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@WilliamA_33 Skipped the part where he told AT control that he didn’t want to hurt anyone & that he learned how to fly entirely on a desktop simulator. Then he executed a complete barrel roll w/ like 3 meters clearance above the Sound.

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@APhilosophae In Ireland, I saw a guy kayaking alone in the middle of the sea with a mask on.

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@Trey_Explainer It’s def “power” in the computation of the log of [H+]. The base 10 raised to some power “x” (ie, the pH) equals the measured concentration of hydrogen.

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@CompositeGuy_ I’ll tell anyone who listens that many African languages barely contain tenses, gradations, subjunctives.

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@0x49fa98 Secondary to the point you’re making, I do think it would benefit more ppl to learn an African language & to relate it to broader abstraction ability / theory of mind. I had full command of Ghanaian Twi after 1 semester of instruction.

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@Rainmaker1973 This is the case for all climacteric fruits— apple, apricot, avocado, banana, bitter melon, blueberry, cantaloupe, durian, kiwi, mango, nectarine, passion fruit, peach, pear, plum, tomato— which shouldn’t be stored together (including in the fridge) b/c an ethylene cascade will

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@foldyrhands That company has conceivably done more to bolster global GDP than any other in history

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@custardloaf Always disliked this study & interpretation. It just plainly measures curiosity about shock intensity rather than intolerance to boredom.

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@StackJoe @WilliamA_33 Yup— even better was that Alaska’s corporate response amounted to “fair play, Sky King”. They were entirely indemnified w/ no deductible too.

Ballad of a SkyKing

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@tedfrank My favorite instance of the euphemism treadmill is POC vs. colored person.

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10 months

@iamyesyouareno That is like 5 minutes from my house. It’s a social welfare office where these dudes line up for biweekly non-resident dole checks.

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@EugeneNg_VCap Coke’s continued success is, in no small part, due to Diet Coke’s psychostimulatory aspartame component, which delivers 200 mg aspartic acid + 200mg phenylalanine (a direct dopamine precursor) per 12 fl oz.

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@TNOQuoProQuid JFK’s medication list is just laughably bad

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@bronzeagemantis More interesting:

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@fentpressed Error in the first limit term. Should just be (1/n).

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@LeaMaric For anyone curious, I just swabbed my older Stanley stuff w/ the sodium rhodizonate 3M Leadcheck, and they were all negative.

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@marksuttonbike I lived in Pontevedra! Peerless for walkability IMO

The Plazas of Pontevedra, Spain

Life in the plazas of Pontevedra, Spain, from early morning until evening.

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@GraduatedBen Similarly high-dose EPA/DHA also outperform SSRIs in reducing depressive symptoms

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@madisontayt_ It makes intuitive sense bc 100 was arbitrarily set at the putative core body temp of humans. It’s also just practically better bc it is 2x as precise as centigrade for each temp unit.

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@thecaptain_nemo Phenibut, but whatever you do don’t take it.

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@FuckCarsReddit The guy’s in the US military. They subsidize car transport and homologation to the EU for 1 car per family typically. I met a family in Italy that did this.

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@AlpacaAurelius Pain in the ass to install, but a remineralizing RO filter is the only way to go.

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@SwiftOnSecurity @empireenjoyer10 Try dryers or automatic transmission… they willfully immiserate themselves out of sanctimony.

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@filistene @tedfrank It’s in both terms.

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@tylerduran21 @womenpostingws She’s on enough beta-blockers to kill a large cat.

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@ihatethiskid

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The Trader Joe's book is the most savage business book I've read. Paraphrasing: "Our customers were over-educated and underpaid professionals" "We cater to the newly educated masses. They may lose part (or all) of their income but they will retain their new tastes"

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@Rainmaker1973 It’s essentially diluted rooting powder. Aloe Vera is full of the plant hormone auxin, which is basically plant HGH.

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@SMTuffy It’s also not true

Are Health Administrators To Blame? - Marginal REVOLUTION

The graph at right made the twitter rounds a few days ago (1.3k RTs and 2.7k likes for Noah). The graph looked off to me immediately. Between approximately 1992 and 1994 the number of administrators...

