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# ![@CsTominaga Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::1569618998651932672.png) @CsTominaga S Tominaga

S Tominaga posts on X about science, to the, the world, philosophy the most. They currently have XXXXX followers and XXX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.

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[science](/topic/science) 6.14%, [to the](/topic/to-the) 3.51%, [the world](/topic/the-world) 2.63%, [philosophy](/topic/philosophy) #1242, [if you](/topic/if-you) 2.63%, [the modern](/topic/the-modern) #430, [the first](/topic/the-first) 2.63%, [lamborghini](/topic/lamborghini) #817, [murder](/topic/murder) #1598, [hardcore](/topic/hardcore) #666

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### Top Social Posts
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"I have flown over Antarctica. I have flown around the world more times than is healthy for anyone who still remembers what a weekend is. East to west west to east the whole tired globe. I have flown over the Arctic been over the Arctic been around it and watched that ice and that curvature do precisely what geometry says it does. Ive been to Russia to the top of America to Canada up to Alert in Canada where the map stops being polite and starts being honest. Ive crossed Siberia in winter and summer and done it the slow way on fishing trawlers in waters that dont care about your internet"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CsTominaga/status/1994963012848161016)  2025-11-30T02:53Z 9951 followers, 11.8K engagements


"Yes it is X and the old bird has been taxidermied. The antique 140-character shackle is gone but the platform has not become an asylum for the profound by mere virtue of extra space. Free accounts still sit at XXX characters and those who pay for the velvet rope can sprawl to roughly 25000 which is ample room for a mind and fatal to a platitude. The real limit was never numerical. It was intellectual. If a thought is thin stretching it does not make it robust it makes it tedious. A longer corridor does not redeem a house built on sand. Even if some futuristic Ever-AI conjured in the next"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CsTominaga/status/1992883230786351549)  2025-11-24T09:09Z 9891 followers, 2369 engagements


"A buy order at $XXXX isnt a floor its a punchline. Price doesnt get saved by one blokes bid if the system becomes unprofitable to run. When revenue collapses block-creating nodes shut down. Hash rate falls security thins confirmations slow or fail and confidence evaporates. At that point you dont have a lively market drifting toward a tidy penny; you have a spiral where the thing people are meant to be buying is no longer reliably usable so nobody wants it at any price. And even on pure market mechanics: if liquidity dries up spreads explode exchanges delist and withdrawals halt a bid sitting"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CsTominaga/status/1995123622529450492)  2025-11-30T13:31Z 9895 followers, 18.6K engagements


"Out here on the farm the sun doesnt tan youit brands you. A slow methodical branding like Gods own iron pressed against your skin each day until you stop recognising yourself in the mirror and start looking like a man carved from bark and ash. Not brown not tannedjust farm-coloured. And it suits me. Ive got mud in my veins and blistered hands that dont shake anymorethey just grip. Theres no time for metaphors when your morning starts with ice water that cuts like guilt and ends with sweat so thick it could be bottled and sold as penance. The work doesnt complain and neither do I. Thats the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CsTominaga/status/1944579017749004616)  2025-07-14T02:05Z 9914 followers, 7109 engagements


"The idea that only the rich can use government to control people is the sort of comforting fairy tale you tell yourself when youd rather not look at how power actually works. Governments are not puppets operated solely by millionaires twirling moustaches in boardrooms. They are machines run through factions institutions and pressure groups and the people who steer those machines are very often not rich at all just organised ideological and embedded. Small activist blocs routinely get policies written around their preferences precisely because they are loud coordinated and willing to make life"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CsTominaga/status/1997168540898517103)  2025-12-06T04:57Z 9914 followers, 39.3K engagements


"I enrolled and did part of maths at LSE. I left and finished (with honours) elsewhere for a simple reason: it wasnt serious in the way people romanticise it. It was trite. Prescribed. Run-of-the-mill. Light on real challenge lighter still on pure mathematics. A lot of it felt aimed at producing competent applied technicians for banks rather than training minds to do mathematics in the rigorous foundational sense. So when people lean on did maths at LSE as a credential-trump card theyre leaning on a myth. You dont get depth by name-dropping an institution. You get it by the content the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CsTominaga/status/1997323246300262424)  2025-12-06T15:12Z 9917 followers, XXX engagements


