Anonymous asked:
But if you aren’t attractive enough, then people won’t want to approach you.
Ah, the horseshoe theory of attractiveness.
I’ve vaguely heard murmurings about a secular decline in testosterone levels, but imagined it was overhyped or at worst just a result of the obesity epidemic. @lambdaphagy and I had a chance to just scratch the surface of the literature, though, and it’s frankly alarming.
Total T dropped about 20%, bioavailable T dropped 50%, over 20 years from 1987-2004. The Finns aren’t exempt either. Cohorts were matched for BMI, and even if they weren’t, the effect size of obesity is off by almost an order of magnitude. Doubling BMI causes T to fall by less than half, and, mirabile dictu, American BMI has not doubled (yet, give it time.) Average BMI went from 25 in 1960 to 28 in 2000.
The speed of that T drop is just jaw-dropping. Obesity doesn’t help, but doesn’t explain this level of cratering. So: phytoestrogens, xenoestrogens, micropharmaceuticals in the water, behavioral effects? More work is required, but hit me up if you have any good intel.
Cold Take: Crime declined because we removed lead from the gasoline, lowering the amount of lead-induced brain damage.
Lukewarm Take: Crime declined because we allowed abortion, removing some of the worst-off potential people from being born and raised in substandard conditions.
Hot Take: Crime declined because we put drugs in the water supply and we’re all transgender autistics/neurodivergents now, even the women. (Especially the women.)
Once I am Technocratic Dictator Central Director of the North American Union, all persons who use the term “stemlord” unironically will be sentenced to three years in the Discourse Mines.
Early release will be available for those who can pass an intellectual turing test.
in my experience enthusiastic male programmers outnumber enthusiastic female programmers by approximately 100 to 1 by the age of 15, but maybe this has shifted slightly over the past few decades.
(numbers not completely pulled out of my butt, based on observation of room containing roughly 300 juvenile coders, three of which were presenting as girls).
perhaps we need earlier interventions, possibly starting in the womb.
The alternative method is infecting more programmers with the cat-girl virus.
Ugggggh
I’m not made of highly unethical experimental preference-modifying subconscious neuromemetic virus precomputed vector model patches.
Do it yourself, geez.
Poor dude got bitten by a spider and now flesh eating bacteria has claimed both his legs and possibly his arms as well; it’s shit like this that gives Australia a bad name.
The Alt-Right has convinced me that Australia is a (((plot))) to hide the real Oceania from White Americans, and The Crocodile Hunter was filmed on a soundstage in Arizona.
