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  • ArchArch Trust me, I'm a scientist Registered User regular
    MadCaddy wrote: »
    Irond Will wrote: »
    MadCaddy wrote: »
    kaleedity wrote: »
    overpopulation is a matter of density, not overall population

    we're having fewer kids, but we're also moving away from shitholes

    Overpopulation is very real, and one if the reasons I have my libertarians leanings. I prefer to let Darwinism sort it out than government.

    this seems like the absolute worst way to solve the problem

    people don't passively starve to death

    They do passively OD on heroin; making sure they have means to eat is a different conversation, and the reason overpopulation is such a concern.

    Especially when you add the people who are pro-life, anti-genetically modified/organic only crops. I'm not talking labeling, but people who feel allowing indignant farmers access to more stout/less work intensive crops is improper because of nature.

    Darwinism only works at "sorting things out" if these people die before they have children, or if their children die

    This usually never happens, ergo social darwinism is stupid
  • JacobkoshJacobkosh Gamble a stamp! I can show you how to be a real man!Super Moderator, Moderator mod
    Red dwarf is on Netflix but its the edited version :p

    What, really? Edited? How so?
  • Irond WillIrond Will Super Moderator, Moderator mod
    I wish I knew more about my ancestry. I know I'm a beautiful melting pot of many glorious European countries.

    Being American is dumb.

    plus no fig orchards!
  • TTODewbackTTODewback Pink haired tyrant On my throne of forum faces.Registered User regular
    Arch wrote: »
    what is a bug

    baby dont hurt me
    don't hurt me
    no more.
  • AbdhyiusAbdhyius Registered User regular
    I wish I knew more about my ancestry. I know I'm a beautiful melting pot of many glorious European countries.

    Being American is dumb.

    Nothing dumb about being a beautiful melting pot!

    also america isn't much older than church records being a thing so you might be able to track your lineage to some degree
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  • RiemannLivesRiemannLives Registered User regular
    Jacobkosh wrote: »
    Red dwarf is on Netflix but its the edited version :p

    What, really? Edited? How so?

    has some deleted scenes that honestly don't make the show any better. Some of the excellent model work is replaced with CGI.

    Still well worth watching though.
    What you think "makes sense" has nothing to do with reality. It just has to do with your life experience. And your life experience may only be a small smidgen of reality. Possibly even a distorted account of reality at that. So what this means is that, beginning in the 20th century as our means of decoding nature became more and more powerful, we started realizing our common sense is no longer a tool to pass judgment on whether or not a scientific theory is correct. - Neil Degrasse Tyson
  • AbdhyiusAbdhyius Registered User regular
    TL DR wrote: »
    SEE IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE 'A WEED' JUST MEANS 'A PLANT THAT IS A NUISANCE'

    'BUG' IS A SIMILARLY UNSCIENTIFIC TERM

    HO HO LAYMAN

    Bug actually has a scientific definition.
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  • WinkyWinky Registered User regular
    Abdhyius wrote: »
    Gooey wrote: »
    what if it was "trail of tiers" and we have been getting it wrong all this time

    then you still deserve to be ashamed if you're so bad at speaking that tiers and tears are homophones to you!

    I

    what

    in what accent are they not?
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  • ArchArch Trust me, I'm a scientist Registered User regular
    Abdhyius wrote: »
    TL DR wrote: »
    SEE IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE 'A WEED' JUST MEANS 'A PLANT THAT IS A NUISANCE'

    'BUG' IS A SIMILARLY UNSCIENTIFIC TERM

    HO HO LAYMAN

    Bug actually has a scientific definition.

    and a not one
  • KalkinoKalkino Buttons LondresRegistered User regular
    ronya wrote: »
    the point is, "they were slaughtering each other" is a remarkably poor predictor of "they will continue slaughtering each other"

    Such a buzzkill
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  • ArchArch Trust me, I'm a scientist Registered User regular
    I have so many experiments to run today and I really dont want to do any of them and I will be here all night and ahhhh

    grad school
  • Solomaxwell6Solomaxwell6 Registered User regular
    Abdhyius wrote: »
    8 percent of everyone living in the former mongol empire are directly descended from genghis khan.

