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SerialStateLineXer
6d ago
Thanks for doing your part to fight dysgenesis.
SerialStateLineXer
6d ago
Yesterday, I was indirectly reminded of an old classmate I had in 5th through 7th grade. Out of idle curiosity, I looked him up and found that he had died of a fentanyl overdose last year.
I hadn't really thought of him for decades, and we weren't all that close back then, so it didn't hit me particularly hard, but it did shock me a bit, since he didn't really seem the type. He was from a high-SES family, both parents being archaeologists, and in the same gifted classes as I was. His best friend from back then is an attorney now.
I wonder how people's lives go off the rails like this, even when they seem to have everything going for them.
SerialStateLineXer
7d ago
The oxford study results paint a grim picture for East Asians where it states that women of east asia are more likely to prefer dating people of other races with whites being highest rated, I would argue that the subcontinent and south-east Asia has the similar issues
The silver lining, for South Asian men, is that white men generally aren't nearly as attracted to South Asian women as to East Asian women.
SerialStateLineXer
9d ago
Some guy in China killed 35 people by driving a car around a running track.
Not that I'm complaining, but why doesn't this happen more often?
Much is made of the fact that US has more guns and many more mass shooting incidents than other wealthy nations, and this is commonly attributed to the fact that guns make it easy to kill a lot of people. But so do cars, and those are widely available in most wealthy nations.
So why is it that the US has a lot of mass shootings (yes, I know that they're a tiny percentage of total homicides), but running cars into crowds is fairly rare in countries that don't have such easy access to guns? Are Americans just especially prone to running amok? Are mass shootings a meme? Is killing a lot of people with a gun just that much more satisfying than running them over with a car?
I don't have any good theories; I'm just noticing my confusion.
SerialStateLineXer
11d ago
There's nothing wrong with wanting to not be on the receiving end of a trade war, tariffs or sanctions.
Trade wars only have receiving ends.
SerialStateLineXer
12d ago
Average adult height in US men peaked for those born in the late 70s, but the decline from there to the 1996 birth cohort was less than half a centimeter, and there was a similar decline for women. I suppose it's possible that there was a rapid male-specific decline in cohorts born in the decade after 1996, but it seems unlikely.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/average-height-by-year-of-birth?country=~USA
SerialStateLineXer
13d ago
Right, that makes sense. I forgot what I had said in my original comment, so I misunderstood your response.
SerialStateLineXer
13d ago
Maybe even consider removing it from your toothpaste.
Let's do the math on this. Toothpaste is about 0.1% fluoride. Typically you'll put about 1g of toothpaste on your toothbrush, so that's 1 mg of fluoride. If you ingest 10%, that's 0.1 mg. Fluoridated water is typically around 1 mg/L, so by using fluoridated toothpaste twice a day, you're probably ingesting about 10% of what you would get from two liters of fluoridated tap water. Not insignificant, but probably not a major concern.
On the other hand, if it's available in the US, hydroxyapatite toothpaste is a perfectly acceptable substitute, if a bit more expensive.
I was referring to his 1912 run for President with the Progressive Party, beating out Taft for second place, leading to the unfortunate election of Wilson with only 41% of the vote.
Technically that was a campaign for a non-consecutive third term, not second.
Edit: Oh, I see what you mean. I forgot that I had specified "after losing reelection once" in my first comment.
SerialStateLineXer
16d ago
the democratic candidate being VP to a very unpopular president, which has historically been a near ironclad portent of defeat.
On the other hand, the Republican candidate was an unpopular President. I don't think we have much data on former Presidents running for a non-consecutive second term after losing reelection once. How many have done that, just Cleveland and Roosevelt?
I feel like a big part of the problem with modern games is that they just try too hard to be novels or movies. I miss the old minimalist approach that was more about establishing a tone and the outline of a plot, and letting you fill in the rest with your imagination, than about spelling out every freaking detail.
I realize that this was largely due to technical limitations, but some people just need enforced discipline.
SerialStateLineXer
17d ago
Makes sense. I tried meat-based milk and didn't like it at all.
USA Today endorsed Biden in 2020, but other than that has generally had a policy of no endorsements.
SerialStateLineXer
24d ago
It's very, very unlikely that this is motivated by a desire to influence the outcome of the election, because it's so obviously and wildly implausible that it would actually do so. Nobody who reads the Washington Post or LA Times editorial page is going to change his vote based on an explicit endorsement or lack thereof from one of these papers. They've been implicitly endorsing Harris since Biden dropped out, and implicitly endorsing anyone-but-Trump for eight years. Anyone who's receptive to the message already got it.
An official endorsement from either of these papers would be purely symbolic.
SerialStateLineXer
27d ago
I strongly suspect that the owner is not using the LA Times to advance a political agenda, but rather trying to get them to maintain the thinnest fig leaf of objectivity in order to enhance the paper's credibility. He has to know there's no way the LA Times' endorsement is going to tip the vote in a swing state.
Unless I'm wrong about that, this is totally consistent with what Yarvin said.
SerialStateLineXer
28d ago
When politicians talk about creating jobs, they're mostly full of crap, but aside from that, there are two different kinds of job creation:
- Makework, where we intentionally use more labor than is necessary to get the job done. This is bad.
- Finding a way to get more done by employing previously unemployed workers, or finding a more productive use for currently employed workers. This is good.
SerialStateLineXer
28d ago
If you have a funny skull shape, you can have a doctor shave your skull.
SerialStateLineXer
28d ago
What percentage of doctors publish research?
SerialStateLineXer
1mo ago
Among the PMC (the truly rich are more heterogenous as a class) assortive mating is now so strong that it largely filters looks-based matching to an intra-class level.
According to Gregory Clark, it's always been thus. He claims that in the anglosphere, mating has been assortative on socioeconomic status at a correlation of approximately 0.8 for centuries.
SerialStateLineXer
1mo ago
Conflating fractional-inch and metric nomenclatures, I guess?
SerialStateLineXer
1mo ago
It would take quite a few additional Dahmers to make up for the loss of the predominantly low-IQ people committing 15,000 homicides per year.
This oral immunotherapy drug seems to work, based on a 100% success rate in an early clinical trial. It's probably some years away from general availability, but it might be something to look forward to.
There's also a desensitization protocol using only beef and beef extract described here. Seems like DIY might be viable.
SerialStateLineXer
1mo ago
Not judging, just curious: Why was this a two-man project?
SerialStateLineXer
1mo ago
They have a challenge called "Squid Game," right?
Outside the bounds of prescribed behavior. It's a highly proscribed behavior, unless the fentanyl is prescribed.
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