Mihrd

@BarneyFlames It’s really crazy how tight the development/fertility link is even in Africa. Kenya, Ghana, and Botswana are by far the nicest countries in SSA

"GDP is useless, lets measure success by number of kids" Behold, the richest countries in the world as per JD Vance and post-liberals

@Shiftant Very few slaves ever made it to the southern andes or la plata

Germany lost to Paraguay in PKs. Paraguay is surprisingly non-SSA, much less black than Germany's team. SSA ancestry is generally a boon because of the speed, but it hurts PK performance.

@KinderheimRune This already happened in 1973. If it ever gets to the point where Israeli population centers are threatened by an invading conventional army they’ll send out signals to the US/China that if a settlement isn’t reached they’ll activate MAD

@KinderheimRune That’s what the nukes are for

1) There are twice as many Muslims in Tehran alone (~14m) or Istanbul (~20m) as there are Jews in Israel (~7m). 2) Israel is smaller than Denmark. A coordinated Muslim attack can in a few years probably destroy Tel Aviv.

@BarneyFlames Doctors also often don’t realize that the AHA or whatever is condescending *to them* the way they condescend to patients, rightfully in both cases most of the time

@BarneyFlames Doctors individually are often not that bright but the people at the big orgs setting standards generally are very smart and know what they are doing

Doctors are usually right even when they are explaining something completely incorrectly

@MatthewW_eacc @MT_6226 No, the radiation dose from a CT scan is just quite high and they end up causing a non-negligible portion of cancers. If you scaled up whole body scanning that required confirmatory CT for most findings to the population level you’d increase cancer burden

There’s no gatekeeping. There’s literally no doctors who want to use this tech for themselves or their loved ones. Here’s what’s going to happen. Normies will get this scan, and it will say things like “carcinoma cannot be ruled out,” and then they’ll badger their doctors for more CTs and MRIs, and they’ll say the same, and then they’ll get biopsies, all for something that turns out to be benign. Oh, and some of those biopsies will cause pneumothoraxes or perforated colons. What did you think “complications” meant? Vibes? Papers? Essays? It’s fun to live in the Econ 101 world where evil rent-seekers are keeping you from your sci-fi tech. Unfortunately, that world is a fantasy, and there are good reasons why we don’t scan everything.

@MT_6226 Until your "full body scan" is better than a CT, if it leads to you getting CTs for no reason it is bad for you

@MT_6226 I think the big thing people don't understand is that anything that leads to more CTs has to be catching serious stuff reasonably frequently because CTs end up killing a non-trivial amount of people in aggregate

@jensenjeans Narrow European races looking not ideal here

It's possible, although unlikely, for people with sleep apnea to be underweight. The severity of symptoms scales heavily with body weight.

@Dljokl More feasible is just cultivating leydig cells and transplanting them. You don’t need a whole replacement testicle

If one could legally get a testicular transplant, it might aid in testosterone production, but with the side effect of making you a "surrogate cuck" of sorts. 50% of the sperm you would produce would have another man's DNA! Talk about "intrasexual competition"...

@woke8yearold Transformers aren't anything too special, and were figured out within a few years of neural networks becoming an active research area again, which only happened because compute became cheap enough for people to start getting results with them

Kurzweil predictions about when we would develop AGI turned out to be pretty accurate because he was basing them on increases in computing power. Did the discovery of transformers make him accidentally right or would such large amounts of compute have always caused the discovery

@TruueDiscipline Barbados, and the DR if you want to include "mulatto rule"

What is the best example of black rule? Seems like Atlanta has done better than other black cities and Botswana has done better than other black countries, though both those places obviously have serious problems.

@Peter_Nimitz It’s “spread”, i.e. the difference between the lowest and highest embryo. Still impressive but getting to anything more than ~8 points above mean is going to require more radical techniques

@SaladBarFan RIP

@BarneyFlames It’s different than most blue cities in that there’s a large, republican associated state identifier that they can choose instead

@BarneyFlames Non-leftists from the Philly area are likely to live in the suburbs and just identify as “Pennsylvanian”

everytime you see an account with philly in bio, its the worst hicklibs or hickleftists imaginable, does no one normal live there ?

@Original_Libbro Where would you propose the African admixture event took place then? Seems awkward for it to not be in east Africa, since that’s where the later true sapiens population seems to have emerged

@mihrd__ Oldest Levallois site was found in Kenya. The Eurasian and even North African sites are all younger than this. Makes an African origin more likely imo link.springer.com/article/10.100…

I feel so vindicated

@TheRodged We have a pretty good idea there's a ceiling of ~300 warheads, mostly fission. They only have one enrichment facility so there's only so much they can make