    Given the exponential nature of ancestry over time (ancestral generation n has 2^n members, including duplicates), pretty much everyone living in the former Mongol Empire are directly descended from Genghis Khan. You're talking specifically about patrilineal descent, although even that isn't exclusive to Genghis Khan (he wasn't the only Mongol with that Y-chromosome).

    I don't think enough time has passed for that. You could make an argument that, for example, any person alive today is descended from Ramses II (or just about any other person at all alive that long ago who had surviving children and grandchildren) but Genghis Khan is only 800ish years ago.

    I'm just working from memory, so I might very well be misremembering the numbers, but I read a while back that 1200 AD is right around the time when you get universal regional descent. Go back a few more centuries and you get global (although I think "global" in this case means Afro-Eurasia).
    Abdhyius wrote: »
    I wish I knew more about my ancestry. I know I'm a beautiful melting pot of many glorious European countries.

    Being American is dumb.

    Nothing dumb about being a beautiful melting pot!

    also america isn't much older than church records being a thing so you might be able to track your lineage to some degree

    You can get pretty accurate at it.

    My dad is big into it, and he's found branches that go back to the 12th or 13th centuries.
  • KageraKagera Registered User regular
    Kalkino wrote: »
    So Nigel Farage was trapped in a pub in Edinburgh today by protesters.

    God I love the Scots sometime. I wish I could hug them all

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    Maybe you could give them their

    FFFFFFFFRRRRRREEEEEEEDDDDDDDOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMmmmmmmm!
    just keep those government aid monies coming thanks!
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  • AbdhyiusAbdhyius Registered User regular
    ronya wrote: »
    the point is, "they were slaughtering each other" is a remarkably poor predictor of "they will continue slaughtering each other"

    yeah, I mean, even europe is peaceful now.

    which was a crazy concept for most of history.
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  • TL DRTL DR Registered User regular
    Abdhyius wrote: »
    TL DR wrote: »
    SEE IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE 'A WEED' JUST MEANS 'A PLANT THAT IS A NUISANCE'

    'BUG' IS A SIMILARLY UNSCIENTIFIC TERM

    HO HO LAYMAN

    Bug actually has a scientific definition.

    Well I'll be
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  • HamurabiHamurabi Registered User regular
    ronya wrote: »
    the point is, "they were slaughtering each other" is a remarkably poor predictor of "they will continue slaughtering each other"

    Well eventually they'll run out of people to slaughter.

    Time is not on the side of the Professional Slaughterer. Truly a noble -- if antiquated -- line of work.
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  • spool32spool32 Contrary Library Registered User regular
    Winky wrote: »
    Abdhyius wrote: »
    Gooey wrote: »
    what if it was "trail of tiers" and we have been getting it wrong all this time

    then you still deserve to be ashamed if you're so bad at speaking that tiers and tears are homophones to you!

    I

    what

    in what accent are they not?

    You're saying tear like crying
    he's saying tear like ripping.

    This is p funny.
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  • KalkinoKalkino Buttons LondresRegistered User regular
    Jacobkosh wrote: »
    Red dwarf is on Netflix but its the edited version :p

    What, really? Edited? How so?

    has some deleted scenes that honestly don't make the show any better. Some of the excellent model work is replaced with CGI.

    Still well worth watching though.

    I'm watching it on Netflix UK right now. You stalkers
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  • ronyaronya hmmm over there!Registered User regular
    Kalkino wrote: »
    ronya wrote: »
    the point is, "they were slaughtering each other" is a remarkably poor predictor of "they will continue slaughtering each other"

    Such a buzzkill

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jo_-KoBiBG0
  • Ravenhpltc24Ravenhpltc24 Registered User regular
    Abdhyius wrote: »
    I wish I knew more about my ancestry. I know I'm a beautiful melting pot of many glorious European countries.

    Being American is dumb.

