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SerialStateLineXer
6mo ago
Their article on Man the Hunter being inaccurate makes great points about how women can be excellent endurance runners, outpacing men over long distances.
I believe that this claim relies on cherry-picking a few individual races. If you look at records for various distances and times, the male record in every event is better than the female record.
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6mo ago
I'm more interested in quality of immigrants than quantity. If Ideastan is letting in average (global average) immigrants, and it has an above-average gene pool, the future is bleak. But as for hyperselected immigrants, the more the merrier. I care about what people can offer to my country, not who their ancestors were.
SerialStateLineXer
6mo ago
very high IQs more often being symptoms of a problem
I don't think so. Very low IQs are often symptomatic of a monogenic disease or chromosomal abnormality, but there's no known single mutation or chromosomal abnormality that greatly increases intelligence.
I think it's just that people with very high IQs and developmental disorders are more noticeable than people with the same developmental disorders and low IQs because they're able to function despite the developmental disorders.
SerialStateLineXer
6mo ago
Social Security is expected to
run out of moneyreduce benefits by one-fifthjack up taxes in 2033
SerialStateLineXer
6mo ago
Where are you from?
Twitter had a very interesting few days before Christmas, we even saw the return of the huwhite man Jared Taylor to Twitter
It's not "huwhite," just "hwite." Taylor speaks with an accent that hasn't undergone the wine-whine merger, probably because he's from...(checks notes)...Kobe, Japan.
SerialStateLineXer
6mo ago
You linked to an article about Bryan Caplan's book, but Caplan believes that most of the correlation between educational attainment and earnings is causal, but that in most cases it's mediated by signaling rather than by human capital improvements.
SerialStateLineXer
6mo ago
if you believe that politicians should try to live up to their campaign pledges.
All the dumb stuff they say to pander to the base? No, that's the last thing I want them to do.
SerialStateLineXer
6mo ago
Earlier this year my aunt shared a Facebook post from Dan Rather saying something like, "Last time I checked, pro-lifers weren't lining up to adopt children."
Having higher standards than Dan Rather, I took a few minutes to look it up, and found, as I expected, that evangelicals do adopt a lot of children, but also that the media have been running occasional hit pieces on evangelical adoption for at least a decade.
SerialStateLineXer
6mo ago
During the 2008 recession, the homicide rate continued falling. It didn't start rising again until the Ferguson Effect kicked in in 2015.
SerialStateLineXer
6mo ago
I'm not sure the premise is correct. AFAIK, you generally don't need a license to provide professional services to yourself.
Goodhart's Law: When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.
Yes, there are all kinds of ways you could distort GDP if you really wanted to, but because nobody is particularly invested in maximizing measured GDP, it's not that big of an issue.
Sure, we could come up with am alternative measure that includes an estimate of the value of home production, but what problem would this solve?
SerialStateLineXer
6mo ago
To be clear, I'm not in particularly bad shape. I walk like to work and back 2 miles every day plus miscellaneous walking, I'm not obese, and I've been training 32 kg kettlebell swings, but this is a whole other level.
SerialStateLineXer
6mo ago
25 years ago.
SerialStateLineXer
6mo ago
Maybe you have scurvy.
SerialStateLineXer
6mo ago
I've been taking the stairs up to the 17th floor, and it's so much harder than I expected. I thought I'd be able to run up, like I normally do with stairs, but after 3-4 floors I just can't, and after 10 I can barely walk up. My heart rate gets up to like 170 and just stays there until I get to the top.
17/17, would power through it again.
SerialStateLineXer
6mo ago
studies cited that showed about 60% of people dependent on street drugs (from someone else's prescription to black tar heroin) started out on prescription pain killers like oxycontin.
Note that this does not mean that they started with painkillers prescribed to them for legitimate pain issues. It's likely that many (most?) started with opioids that were stolen, diverted, or obtained for recreational purposes through doctor-shopping.
The new editors-in-chief have been named, Crémieux is tentatively optimistic, but that has to be weighed against the suspicious selection process and the reaction of the other editors.
SerialStateLineXer
6mo ago
so why not use the cost of fare enforcement in Tokyo as a baseline for our cost comparison?
Because New York isn't full of Japanese people.
Fun fact: Subway gates don't even have turnstiles in Japan. You can just walk right through without paying. I think they beep or something if you don't pay, but I've never seen anyone just keep on walking, so I don't know if they keep beeping.
SerialStateLineXer
6mo ago
And meat. A little in ruminants; more in fish, pork, fowl, and eggs.
SerialStateLineXer
6mo ago
Canola oil is unusually low in LA for a seed oil. Also, it has about the same LA content as almond oil, and considerably more than whole almonds, which are only about 50% fat by weight.
SerialStateLineXer
6mo ago
Sure, but they're talking about killing the leadership, not nuking the whole island.
SerialStateLineXer
6mo ago
Why would China nuke Taiwan? From their perspective it would be nuking their own people.
I don't pretend to be an expert on foreign policy in general or China-Taiwan relations in particular, so maybe I'm wrong, but that sounds unlikely to me.
SerialStateLineXer
6mo ago
And it's almost certainly disallowed by the Constitution.
There's nothing in the Constitution that bars corporal punishment. There's a prohibition on "cruel and unusual" punishment, but we know this doesn't mean all corporal punishment, because it was widely practiced at the time and not ended until long after the ratification of the Bill of Rights.
Certainly it's plausible that a Supreme Court containing at least five left-leaning Justices who take a somewhat cavalier attitude towards their oath to uphold the Constitution might rule that the Eighth Amendment bans corporal punishment, but that would be them, not the Constitution.
Harvard's law school made more of an effort to appear to comply as well, although they still seem to be discriminating.
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