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assuming that people are genetically predestined to be conservative (or liberal) is both silly and incompatible

But there is evidence of that. I linked to some of these papers in my previous comments.

I would argue that time and again liberals have not reproduced at the level of conservatives/religious. This is why we still have the conservative/religious as the backbone of society.

This is why there is probably some genetics underlying religious belief: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn7147-genes-contribute...

It may also explain why so many people are illogical about things like Covid in religious/conservative circles. They have genetics that incline them towards illogical religious beliefs in part because it allows them to ensure they reproduce the next generation, and some of the downsides of this illogical religious inclination is that they believe crap about things and are impervious to evidence to the contrary -- e.g. faith.

Religions have a longer time span and correlate with conservatives. Many religions actually shed their members who have liberal views. Thus religions tend to conserve conservatives leaning individuals.

So if religion was not part of the conservative-liberal divide I would buy your argument but it is part of it and it is long running.

But papers do indicate that there is a genetic component to political ideology: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4038932/pdf/nih...

Your argument is akin to a global warming denier saying that yeah, but some days are still cold. Yes, there will always be variation.

Conservatives currently out reproduce liberals for whatever reason, for example:

https://ifstudies.org/blog/the-conservative-fertility-advant...

I wonder if it is purely cultural or is there a genetic component? If there is low fertility because of a genetic component, that is likely going to targeted hard by evolution now.

(Will evolution select against women getting higher education like Masters or PhD? Because that is one of the biggest predictors of reduced fertility.)

What does this mean for liberal views? Are they destined to become more conservative over time if there is a genetic component which is being selected against?

So interesting. I wish we could track genetic changes along with political changes over time. I bet there is more happening there than we think.

EDIT: Here is a large meta analysis paper that seems to indicate that genetics influences political ideology: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4038932/pdf/nih...

Because most of my calls are telemarketers and scams, I did this years ago. My message has been for the longest time, "I do not check these messages, please email me at **@gmail.com"

I would have probably checked my messages more if I had search to text translation of my messages and it wasn't an extra fee.

This seems to be an acquihire? IF you wanted to get a high valuation you would have stuck it out by yourself longer I would think?

Microsoft is trapped by its own success. It is used all over the place and these old uses are hamstringing its ability to innovate because the new OS may not meet the needs of all of its previous use cases.

This has been Microsoft's predicament since probably 2000.

This is important and equivalent. Forced sterilizations of minority ethnic groups by the majority ethnic group is a crime against humanity.

I was referring to this: https://apnews.com/article/ap-top-news-international-news-we...

AP News article on birth suppression: https://apnews.com/article/ap-top-news-international-news-we...

China is pretty scary in this way. The Han ethnic group is the majority in population and leadership and it is enacting policies to suppress the population numbers of non Han-ethnic groups in the country.

They do it via birth control and family separation so it happening slowly but it is still decreasing the population of non-Han ethnic groups in comparison to the Han ethnic group.

When this was done elsewhere it was declared as the worst form of racism/ethnocide/genocide, but in China it is accepted standard practice.

Imagine in Donald Trump wanted non-whites to be forced on birth control in the US or if Israel wanted its Arab population on birth control -- there would be uproars and rightly so. But somehow China is getting away with this behaviour towards its ethnic minorities.

Maxwellhill is an old account. I think online user anonymity is a biggest deal and people realize the value of that. Sort of like op security. So I could see her registering that 14 years ago. But over time she should have realized she need better security. Why she would continue to use it 14 years later is more of a question?

Maybe. The account stopped posting 2 days before she was arrested. And hasn't posted since.

Interesting. They supposedly shared content previously that indicated they were not a woman:

https://www.reddit.com/r/redditoroftheday/comments/bdl3o/max...

Maybe, maybe not. What is the proof of the connection? Just the time of disappearance and the username? That is pretty circumstantial, but maybe. Not conclusive though.

EDIT: This article seems to have more evidence and is at least interesting: https://www.inputmag.com/culture/is-ghislaine-maxwell-secret... I think there is definitely a chance it is her. Strange.

Mixers will be considered illegal by the EU. It sort of makes sense. Mixers are primarily used to hide one's identity when doing shady/illegal things with cryptocurrency.