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SerialStateLineXer
1d ago
I don't think I cried at all when my mother died, due to a combination of:
- She had been ill with a terminal neurodegenerative disease for a few years at that point, so we all saw it coming.
- I had moved across the country over a decade earlier, and since then had only seen her for a week or two so every year, so we'd grown apart.
- Honestly, I just didn't enjoy being around her much in the years leading up to her diagnosis. She wasn't mean or anything, but she was much more negative and complained a lot more than she had before. In retrospect, I think it's likely that this was a preclinical effect of the neurodegeneration.
I was sad, but in a sort of abstract, detached way, and not in a way that was deeply painful.
SerialStateLineXer
1d ago
posted memes about feds on Jan 6 and even questioned the deaths of officers on that day
Precisely zero officers present at the Capitol on January 6th died on that day. Brian Sicknick died the next day. We can't completely rule out that it was caused by the events of the previous day, but the conclusion of the autopsy was that he died of natural causes. The other four deaths were suicides. Possibly one of them, Jeffrey Smith, was caused by a TBI sustained in the attack, but I don't know how strong the evidence is there. Two of the suicides were six months later.
SerialStateLineXer
4d ago
I just got promoted for the second time in seven years as a software engineer at the same company, and my income has more than doubled over that time period. And this is slow for my company; I had a lot of issues focusing during mandatory WFH during COVID, which was a major speedbump for my career progression. I could easily have been promoted a third time, nearly tripling my income, if not for COVID.
SerialStateLineXer
4d ago
Yeah companies want them because they can't leave.
They can, though. There's some paperwork, but it's absolutely possible to change employers on an H-1B visa. It's not even that rare—in 2023, there were 76k approved change of employer petitions, down from something like 120k in 2022 (due to a slowdown in tech hiring generally).
This week I learned that "female" is a) etymologically related to "fellatio," both deriving from a PIE word meaning to suck, and b) not etymologically related to "male," the similarity arising due to folk etymology.
SerialStateLineXer
6d ago
Black people don't do much, if at all, better on the SAT than on the LSAT. Harvard undergrad made an explicit choice to continue discriminating enough to get a class that's 14% black, but their law school has not. This is an HLS thing, not a general law school thing: Yale Law school is clearly discriminating as hard as ever.
SerialStateLineXer
7d ago
Our current system gives us a lot of students more loyal to Hamas than to the US.
SerialStateLineXer
7d ago
Harvard's law school made more of an effort to appear to comply as well, although they still seem to be discriminating.
SerialStateLineXer
8d ago
Their article on Man the Hunter being inaccurate makes great points about how women can be excellent endurance runners, outpacing men over long distances.
I believe that this claim relies on cherry-picking a few individual races. If you look at records for various distances and times, the male record in every event is better than the female record.
SerialStateLineXer
9d ago
I'm more interested in quality of immigrants than quantity. If Ideastan is letting in average (global average) immigrants, and it has an above-average gene pool, the future is bleak. But as for hyperselected immigrants, the more the merrier. I care about what people can offer to my country, not who their ancestors were.
SerialStateLineXer
10d ago
very high IQs more often being symptoms of a problem
I don't think so. Very low IQs are often symptomatic of a monogenic disease or chromosomal abnormality, but there's no known single mutation or chromosomal abnormality that greatly increases intelligence.
I think it's just that people with very high IQs and developmental disorders are more noticeable than people with the same developmental disorders and low IQs because they're able to function despite the developmental disorders.
SerialStateLineXer
12d ago
Social Security is expected to
run out of moneyreduce benefits by one-fifthjack up taxes in 2033
SerialStateLineXer
12d ago
Where are you from?
Twitter had a very interesting few days before Christmas, we even saw the return of the huwhite man Jared Taylor to Twitter
It's not "huwhite," just "hwite." Taylor speaks with an accent that hasn't undergone the wine-whine merger, probably because he's from...(checks notes)...Kobe, Japan.
SerialStateLineXer
15d ago
You linked to an article about Bryan Caplan's book, but Caplan believes that most of the correlation between educational attainment and earnings is causal, but that in most cases it's mediated by signaling rather than by human capital improvements.
SerialStateLineXer
15d ago
if you believe that politicians should try to live up to their campaign pledges.
All the dumb stuff they say to pander to the base? No, that's the last thing I want them to do.
SerialStateLineXer
16d ago
Earlier this year my aunt shared a Facebook post from Dan Rather saying something like, "Last time I checked, pro-lifers weren't lining up to adopt children."
Having higher standards than Dan Rather, I took a few minutes to look it up, and found, as I expected, that evangelicals do adopt a lot of children, but also that the media have been running occasional hit pieces on evangelical adoption for at least a decade.
SerialStateLineXer
16d ago
During the 2008 recession, the homicide rate continued falling. It didn't start rising again until the Ferguson Effect kicked in in 2015.
SerialStateLineXer
16d ago
I'm not sure the premise is correct. AFAIK, you generally don't need a license to provide professional services to yourself.
Goodhart's Law: When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.
Yes, there are all kinds of ways you could distort GDP if you really wanted to, but because nobody is particularly invested in maximizing measured GDP, it's not that big of an issue.
Sure, we could come up with am alternative measure that includes an estimate of the value of home production, but what problem would this solve?
SerialStateLineXer
19d ago
To be clear, I'm not in particularly bad shape. I walk like to work and back 2 miles every day plus miscellaneous walking, I'm not obese, and I've been training 32 kg kettlebell swings, but this is a whole other level.
SerialStateLineXer
19d ago
25 years ago.
SerialStateLineXer
20d ago
Maybe you have scurvy.
I assume you're talking about Wild Turkey on the rocks.
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