    Nothing dumb about being a beautiful melting pot!

    also america isn't much older than church records being a thing so you might be able to track your lineage to some degree

    I know for a fact my great-great-grandmother came over from Germany, and another one from England, and someone else from France I think. I think that might have been only as of last century. I am not old American money. We all pretty new here.
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  • EriktheVikingGamerEriktheVikingGamer Barbara Streisand! Registered User regular
    Total anal-retentive nitpicky nonsense but we're United Statesians damnit. There's more than one America. :P
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  • TL DRTL DR Registered User regular
    Winky wrote: »
    Abdhyius wrote: »
    Gooey wrote: »
    what if it was "trail of tiers" and we have been getting it wrong all this time

    then you still deserve to be ashamed if you're so bad at speaking that tiers and tears are homophones to you!

    I

    what

    in what accent are they not?

    "teers"
    "tares"
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  • JacobkoshJacobkosh Gamble a stamp! I can show you how to be a real man!Super Moderator, Moderator mod
    Jacobkosh wrote: »
    Red dwarf is on Netflix but its the edited version :p

    What, really? Edited? How so?

    has some deleted scenes that honestly don't make the show any better. Some of the excellent model work is replaced with CGI.

    Still well worth watching though.

    Oh, hm, that doesn't sound too bad, then.
  • ArchArch Trust me, I'm a scientist Registered User regular
    Total anal-retentive nitpicky nonsense but we're United Statesians damnit. There's more than one America. :P

    No there isnt
  • WinkyWinky Registered User regular
    edited May 2013
    spool32 wrote: »
    Winky wrote: »
    Abdhyius wrote: »
    Gooey wrote: »
    what if it was "trail of tiers" and we have been getting it wrong all this time

    then you still deserve to be ashamed if you're so bad at speaking that tiers and tears are homophones to you!

    I

    what

    in what accent are they not?

    You're saying tear like crying
    he's saying tear like ripping.

    This is p funny.

    Well it wasn't called the "trail of tears" because they were ripping things.
    Winky on
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  • AbdhyiusAbdhyius Registered User regular
    Winky wrote: »
    Abdhyius wrote: »
    Gooey wrote: »
    what if it was "trail of tiers" and we have been getting it wrong all this time

    then you still deserve to be ashamed if you're so bad at speaking that tiers and tears are homophones to you!

    I

    what

    in what accent are they not?

    well, mine
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  • PantsBPantsB Registered User regular
    edited May 2013
    Abdhyius wrote: »
    one of the perks of being the king in the olden days is getting to fuck pretty much whoever you want

    so that plus time means that most of us are descended from a king
    Look at it this way:

    A king's descendents are more likely to survive and leave offspring than average because of prosperity.
    Around the time of Charlemagne, Europe's population was ~25-30 million.
    Charlemagne lived ~1200 years ago. Call a generation 30 years and you get roughly 40 generation back (He happens to be my 36th, 37th, 39th and 40th great grandfather IIRC so that seems reasonably close)
    2^40 - or how many 40th great grandparents you have =1,099,511,627,776 which is not only more than the population of Europe (if you are exclusively of European ancestry or nearly so) but more than every human who has ever lived. And your ancestors also came exclusively from those who had children.

    So not only are you almost certainly a descendent of Charlemagne if you're Western European by heritage, you're almost certainly descended from him multiple times, as well as everyone else who was alive back then and managed to leave descendents.

    You can do the same thing with more recent monarchs but its less blatant. There were roughly 250 million people in the world in 1000, Henry I of England would be ~30 gens back so 1 billion ancestors at that level.


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  • DasUberEdwardDasUberEdward Registered User regular
    I wonder if garmin and other nav makers are imploding with the proliferation of smart phones

    also car-based nav systems are universally terrible right?

    my mom often mentions how she can't wait to buy a GPS one day. I try to tell her that her dreams are about ten years out-dated and that buying a better cell phone is the logical choice. Then she says but the battery will drain.

    Then I point out car chargers.

    and she says yes but I want a GPS.
    Yet that is exactly what i see here.
  • EriktheVikingGamerEriktheVikingGamer Barbara Streisand! Registered User regular
    Arch wrote: »
    Total anal-retentive nitpicky nonsense but we're United Statesians damnit. There's more than one America. :P

    No there isnt

    Because Central and South America do not exist?
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  • KalkinoKalkino Buttons LondresRegistered User regular
    Kagera wrote: »
    Kalkino wrote: »
    So Nigel Farage was trapped in a pub in Edinburgh today by protesters.

