunger, leading to a situation where the number of obese children now exceeds the number of underweight children [1]

RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)The culture of honor is lost by increasing social scales and increasing cultural diversity, both of which increase misunderstandings and thus the ability to benefit from cheating. When so many strangers interact, and such large fractions of these mutual strangers have so little shared cultural understanding, spirals of dishonorable behavior (by at least some and even if by most of those various cultural standards) are inevitable. ...

RT Derek Thompson (@DKThomp)This is a great piece with some mind-boggling statistics.- At Brown and Harvard, more than 20% of undergraduates are registered as disabled- At Amherst: more than 30 percent- At Stanford: nearly 40 percentSoon, many of these schools "may have more students receiving [disability] accommodations than not, a scenario that would have seemed absurd just a decade ago."As students and their parents have recognized the benefits of claiming disability—extended time on tests, housing accom ...

RT Homeland Security (@DHSgov)Write the next chapter of America.If you're a legal professional, join the Department of Justice as a Deportation Judge to preside over cases and determine whether an alien must stay or leave our nation.Make decisions with generational consequences. https://t.co/9Z1LOHSTds https://t.co/uqZGJNBurn ...

RT Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes)The UK is so far gone it’s insaneDeputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom David Lammy announces their new plan to end jury trials and have a judge decide sentencingThey will arrest citizens for social media posts, skip the jury trial and just sentence them now“First, I will create new swift courts within the Crown Court with a judge alone deciding verdicts in tribal either way cases with a likely sentence of three years or less — estimates that they will deliver justi ...

RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)Interestingly, if we observe that an origin of life has to create an actual self-sustaining ecosystem, and assume this had to have the genetic information of 3 LUCAs (it would really be many more different kinds of LUCA sharing most of their genetic information), we get a number almost as small as 10^-600,000. ...

RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)Perhaps. But you're being even more pessimistic than the creationists!Per some more queries I have just made of ChatGPT, if we take a thousandth of the amino acids of the comets in our solar system, put them on earthlike planet(s), and have them spontaneously form larger peptides and proteins, each amino acid participating in one such new combination per second, then the odds of them generating all the proteins in LUCA in one particular trial, during ten billion years of such tria ...