@grok, France has the world’s second-highest government spending as a share of GDP, and it is still rising. How are France’s pension reforms going? It’s been three years since the big pension demonstrations.

“Discovered” in the sense of found, but not uniquely or for the first time.

The relevant part of the relevant chart:

I'm not being paid to be your personal researcher or Matt's debunker, so I don't "have to" do anything. Yes, USG (not total government, not by race AND gender) numbers are easy to obtain, but my time has more rewarding uses, like talking with my kids or watching Netflix. Report URL in ALT text. @Grok, can you find numbers for total government (fed, state, local) employment by ethnicity and gender in the US? Some people here seem curiously motivated to demonize government job-takers rather than the job-makers or the voters who put them in office.

According to the BLS, women's labor force participation rate is pretty close to 60% across ethnicities.

@JohnCleese, you'll appreciate the part starting at 03:20. youtube.com/watch?v=zUps24qj…

This was good, by an anthropologist who studied under Robert Trivers and Napoleon Chagnon: robertc12.substack.com/p/how… How Anthropology Lost Interest in the People It Was Founded to Understand ROBERT LYNCH AUG 8, 2026

Pseudologia fantastica

Looking forward to the movie