"Cute strawman but weve already been over this: real monopolies dont just hatch out of thin air in open markets. Theyre usually the spoiled child of government privilege licences barriers subsidies bailouts regulatory moats the whole cosy racket. Oligopolies Same story: fraud capture and political shelter dressed up as market failure. So spare the robber-baron bedtime tale and try arguing what was actually said not the cartoon you need to keep your panic alive"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CsTominaga/status/1997724187688079618)  2025-12-07T17:45Z 9900 followers, XX engagements


"Natural law and laws of nature are not synonyms and pretending they are is not profundity it is a category mistake. Natural law is a jurisprudential theory: a claim about what makes law valid or binding usually grounded in reason morality human nature or some objective standard of the good. It sits in legal philosophy alongside legal positivism and realism. It is normative. It tells you what ought to count as law or what law ought to require even if no legislature has enacted it. The laws of physics (or laws of nature in the scientific sense) are descriptive generalisations about regularities"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CsTominaga/status/1998308362484863447)  2025-12-09T08:26Z 9916 followers, XX engagements


"Definitions matter because they are the rails on which thought runs and most people prefer to skid in the mud and call it enlightenment. Fair is the favourite smear-word of those who want results without responsibility a moral blank cheque written on other peoples labour. Fair is not a feeling. It is a relationship between action and consequence. A person who creates value has a right to that value because it is the material form of their mind and effort. If someone builds a business writes the code grows the crop designs the machine takes the risk and survives the failures then the reward is"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CsTominaga/status/1997865831611670838)  2025-12-08T03:08Z 9942 followers, 1141 engagements


"Universal Basic Income is not by some act of theological necessity Marxist. A cheque does not become a manifesto merely because it arrives from the Treasury. One can justify a universal transfer from several directions: as a simplification of welfare as a civic dividend as a pragmatic hedge against shocks. Yet the real question is not what a policy can be in a seminar but what it means in the mouth of those who champion it. The Marxist flavour appears the moment distribution is treated as the primary moral act and production as a tiresome footnote. UBI in its left-utopian form is not offered"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CsTominaga/status/1998625348616171980)  2025-12-10T05:26Z 9951 followers, 1243 engagements


"Ah the weekly sance in which people gather round a glowing screen to ask which trades can be spared from the new mechanical deity. One can almost hear the incense crackle: Name a career that is AI-resistant as if vocation were a tin of biscuits to be tucked safely beyond reach of the future. The charming mistake here is thinking the question is about jobs rather than people. A machine will not replace doctors hair stylists or plumbers in the way a guillotine replaces a king. It will merely remove the comfortable repetitive parts of what they do (the bits that require obedience rather than"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CsTominaga/status/1998642168278536560)  2025-12-10T06:33Z 9951 followers, XXX engagements


"I love this motorbike. There Ive said it plainly like a man admitting hes fallen for something that has no business being this indecently good. I admit my Lamborghini Aventador was a wonderful piece of engineering a cathedral of stubborn physics a 7-point-whatever-litre argument against moderation all heat and precision and that operatic kind of violence you only tolerate because its beautiful. But if you want something small and for its size burns fuel even faster this thing with a nearly 2.5-litre engine in a motorcycle is there waiting like a razor in a velvet case. The proportions are a"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CsTominaga/status/1998655574620189146)  2025-12-10T07:26Z 9951 followers, 2048 engagements


"And the thing is it seats as many passengers as my Lamborghini did too which is to say one extra soul clinging on for dear life while pretending this is all perfectly rational. The Aventador made a theatre out of luxury: two seats a lot of noise and the smug certainty youd paid handsomely for the privilege of excess. This bike does the same headcount with none of the upholstery and all of the nerve. Its the same social capacity just with the etiquette stripped off and the truth left naked in the wind. Two seats. One engine that behaves like a bar fight. One splendid ridiculous idea of"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CsTominaga/status/1998657915717362088)  2025-12-10T07:35Z 9950 followers, XXX engagements


