In fact, 6 of the 10 worst places on Earth for gun-related deaths are either U.S. territories or states: Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alabama have gun death rates even higherthan in countries the media and people online like to label as violent cesspools. Namely, those three states have more gun-related deaths than Haiti and Mexico. Mississippi has a gun death rate of 28.5 deaths per year per 100,000 people. According to the Commonwealth Fund, that’s almost double the firearm death rate in Haiti, where gang wars push people to starvation.

Yes

A example that’s not borderlessness, but still interesting, was the Behind the Bastards episode on Harlan Crow which talked about how there was seasonal migration of people from Mexico into the US during peak agricultural seasons. They would return to Mexico in the winter, but the introduction of a hard border incentivized people to remain in the US.

It seems the hardening the border lead to the exact thing Harlan Crow and the other racist trash were trying to fight, increased immigration.

0 chance this revenue gets reinvested back into the game lmao

IIRC a CCR5 deletion leads to HIV resistance, but the homozygous allele also leads to immune transcription disruptions. I believe there was a Chinese geneticist that deleted CCR5 from twin embryos and got “disappeared” for it, but it remains to be seen what the consequences of that change are (I don’t remember if those embryos were implanted).

I’m of the opinion that we should approach this topic with caution until we know exactly what’s going on and the consequences of said alleles. Hypothetically speaking, imagine being born and chosen by this IQ method only to realize some horrible consequence later like asthma susceptibility in a world with decreasing air quality.

I’d be extremely pissed lmao. I could still find happiness even if I was less intelligent.

There’s another discussion about genetic homogenization that I don’t care to go into atm too.

PRS are useful but not definitive when it comes to phenotype development, as you’ve hinted at, but I take issue with using them for eugenics purposes with the main reason being we do not know the underlying causal mechanism. It is too early to use them with confidence for something like this IMO.

I work with PRS and I am not confident in using them for IVF purposes (that may change when we understand what’s actually going on the proteomics level). I would equate it to something along the line of sports betting with the consequences being eugenics in nature.

We absolutely do not - geneticist who has worked on neurodevelopment projects

We don’t even know why Turner Syndrome - a disorder of X chromosomes - often leads to neurodevelopment delays. We have hypotheses that still aren’t tested, so anyone claiming to know the genetics of neurodevelopment is grifting you.

Ain’t that just the way

I’m hype for this. Always need more werewolf movies

So this is from 2021, before the latest conflict, and before the true face of modern Israel showed itself - one that is uncompromisingly genocidal.

I didn’t educate myself on the history of Israel and Zionism until the most recent conflict. I’m willing the bet that most of us were of the opinion of “ew, Zionism” before the conflict, but had other things on our mind. When we started watching the indiscriminate bombing of civilians like Hamas, but with efficacious weapons, we all saw that they do not care for peace.

She’s also from NYC and presumably has a non-zero Jewish constituency that helped vote her into the House. The 2021 vote was a political calculation, and I bet that would change in 2024.

TL:DR - The conflict is now in the Zeitgeist and a vote from 2021 is likely not representative of modernity.

I realize now my quote cutoff may have been misleading. I too found the burn on the NYT funny.

The Onion’s latest expansion into physical media had forced the company to reevaluate all parts of its business—from its glaringly inaccurate reporting, to its comparatively low circulation numbers, to its deeply unpopular brand, to its completely inept columnists.

Lmao

It was a group of family and friends lol. I wouldn’t expect them to have a good answer for that

Visited this Cathedral when I was in Seville and was surprised to see it.

I then ruined the mood for the group by asking why one of the biggest Catholic churches in the world has one of the world’s most famous slavers buried there Lmao

You and I will agree that Israel is escalating this near century old conflict and the US needs to stop sending weapons to them, but nothing good will come from more bombs being dropped in the region.

It’s a fucking meme

So then it means nothing? I’m supposed to take away nothing from this very-clearly-designed-as-an-infographic meme? Alright.

‘prec the link

It’s indiscriminate bombing in response to indiscriminate bombing. No one benefits from this.

What is the source of this infographic? It would behoove the point to cite the source / sources used

And will likely take their professions

I haven’t seen those videos and I’d like to see them to be informed. Pls link.

I just know that even the US struggles with targeted ballistics not hitting civilians and I think any focus on that argument weakens her response. Israel’s mandatory conscription makes those standalone sentences mean even less.

The call to action of boycotting Israel at the end is the valuable part of this quote.

I wouldn’t die on the hill of “Hezbollah is not targeting civilians or civilian infrastructure” for the fact that they do not have the rocketry capabilities for targeted strikes. Isreal clearly doesn’t either.