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7hr ago
I don’t have an IQ breakdown, but they have the highest rate of delaying birth until their 40s, per LA Times
When it comes to delaying motherhood to pursue careers and other life aspirations, Bay Area women are leading the nation. This region is home to the greatest share of women having children at 40 and older — a trend that experts chalk up to a combination of economic opportunity, progressive social norms and access to reproductive technology.
Dr. Mary Hinckley, IVF medical director at the Reproductive Science Center of the Bay Area, said she was not surprised to see the region leading the trend of older pregnancies since many women there prioritize careers and other life experiences ahead of starting a family. The Bay Area embraces modern forms of family structures that may or may not include children and, in general, largely does not foster a culture where women feel traditional societal pressures to start a family young, she said. Around half of her patients at the fertility clinic are at least 38 years old.
This is suboptimal for a variety of reasons. If we’re throwing a portion of our smartest and healthiest women there, we want them to have the lowest age of birth and the highest number of kids, to maximize health and intelligence of future generations.
Stories like this do have an effect, not any one story isolated, but the kind of women that are boosted in popularity and status among women through our cultural stories (news, social media).
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8hr ago
I think this is the exact opposite story that should be disseminated widely in a culture. We want stories of women foregoing money, status, and attention for the sake of a marital pairbond and having children, because that’s what you want high iq Bayarean women doing. This story is unlikely to nudge a reader toward escortdom, but it will nudge them toward valuing money and status even more. Or it will make some think, “if she’s taking advantage of her body for so much money, then it’s definitely okay if I do it on a smaller scale with my boss / manager / investor”. But it’s impossible to get a pro-motherhood + pro-love bio in a newspaper.
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10hr ago
I must have heard this song 200 times and I never learned the lyrics beyond a few fragments:
Coming out of my cage and I've been doing just fine
It started out with a kiss, how did it end up like this?
he takes off her dress
Jealousy
the price I pay, destiny is calling me
I'm Mr. Brightside
I have a feeling most listeners do not know the full lyrics or the actual narrative of the song. I can vaguely recall a memory of people trying to sing it and not knowing any lyrics besides these fragments. But these words are very potent anyway: kiss, taking off dress, jealousy, price, destiny. Charged words, both genders like it.
The song is just well-designed musically. It’s recognizable within the first second. The guitar intro is really nice. The chorus beginning with “jealousy” is inviting and awesome, peaking with a shout of “price I pay, destiny” (cool!). Reminds me of the Coldplay “I used to rule the world” song — this is an inviting subject to have in your head. Universally relatable feelings (jealousy, defeat).
Maybe, maybe, the lyrics infect our mind subconsciously, and the infidelity / sexual fear exerts a kind of Eyes Wide Shut effect that sticks in our mind. But I don’t know if this is necessary to explain it.
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1d ago
I imagine that pre ~1960s, if you had a kid with Down Syndrome you weren’t expected to go out of your way to treat him “well”. They wouldn’t have to be dragged to school and their misbehavior was punished with corporal punishment (as it was for normal kids, too). If he fell in a river and drowned or something, it wasn’t a big deal. But modern parents feel compelled to do special things for them, and feel it’s wrong to supply a painful punishment for annoying behaviors even if this may be the only way they can learn. So the burden has increased considerably. If your Down syndrome child gets into an accident because he was left unattended, the parents are blamed, but 100 years ago no one would have cared.
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4d ago
“People fighting cops to the point of a heart attack” could have a genetic etiology, in the same way “pitbull biting hard and never letting go” is a trait you can breed in dogs. This is a useful medicalization because it explains why these people are dying in custody sometimes. Please describe what you would like police to do about the 0.001% risk of ExDS death when they are arresting people. Should they refrain from restraining everyone altogether, and let them run amok? Do you want them to be restrained in a hogtie position, like Chauvin’s colleague suggested, which has a higher rate of death? Personally, I’m fine with police using enormous net guns to restrain anyone who resists, just like a canon that shoots a heavy net at the subject. Do you think the image of white police officers capturing black people in nets and then dragging them to jail would assuage the public’s tendency to crash out at racism?
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5d ago
The reason ExDS fell out of fashion is that it’s overwhelmingly a phenomenon of young black men on drugs. For progressives, this means it can’t possibly be real. But it’s possible that there is a rare gene that makes some populations violently resist confinement which, when in combination with certain drugs, results in a heart attack. Why would that be impossible? We can imagine that such an instinct would confer an evolutionary advantage in violent regions of the world and in regions which did not face cold winters where confinement and close proximity would have weeded such an instinct out. And indeed certain Arcticism theorists note that East Asians have 12x less claustrophobia than Arabs, a population with African admixture. So the mere fact that Blacks experience it more frequently is not actually valid grounds for the illegitimacy of the psychiatric state, though this is the primary reason why doctors have become uncomfortable with the syndrome / state / diagnosis.
a jury
Unfortunately, multiracial jury trials are a meme.
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5d ago
Chauvin judged that Floyd was in a state of excited delerium and placed Floyd in the officially taught prone restraint position (ctrl-f “Minneapolis police training slide”) for cases of excited delerium. Restraining subjects in ExDS was department protocol. Actually there’s a recording of Chauvin and another officer articulating this, and that the reason they had him in this position was because of ExDS. And Floyd’s behavior was classic ExDS. You should probably care if Chauvin was performing departmental policy conscientiously because otherwise you’re punishing the innocent, which is 100x worse than failing to punish the guilty. Why would you want a police officer to be deciding on the fly a new restraint technique? He’s not an expert in restraint, and he’s not a medical expert, and he is being placed in an extremely high stress situation. Would you be okay with sending doctors to the Rape Dungeon if they prescribe something that is only proven to be deadly post-hoc?
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5d ago
IMO the event is a politically-useful red herring, and the more pertinent question is why one group in the UK gets to use tribalism to increase their wealth and influence but not the actual natives. The Sikhs in the UK rally around their ancestry and their race + homeland (cf Khalistan movement) to increase their in-group preference in business, to fund advocacy groups, and to energize their members who have a strong biological instinct to work for their blood and land (as all human males do). This gives them a variety of extra psychological and social boosts over the deracinated British, whose members are taught not to favor their own kind in business, who have no mainstream advocacy networks, and who do not dance around with swords and guns while hoping for purified and sovereign Bongistan. These things constitute a huge advantage and you can see the consequences in economic performance. Allow the native British to be as ingroup focused as the Sikhs, otherwise you’re just allowing a foreign group to have an eternal advantage over you in your own country (while using your resources to fund their own sovereignty movement back home), which is ridiculous and embarrassing. Of course, I’m not a Brit or Irishman or Scotsman, I am just embarrassed on their behalf.
I don’t quite disagree, but that’s why it’s important to promote the civilizational ideal of women through stories, including via news stories like the above. If you proclaim the superiority of women who give up creature comforts in favor of the creation of new life, then that provides social / emotional / spiritual comfort to these women, while restricting it from women who make incorrect life decisions (who don’t get these positive feelings). You are, in essence, increasing the rewards for the right decision. But the prostitute story increases the rewards for the wrong decision. It’s like, why did MacKenzie Scott donate 1 billion dollars to HBCUs? The news taught her that this was socially valuable; it enhanced her honor, status, sense of worth, and thus her comfort with herself. It absolved her from the fear and the shame of not doing what she’s supposed to be doing, which is a common feeling among humans and which we can guide through stories. America’s hyper-striving Bayareans feel guilty or ashamed that they’ve never completed a marathon or sold a startup or gotten into some party, but you can literally just rewire them into feeling this way about prosocial and pro-civilizational things if you own their news and algorithms.
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