diogenes

grieving former em-dash user.

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@ActualFixer @solaticlunatic @pnwguerrilla

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@fentanylbrownie @JadeAtrophis you can't unfuck a chicken.

what do you mean, that's not how the idiom goes?

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@treblewoe imagine how God must feel

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the monogamous and egalitarian mating systems foundational to our modern civilization and the resulting decrease of violence involved in sexual competition is an entirely male project.

women prefer the primordial chaos and conflict that naturally results in the harem; they are perfectly content to watch men fight and kill each other over mating rights.

it is not that they think perpetuating the species is icky, it is rather that they prefer to do so with the alpha. this is hypergamy.

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@EduardHabsburg @POLITICOEurope your claim is as good as any, my lord. The k.u.k. Twitter-Truppen will support you.

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@GarrettPetersen does the other guy have the same sword, or a different one?

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@TonySneedprano @FrenlyOfficer no no, this is an inversion of the meme. if Sniggerus notices the chirping, then he is not abiding by the stereotype.

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@NoahRevoy i believe @zelinarxy said it first.

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@RepThomasMassie

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@treblewoe @uhhhhhhhhh3496 @QuixiAI i highly recommend keychron for keyboards

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@fentanylbrownie it is — at first — gratifying to witness one's esoteric online knowledge become the topic of break-room conversation.

sadly, the novelty of this experience is actively degraded by each new overheard take.

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to compare the relative “importance” or magnitude of influence on the actual trait values (which are on a linear scale, like height in inches or cm), it’s more appropriate to take the square roots, giving the ratio of standard deviations: √0.8 ≈ 0.894 for genes and √0.2 ≈ 0.447 for environment, so about 2:1

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If a trait is 80% heritable (h² = 0.8), the proportion of variance due to environmental factors is 0.2. While the ratio of genetic variance to environmental variance is 0.8 / 0.2 = 4, this does not directly measure “importance” in terms of the scale of variation each contributes.

To compare the relative magnitudes of genetic and environmental effects on trait variation, use the standard deviations: √0.8 ≈ 0.894 for genetics and √0.2 ≈ 0.447 for environment. The ratio is 0.894 / 0.447 ≈ 2.

Thus, genes are 2 times more important than environment in this interpretation.
To arrive at this:

• Genetic SD = √(h²)
• Environmental SD = √(1 - h²)
• Ratio = √(h²) / √(1 - h²) = √(h² / (1 - h²)) = √(0.8 / 0.2) = √4 = 2

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@VladTheInflator

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@romanhelmetguy there's only been one great epoch of a people taking over other continents. you could argue that the Europeans were on the precipice of taking it on into Asia and global conquest

it's a "what-if" that'll get the rest of the history department to whisper about you for bringing up

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@IMPERATORAUS the better question is what production company

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@Cernovich A society is shaped by how it manages aggression.

This libertarian ideal of insisting aggression mustn't exist shows us why libertarian societies also don't exist.

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@drydenwtbrown written by a french woman

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@naval and yet not one extant democracy works this way

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@uncledoomer Bavarian? that's clearly an Austrian accent