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@followtheh Show me the incentives, I’ll show you the outcome

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@0x49fa98 Secondary to the point you’re making, I do think it would benefit more ppl to learn an African language & to relate it to broader abstraction ability / theory of mind. I had full command of Ghanaian Twi after 1 semester of instruction.

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@jmrphy @razibkhan Comports w/ the huge decrease in male genetic variance ~5,000 years ago.

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@KhoaVuUmn If you consider economics to be the study of preference under scarcity.

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@remnantposting It’s not so much that physiognomy is real as much as our evolved pattern matching on phenotype-trait correlates is

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There's no way that discerning physiognomic perception isn't in some way adaptive and therefore selected for

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@crimkadid Anecdotal, but my adopted Ethiopian brother who grew up in the US doesn’t have elongated features at all. Though, circulatory anastamoses that facilitate heat dissipation are most predominant in glabrous skin areas (forehead, palms, bottom of feet), so larger forehead to body

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@Retailtrader08 @BowTiedFox Upshot: -group differences exist and concomitant pop.-level outcomes are mostly mediated by average country-level IQ (and sometimes by smart fraction ratios). -Africa is dangerous and dysfunctional as an emergent property of its people, not by dint of exploitation or indigency

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@nikitabier Our man is fighting a whole different war

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@netcapgirl It’ll never not be funny to me that Brad Pitt banged his wife.

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The idea that bilingualism makes you more intelligent is probably not true. This large, well-controlled study couldn't find any mono/bilingual differences: Results were in line with this meta-analysis of the bilingual advantage:

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@GFMindset When you see it in person, it’s even more obviously a truncated cathedral w/ a haphazard dome on top.

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The whole line of argument that goes “imagine if you were one of the actually qualified black doctors. You’d be pissed that the affirmative action admits are vitiating your credential and perceived competence” is so over-done. If you broke these stats out by absolute numbers,

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Top: Medical school acceptance rates by race. Bottom: Physician performances

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@McGeek23_ @custardloaf Tons of potential confounders that affect external validity— sensitivity to pain, likely very low shock intensity (to gain IRB approval), $ amount and its relative meaningfulness to subject. You put someone in a room w/ a hypernovel shock generator, tell them to ignore it, and

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@historyinmemes Income tax and (although perhaps changing soon) realtor/broker fees as % of sale price.

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@Ly_AlphaF *I’m also in this photo and don’t like it* Exact same in Ireland. Beyond human capital, biggest issue is no at-will employment. And the inexorable fear of noncompliance w/ some law you’ve never heard of.

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@BowTiedFox Studying abroad in sub-Saharan Africa basically re-oriented all of my core assumptions about the world.

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@oneiroscapism @MorlockP Akin to French word for work (‘travail’) taken from Latin root for “pain”. Work is truly anathema to all the Meds.

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@Babygravy9 TIL the avg American man is indistinguishable from a 1950s Klinefelter’s patient

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@seconds_0 Did a deep dive on this last week after gf had tooth resorption issues. Basically, use of medical nano hydroxyapatite and/or chloro sodium phosphosilicate has great evidence for remineralizing enamel and dentin. Had no idea.

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@ze_rusty Confluence of factors: -definitional concept creep / more capacious inclusion criteria for psychiatric disorders -better testing for physical disorders -increasing maternal / paternal age at first birth -endocrine disrupters / environmental toxins -attention economy stuff

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@ne0liberal It’s actually a decently halcyon place

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@eugyppius1 Bought nicorette in a tony mountain town pharmacy in the Dolomites recently. It’s was like €30 for a tiny pack. I asked the pharmacy what was up: she said “Italians are… how you say… stupid irredeemably. Cigarettes are €5/pack.” Apparently non-cigarette nicotine products are

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@Thinkwert When I got a boxer’s fracture at 17 (meaty part of the curve) from punching a wall, the attending ER doc came in and was like “so what really happened?”. I said I punched a wall, and she was like “oh, nobody’s ever that honest about it”.

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For a certain type of guy with parasocial love for online nerds, this podcast is the Superbowl @ByrneHobart @patio11

Writing the first draft of financial history

Newsletters, hedge funds, and VCs are all in the business of finding out truths about world then writing them down.

