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Core beliefs:

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@the_P_God https://t.co/S3qylkwbJ1

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The issue is that it is paired with risibly high inheritance taxes, independent of the intrusive state paternalism on the forced heirship issue. It’s mandatory and significant state arrogation of post-tax assets.

Disinheriting one’s own children in favor of the NGO complex is a separate modern pathology—one that people ought to have the freedom to choose but is execrable nonetheless.

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Every day Americans learn something new and shocking about European civil dispensations.

The thing du jour, per a recent MR post, is that France has forced heirship laws--meaning that you quite literally cannot disinherit your children and must reserve up to 75% of all your assets for inheritance in a family of 3+ children--which is bad enough. But, France simultaneously is in the top punitive tier of estate taxes worldwide (the official schedule: surviving spouse/PACS partner exempt; child/parent allowance of €100,000; direct-line rates up to 45% above €1,805,677; siblings up to 45%; relatives up to fourth degree 55%; “other heirs” 60%).

It's one big state-sanction zugzwang of expropriation, from one's descendants but more importantly from one's basic autonomy. Though, I would note that even if the incentive structures were different, the French (and Europeans more generally) would still not charitably give at rates anywhere near comparable to those of Americans.

Personally, I think Americans should do far less charitable giving (even given the creative deduction benefits available) in favor of volitional patrilineal inheritance, ideally prior to death, but we all know that this is simply not in the fundament of the American ortgeist. At the very least, we don't enshrine a chinese-finger-trap rapine of personal assets in polonius laws.

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Hunter Biden is a janus-faced reprobate with the same mendacious supercility complex as his father. That his crack addled brain can temporarily generate enough action potentials to make a half-baked witticism about smoking rock should not expiate his manifest evil in your eyes. But many of you hold no convictions.

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SHGB is vitally important to proper endocrine function. Taking boron to attenuate SHGB so that your free serum T numbers look better is not risk-free.

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SHGB is a complex glycoprotein with its own receptor (SHGB-R) and signaling pathways, primarily in the brain and repro organs, that are not well understood. It also functions as a) an androgen buffer system and b) as androgen clearance protection in the liver/kidney. Further, the megalin system (LRP2 rec) requires a bound SHGB-steroid complex to shuttle these hormones intracellularly for nuclear signaling.

Nuking SHGB with boron is hasty internventionalism, driven by the availability of crude serum biomarkers and a facile understanding that higher free T is always better.

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@Polymarket A society can have forced heirship or risibly high inheritance taxes, but not both

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Every day Americans learn something new and shocking about European civil dispensations.

The thing du jour, per a recent MR post, is that France has forced heirship laws--meaning that you quite literally cannot disinherit your children and must reserve up to 75% of all your assets for inheritance in a family of 3+ children--which is bad enough. But, France simultaneously is in the top punitive tier of estate taxes worldwide (the official schedule: surviving spouse/PACS partner exempt; child/parent allowance of €100,000; direct-line rates up to 45% above €1,805,677; siblings up to 45%; relatives up to fourth degree 55%; “other heirs” 60%).

It's one big state-sanction zugzwang of expropriation, from one's descendants but more importantly from one's basic autonomy. Though, I would note that even if the incentive structures were different, the French (and Europeans more generally) would still not charitably give at rates anywhere near comparable to those of Americans.

Personally, I think Americans should do far less charitable giving (even given the creative deduction benefits available) in favor of volitional patrilineal inheritance, ideally prior to death, but we all know that this is simply not in the fundament of the American ortgeist. At the very least, we don't enshrine a chinese-finger-trap rapine of personal assets in polonius laws.

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@alz_zyd_ Insurance markets are the lymphatic system.

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@Timstillherelol https://t.co/JPJka5lqQ5

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@TypeForVictory *says something critical of Ireland*

Incoming: ~1000 pups of consanguinity battling their ossified, Guinness-addled brains to semi-coherently threaten to kill you

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SHGB is a complex glycoprotein with its own receptor (SHGB-R) and signaling pathways, primarily in the brain and repro organs, that are not well understood. It also functions as a) an androgen buffer system and b) as androgen clearance protection in the liver/kidney. Further, the megalin system (LRP2 rec) requires a bound SHGB-steroid complex to shuttle these hormones intracellularly for nuclear signaling.

Nuking SHGB with boron is hasty internventionalism, driven by the availability of crude serum biomarkers and a facile understanding that higher free T is always better.

