Fair enough. I took your original comment a certain way, probably cause the way it sounded is the way a significant potion of the population thinks. Physical variation is a much more understood (and less dangerous) thing too.

There is nothing particularly wrong with eugenics in itself; it is how some people choose to carry it out that becomes questionable. When eugenics is used to propagate racist or dumb ideas.

This makes several assumptions not supported by science. Eugenics presupposes that genetics alone is a significantly large factor influencing traits like intelligence and “predisposition to criminality” that you can just selectively breed humans like farm animals and thus improve the whole population over time.

If you dig deep enough into the history and science, that’s not necessarily true, and even to the extent it is is fucking complicated. It ignores or discounts environmental factors, cultural norms, and probably more I’m not thinking of atm.

Picking general intelligence, however that’s defined, eugenics says you need to get two highly intelligent people to produce offspring and thier children will automatically be smart. In reality they might have an edge, but that edge can be lost if the kids aren’t provided with a stable home environment, healthcare so they can thrive, high-quality education, etc. It doesn’t mean shit if your kid is the next Einstein according to an IQ test (which are fraught with problems by themselves) if they can’t read.

The topic is higly debated by people much more educated than I who spend thier whole lives studying the topic. I’d encourage you or anyone interested to do some reading on the subject from actual experts (which I, for the record, am not) with backgrounds in genetics and especially anthropology. “The Myth Of Race” by Robert Sussman was an incredibly eye-opening book for me personally that obviously focuses most on race but eugenics gets covered too.

They “spoke out against it” while saying and doing things that are literally the definition of positive eugenics.

“In other words, positive eugenics is aimed at encouraging reproduction among the genetically advantaged, for example, the eminently intelligent, the healthy, and the successful. Possible approaches include financial and political stimuli, targeted demographic analyses, in vitro fertilization, egg transplants, and cloning.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics

Pretty sure calibre makes this easy if you don’t wanna reinvent the wheel

Fascist agitprop

It’s probably just not worth it. MS makes the vast, vast majority of thier money on Windows licenses from the corporate sector and OEMs. Any revenue “lost” to MAS is a rounding error on thier toilet paper budget for thier offices.

Both those posts on reddit are people being paranoid (especially the pchelp post, that user is self-admittedly ignorant), perhaps not wrongly, but it is open source and used frequently enough I’d imagine someone would have said something if there were issues.

Personally, I’ve used it probably 3-4x without any issues. Take that for what you will.

EDIT: Manual instructions are here if you wanna be really, really sure.

It’s getting up there in years but I’m running a Dell T5610 with 128GB RAM. Once I start my new job I might upgrade cause it’s having issues running my MC server.

I have no particular suggestions for the Pi, but for the x86 box I’d go headless Arch, install docker and go from there.

Also, I’d personally suggest switching to something that’s not Manjaro. Arch has an install script now which I really like, but there’s also distros like EndeavorOS that don’t have a history of letting thier SSL certs expire multiple times like Manjaro does…

That is the old distribution based on Debian 8, which stopped receiving LTS updates in June 2020. You should switch to something else unless the system isn’t connected to the internet.

https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/

Probably, but definitely not shocked. Woody and the Cheeto’s old man go way back.

How tf do you define the word “book” then? Harem novels are books but nonsexual light novels aren’t?

Modded is great if you’re into that and so is the DLC if you haven’t had the chance to play it all

Is there any stated reasoning for the NTP review in the first place beyond “People like RFK think it’s scary”?

Not super likely, and I don’t think I’d expect updates from Tuya directly unfortunately. What the other person was saying about getting it supported through ZHA is likely your best bet.

If this is one of the new ThirdReality bulbs, they allegedly need an OTA update accordong to an amazon review or two. Mine is coming in tomorrow so I’ll report back.

“There are a lot of ingredients in cosmetics, hair care and sunscreen that can act as endocrine mimickers in a lab, meaning they kind of act like a hormone,” Waldman explains.
But He stresses that, when it comes to chemical sunscreen ingredients, the potential link largely comes from animal studies that likely don’t translate to humans. For instance, in many studies, researchers are feeding large amounts of these ingredients to mice, He explains, which is “not really comparable to a human situation.”

EDIT: So no, no they don’t in humans.

Someone correct me if I’m wrong or this has changed, but AFAIK the issue is that Lemmy supports it already but doesn’t require the language tag. Unfortunately if you remove “no language selected” (or whatever it’s called) by it means you don’t see the vast majority of content.

Ideally both.

Why not just get a water filter?

Citation needed