LurkingLuddite

Our loss of hair is caused by the EXACT same process that defines the rest of our bodies, so it’s absolutely stupid to say we haven’t “caught up” with losing hair…

Nah, not necessarily imperative. An individual can still be a eugenicist without external support. The only reason the old beliefs that often get credited as “eugenics” were mostly wrong is because they were mostly just ignorance and masked racism, not actual genetic analysis.

All it takes to be a eugenicist is to believe that certain people shouldn’t have children because you believe their genes are bad. That’s it. It’s literally just:

Eu: Prefix meaning “good” Gene: Relating to genes ecist: Believer (not totally sure on this one as search results to verify my beliefs mostly returned “-ition” results, with no explicit statements for -ecist or similar)

It’s just a silly thing for a common fool to believe in, since genetics is complicated! Many confirmed genetic disorders are not inheritable. Many health issues are latent. You can have two totally healthy people birth genetic defects nigh 100% of the time. On the other end, someone with certain genetic disorders can absolutely have totally fine children with little extra worry. It completely depends on what genes are messed up and why.

Someone unfamiliar with the INSANE complexity of biology even in the basics of reproduction have zero right to hold a strong opinion on eugenics, IMO. (which of course immediately excludes 99% of conservative fuckwits who would happily call themselves eugenicists)

Oh absolutely, she would’ve still had a rough time of it even fully agreeing with the cops, which is why it’s so stupid when they act like pigs.

Hank really screwed the pooch with his chance at getting Skyler over by being a cop before a family friend. After that, it was obviously a choice between two evils for her.

The choice was pretty obvious, IMO… Go with Hank, destroy the family, destroy Walt, walk into a HUGE court case, everything explodes and goes public, you get little to no money from the DEA/gov… absolute nightmare with no clear payoff. Or … go with Walt, hope his plans that’ve worked out thus far under your nose continue to work out, and get millions of dollars and a life you get to define.

Definitely an obvious choice. It’s a good example of why making cops such authoritarian shitstains will never, ever produce a more peaceful society.

Yes there are many kinds of resealable containers for commercially sold pastes. Syringes with caps are very common. I’ve also definitely used pastes older than that and they worked great, but they were also expensive after-market pastes stored at room temp.

Ehhhhh… The question isn’t if such people exist, but in what proportion. They’re saying, by reference to other sexual behaviors being legalized/illegalized, that it appears that the majority is relief valve.

OFC we cannot say for certainty without multiple studies, but they’re saying it seems like the proportions skew in favor of relief valve, even across cultures.

I agree with them. The intuition seems to be relief valve, whether or not there would be a reduction in offenses.

However, I do not think normalizing the sexualization of children would help society in the long run. Sure, pedos should not be made completely taboo, or else there won’t be help available. Sure, if you thought lgbtq people were similarly ‘bad’, you would say the same things about them…

… BUT kids will never, practically by definition, NEVER be intellectually or emotionally mature enough to justify pedo, whereas informed, consenting adults doing what they want in private is perfectly fine.

Preeeeetty sure they’re not talking about your dad spanking you.

Just study it the same way you study any dangerous or harmful thing… study cases. You don’t have to create situations in a controlled environment to never the less do science.

Comparing them to lolicon enjoyers would be rough, but I bet social scientists already have some methods figured out for studying that kind of stuff.

Colloquially accurate, though. Weird to use such a restricted definition of a word that has MUCH more common understanding…

Nope

hyperpalatable

Well I’m glad we have different palates then!

There is more building under them. Only a small portion extends past.

Eugenics isn’t inherently bad. If you prefer dating humans without genetic defects, congratulations; you’re a eugenicist.

Do you prefer blondes or brown hair? You’re preferring genes again! Don’t like people with potato bodies? There you go preferring genes…

Find out your fetus has a genetic defect and won’t live past five even if you birth them, so you abort? Cheer on genetic therapies that could solve such issues? Congratulations, you’ve practiced eugenics!!

Eugenics itself is not bad. It’s the racist fuck desire to want to “cleanse” the “race” of humanity that’s bad.

Nah. We lost fur hundreds of thousands of years ago and never needed it again to survive several ice ages. So I’d say we’ve definitely evolved past fur thanks to the ‘advanced’ tool usage of… clothing.

Ehhh, it’s not THAT uncommon for older couples to grow some resentment. The whole boomer, “I hate my wife” DOES come from somewhere, and spiteful people that are legally bound to each other will do all sorts of stupid shit before they split.

… Though usually it’s from people a little more shitty than Walt. The sort of people who turn into selfish egotists a little easier than getting a cancer diagnosis and a bag of cash. Granted, the show did a great job showing how they were both flawed and both had a touch of ego in their normal lives. Walt’s just happened to explode feeding off his resentment of his old business partner, and recent success producing.

In Skyler’s defense, she was staying because she was an accessory after the fact, not that she was terribly OK with it. I’ve definitely seen people make that level of dumb decision before, and about as big of life decisions, too, with far less payout than millions of dollars and a viable laundering scheme!

Some manufacturers made all sorts of different codes for instructions between various models of tv and remote. That includes some different TVs only sharing an ‘on’ or ‘off’ code and not the other.

It’s why many ‘universal’ remotes will tell you in the instructions to keep trying different numbers for the manufacturer until all features work. So… you’ll have to do that. Try all Toshiba TV codes that remote knows. If none of them support all features, hopefully you can tweak button by button!

I mean, ol’ Marky’s not entirely wrong if you take it as a cheeky statement. They’re generally not spying on their users (ok, they are literally, but…): Their users freely give Facebook the info so they can share with nana, or ragepost about politics, or vacation gloat to their friends, or chat on messenger, or buy on marketplace, etc.

Of course FB/Meta are still evil pieces of shit that deserve nothing but fines, taxes, and regulations for the rest of their existence, but people are still way too trusting of social platforms.

They are two different things and both definitely exist.

That’s definitely not what this is or enables.

“Unalive” is stupid NOT because language changes and ree, but because it came about via over-censorship by megacorporations.

I mean, 1/4 a lb is practically nothing ontop of the bread. Though don’t worry; the cheeto got rid of most regulations! I’m sure this situation will only improve … for the corporations.