Ben Kurtzman

Building a mapping tool for land management

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@ParoledGrimsrud @bronzeagemantis @Tom_Rowsell There actually are (invasive) wild boar you can hunt

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@bronzeagemantis Hiking in random places in Sweden/Norway or Balkans yields good results. I often just make my own routes through desolate areas that look cool on google earth rather than following popular trails. Some remote areas in the alps can be ok especially outside of summer/winter.

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The resulting man is either a coward or stubbornly anti-social. The cowardly man is meek and servile; unfit to lead. The obstinate man most likely turns towards crime, drugs, or other anti-social behavior; he rejects a role in society outright.

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The modern education system suppresses the natural instincts of boys and young men by restricting their freedom and risk-taking. Every hour of their day is carefully regulated by a morality that prizes safety, regularity, and feminine niceties over bravery and curiosity.

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War, conflict, and risk are an integral part of mankind. They are inevitable precisely because they are what have shaped our evolutionary path. Simply put, without war we would not exist.

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@Real_SF @TakForDetElon @urgentintel @iointelresearch Interesting— cranial volume is reduced in many other domesticated animals as well. I don’t think this necessarily means that these earlier humans were more intelligent in our sense of the term but probably did have superior abilities in other ways

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@Real_SF @TakForDetElon @urgentintel @iointelresearch To your point though, there is a difference in being someone who manages an estate and someone who works on an estate. Some human societies show aristocratic land-owners with underclass of laborers— often w/ genetic differences.

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@Real_SF @TakForDetElon @urgentintel @iointelresearch Hunting benefits from high intelligence but the selection caused by agricultural society is more related to agriculture allowing for specialization and higher-scale social cooperation. Farming also benefits from intelligence— if it did not it would be more common among animals.

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@TakForDetElon @Real_SF @urgentintel @iointelresearch In addition to higher pop. densities and specialization: Agriculture has a higher skill ceiling— you can continue to improve yield with better techniques and breeding while hunting/gathering relies on natural regeneration— carrying capacity of land cannot be improved much w/o ag

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Terrible… I guess you will just have to offer higher wages…

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The immigration crackdown and tepid interest among teens make it tough to fill jobs marked by grueling work, low pay and high turnover. https://t.co/BKGsONYEEb

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@ploughmansfolly Boys are much more interested in working/playing with their male peers in order to build bonds and form hierarchies. They enjoy open competition and engineering (building forts, weapons, vehicles, etc.). These are inborn preferences and serve important developmental purposes.

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@ploughmansfolly I hold no grudge against anyone in particular but primarily schools should have shorter sedentary lessons and more sports plus hands-on activities. Boys and girls should generally be educated separately starting around middle-school to better tailor instruction.

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@cremieuxrecueil It could be that the least fit/healthy blacks tend to die earlier than the least fit/healthy whites so the remaining blacks at that advanced age tend to have a higher proportion of healthy people than whites who were not “thinned out” as much

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God forbid a zoomer gets a job

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LOLOLOL What a fucking joke

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I will henceforth count my civ hours towards work experience on my resume

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Its not Simcity, but business school students who were good at Civ V also turn out to be better planners, organizers, and problem-solvers in this small experiment.

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Watch me cycle across Denmark hehe: https://t.co/Fv5wuegEls

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I wanted to put it on the record that I have no problems whatsoever with the Danish. I love Denmark and its people. Although I have never been to Denmark proper, I have been to their outpost in Wisconsin. I consider myself a friend of Denmark.

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Negroamaro

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@0x49fa98 Japanese steak and eggs at a (sorta) American themed restaurant on the outskirts of Tokyo.