Tom Price

Occasionally competent scientist of sex and selfish genes

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@wylfcen Would still get good weather though. Could be awesome lightning strikes and storms. Check out (pre)Cambrian fulgurites...

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@VladVexler @irgarner And UK wealth inequality has also remained pretty stable since the 80s jump. Our gini is pretty reasonable, similar to France, Germany, Italy etc.

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@VladVexler @irgarner My understanding is that income inequality has remained the same or decreased over the past 20 years in the UK. What massive inequality do you mean?

And that the Picketty "inequality is terrible" idea has largely been disproven over the past decade of economic/social research.

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@sharrond62 This paper shows transwomen in Sweden over a 30 year period had identical patterns of criminal behaviour to cis men. ie higher rates of general crime, and higher rates of violent & sexual crime, than cis women.

https://t.co/ruhTWJMDrQ

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@sharrond62 Of course, no one should jump from this to saying "all trans people are dangerous". Most are fine, as are most cismen. But we have all met the small minority of violent, aggressive, predatory men, and we need to have safeguarding to keep vulnerable people safe from them.

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@JulesWi51615518 @SpencerGuard They thought it might confuse AI guided drones and make the miss

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@TimothyEveland Any Anglo Saxon jewelry worn by a King and worth more than the weregild for an Earl. So you could literally kill ANYONE, throw the jewellery to their family, and be innocent of any crime...

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@jonatanpallesen @micsolana TBF there are multiple Anopheles species that would need to be eradicated.

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@johncox510456 @VivendasdaBarra @AdamZivo Sex is pretty simple. There are two sexes. Everyone is one or the other (including "intersex" people as those conditions are all sex specific). But sexuality is vastly more diverse. What is hard to understand about this?

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@nickclark2311 @POLITICOEurope Argentina invaded the Falklands. Britain retook them and still holds them. Tamil Tigers controlled half of Sri Lanka, then the Sri Lanka military took all their territory, their surviving leaders fled, and the civil war ended. Syria won. Azerbaijan won. Plenty of nations won wars

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@Krattle89 @Devon_Eriksen_ Also I think you may have never worked on a farm. "All easily solved problems" seems wildly optimistic to me, even in rich countries. In poor countries, you are dreaming.

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@Krattle89 @Devon_Eriksen_ Some truth to that. But it's also true that rapid climate change has caused massive famines and collapsed entire civilisations (e.g. Indus valley, maybe the bronze age collapse).

I'm saying we need to work our asses off to solve the problem, not just assume humanity will win.

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@jameswnc @judecale @Devon_Eriksen_ Then why have the predictions about how rapid climate change will be have improved since 2014? It's not always a grift, lots of people are making genuine progress on reducing climate change.

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@knosciwi @Devon_Eriksen_ I was a PhD student when The Sceptical Environmentalist came out, and it was solid work. What blew my mind was how incredibly angry environmental scientists got about it.
I suspect many now think it made important points...

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@BrianRoemmele 1) I don't know where your model has come from, not its assumptions, so I can't evaluate it.

2) most population growth in the next 50yrs is forecasted to be because people are living longer, not having more kids.

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@knosciwi @Devon_Eriksen_ 100% agree! But of course, we could be wrong, which is one of the great the great things about science- being wrong and actually learning from it...

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@Krattle89 @Devon_Eriksen_ The crops grown in the mid France are not the same as those grown in Scotland. Summer temp differences are 2-3C different between Edinburgh and the Auvergne.

If we get 2C warming, those crops have to move north. But the soil differs, the infrastructure and skills aren't there.

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@LowTimeHero @judecale @Devon_Eriksen_ Better to slow climate change AND build up high temperature tolerance if we want our grandkids to enjoy decent lives.

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@LowTimeHero @judecale @Devon_Eriksen_ If CC is faster than people can adapt, poor nations are screwed. Rich ones might be able to adapt rapidly enough, but poor ones don't have the infrastructure or wealth to do it. So it would likely result in an attempted mass migration to safety bigger than any in history.