aldomilyar
3d ago
I've always felt asses are more fundamentally meritocratic than breasts for similar reasons, though the whole 'gigantic asses' thing kinda circled back the other way.
aldomilyar
3d ago
I'm currently parenting my kids in first world Asia (which is a way better deal especially for child-rearing), partly due to my parents being in my home country's equivalent of Florida and therefore being of limited help during childrearing. So chicken and the egg I guess
aldomilyar
3d ago
I agree there should be more viewpoint diversity, but trying to inject it back into the academic ecosystem that's evolved is difficult especially when there's now paths like Substack to just kind of sidestep the academy.
Yes it'd be great if a large chunk of 'academic debate' didn't devolve into 'My opinion has been peer reviewed by people with the same opinion as me who have myriad soft and hard incentives to clump together, THEREFORE IT IS FACT' but that ship has long sailed into its own bellybutton.
aldomilyar
3d ago
Especially these days when it's increasingly normalized to teleport off into the Everglades or onto a cruise instead of remaining part of the household fabric.
aldomilyar
4d ago
Kneebar's pretty idiot proof but hard to get in the current meta.
I enjoy Gattaca but I also agree that 'Key member of a long spaceflight being at significant risk of heart failure' is something that'd disqualify you right now without looking at your genetic code. The plot would probably feel better if it were pure genemod-bias at play.
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