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@StefanMolyneux Yes. God was trying to solve for being convincing specifically to you.

You are infinitely less knowledgeable than God - imagine dictating a book to people 2,000 years ago, and everything that you could include that they knew nothing about. None of that is in the Bible.

@Potstirrer111 If my extended family were wealthy enough that random uncles are leaving me 100,000 when they die I don’t think I’d care too much about losing out on 30,000.

Why the fuck should your uncle leave you money lol. They give it to their kids

@LeeRespecter The solution to housing is building new cities. Immigration adds energy to a city while corrupting its ability to self-replicate.

This is why I am a NIMBY. The solution to the housing issue is immigration not vertical slums.

@bowtiedstocks @SpachusAus Keep thinking about this young family in Toronto slowly realising they’re stuck with their tiny three bed townhouse forever. Sucks to be a young family who got into the bottom rung hoping to upsize later. Then we wonder why fertility rate is so low.

@SpachusAus Many recent buyers will be financially wiped out

Friday thoughts: • Investors can’t buy existing housing stock using negative gearing • There is already a shortage of new builds and tradies • 42% of mortgages over the past 12 months were investor loans • Higher construction costs mean many new builds no longer stack up financially So where does that leave property investors and mortgages? 🤔

@Rick42798550 @Romy_Holland Why? Are you afraid they’ll be kidnapped or something?

@Romy_Holland Leaving a baby in the car is a no go for me. I take them in even if I’m going in for pickup.

the number of people invoking cps every time they hear about a parenting choice that they wouldn’t make is really disturbing. do you understand what claim you’re making when you say someone should have cps called on them? you’re saying that you believe their child would be better off ripped from the only home they’ve ever known and put in the care of strangers. moreover, you’re saying you believe the median foster parent is a better parent than their current parents. you’re also saying you think we should dedicate state resources to carrying out this process. social workers already have caseloads too big to manage dealing with kids in homes with serious drug addiction, abuse, neglect and often fail to successfully intervene when it’s desperately needed. you want these same social workers to spend time taking kids away from parents who leave them in a locked and air conditioned car for 2 minutes while they run into the store, or who watch them on the baby monitor while they catch up with the neighbors? really? if you were in charge of society this is what you’d do?

@xwanyex Do you leave your baby in the car for the two minutes it takes to return the trolly?

@justalexoki Would immediately adopt Gnosticism. I wouldn’t be a Christian if I didn’t believe the bible was written by humans who made errors and lied.

how would you change your life if everything in the Bible was true?

@Romy_Holland I always find these questions really funny because you’re obviously not jeopardising your child’s safety so the question is really trying to gauge how you’ll be judged if something goes horribly wrong concurrently with your proposed action.

parents: imagine you’re good friends with the neighbors 2 doors down. would you put your baby down for the night and go neighbor’s house for a drink if you brought the baby monitor?

@justalexoki Say there might be an issue with his hearing. Hearing issues mimic a bunch of developmental issues and it's great way to get them to get help because it isn't nearly as confronting as 'your child might be the r word'.

i think one of kids' cousins is genuinely intellectually disabled and nobody's talking about it. how do you tell someone their kid might be disabled

@ComradeFat @Potstirrer111 Oh good I’m glad you also support restricting migration then. You know for the sake of housing affordability that you seem to be so passionate about.

@tlr_cyp @Potstirrer111 Demand keeps increasing & is also pent up. You didn't do economics 101 where they draw a supply - demand curve? Please stop posting. It's for your own good.

If negative gearing is removed, individuals will no longer be able to invest in residential property. It will have to be via institutional property owning trusts. Yields will have to be be 5-6% for this to be viable meaning rents will have to rise & quality of housing diminish.

@Potstirrer111 @ComradeFat “Yields will have to be x so rents will have to rise.” Do these people think that a house will just turn to rubble if an investor withdraws from the market? It’s like they think housing is corn or something where decreases in supply will increase price.

@ComradeFat Or prices have to fall

@DanielleFong Ask about the huntervirus and watch it freeze up completely.

i gotta say, the fact that you can't even talk about the hantavirus with out the opus safety filters freaking out isn't great

@AvidCommentator There’s a genuine narrative among these people that they’re somehow doing compassionate humanitarian work huh?Delusional ghouls.

'I'm a landlord - and I'll slug my tenant with a massive rent hike next week if Anthony Albanese goes ahead with this widely expected change' dailymail.com/news/article-1…

@MamanLunettes It’s like those doctors who went to Haiti and were horrified by the incompetence of the locals except teachers live in the same country as you and you send your children to them on a daily basis.

During grad school I once TA-ed for a math course for future elementary teachers in the ed program (we were based in the math department) The prof I was working with - a mathematician - was very philosophically and pedagogically inclined, so she didn't come in Bourbaki-style to teach hard axiomatic math. She had spent the whole summer preparing hands-on activities, her goal was to teach teachers how to create classes of good, authentic tasks for children But the clash between our epistemologies was huge, and sort of unexpected. Felt like more than a cognitive/IQ ceiling??? We (the math people) were trying to anchor things in intuition, solid justification, quantities -- while they seemed interested in teaching quick procedures dressed up as "play". E.g. they'd organize a baking activity to teach proportions, have the kids play with utensils, flour, liquids -- and then move abruptly to setting up an equation to convert units, instead of connecting the quantities in any intuitive way Once a group proposed an activity to teach children symmetry through dance - and they actually danced in class - but when asked specifically what symmetry concepts they had in mind, they got so upset they left the room.

