JTarrou
5hr ago
Confucianism is a belief system which the Chinese have been using to select for their elites/mates for several thousand years. Do you really think that has had no genetic effect at the population level? At this point, I would say Confucianism has imprinted itself on the Han genetic code, just as Christianity has the European. A society run more or less under that framework has been executing rebels and criminals as defined by that system for four thousand years.
Islam is an interesting case. It has only ever been successful when married to a militarily dominant ethnic group. The arabs who originated it never had the assabiyya to maintain an empire, and thus it became the tame religion of one after the other of older ethnic groups and newer barbarian tribes (Shia for the Persians, Sunni for the Egyptians, and Turks). Due both to the organizational limitations and the genetic diversity of their adherents, the imprint of Islam is harder to distinguish, but still I think present in the older populations.
JTarrou
9hr ago
This conspiracy theory about an "edifice of anti-blackness" is where you went wrong, IMO.
It never existed. There are always racist people, and there is always an ethnic angle to political conflict. Mostly this doesn't matter too much, because people are not and have never been any bigger on ethnic identity than any other. Racism is not an explanation, but a symptom.
The edifice of modern society based on international capitalism, division of labor and technological advancement is not and has never been anti-black. Black people who ran into it had a variety of outcomes, from slavery to slave trading empires. Every other group on earth did too. The native Americans died mostly of unknown and uncured diseases. The Mughals got overthrown by a beverage company. The Aztecs got overthrown by a local rebellion against their tyrannical rule spearheaded by a few Spaniards. The Aborigines were just....ignored mostly, so dysfunctional they were never an organized threat to anything.
Not every group of people was well selected for this new world. The long-civilized and long broken to the yoke of empire parts of the world tended to do better than more primitive cultures. This isn't a moral reflection on those people, but a recognition of their lesser ability to navigate the sort of complex systems and institutions necessary for a modern society. Civilization is partially genetic, as each society selects over time for those who can follow and prosper under its rules.
Take one aspect as an example. Literacy is one of those things that is not necessary or common in lower civilizations but becomes absolutely essential the more advanced a society is. People from largely illiterate societies by definition have not been genetically selected for whatever genes contribute to literacy. Over hundreds or thousands of years, once they develop a culture of literacy, they will become genetically better at it.
The reason Japan could resist colonization, and China could recover so quickly once they resolved the power struggle is civilizational, by which I mean a mental suitedness to complex society that has become partially genetic. Culture becomes genetic over time. This is why Ashkenazis have high average IQ, but Mizrahi don't.
We see that some cultures developed genetic templates that are superior under the current dispensation. These are not centrally "white" genetically, but tend to come from the heavily selected upper classes of several major genetic groups, all of which have a millennium or three of cultural literacy. Europe, China, Japan, India, the Semitic peoples, etc.
Some cultures developed genetic templates that are not well suited to the current dispensation. These are not centrally "black" although many (all?) black cultures are included. Tribal societies everywhere have struggled, from native Americans to Hmong immigrants post-Vietnam war. The Mongolians are not exactly tearing it up in international finance.
Much of the inequality everyone decries is just the mismatch of genetic templates from more primitive societies being exposed to the modern world. This has changed over time and will continue to change. HBD is a moving target. The future will be written by those cultural institutions that determine our current genetic selection.
JTarrou
11d ago
Definitely. In fact, I'd say variation in romantic norms is one of the strongest cultural signals. The oldest cultures (i.e. the best at reproducing themselves) tend to give the young very little say in the matter. They also seem to have trouble adapting quickly to technological and social change.
The social technology a society uses to reproduce itself is the primary human input on evolution. This is how humans control our genetic destiny. Hinge is more important to the future of humanity than SpaceX.
JTarrou
12d ago
In Russia, one learns that women are not the romantic sex, and never were. All the frills and the rom-coms are camouflage over an entirely mercenary subconscious. Slavic girls (as a gross generalization) are very honest about shit-testing their men constantly for any weakness, weaponized mood swings, and open requests for material gifts.
JTarrou
12d ago
As someone whose first sort-of-gf was a Russian broad, I counsel against it. Their cultural norms and expectations are likely to be incompatible. Don't even think about it if you aren't down with committing domestic violence on a regular basis.
JTarrou
14d ago
As someone who has done a bit of travelling and lived overseas for some time, I can't imagine trying to enter a foreign country on expired papers and getting mad at them for not letting me. When I lived in Russia we had to leave the country every six months and re-up our visas. If our papers weren't current, we couldn't go back, simple as.
JTarrou
15d ago
Surely there's a town with a data center they can go ask how good it was for them? Or do they all have NDAs too?
Seems to me to be a perfectly solvable problem, just show the value. If they can deliver jobs and tax money to localities, they will be welcomed. If it's all a pyramid scheme to saddle local governments with tech companies' expansion costs, that will come out too. Just takes some time.
JTarrou
20d ago
The grams was throwing me off, so I converted to grains to compare for the layperson who might not grok the difference.