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@Outdoctrination You should basically never be taking supraphysiologic doses of lipophilic/fat soluble vitamins, esp. not Vit K. You’re significantly elevating thrombotic risk doing so. I’d be taking like 5000 fibrolytic units of nattokinase alongside this if you continue.

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@DoctorAnarchist It’s something not worth being orthorexic about given their utter ubiquity. Minimizing contact w/ plastics in your food/water supply is all you can do. But these polymers are ineluctably integrated into our lives. Even my RO filter to remove microplastics uses plastic piping:

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@Molson_Hart Ya— I just shared this on another comment, but I installed a remineralizing reverse osmosis filter a few months ago. Prior to that was using a countertop water distillation device.

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@stats_feed At his prime, it was Gates. He’s a 160 IQer playing in the sand with a bunch of 140s.

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@CovfefeAnon Effect size is big

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It is not generally known that men have a lot more general knowledge. (d = 0.51)

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@iamgingertrash Tell me you haven’t spent much time in France without telling me…

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@ElonBachman Assuming you’ve seen it, but Africa Addio really instantiates how likely these behaviors were to reemerge:

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Not easy viewing, but this is one of the most striking films I’ve ever seen. It’s also completely congruent with my experiences on the Africa continent.

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@HbdNrx Ontogenesis is faster in most equatorial populations, inc. Mesoamericans and sub-Saharan Africans.

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@GraduatedBen Likely via same MOA as high-dose methylfolate— exogenous creatine can increase whole-body labile methyl pool by like 30% (w/ an attendant decrease in homocysteine)!

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It's really striking the degree to which you see a rugged heterosis (hybrid vigor) in the physiognomy of Australians/Americans that is notably lacking in all of the old world Anglophone stock.

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@moizali Everything in hiring is basically trying to get around anti-psychometric testing laws. McKinsey does this elaborate ecology “game” that’s highly g-loaded. Wonderlic’s entire business model is built on non-IQ (wink wink) “performance-prediction” testing. IQ + 5-factor personality

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@uncledoomer Taurine’s the closest naturally-occurring sedative to alcohol that they can legally put in energy drinks to temper the effects of Herculean amounts of caffeine (and also it’s probably a bit psychoactively addictive on its own).

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@ParamMoon @anabology You’ll get enough taurine and it’s AA precursor cysteine from adequate beef and egg consumption, but it’s almost always advisable to take any AA or AA derivative (like beta alanine— also a GABAa agonist; glycine is similarly inhibitory) from a protein source with a full spectrum

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lol gays default on mortgages 53.9% more than similar heterosexual couples

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@extradeadjcb UK did it, and not only did it vitiate credentials by the proliferation of visa mills, it did this:

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@p8stie lol this girl goes abroad once and makes more perspicacious observations than the inveterate wanderlust class. The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

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@Slatzism The tourist sees what he’s come to see, the traveler sees what he sees

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Not easy viewing, but this is one of the most striking films I’ve ever seen. It’s also completely congruent with my experiences on the Africa continent.

Africa Addio (1966) [1080p, Italian with ENG subtitles]

A three-year documentary odyssey through the bloody social upheaval of 1960s Africa, this film from the directors of Mondo Cane is just as unflinching as its...

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Vivek on Shkreli

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@netcapgirl It’ll never not be funny to me that Brad Pitt banged his wife.

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@GraduatedBen This is just veritably wrong. Been studied extensively & almost no artificial/non-nutritive sweeteners elicit an insulin bump beyond a small cephalic response. A few sugar alcohols do, but erythritol notable does not.

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@bronzeagemantis More interesting:

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@AlexBerenson My piece of ancedata: I’ve been experiencing strange heart fluttering/palpitations/minor pain for roughly a week now post-1st dose Pfizer. Active 26 yr male, and certainly concerned about upcoming dose #2 .

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@FischerKing64 Genetics still create her behavioral diathesis. She probably just has the rs9939609 risk allele of the FTO gene (way reduced hypothalamic sensitivity to leptin). A good majority of the obese are default ravenously hungry and don’t have top-down control of feeding impulse.

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@maxhertan Not laudable. This is polypharmacy and the iatrogenic harm is likely much higher than the harm of doing nothing.