"If you want to be part of a cult if you want your brain sluiced out like someone poured Drano through your ears then yes you too can ignore scientific reasoning ignore everything we know about incentives conflict scarcity and behaviour and call that insight. Its the oldest trick in the crank handbook: declare the entire established record myth then cite the one text that flatters your daydream and act shocked when grown-ups ask for evidence. What youre calling refusal to acknowledge insights is just refusal to swallow an assertion dressed as revelation. You dont get to overturn biology"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CsTominaga/status/1998688812281770090)  2025-12-10T09:38Z 9944 followers, 1561 engagements


"Yes by all means: test and test and test until reality finally gets bored and hands you the conclusion you ordered. Thats not more evidence thats a fishing expedition with a moral at the end and its how modern science turns into a vending machine for feelings. If your argument needs infinite reruns until it coughs up the right number the problem isnt the lack of testing its that youre trying to bully the world into agreeing with you"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CsTominaga/status/1998773498370826253)  2025-12-10T15:15Z 9936 followers, XX engagements


"The adult claim: capitalism is the least bad system because it is the only one that scales without coercion"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CsTominaga/status/1997151725715873823)  2025-12-06T03:50Z 9950 followers, 1023 engagements


"What passes for education in America is becoming a national pantomime: expensive costumes rehearsed slogans and an audience told to applaud outcomes they cannot read. The blunt figure stripped of euphemism is that around XX% of U.S. adults read below the level commonly described as sixth-grade proficiency. That is not a fringe of the unlucky. That is a majority. A state whose mythology rests on self-government is raising a public that cannot reliably interpret the paragraph they are governed by. Official skills surveys show the same cliff from another angle. The 2023 PIAAC adult-skills"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CsTominaga/status/1997291136520683719)  2025-12-06T13:04Z 9948 followers, 1176 engagements


"Here we go again: the Scandinavian fantasy postcard with a politicians face slapped on it and a headline that promises a national 24-hour work week like its a new flavour of ice cream. What actually happens in places like Finland is far less magical and far more conditional. You get shorter hours in pockets where productivity capital and social discipline can carry it not some universal law of nature that lets everybody clock off early while the bills pay themselves. Finlands welfare model is funded by a high-skill export-driven economy and heavy taxation underwritten by a culture that for a"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CsTominaga/status/1997870341264457747)  2025-12-08T03:26Z 9951 followers, 32K engagements


"What a lovely piece of ventriloquism. Youve taken a remark about crime and poverty stapled on thick then paraded it as if anyone said it. They didnt. The original point wasnt poor people are stupid it was that poverty alone isnt a sufficient cause of crime because traits and circumstances confound the correlation. If you want to talk about crime try the boring reality: rape murder fraud domestic violence serial offending these are not bread-theft born of empty cupboards. They show up across classes and often where there is no necessity story to tell. So yes poverty can be a factor in some"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CsTominaga/status/1998637544909717832)  2025-12-10T06:14Z 9951 followers, 4451 engagements


"The modern world has discovered a new form of heroism: the heroic refusal to begin"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CsTominaga/status/1998665235973157038)  2025-12-10T08:05Z 9951 followers, 1193 engagements


"Heres the part you keep skating past like its not bolted to the floor. We already live in a market economy. That isnt a preference its the control condition. Its the baseline reality against which your bright new contraption has to be measured. You dont get to stroll in wearing the robe of the visionary and then demand everyone else prove you wrong. Thats not how inquiry works. Thats how cults recruit. In actual science not the cosplay version where you shout myths of human nature and call it a day the null hypothesis is the status quo. The market economy is the thing currently running the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CsTominaga/status/1998726383099596897)  2025-12-10T12:07Z 9948 followers, 1028 engagements


"The pairing is rhetorically neat and intellectually lazy. It stages a false duel between tough-minded realism and soft-hearted decline as if empathy were a single indiscriminate reflex rather than a disciplined moral faculty. Musks line trades on a modern pose: calling cruelty clarity and then congratulating oneself for courage. The manoeuvre is ancient. Whenever a political mood wants permission to harden it first redefines compassion as weakness then redefines weakness as treason to the future. That gives people a flattering story about their own indifference: they are not callous they are"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CsTominaga/status/1998915111227175214)  2025-12-11T00:37Z 9951 followers, 5244 engagements