    God I love the Scots sometime. I wish I could hug them all

    farage-1-522x293.jpg

    Maybe you could give them their

    FFFFFFFFRRRRRREEEEEEEDDDDDDDOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMmmmmmmm!
    just keep those government aid monies coming thanks!

    Nigel wants to free the British from the Hated European Union. BOOO HISS
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  • ronyaronya hmmm over there!Registered User regular
    edited May 2013
    Abdhyius wrote: »
    ronya wrote: »
    the point is, "they were slaughtering each other" is a remarkably poor predictor of "they will continue slaughtering each other"

    yeah, I mean, even europe is peaceful now.

    which was a crazy concept for most of history.

    it's odd to reflect that germany unified and went hard nationalist (to say the least) just two centuries after having germany lose a third of its population to internal protestant-catholic war
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  • ArchArch Trust me, I'm a scientist Registered User regular
    Arch wrote: »
    Total anal-retentive nitpicky nonsense but we're United Statesians damnit. There's more than one America. :P

    No there isnt

    Because Central and South America do not exist?

    they aren't real america, duh

    they don't even have eagles
  • AbdhyiusAbdhyius Registered User regular
    I say it with a slight tee-ers

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  • AldoAldo Registered User regular
    I like the European anthem, they picked a good song.
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  • AManFromEarthAManFromEarth Their ideas are old and their ideas are bad. Risk is our business.Registered User regular
    ronya wrote: »
    Hamurabi wrote: »
    I remember a large contingent of Kazakh kids I knew who were really upset about having "Genghis Khan's blood."

    Of course they would. The Kazakhs never historically supported Chinggis Khan.

    and the english today are the descendent of tribes who raped and murdered their way onto the british isles, but you don't see them moaning about it today

    Identity is a large part of why none of the Central Asian states will work together. Turkmen have no problem being called Chinggis Khan's supporters or descendants because soon after the Mongol empire began crumbling it became normal to assume that any of his descendants were rightful to a support, an entirely non-existant, throne. Temur-e-lang play a large aspect of propping up his descendants.

    They should probably get over all that and join the rest of us in the 21st century.

    We're all descended from assholes. Let's try doing good things now.

    I don't think anyone would like to join any of the former colonial nations with doing anything. Colonialism and neo-Colonialism is still fresh in people's mind.

    South America and East Asia would seem to disagree with you there, buddy ;)
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  • override367override367 Registered User regular
    edited May 2013
    Hamurabi wrote: »
    ronya wrote: »
    the point is, "they were slaughtering each other" is a remarkably poor predictor of "they will continue slaughtering each other"

    Well eventually they'll run out of people to slaughter.

    Time is not on the side of the Professional Slaughterer. Truly a noble -- if antiquated -- line of work.

    being a slaughterer is kind of inverse of being a government agency

    You have to not exceed the slaughter of last year otherwise the population will not stay at replacement and you won't have any future slaughter available, also keep a good slaughter ratio of men, children, elderly to breeding aged women

    slaughter less today to slaughter more tomorrow
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  • AbdhyiusAbdhyius Registered User regular
    Arch wrote: »
    Total anal-retentive nitpicky nonsense but we're United Statesians damnit. There's more than one America. :P

    No there isnt

    Because Central and South America do not exist?

    central america doesn't

    north and south only!
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  • AbdhyiusAbdhyius Registered User regular
    ronya wrote: »
    Abdhyius wrote: »
    ronya wrote: »
    the point is, "they were slaughtering each other" is a remarkably poor predictor of "they will continue slaughtering each other"

    yeah, I mean, even europe is peaceful now.

    which was a crazy concept for most of history.

    it's odd to reflect that germany unified and went hard nationalist (to say the least) just two centuries after having germany lose a third of its population to internal protestant-catholic war

    "just" three centuries?
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