@EleonoraFall Not overtly, but you could see why feminists would like the idea that there was a prehistoric matriarchy
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Whyvert
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Whyvert
@whyvert
Inquisitive and harmless wyvern. Interested in human nature and patterns of history. Otherwise known as Paul Cossins.
Canada Katılım Haziran 2014
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@StefanFSchubert @PAHoyeck Was Gellner's book Plough Sword and Book from about a decade after a response to this?
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Wikipedia has a page about two brothers who were both serial killers whose crimes were committed independently of each other. Combined, they killed 9 people and spent 112 years in prison.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_and…
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@Rongwrong_ Anonymous survey of experts might be the way in such cases
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Much of academia is prone to portraying leftist political belief as settled factual truth.
E.g. President of the American Anthropological Association insists: "we know, factually... the idea that there are two sexes is just factually incorrect".
Actual biologists:
Rob Sica@robsica
President of @AmericanAnthro: "All you need to do is literally type into Google and see that we know, factually... the idea that there are two sexes is just factually incorrect" archive.ph/FKjSk
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JUST IN: Erling Haaland returns to Norway after leading the country to the World Cup quarterfinals.
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Smarter people:
Better savers and investors
"[A] one standard deviation increase in [IQ] predicts 21% higher saving among savers and 0.5 percentage points higher portfolio returns among stock investors"
h/t @Nonicoc
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The drone revolution proceeds. The US using drone boats for attack.
U.S. Central Command@CENTCOM
Yesterday, using multiple one-way attack surface drones, CENTCOM forces successfully struck a submarine and ship maintenance facility in Iran. Three Corsair unmanned surface vessels hit the port at Bandar Abbas Naval Base, marking the first time American forces have employed sea drones in combat operations. Last night’s strikes degraded Iran’s ability to continue attacking commercial shipping.
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@vissermc76 Humans are a bipedal species. Does every individual fit that definition? No, but it is still true.
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@whyvert That paper tries to argue why a certain definition of sex is the best definition.
It does not argue whether every individual fits in this definition.
Personally, I don't think there is a 'best' definition of sex. Different definitions/models apply to different contexts.
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"anisogamy, as the ultimate defining criterion of biological sex, explains a significant fraction of the diversity in sexual phenotypes we can observe in nature ... there are well-documented associations between anisogamy and various forms of sexual dimorphism in most lineages"
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@GarrettPetersen Some coasts do have few natural ports, especially in arid areas where few rivers flow to the sea.
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You ever look at a map of the world and notice how Europe has so much more coastline detail than almost anywhere else? Besides archipelagos like Indonesia, the Arctic Archipelago, and the Carribean. Europe is uniquely "coasty" while staying contiguous.
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@whyvert Who's the best person to follow to keep up with the military innovations of the Ukraine war?
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In the Ukrainian army, units with more video-confirmed drone kills get scrip to buy the drones they want direct from the factory.
Brian Potter@_brianpotter
This is fascinating
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@pangorhythm If you waste your drones you get less scrip and you'll run out. An incentive to avoid waste.
If you use your drones well, you won't run out because you get more scrip.
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@Steve_Sailer @BizzaroPlanet Yes, Norway built a lot of indoor soccer fields. The money comes from the national lottery.
You have to be a soccer-mad nation in the first place to agree to spend the lottery profits on it.
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Does soccer not flourish where playing fields are snow-covered in winter? Russia, Poland, Finland, Canada? The best national teams are more from the temperate bands where the winter climate is cool but not cold.
Note soccer enthusiasm in Seattle & Portland w/ their W Euro temps.
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