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If you read my post, you’d note that I agree this is an incredibly destructive practice. What you’re not grokking is that a society can have forced heirship or risibly high inheritance taxes, but not both— where you get to sententiously make vague and empty gestures at valuing patrimony, while the net effect is that the state mandatorily arrogates what you’ve earned throughout your lifetime. You are useful freiers.

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Every day Americans learn something new and shocking about European civil dispensations.

The thing du jour, per a recent MR post, is that France has forced heirship laws--meaning that you quite literally cannot disinherit your children and must reserve up to 75% of all your assets for inheritance in a family of 3+ children--which is bad enough. But, France simultaneously is in the top punitive tier of estate taxes worldwide (the official schedule: surviving spouse/PACS partner exempt; child/parent allowance of €100,000; direct-line rates up to 45% above €1,805,677; siblings up to 45%; relatives up to fourth degree 55%; “other heirs” 60%).

It's one big state-sanction zugzwang of expropriation, from one's descendants but more importantly from one's basic autonomy. Though, I would note that even if the incentive structures were different, the French (and Europeans more generally) would still not charitably give at rates anywhere near comparable to those of Americans.

Personally, I think Americans should do far less charitable giving (even given the creative deduction benefits available) in favor of volitional patrilineal inheritance, ideally prior to death, but we all know that this is simply not in the fundament of the American ortgeist. At the very least, we don't enshrine a chinese-finger-trap rapine of personal assets in polonius laws.

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@RupertEuwe No shit it is. An impelled tax on all post-tax assets, independent of individual family situation, which functions to effectively vitiate those ties in favor of the spendthrift public purse is not “good for society”, however.

First order thinker, like all Frenchmen.

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From Henry James’ The American:
“(Euros) have young heads and very aged hearts.”

As apt a description as I’ve encountered: cynicism and naivety wrapped in some impenetrable skein, with a soft patina of sophistication.

[Simon Sarris @simonsarris]

"In America, Newman reflected, lads of twenty-five and thirty have old heads and young hearts, or at least young morals; here they have young heads and very aged hearts, morals the most grizzled and wrinkled."

The American (1877 novel) has a lot on the major worldview difference

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Complex question with a complex answer, but at heart it’s an emergent property of their collective political will. The majority genuinely wants and supports these measures, and they often won’t/are incapable of considering the second order effects. Some of it is in trying to be the performative antipode of the US, but most is in a latent, implicit, and obviously erroneous belief that top-down design is how a civilization prospers and ensures some nebulous sense of equity for citizens.

As for the speed, state structures that have enabled this outgrowth existed far before WW2. They were just codified and metastasized thereafter, probably owing in no small part to the enormous human capital loss in both WWs and the selective outmigration from the continent before, during, and after.

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@hubermanlab @AbudBakri Re/ the discussion of anhedonia induction with BPC-157, which counterintuitively may be more pronounced with oral use.

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Oral BPC-157 completely ameliorated a few month-long nagging injuries but was appreciably anhedonia-inducing for me. It almost entirely abrogated a dopaminergic response from any stimulant (cross experimented with modafinil, caffeine, and nicotine), and even from lifting.

It seems like many angiogenic growth factors (downstream of BPC-157) are potent GSK-3beta inhibitors, which disrupt intercellular phosphorylation cascades that affect dopamine signaling.

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@TrvthGuy In all likelihood I’m more well-travelled (not bragging— it’s silly in hindsight), and I’d wager I’m even less impressed than you. Most countries/cultures are simply biomass bumping around in Brownian motion.

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Montaigne has thoughts...
https://t.co/WbZEKaer8f

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@LeoKearse From Montaigne’s Essay II.8 “On the affection of father’s for their children”:

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*taps sign*
https://t.co/qlQ9wakgRh

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What people misunderstand is that this regulation fetish is downstream of europe's human capital problem, not hamstringing the continent from realizing its full potential. It's the outcome of adversely select against the most intrepid, able, and self-supporting people and their progeny.

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@FischerKing64 Might as well have some fun with it

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@myth_pilot @Babygravy9 Just got one of these. More fun than I’ve had in a while.

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@IsaacKing314 Saw the author speak live once. Wasn’t impressed.

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@DVanLangenhove https://t.co/Pc2DW227eY

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> “The freedom to speak, to move, to dream, to build a life on your own terms.”

Words genuinely mean nothing to the modal European and Eurocrat alike. They are constitutionally incapable of making even the remotest pretext of connecting words to hypostatic reality. To them, words are manichaen— merely averring a critical mass of positively valenced words makes a statement true.