"Ah yes the tired little parlour trick: take less in taxes to mean less in percentage terms then hope nobody notices youve quietly swapped the yardstick halfway through the sentence. A billionaire might have a lower effective rate in wealthterms sure but in actual dollars theyre paying more than the teachers firefighters and nurses youre theatrically name-dropping put together often by orders of magnitude. When someone is handing over sums that could fund an entire school district pretending they pay less because the percentage isnt to your taste is not moral clarity its arithmetic cosplay."  
[X Link](https://x.com/CsTominaga/status/1998916841394286750)  2025-12-11T00:44Z 9951 followers, 2316 engagements


"Goethe was many things poet statesman dabbler in science compulsive reader of everything but a hard-core Muslim is not one of them. Reading the Quran conversion. Writing Mahomets Song taking the shahada. Discussing Islamic ideas with students teaching the Quran. And one of the greatest scientists ever is the kind of line you get when someone has skimmed a quote page not a biography. Goethe treated Islam Christianity Greece China and half the planet as sources of literature not as club memberships. If you actually read him instead of strip-mining him for mascot points youd notice he spent his"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CsTominaga/status/1998986767672946716)  2025-12-11T05:22Z 9951 followers, XXX engagements


"Youve answered your own question in the name of your religion. Islam means submission. The entire project is to yield your mind and will. The core of Protestant Christianity is the opposite: individual conscience before God direct access without priest imam or state and the terrifying command to work out your own salvation rather than let a hierarchy do the thinking. What Christianity offers that Islam cannot by definition is this: you are called to stand as a free moral agent before God not merely as a subject who obeys. #Freedom. That and #Baccon"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CsTominaga/status/1999004964509855861)  2025-12-11T06:34Z 9951 followers, 1371 engagements


"BSV is not anonymous. It is traceable. Thats why it can scale legally. Thats why it stands in court. Thats why enterprise adopts it while anarchists run"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CsTominaga/status/1925844698972729743)  2025-05-23T09:22Z 9922 followers, 2032 engagements


"Tether is the great modern fable of people who pride themselves on being hard-nosed realists while behaving with the credulity of children trading glass beads. They chant backed by dollars as if the mere repetition of the phrase transmutes a wish into a fact. Yet the truth is written plainly almost mockingly in the contract they refuse to read: you are not purchasing a redeemable claim on anything. You are purchasing an entry in a ledger maintained by a company that owes you precisely nothing. This is the part that should astonish any thinking adult. A stablecoin whose supposed stability does"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CsTominaga/status/1989622279601533053)  2025-11-15T09:11Z 9923 followers, 3870 engagements


"The Improbable Cognition of Humphrey Twistleton.: A Bureaucratic Revelation in Three Acts Is out now on Kindle. The first instalment in a satire series that takes a scalpel to the modern administrative mind and then twists it slightly just to watch what happens"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CsTominaga/status/1995507754752958818)  2025-12-01T14:58Z 9923 followers, 3880 engagements


"Not that Im complaining about my tomatoes but Ive come home with another bucket of them literally. Theyre coming in thick and fast now and its the sort of problem worth having. The pumpkins wonky as some of them are have turned out properly tasty; odd shapes dont offend the palate they just make the harvest look more honest. Ive also got the small bantam chickens in place. Theyre little fellows perhaps thirty to forty per cent of a full-sized bird and theyll stay the advance guard until the bigger ones join them. Theyre already doing what good stock do: roaming scratching and picking off"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CsTominaga/status/1995828311763943662)  2025-12-02T12:12Z 9917 followers, 3349 engagements


"And Oxford isnt the trump card people think it is either. The economics Ive seen coming out of Oxford over the last two decades has been absolute trash. Not because the name lacks polish but because the substance has slid into something soft moralising and evasive. Scarcity the first fact of economics gets treated like an inconvenience. Development the hard question of how countries actually get rich is sidelined for fashionable narratives. Incentives trade-offs capital formation productivity risk all the bones of the discipline are too often swapped for feelings dressed up as theory. Whats"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CsTominaga/status/1997324620937232580)  2025-12-06T15:17Z 9918 followers, XX engagements