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@ouranometrian2 Yet

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lol gays default on mortgages 53.9% more than similar heterosexual couples

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Hala Celta!!

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@zeta_globin The problem is that providers don’t ever recommend you take Zn2+ to offset the Cu2+ burden

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@Molson_Hart My grandpa had inscribed on his plane “more money, faster planes, younger women”. Asked him what that was all about once. Said it was from previous owner & he wanted to remove it. Grandma told him to keep it to remind him why other guy had to sell it.

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@Cernovich You definitely don’t want to be taking supra-physiologic doses of a pineal hormone that sets circadian cycles

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@Fissure256 @SwiftOnSecurity @empireenjoyer10 I understand that line of reasoning, but it does come off as sour grapes.

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@BjornIronSkull Which is curious bc it’s precisely the opposite in Europe. Bibulousness is strong as ever.

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Northwestern Europeans' pathologic xenophilia is very clearly just a misfiring of the inclusive fitness reproduction strategy, which was comparatively effective in Dunbar-tier tribal bands but is poorly matched to a globalized society of allochthonous people (basically a bad

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It’s difficult to reconcile my unstinting hate of paternalism and love of personal autarky with my belief that nearly all people are too stupid to deserve freedom, much less appreciate it.

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@AlecStapp Wait until you see the tirzepatide data. The overlooked issue, however, is that the weight-loss composition on GLP-1/GIP agonists is unfavorable (lots of fat free mass over adipose tissue) + they can foment long term insulin resistance.

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There’s no free lunch in weight loss. Some thoughts on potential problems with long-term GLP-1 agonist usage:

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@BjornIronSkull In the US, I think it’s a byproduct of Linder’s Theorem, which is Baumol’s cost disease applied to leisure consumption (in additional to people substituting in other psychoactives). The opportunity cost of getting hammered after work is too high when now there’s so much more

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Given that smarter people have the neural equivalent of a higher frame rate in the sensorium (be it visual, olfactory, aural, etc), a corollary is that lifetime time dilation occurs for those with lower processing speeds. (Think of how quickly time elapses on a stimulant). I

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@corsair21c

Trivers–Willard hypothesis - Wikipedia

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@yashar My French father-in-law kisses me like that

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@Steve_Sailer

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The whole line of argument that goes “imagine if you were one of the actually qualified black doctors. You’d be pissed that the affirmative action admits are vitiating your credential and perceived competence” is so over-done. If you broke these stats out by absolute numbers,

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@ElonBachman Really interesting— last month I was had a prolonged drunken convo w/ a dude in an Ortisei bar who insisted to me that he wasn’t Italian or German and was pure Ladino, according to him the only population that isn’t a net drag on Italian welfare receipts. Never thought I’d be

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@ErikBjare @EugeneNg_VCap The phenylpyruvate pathway is negligible and reversible. Phe is a direct sequential precursor that is majority metabolized on the dopa/norepi/epi pathway.

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@KhoaVuUmn If you consider economics to be the study of preference under scarcity.

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@Babygravy9 @The_Hellenist They did intraethnic comparisons for penile length, but didn’t control for race in flaccid length vs. IQ (though obviously grasped at proxies like climate and GDP per capita). I’m guessing the correlation goes away or reverses if you do so (classic case of Simpson’s paradox)

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@Atlanticesque The distribution would be much more right tailed if it weren’t for big law’s de facto price fixing via yearly publicized pay scales.

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@Empty_America Closest lexical distance to English of an extant language is Frisian. I’ve tried reading and ~30-40% is intelligible. Would be interesting to try w a speaker. I’ve had full blown convos w northern Italians w/ Spanish on my end. I imagine it might be similar.

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@Molson_Hart Perhaps a contributory factor, but I truly don’t know. It’s curious that for underwriters, same-sex marriage is a reliable predictor of heightened default risk across populations.

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@tayperborean “Of course it wasn’t called WW1 at the time.”

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@thecaptain_nemo It’s hard to like consistently. I ate a bunch of octopus/squid for a year and now can barely tolerate it.

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A funny black-pill (not even sure I'm deploying that term correctly) is that the Bruce Effect (a spontaneous pregnancy termination when females come into olfactory contact w/ other males) is probably real in humans and probably accounts for a not insignificant proportion of the

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