3.5 grams is ~52 grains, which is lighter than the standard 5.56 loading of 55 grains. There is to my knowledge no blackpowder firearm ever manufactured that would fire such a tiny ball. Not a popgun, much less a musket, which historically would have been firing a ball weighing roughly between 500 to 600 grains. This is not a small difference, the listed weight is maybe 10% of the real weight. Nobody who knows a thing about blackpowder firearms would be fooled by a 52gr ball. Even modern blackpowder guns, which use more efficient powder and are smaller caliber, fire 300-500 gr bullets.
JTarrou
25d ago
That's just something people who don't want kids say. "Amg, I couldn't possibly bring a child into a first world country with a planetary top 5% wealth because god is about to smite us all"
JTarrou
26d ago
Basic anarcho-tyranny. They want maximum leeway to use the legal system for things they like and against people they don't like (charging a white woman with being mean to a rapist), while obtaining maximum freedom for their own people under that legal system (50-time felonious loser with knife should be handled by therapists, not cops). There's no mystery here, it is what it says on the tin.
They like criminals and dislike people who resist/arrest criminals. Speech is violence and violence is speech, depending on who is speaking/stabbing. Kto-kogo. There is no internal contradiction. This has always been the plan, this has always been the strategy, for over a century.
JTarrou
27d ago
Then let me tell you a little tale about context. Far up north, where the trains don't run and the law is weak, live my in-laws. Dying small town, full of white and native trash. In that town, the only black people are the Jamaican doctors who are the only MDs who will work in a town like that. They're the richest and brightest people in town. So super-black Jamaicans are top of the SES heirarchy, but the rare less-black guy from downstate is considered a degen and likely thief. Nobody has any trouble telling them apart.
JTarrou
27d ago
Do you know of even one person in the world who is racist strictly on skin tone? Nobody hates melanin, man.
JTarrou
27d ago
he hoped everyone would interbreed and then we'd all be brown.
Such a weird thing to fetishize, as if brown people aren't racist against each other and everyone else. Ask a Mexican about Guatemalans, FFS.
JTarrou
28d ago
I feel that. With diet and weight training I can get up to ~170. Without, I drop to 145. The last time I had major surgeries, I got down under 130.
The bright side is, I usually look great for my age. Downside is, I get a two-week flu and look like a gulag inmate, and it takes me months to put the weight back on. My body just eats itself, constantly.
You can get holsters for guns with lights, but it generally needs to be specific to your gun + light. There are some universals like the Omnivore, but in my experience you're better off ordering the correct holster from a reputable semi-custom shop. For duty holsters, Safariland is something like the industry standard.
I keep a gunbelt that both my nightstand safe guns fit into, one with a light, one without. The downside here is cost, as a good holster is $80-200, and a full gunbelt rig three to five hundred. The joy of Glocks is that all four of my carry and competition guns fit into the same holster, with or without lights and optics, so I only needed the one.
JTarrou
29d ago
If the various and sundry ecological predictions are correct, then it seems to me there is only one broad course of action: Push nuclear, nuke China and Russia and re-colonize the entire world to keep them from developing in ways that would produce carbon. Anything short of that is ineffective and unserious, according to the current state of climate science. We are already past the tipping point, the ice caps will melt within a century and if we don't start killing billions, there won't be a future for humanity. Naturally, being an American, I favor other billions.
Modestly proposed, modestly delivered.
Or maybe, just maybe, science didn't solve the entire planet's climate model in 1975 and this whole thing is overblown. Good news! Turns out we didn't need to kill all those people after all! Woops!
JTarrou
30d ago
Glock triggers are among the worst factory pulls in that class, and the stock shoe is pretty bad. But they do smooth out well at high round counts and the shoe is easily replaced. Learning the Glock trigger was much easier than full double-action-only snubby triggers. When people shoot my battered old carry gun, they think the trigger is great for a Glock, but it's just a shoe and fifty-two thousand rounds. Most expensive trigger job in history.
JTarrou
30d ago
There's something darkly funny about the prospect of the profit motive of the cynical businessman being far more valuable than the truth motive of a good-faith academic for producing actual knowledge or useful research.
Darkly funny? That is just obvious reality, and always has been.
JTarrou
30d ago
It isn't my sense of things that academia contributes much to medical and engineering research. Maybe Johns Hopkins and MIT do, but not "academia". 99% of universities produce exactly nothing of any scientific, cultural or literary worth.
JTarrou
30d ago
Academia will not reform itself and will not stop trying to overthrow the government, constitution and society that produces and funds it. They will at some point be brought to heel, either by the government or the people. Some president sooner or later will realize all the money and land being sucked up by organizations of useless traitors and fake "scientists", and just take it. That is, if the people don't turn up with pitchforks first.
Whenever and however that happens, exactly nothing of value will be lost. Academia is underwater morally, politically and scientifically. It is fundamentally compromised and incapable of even describing the problem. The above report is rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.
Well, the rest of the professors who did a marginally better/lower profile version of Arday have been infesting academia for a century now. Everyone from actual terrorists like Bill Ayers to Judith fucking Butler has reached venerable academic age without any real issue. Why shouldn't they be able to bully the public into funding yet another anti-western sinecure for gay black retards? That's what "academic freedom" means, in practice.
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