This is why you should evict the first time the tenant is behind on rent

@I_Menelaus @bowtiedstocks Wait southern Adelaide? Where about?

@bowtiedstocks We've had this in southern Adelaide for a while.

@catedempsey @DiaryofaSickGrl Have you uh tried gabapentin? Maybe strap a chilli bandage where it hurts? Oh no you’re a bit twitchy. Have you considered you have Parkinson’s?

@DiaryofaSickGrl Because they do not listen. They think that every single thing is a neurological problem. My friend has HOLES in her spinal vertebrae and they HURT but her neurologists think that her pain might be linked to migraine. Not the giant HOLES IN HER VERTEBRAE from the haemangiomas!

Why does everyone hate their neurologist

@eigenrobot Yeah man getting the new 4d extreme Dorito puff with extra cheese is the same as being introduced to say pineapple and hot chocolate.

its underappreciated that the 20th century was the golden age of food innovation you want to know why people got fat? its because before the 20th century food was mostly awful and no one enjoyed eating it

@ElonBachman Do you know how terrifying it would be for Omega to be omniscient and for you to one box and find no money inside? "Your worst sin is that you've destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing"

Newcomb's Paradox is the Breakfast Question for rationalists

@ubiquitousnewt Don’t forget non-shared environment. A glorified error term. The universe rolling dice on your behalf even after you’re born.

A long, self congratulatory victory lap claiming that extreme optimisation creates a nearly perfect pregnancy. Sounds compelling but is biologically inaccurate? Not really, no. Good outcomes in anything are not mostly effort based. Biology doesn't work that way, including in pregnancy. Genetics dominate the nausea baseline, while the other levers give incremental gains. Morning sicknes is mainly driven by GDF15, a hormone pumped out by the fetus and placenta. How bad it gets is largely set by the mother’s genes, specifically how sensitive she naturally is to that hormone surge. Twin studies show it’s roughly 70% heritable, and the latest huge genetic study confirms GDF15 as the biggest factor in morning sickness, with the baby’s genes mattering too. The “wriggle room” for what you and your partner can actually do via diet is extremely limited. Its far more like that Andrea just had a better baseline if a bit of protein helped her to not chunder. Mechanistically, it makes sense that steady blood glucose can blunt amplifying factors like cortisol spikes. But this vastly underplays the primary driver: maternal genetics interacting with fetal/placental biology. Vittorio proudly lists everything they “did right”: protein-first rituals, choline rich eggs, StairMaster sessions, six dates a day, perineal massage, ironclad sleep, delayed cord clamping. Yet the data show each of those levers sits atop a hidden genetic script that largely sets how easy or difficult pregnancy and labour will be. Twin and family studies consistently estimate that 30–40 % of the variation in gestational length (and preterm birth risk) is genetic, with the majority coming from the mother’s genome; the largest maternal GWAS to date (195,555 women) found SNP heritability around 17 % and identified 22 loci enriched in genes expressed during labour in the myometrium. Pelvic architecture, which directly influences labour mechanics, risk of obstruction, and perineal tears, is highly heritable (32–48 % from recent UK Biobank data on 31,000+ scans) with a 2025 GWAS identifying 180 independent loci linked to pelvic proportions, birth canal width, and related outcomes like pelvic-floor disorders or osteoarthritis. Collagen strength, critical for cervical ripening, membrane integrity, and resistance to tears, is shaped by variants in genes such as COL1A1, COL3A1, and COL5A1; fetal inheritance of mutations in these pathways markedly raises the risk of preterm premature rupture of membranes and cervical insufficiency. Oxytocin signalling, which drives contractions and labour progression, is modulated by common OXTR receptor variants that alter receptor expression, desensitisation, and oxytocin dose requirements; these same variants correlate with longer labour duration and higher caesarean risk in clinical studies. It's a disappointing article. I am not knocking a loving partner’s fierce dedication. I have one of my own. Thank goodness for those people. But what is fundamentally missing is the cold, data backed reality that pregnancy outcomes are not a merit badge for conscientious effort. This is what truly vexes me. The high conscientious mind’s one quiet flaw. It is not “deranged” enough to stare at the truth. It must have control. It must have order. It cannot bear the thought that biology already wrote the script. For many reasons, I am apparently deranged. Deranged enough to see that my biology and my health carried a blueprint long before any bedtime yogurt or protein first ritual. How violently my body responds to a baby is largely decided by my genes and the child’s. A bit of yoghurt will do almost nothing against that ancient link. The biggest forces were never ours to rewrite. At least not yet. Soon though. The optimisers simply drew a kinder blueprint, then told themselves their discipline conquered nature. Thats a fib. A self delusion. I find this frustrating and very unsatisfying.