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Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
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baal-pit

the thing that’s fucking killing me about The Last Night is that the idea of a like panopticon sousveillance state where everyone is under constant scrutiny by those around them, and any wrong move you make can be instantly broadcast to frothing legions of people who hate you and will do you real harm, is

a) extremely cyberpunk and something I’d be interested in exploring

b) a hugely fucking ironic premise, coming from a Gamergater

ranma-official

*inbetween digging out tweets from X years ago to report to people’s bosses to hopefully get them fired* damn. It’s really Ironic Coincidence that my enemies are concerned about frothing legions of people who hate them

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the-grey-tribe

If there is a gay gene, gay marriage and adoption will pull it out of circulation soon.

mailadreapta

This is the usual and obvious response to people who say that gayitude can’t be genetic because otherwise it would have been selected out already. Bruh, before we had gay liberation being gay was not a major knock on fertility since you would probably be having kids anyway. Fortunately, now we do have gay liberation so we can weed the queers out of the gene pool as Darwin intended.

mailadreapta

Cochran goes off against the “gay uncle” theory and other cockamamie schemes which claim that gayness is not selected out of the population because of some offsetting benefit, by making the entirely true point that the benefits to your family have to huge in order to compensate for taking you out of the gene pool entirely. However, this objection loses a lot of its force if the fertility loss from homosexuality is small. If homosexuals reproduce at rates similar to heterosexuals, then having the gay gene becomes all-upside from a Darwinian perspective.

Seen in this light, homophobia is a eugenic cultural institution which keeps gay genes in the gene pool by forcing even obligate homosexuals to marry and have children.

slartibartfastibast

Personal anecdote indicates that Cochran is probably on so something:

http://slartibartfastibast.com/post/159672281259/i-imagine-one-of-those-big-complex-things-being

It’s semi-heritable but non-genetic:

http://slartibartfastibast.com/post/114665865499/being-suspicious-of-gmos-is-only-irrational-if-you

I think it’s an alternative developmental trajectory that can reduce intermale competition for mates or something. Seems like it could be more influenced by early environmental triggers than anybody wants to admit. In-utero tuning to the parental environment is probably part of it. Cochran goes so far as to say that it has to be partly communicable, which would upset a lot of people.

I mean, Alzheimer’s is apparently bacterial/microbiomic in origin, but nobody treats it like it’s communicable because it really doesn’t look like it is. The vector would have to be extremely convoluted and indirect.

Also, humans are probs eusocial:

http://slartibartfastibast.com/post/160728219904/contra-scott-alexander-on-prestige
mitigatedchaos

I don’t think we’ll lose the gays for another reason - by the end of the century, we will have figured out how to make new people gay or bisexual on purpose. That has to be factored in to the calculations.

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argumate

Anonymous asked:

The inability for the different political parties to work together to accomplish their goals is just like when I was working on this project for school and... Oh my god, I just remembered that time Emily refused to do her part of the group project, even though we had initially all agreed on what each of us had to do, and we had two weeks to get it done, but nooo, she just never got around to doing her part. She even had the easiest part, and I had to do it for her. Uhm, what was I saying before?

argumate answered:

this is like a political cartoon except all the passive aggressive labels are set in a girl’s high school like a tedious anime

school aka THE LEGISLATURE

project aka PROGRESSIVE HEALTH REFORM

emily aka GRANDSTANDING REPUBLICANS

etc.

mitigatedchaos

I’ve lived the Congressional Anime AU, Argumate.

You don’t want to go there.  You really don’t.

If I never hear “but Ryan-sempai, we can’t!” again, it will be too soon.

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argumate
argumate

@mitigatedchaos:

Glad we got that sorted out.  Now onto the next item on our discourse agenda: Ugg boots - sexist, or female empowerment?

brutally appropriated from Australian bogan culture, next question

neofightmeredglare

Funny that you say that because they literally were- the original Uggs were Aussie but the patent was filed by an American who saw it and copied it. Guess who’s making all the $$$.
Hint it’s not the Aussie family business out somewhere in WA.

argumate

wait did you think I was joking

Me: I have never made a single joke in my life

Mutuals: I know yet we laugh anyway

mitigatedchaos

“We don’t shitpost to lie.  We shitpost because when the world itself is a joke, so is the truth.”

- Argumate, probably

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