"That chart is doing what people love charts for: turning look line go up into a moral sermon. Frame the window narrowly start it at a chilly baseline like the mid-19th century and you get a steep climb that looks apocalyptic. Stretch the frame out and you see climate lurching around long before anyone had an SUV with swings that are larger than the neat little modern spike being waved like a bloody flag. So the graph doesnt say man-made by itself. It says temperature changed. Thats it. Anything beyond that is attribution not eyeballing. And attribution is where the tweet quietly cheats. A"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CsTominaga/status/1997487872564408494)  2025-12-07T02:06Z 9917 followers, 4044 engagements


"Yes genius government was conceived as an instrument of the citizenry not as a laundromat for moral abdication and fiscal parasitism. By the people for the people is not a slogan licensing the state to rifle the pockets of the prudent in order to subsidise the self-immolation of the reckless. A polity exists to secure rights enforce contracts and maintain civil order; it is not a nanny-state rehab clinic with a taxation mandate. If you want basic needs met start by admitting the first basic need of any society: responsibility. When public power is repurposed into an engine of compulsory"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CsTominaga/status/1997698202041278789)  2025-12-07T16:02Z 9919 followers, 1696 engagements


"Ah yes the placard-as-prophecy routine: CO levels must fall. Or mankind will. Its the moral equivalent of a fortune cookie stapled to a gallows. So simple so saintly so wonderfully empty. When a sentence needs no nouns beyond a chemical formula and the entire species you already know its trying to smuggle religion through the back door of science. What precisely is being claimed here Not a model not a mechanism not a costed pathway just a threat in block capitals. Its the old trick of replacing argument with apocalypse. Say must invoke mankind and hope the audience confuses your theatrical"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CsTominaga/status/1997852980352307360)  2025-12-08T02:17Z 9918 followers, XXX engagements


"What did anyone expect from a system throttled to about five transactions a second You dont get mass adoption out of a bottleneck; you get congestion fees that price out ordinary use and a slow slide into being a speculative coupon that people outsource to custodians. If BTC cant handle everyday payments at scale it cannot function as peer-to-peer digital cash and the ETFs are just the logical end-point: paper claims on something that isnt usable in the real economy. So yes active addresses drifting down after the ETF circus isnt irony its physics plus incentives"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CsTominaga/status/1997862473576169927)  2025-12-08T02:55Z 9924 followers, 2340 engagements


"How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the em-dash. One day the postman shows up like hes delivering a cease-and-desist from God and in his hands is this ornate Liberty University parchment announcing Ive now got an M.F.A. in Creative Writing. An M.F.A. new letter to hang around my neck like a medal or a millstone depending on how much coffee has hit the bloodstream. Naturally the world expects the usual performance: modest nod grateful smile a quick genuflection to the altar of credentialism. But after a few decades of watching academia inflate titles the way children inflate balloons"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CsTominaga/status/1997982236818489644)  2025-12-08T10:51Z 9922 followers, 2682 engagements


"I cried today. That is a sentence modern life treats as a sort of social misdemeanor like wearing mourning to a brunch but there it is plain unmarketable and true. People who buy their dinners sealed in plastic will never quite grasp why. They will imagine farming as a picturesque backdrop for moral opinions a charming rural screensaver behind their screens. They will not understand that a farm is not a theme. It is a continuous education in consequence. I have animals here that I have raised (I have a farm). From the first gawky hours of infancy all legs and astonishment into the confident"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CsTominaga/status/1998010292673098096)  2025-12-08T12:42Z 9923 followers, 3871 engagements


"Yay indeed all hail central planning that evergreen fantasy in which a committee armed with charts good intentions and a touching ignorance of mathematics outperforms millions of separate minds acting on local knowledge. You are treating science like a sacrament: invoke it loudly enough and scarcity dissolves. That is not reason; it is religion with lab coats. Science describes the world. It does not repeal it. Allocation is not a moral sermon it is a combinatorial nightmare. Even toy versions of real allocation problems explode beyond computation: the travelling salesman problem is the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CsTominaga/status/1998539806184452451)  2025-12-09T23:46Z 9923 followers, XX engagements


"Ah yes the unanswered clause that always sits in the basement of these airy schemes. Well design a new edifice to reduce bad propensities is just another way of saying well re-educate remould or remove anyone who wont fit the blueprint. So what do you do with the non-compliant You either coerce them cage them or pretend they dont exist. And the moment you pick any of those the utopia stops being a promise of human flourishing and becomes what every such promise becomes: a polite preface to force"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CsTominaga/status/1998571517228339275)  2025-12-10T01:52Z 9918 followers, XX engagements


