"Racism is low IQ"
As it happens, the exact opposite is true. All of our recent research shows evidence for human sub-speciation
In work done by Keinan (2007), and later followed up by Skoglund and Jakobssen in 2011, we discovered solid evidence for what is visibly obvious to anyone who is paying attention - Sub-Saharan African populations have different genetics than other populations aside from skin pigmentation
Those African genetics are ancestral and much closer to chimpanzee variants
We discovered that Africans have an entirely different class of ADME genes that encode for CYP450 family enzymes, the ones responsible for breaking down common pharmaceutical drugs like statins
As a result, Africans process drugs like morphine, PPI's, antidepressants, antiretrovirals, and notably statins than non-Africans do. In most cases, for the worse
Doctors are classically trained to understand this difference exists, and because Africans have a much higher incidence of obesity they often need statins to manage their cholesterol but can't use the same class as Europeans
Atorvastatin is usually recommended for Europeans while Africans are generally recommended Rosuvastatin
This is one of thousands of differences, but due to the nature of political correctness the vast majority of this research has never been done
If everyone's talking about one particular thing. I pay no attention to that one particular thing. Atm it's Odyssey. Hollyweird continues to be fake and gay, big news.
@NTFabiano The whole anti therapy stance is throwing the baby out with the bath water imo. Modern hiring practices and aggressively pushing for woman to be in the field has pushed men out, this has had huge consequences for not only how it's practiced, but how men view it.
If you are old enough to remember driving in Britain in the 1980s, you will remember the windscreen.
You could not see through it by July. A journey from Leeds to London in August ended with a front bumper that looked like it had been through a war and a windscreen that needed a proper scrubbing with a sponge at the services. Insects on the headlights. Insects in the wing mirrors. Insects packed into the radiator grille so densely that mechanics had to fish them out. This was simply the weather of the British summer, the cost of moving through a country that was still, in living memory, full of flying things.
Get in a car now. Drive the same route. Stop at the services.
The windscreen is clean.
The Bugs Matter survey, run by Kent Wildlife Trust and Buglife since 2004, has been measuring exactly this. Volunteers clean their numberplate, drive a journey, count the splats on a grid. Between 2004 and 2021, the UK average fell by roughly 59 per cent. England alone: 65. Kent: over 70. The 2024 update found a further 63 per cent drop on top of that.
The windscreen phenomenon has the data to back it up now.
And not just the insects. Between 1970 and 2024, the UK Farmland Bird Index fell by 62 per cent. Turtle doves down 99. Grey partridge down 94. Tree sparrow down 90. A generation of British children has grown up without ever hearing a turtle dove call, because there are, in functional terms, no turtle doves left to call.
Defra's own bulletin lists the causes without embarrassment. Loss of mixed farming. The switch from spring to autumn sowing, which took away the winter stubble the small birds had been feeding on since the Neolithic. The grubbing up of hedgerows to make fields bigger for bigger machines. Increased fertiliser. Increased pesticide.
Specifically, the pesticides. Neonicotinoids on oilseed rape. Glyphosate sprayed as a pre-harvest desiccant on wheat and barley. Chemicals applied in combinations and volumes that would have seemed psychotic to a farmer in 1950, applied to grow the crops that feed directly into the plant-based shakes marketed to people who believe they are helping the environment.
The insects died in the fields where the crops were grown. The birds that used to eat the insects, starved. The windscreen, accordingly, is clean.
None of this happened on the permanent pasture that cattle graze. A herb-rich meadow grazed by cattle has more pollinators, more ground-nesting birds, more beetles, more everything per hectare than the arable field next door. The South Downs and the Welsh uplands and the Cotswold commons where sheep and cattle have been grazing for a thousand years are the places British biodiversity is still, just, holding on.
The countryside did not empty because of the cow.
It emptied because we replaced the cow with the combine harvester, the meadow with the oilseed rape, and the hedgerow with another half-acre of monoculture that needed spraying fourteen times a season to keep it alive.
When someone tells you eating a steak is destroying British wildlife, ask them what was on the field before it became the soy farm, the rape farm, the wheat farm that produced the oat milk in their fridge.
It was grass.
And on the grass, there were cattle.
And when the cattle were there, the windscreen needed cleaning.
Playing Mario 64 reverses aging in the brain in trial.
Yes:
Elderly subjects playing the iconic platformer increased grey matter volume in the brain over 6 months.
Those not playing LOST grey matter.
Grey matter is the cell body-dense region of the brain.
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