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When Germany invaded Poland, what Red Army should have done? If they wouldn't have occupied Eastern parts, Germany would occupy all territory of Poland.

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I want to whine about weakly upvoted comment https://www.themotte.org/post/109/culture-war-roundup-for-the-week/15573?context=8#context

In a strictly genetic sense, the Mongols may be one of the most successful people groups in history; in terms of their culture, society, and way of life, they are largely extinct

The Mongol culture didn't spread because the premise (genetic success) is BS. Mongol conquests were due to better generals, discipline and ability to recruit non-Mongols into their war machine. They routinely beat numerically superior armies.

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So it's a very bad example of thesis 'genetic success doesn't imply cultural success', rather it's evidence in another direction.

Another thing I have with this that it looks poster is Western supermacist and imagines Mongols aka dumb zerg being strong only with their number.

Russia proper

could you please use 'internationally recognized territory of Russia' instead.

(often just as difficult to measure) for IQ

what do you mean by this, you're writing just to inflate word count? IQ tests require from 30 minutes to hour or more, and many people do not want to waste time on it. Ticking boxes in questionaire about degree they have is less than minute, and more people cooperate.

whether EA can mean different things in different countries, and so on.

this is a non-issue since EA here only used for getting polygenic index in reference population which is either one country or some quite similar countries. Then, polygenic index is used to predict which EA other population would had if they lived in reference country.

Knocking off three years of attainment because it’s a majority black country isn’t.

you're imagining what your outgroup done bad?

I don't get your point. The hetero men also often play chess or some other obscure competitions which don't make them laid, it's appears that hetero men like to compete even if they don't get anything.

Yes, there was a pre-invasion plan between Germany and USSR. I don't think it included "Germans attack on 1 sep, then Germans urge Soviets to attack and Soviets reluctantly attack on 17 sep". Germany was more strong enough to beat Poland alone, didn't need Soviet help to do so and began to advance on territories which were planned be go to Soviet zone.

Was the Katyn massacre also part of the Soviet 4D chess

What does this have to do with this? This Soviet atrocity happened on RFSFR proper soil when invasion of Poland was finished

You can say that black people are stupid

define 'stupid'

You mean that German SS entered territory of former Russian empire and killed Jews there?

I lost about 12 pounds in 2.5 months

So most of your weight "loss" was glycogene and water associated with glycogene, not fat. Will return quickly.

Offbrand cola is disgusting, for example.

How do we know they are objectively worse than brand colas without using your prior exposure to brand colas?

It would help, you know, if you defined intelligence in not sense "personality which I like", which is not very useful.

About cab drivers, there's a quote alleged to Mitterand "it is very unfortunate thing that people who know most about how to govern, are already employed as hairdressers and taxi drivers".

Your point is unclear.

related fact that immigrants might be low-income but might or might not have cultural attributes associated with poverty

immigrants might be low-income but might or might not have genetic traits predisposing them for poverty

It looks to me that 26+ bar has smallest confidence interval, so i doubt your explanation.

These all are more expensive than shorter distance running, and snow is also not found in African countries. Longer than marathon running is very rare and pays less, so probably we don't see East Africans dominating it.

(If it was that easy, people probably would not have invented Rust in the first place.)

C++ is bad not only in memory safety, but also has ugly grammar, no modules, slow compilation speed (and ugly binary operator priority).

I do think black people have a significantly lower average IQ than whites, that this has a genetic component

Wouldn't that, when compressed to 3 words, result in sentence @guesswho dislikes?

Any ideologies that depend on any version of Just World Theory are false and should be abandoned.

Nobody believies in "Just World Theory", it is a stawman. I believe stawman "Magic Dirt Theory" is more accurate for your thinking than "Just World Theory" for your opponents.

The claim was only about IQ scores vs real-life tasks in military, that IQ scores do have meaning. You demonstrated low decoupling and went to discuss other McNamara actions (which I happen know to nothing about), well maybe because you can't refute central point? Maybe you meant that lowering IQ threshold for military enlistment was actually good but other McNamara actions are guilty for bad performance of "moron corps"?

Should we let people with Down Syndrome play with power tools on a construction site because we are not 'racist'

how is it relevant example? on constuction site, only workers are allowed and workers do not 'play' with tools but do what they're expected to do.

War in Ukraine is unpopular and especially unpopular among his populist right.

That sounds like that American voters think that USA leadership has same or equal blame in starting war than Russia leadership.

But in terms of more % of redistribution, then that is more likely to happen with more diversity.

They are not increasing diversity -- they are increasing demographic groups which promote redistribution, the effect that in current USA it increases diversity is purely coincidental. For countries which already have demographics which promotes redistribution, they don't want to change demographics.

I think average person can pick difference between Chinese and Japanese overall sound picture by listening random speeches in each language for a minute

If you are woke or woke-sympathizer, is there some pieces for propaganda of wokes that makes you feel cringe? I am a Red Tribe sympathizer, and Ben Harrison arts more often than not, makes me feel cringe.

Could you please state why?