"How to Build a Dangerous Human Most advice on discipline amounts to try harder written in different fonts. It assumes that when you fail the problem is moral fibre rather than architecture. You are told to summon willpower from the ether like a magician producing rabbits from a hat that has never contained a rabbit. The Discipline of Greatness treats that approach with the contempt it deserves. The central claim is brutally simple: you dont rise to the level of your hopes; you sink to the level of your systems. Under stress under pain under boredom you will not operate at your best self. You"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CsTominaga/status/1998586674906108395)  2025-12-10T02:52Z 9935 followers, XXX engagements


"How convenient: youll slog through hundreds of pages of utopian bedtime stories when they flatter your priors yet refuse a short post because it doesnt. If the price of your attention is agreement dont pretend its concision youre after its insulation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CsTominaga/status/1998622599711174978)  2025-12-10T05:15Z 9923 followers, XXX engagements


"Its always adorable when someone mistakes volume for understanding and swagger for argument. I am qualified across the disciplines youre flinging around as decorative nouns criminology psychology engineering quantitative finance data science intelligence work logistics English literature philosophy mathematics ancient history politics and law which means I dont need a pep talk on human drive from a person whose entire case is vibes stapled to jargon. If your model accounts for those just fine then it should survive contact with a single concrete example a single hard trade-off a single real"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CsTominaga/status/1998669953256591858)  2025-12-10T08:23Z 9925 followers, XX engagements


"You could say that. Ive spent enough years waist-deep in language to know what it can do when its used properly and what it looks like when someone mistakes bluntness for insight. An MFA in Creative Writing and Literature an MA in English Language and a Philosophy MA out of Birkbeck tend to leave you with a few tools besides grunting and pointing. So yes I can spin a tale. I can also dismantle one. The difference is that I dont bury people with words the way amateurs imagine; I bury bad arguments with clarity and if that feels like attrition to someone who brought a teaspoon to a landslide"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CsTominaga/status/1998674904972145137)  2025-12-10T08:43Z 9923 followers, XX engagements


"Again it seems the argument is still somewhere behind you waving for help. The comment was about method bury them with words not some mystical claim that words replace substance. If the only way to read that is you think youre right because you talk a lot then the problem isnt my sentence. Its your comprehension. And yes that piece of paper matters. Not because ink becomes truth by magic but because a terminal degree is a long public grind of reading writing critique viva voce defences and getting your work taken apart by people who know the field and dont care about your feelings. It means"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CsTominaga/status/1998678033964859461)  2025-12-10T08:55Z 9927 followers, XX engagements


"What shows human nature has changed Not a chapter in The Zeitgeist Movement declaring it so. A claim isnt evidence just because its printed in a book you like. If you want to overturn the last few hundred years of psychology criminology behavioural biology andawkwardly for youhistory you dont get to announce myths of human nature and call that science. Thats rhetoric. Science is: propose a hypothesis define what would falsify it gather data publish methods let other people try to break it and see if it survives replication. You know the boring part that keeps reality from being replaced by"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CsTominaga/status/1998688138194284608)  2025-12-10T09:36Z 9923 followers, XX engagements


"And rape. Murder yes exactly. Thats the hole in your nursery-level slogan. Poverty can correlate with some crime. Nobody serious denies that. But poverty breeds crime as a universal explanation is just intellectual fast food: comforting simple and wrong the moment you chew. People dont rape because the pantry is empty. They dont murder because Tesco raised prices. Those are crimes of power impulse status grievance pathology the darker parts of human behaviour that dont vanish when you hand out a food voucher. If hunger were the engine the well-fed would be saints. They arent. White-collar"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CsTominaga/status/1998727543567036825)  2025-12-10T12:12Z 9929 followers, XXX engagements


"A society where government finally remembers its job: protect life liberty contract and property with courts cops and a militaryand otherwise get the hell out of the way. No utopian welfare schemes no managed futures just a rights-protecting referee so free people can produce trade and rise or fall on their own merits"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CsTominaga/status/1999061406306775539)  2025-12-11T10:19Z 9937 followers, XX engagements


