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@BayesianNuance
I have subjective opinions, but I care more about nuance and intellectual humility. (...also occasional hot takes)
>hamas loads gaza with nerve gas and threatens to murder everyone in the city unless the entire country of israel walks into the sea how could israel do that to those poor palestinians its inhumane
Yeah your second point is a tricky one--a lot of people aren't psychologically equipped to maintain healthy expectations while manipulating the probabilistic distribution of outcomes. You should ideally be able to love your kids unconditionally if you want to go this route, and I think that's easier said than done. I can say "I simply want the best possible expected outcomes, and I will accept whatever is realized"...but a lot of even mentally strong people simply can't do this! I think we're going to see a ton of journalistic pieces ~10-30 years from now on parents struggling to deal with the left tail of these conditional distributions. Somehow "relatively bad outcome after you tried to shift the distribution" might be harder for most than "bad outcome 'naturally'".
I don't think most people understand that this embryo is probably not going to become a person with a +3 SD IQ We need to mull the burdens we risk putting on our children by genome shopping like this. This is a person who belongs to him or herself, not a pet, not a status object
A friend of mine had her embryos screened by Herasight and they found one with an IQ score in the 99.99th percentile
It's almost impossible to view these people as anything other than insecure downwardly-mobile losers afraid of competition from more talented immigrants.
A Georgia handyman swapped his car for a pink Barbie toy car to beat rising gas prices. Mali Hightower pulled a broken Power Wheels Dream Camper out of the trash and installed a small gas engine from a power washer to give him an alternative to speed around town in instead of his usual mode of transportation. His 1996 Mercedes-Benz convertible typically costs about $90 to fill. The tiny pink vehicle tops out around 35 mph and is now turning heads everywhere he goes as Americans search for cheaper ways to get around.
OMG 😆
The NBA needs to implement a "natural shooting motion" rule. If you move unnaturally to draw a foul it should be an offensive foul
@natssauer I’ve seen a guy do this too though (see what I did there)
The locker room is a sacred place because it brings together everyone from all walks of life and beliefs for one common goal. Calling a teammate out publicly for his political views and to get attention is nasty work.
