The “growth concerns” part stands out like a neon sign while Zuckerberg makes more in an hour than most NIH grants tackling child predation are awarded in a year. He’s estimated to take in $9.6 million an hour. With a day’s earnings Meta could fund pretty much anything. They just dont want to.

But on issues such as respectability and morality, I think you should judge people by their deeper, more important actions. That doesn't mean how they dress, but how they treat others on a more meaningful level.

I will end with something I wrote five years ago about the messy nature of dress codes.

Then there's the second decision: how you judge others. If being gentlemanly means anything at all, it should mean what Newman wrote above: "interpret everything for the best." Or what Lewis wrote in Mere Christianity: "A real desire to believe all the good you can of others ...

If you wish to show respect in certain contexts — such as at a wedding — it's worth considering what your outfit is communicating. This is why I think people should shop for a suit well in advance of when they need one. You don't want to send the wrong message (e.g., "I don't care about you").

On matters of respectable dress, it's helpful to separate two distinct acts. The first is how you decide to dress; the second is how you judge others. It's true that the world judges our appearance.

This reminds me of Cardinal John Henry Newman's book Definition of a Gentleman. I often cite Newman's book because it's so instructive. The term gentleman is so overwrought and frequently abused, but to the degree it means anything at all, I think Newman captures it here:

Lewis points out something interesting here: modesty has to be understood within the matter of context. A woman in the Pacific Islands, he notes, can be modest while wearing barely any clothes, while a Victorian woman will have different standards for the same idea.

...work on safety and efficacy in vitro and in Vivo won't be quick. It'll take time. And it's expensive. But cross your fingers. More broadly this is thrilling because of how it was done and what that represents (15)

And for communicating. Streptomyces coelicolor makes a bunch that are different colours, and they can the agar they're growing on bright colours that spread out and get all their neighbours to do the same thing. (8)

I will entertain further commentary on this topic when you provide me with a list of at least five antisemitic tropes that originate in the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and explain why those tropes are antisemitic; that's the table stakes for contesting the proposition at hand.

They know it too because they don't post on Gab or Truth Social so why X? Because they don't want to give up gaudy follower counts.

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