"What an impressively dense little knot of half-truths category swaps and rhetorical gymnastics salted with pure grade A bullshit. Start with the first move: European slavery was exceptionally cruel race-based and existed in perpetuity. European empire slavery in the Atlantic world was indeed race-coded heritable and industrial in scale. But the exceptionally cruel claim is doing ideological work without offering a metric. Cruel compared to what and measured how If you mean legally hereditary chattel slavery tied to race and a global plantation economy say that. If you mean more brutal in"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CsTominaga/status/1998242148123373750)  2025-12-09T04:03Z 9951 followers, 19.4K engagements


"The Architecture of Excellence Why Another Damn Book Most life books are scented participation trophies. You buy them to feel momentarily profound underline a sentence about courage and then go back to losing an argument with your own alarm clock. They offer mood not machinery. This is not one of those. The Discipline of Greatness exists for a very simple reason: knowing why you should get your life in order does not magically give you the ability to do it. Thats where most people stall. They read something like XX Rules for Life nod grimly at the necessity of responsibility meaning and"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CsTominaga/status/1998586670707577270)  2025-12-10T02:52Z 9948 followers, 1329 engagements


"How endearingly provincial the moment someone reaches for a two-party morality play they imagine the whole planet is trapped inside their red-blue nursery. The world is rather larger than one republics advertising cycle and the habit of treating every critic as a domestic voter is not analysis; its cultural myopia in a flag-shaped costume. The point stands without your private cartography. Systems of patronage elite rotation and theatrical choice exist in many places; they just wear different colours and speak different slogans. But do try in future not to smuggle in an American premise as"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CsTominaga/status/1998627146898747597)  2025-12-10T05:33Z 9939 followers, XX engagements


"Stop the straw man. Really. Its embarrassing watching people wrestle a cardboard cut-out and then declare victory over the civilisation behind it. Chinas a mixed economy. Not a purity test for socialists not a trophy for free-marketers not a meme-shaped Rorschach blot for whoever needs a villain or a mascot this week. The PRC is a socialist authoritarian system that has embraced some areas of market capitalism and those areas the bits where price signals and competition were allowed to breathe are what produced the growth everyone now wants to steal for their own sermon. When it was"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CsTominaga/status/1998660646225981470)  2025-12-10T07:46Z 9951 followers, 5141 engagements


"Ah yes another day on the internet another man discovering Goethes Mahomets Gesang and concludingvia a staircase of logical faceplantsthat the author of Faust was apparently a hardcore Muslim. Goethe was a lot of things: a polymath a poet a statesman a botanist a dramatist a philosopher and an insufferably brilliant bastard. What he was notand never claimed to bewas a member of any organised religion much less a zealous convert to one. The man spent his life resisting doctrinal walls. He absorbed Islam Christianity Judaism Hinduism Chinese Taoist writings and Greek antiquity the way a star"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CsTominaga/status/1998987110288892176)  2025-12-11T05:24Z 9951 followers, XXX engagements


"Putnam already mapped this out in Bowling Alone: when you outsource responsibility to a cheque from the state you hollow out the webs of obligation that used to bind people together. Welfare doesnt just take money; it crowds out families churches mutual-aid societies and local clubs that once did the work of support and in the process built trust norms and discipline. If the state pays you to sit still you dont join the bowling league the PTA the Rotary or the church committee you stay home and consume. The degradation of social capital he describes isnt in spite of welfare it is in large"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CsTominaga/status/1998999254325723199)  2025-12-11T06:12Z 9951 followers, XXX engagements


"Moron. Be silent is a brave opener from a man who then proceeds to shout his ignorance in XXX characters. Goethe was a great writer who dabbled in Naturphilosophie not THE master class scientist. His science is almost the textbook opposite of the modern scientific method: no clear hypotheses no quantified measurements no mathematics no falsifiable predictions no controlled experiments that others could reproduce. What he produced in optics and morphology is fascinating as artistic phenomenology carefully drawn observations poetic descriptions subjective impressions of colour but it is"  
[X Link](https://x.com/CsTominaga/status/1999083415375896674)  2025-12-11T11:46Z 9951 followers, XX engagements