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b/c he was clear about who he is and what he was going to do.

This was a much needed change; because it was insane having a dementia patient as a president. I dont mean that hyperbolically; the democratic party was ready to have him serve another 4 years when he couldnt hold his train of thought on the debate stage. The democratic party needs to explain why his mental condition was swept under the rug at the expense of the American people.

I would opine that the people who wanted to elect a courtesan do not, infact, know exactly whats going on.

There is more than one way to stop being the leading economic and military stabilizing force in the world.

haha. Oh really? Because historically its always been violence.

Yeah I'm real tired of that ideology as well. Political correctness needs to die; sooner rather than later.

That's opinion.

That's opinion

Yeah, and they were doing it safely.

That's opinion.

And now you do, because it was necessary, back when it was implemented... this is just ignoring economic history.

You mean the centuries of history with public works projects that didnt require taxes?

Also, Industrial revolution!? the 1800s!? huh!?

I obviously mean at the turn of the 20th century with the huge leaps in applied sciences and engineering giving us planes trains and automobiles. All done without taxes before 1913. You know, the greatest period of advancement in modern history?

what's so bad about a 1% in diversity hires?

What's so good about it exactly? It does a disservice to everyone including the diversity hire.

(also trans people have mutable charactistics, ha)

body dysmorphia is mental illness as evidenced by the ~40% suicide rate. Hows that for an opinion (Fact)?

some of heritability is genetics and some is the shared environment.

This is not the definition of heritability you are mincing words.

Heres the definition of heritability:

(HAYR-ih-tuh-BIH-lih-tee) The proportion of variation in a population trait that can be attributed to inherited GENETIC factors.

For example, someone is quite likely to speak the same first language as their parents, and for this reason, the statistics for heritability come up with a high number for how heritable a trait first language is.

you are conflating inheritability with heritability.

The reason we are able to have crops that yield more is because we genetically modified them to do so; not because we grew wild corn in the perfect environment.

Heres the definition of heritability:

(HAYR-ih-tuh-BIH-lih-tee) The proportion of variation in a population trait that can be attributed to inherited genetic factors.

The study title is saying that heritability INCREASES with age: as you age your IQ is more closely correlated to the IQ of your parents from whom you inherited your genes from.

As you point out a couple of comments later, genes don't change with age.

Your genes dont change but the correlation between you and your parents IQ does.

Someone quoted a figure for electric car maintenance, as a downside to the technology.

It is a downside compared to ICE maintenance which is significantly lower.

Life is full of trade-offs: if I did that, I'd have to carry a loan

to which I replied there are plenty of cars sub 10K which you wouldnt need a loan for and that you could easily maintain for less than 1000/year

I remarked that this actually sounded pretty good, relative to my experience with ICE cars

When I broke down the cost of the maintenance items YOU listed as over 1000/year over 10 years I said that those items you listed dont need maintenance every year, and the cost of replacing them is far less than 1000 dollars a year. To which you replied that I was nitpicking

Then you came along with a chip on your shoulder and started griping, for reasons known only to yourself.

Im not griping I am just telling you that you are wrong when you say that 13k/10 years is cheaper than the maintenance items you listed. Just like the other guy said.

Then again you own a jeep and you know what they say about jeep: Just Empty Every Pocket :P

Not that huge

Doesnt matter how huge, its a waste of money doing DEI programs in Burma.

If you can't build a nuclear power plant safely

plenty of safe nuke plants running and they are building more for datacenters

washout rate for being an air traffic controller is incredibly high

not really a problem of government spending unless you are saying they should pay more? not sure what youre getting at

Can it though?

Yes it can I mean afterall we had no income tax during the industrial revolution

Return to when? When was this true?

this was true when we hired people based on merit and not immutable characteristics.

Polydactyly is a condition in which a baby is born with one or more extra fingers. It is a common condition that often runs in families.

Is this not what heritability means?

You asserted that ICE maintenance is cost prohibitive, but when I break down the cost its called nitpicking? New car note cheaper than maintenance. Yeah youre a wrenchlet. bye

Timing belt is a 10 year maintenance item. ~1000 dollars mostly labor

Waterpump is replaced at the same time as the timing belt, and they rarely fail now a days. ~ 300 bucks for one as added part during the timing belt labor

I assume you are talking about brake pads as calipers rarely fail, 5-7 year maintenance interval, easy DIY job ~500 for a set of 4.

Starter motors also very rarely fail I've had the same one for 20 years in my rx8 hpde toy. Even still they are ~200 bucks and literally 2 bolts and 30 minutes of time.

We havent even hit 2000 dollars yet in critical maintenance over 10 years. If you actually knew anything about wrenching you wouldn't be saying newer cars are easier and cheaper to work on either. I dont know how you are doing 1000/ year on maintenance on an ICE but then again you presumably offroad " jeeping " which would make your experience an outlier on what commuter cars actually experience for yearly maintenance.

plenty of 35mpg beaters in the sub 10k range. How about learning to turn a wrench?

Sorry my " Social class " doesnt determine my tastes, and the person you referenced doesnt even do any kind of testing to determine this. Goodbye.

Heritability is genetic determinism. It's not like you get a different set of genes as you age. Are you indirectly saying that the genes responsible for physical characteristics follow different rules than the genes responsible for intelligence? Like could your environmental factors change your height? I would say maybe it is something in the middle like the genes determine your maximum potential in physical and mental expression.

recent studies showing heritability for IQ as high as 80%.[8] IQ goes from being weakly correlated with genetics for children, to being strongly correlated with genetics for late teens and adults."

Bouchard, Thomas J. (7 August 2013). "The Wilson Effect: The Increase in Heritability of IQ With Age"

I said it was 80% heritable

From your own low-effort wikipedia 1st google result link:

" recent studies showing heritability for IQ as high as 80%.[8] IQ goes from being weakly correlated with genetics for children, to being strongly correlated with genetics for late teens and adults."

Bouchard, Thomas J. (7 August 2013). "The Wilson Effect: The Increase in Heritability of IQ With Age"

As for Bourdieu:

"Bourdieu was in practice both influenced by and sympathetic to the Marxist identification of economic command as a principal component of power and agency within capitalist society."

"According to Bourdieu, tastes in food, culture and presentation are indicators of class because trends in their consumption seemingly correlate with an individual's place in society."

If both of these were true you would never have class mobility. I do well for myself but still like hamhocks and beans.

into the trash he goes

Plenty more indeed, like , hmm I dunno, Western Civilization?

Its actually 60-80% heritable. The twin adoption study showed that twins raised in different environment have the same IQ. It also makes sense logically; why would only physical characteristics be heritable and not mental ones.

Read Bourdieu "Bourdieu contended there is transcendental objectivity, [definition needed] only when certain necessary historical conditions are met."

This guy sounds like a midwit.

And yes, everyone agrees that there is waste on government, however, what is being labeled as waste is medicare and SNAP and foreign aid.

Its not our Job to aid the world. Foreign aid is a huge money laundering scam by and large. We have major problems here on our own shores.

The layoffs include between 1,200 and 2,000 employees at the Department of Energy (DOE), including staff from the nuclear security administration and the loans office

Good. Maybe we can actually build some more nuclear plants instead of having to fight green energy bureaucracy.

Let's not forget about FAA, which immediately had 2 crashes after it was gutted.

Circumstantial timing. The FAA has been having close calls before it was gutted. The government can do more with less. The plane crashes will stop when we return to meritocracy.

Productivity going up and wages stagnating is a skill issue. got it.

You're making swathing character attacks and claiming that you are qualified to know who is qualified. If anyone has a hero complex its you with your emotional argument and alarmism.

Very compelling argument, definitely not partisan rhetoric.

The institution of journalism is all partisans.

Yeah there a difference between popculture fiction written by hollywood with the intention to make a profit, and an essay by an actual philosopher intending to explain the workings of the real world.

I guess what im saying is that I agree that art is political, but some art is more rooted in reality and others are further from it. Why not make an art reference thats more relevant to reality to convey the argument?

Because hes not arguing in good faith for the truth of the matter. Even if you posted that someone was getting all 9billion of that administrative budget as salary; the next argument would be " ah that employee is worth 9billion no fraud here". The standard of proof hes looking for is likely a direct admission of guilt and intent lol.

https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/12.04...

- He claimed the US funded bio-weapons when they found payments for gain of function research.

This is factual though.

The previous NIH director Dr. Hugh Auchincloss and current deputy director Dr. Lawrence Tabak agree that the definition of "gain of function" as was listed on the NIH website applies to engineering a biological agent to infect something it normally wouldnt be able to.

That coupled with the fact that Dr.Daszak submitted the Year 5 Annual Progress Report Nearly Two Years Late. Said report had the experiment with infected transgenic mice with four different coronaviruses, three of which were chimera or recombinant viruses with different spike proteins.

When confronted in the deposition Daszak said that the reporting system was inaccessible. So they deposed the IT stack of the reporting system, and they showed logs that it was accessible and actually logged into several times during the 2 year period that the report was late.

This is pretty strong circumstantial evidence that they were attempting to hide or delay the experiments from being discovered by the grant review process at the end of the year. The report is pretty damning.

https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/12.04...

Maybe if DEI is in your job title its not a real job.

I would think both sides of the political spectrum agree that the government spends money frivolously; so I am confused on why people are so upset. Maybe they aren't actually upset and all we are hearing in any form of media are government leeches crying about the end to their gravy train.

I think the "many more deserving research proposals" more funding as well. So we should judge the proposals by merit, and not the immutable characteristic of the researcher. By the way, why should tax payers fund grants for foreign countries research and education?

- Audit spending (at USAID or wherever else)

I dont need a line item list to know that USAID DEI Scholarships in Burma $45.00M is wasteful spending.

Come up with details of where there is waste, being transparent about it for the public to see and review

The waste is right there in the name. Funding DEI Scholarships in Burma is not how the American people want their taxes spent.

- Unilaterally making changes without public review or oversight. It's a "trust me bro" stance.

The public review was the presidential election. Making changes without oversight is what an executive order is.