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What a radical take

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Why is it essential for our genes to live on?

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Why does it matter if they're your descendants or others'? My 16 great great grandparents are as much strangers to me as any other 16 people walking around 100 years ago. And everyone here now is in the same place, whoever they came from. Not like I'll be alive to (or would do so in any case) take pride in saying 'ooh those 12 people have something to do with me if you go back far enough"

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I think that's pure conjecture about how having kids affects the world. And the nature, worthiness, or value of those 12 people has nothing to do with whether or not you happen to personally be their ancestor. There's nothing different or more special about one person's progeny than another, so who cares if it's your kids or 8 billion other people. The idea that that is important in the future is all about making yourself important in the present.

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My point is not that previous people haven't done significant things, it's that they did those things independently of who one of their many ancestors happened to be. Much like an actual ripple, the larger the pond, the less likely any disturbance is to reach the shore, and the more likely it is to be quickly lost to the natural turbulence of any body of water.

If your evidence against that is the existence of significant inventions, there are very few, if any, that wouldn't have been invented by someone else within years. No major invention or discovery, from the light bulb to relativity, has been made while others weren't working on the same problem and making similar, if slightly slower, progress.

That's why they say necessity is the mother of invention, not a person or an institution or anything that could be credited to a single creator.

And if you think humans are still evolving according to selection pressure the way that other species have/do, you just don't understand how evolution actually works. The moment we gained self awareness and created social structures, we drifted so far from biological evolution that it's an entirely moot point in terms of future generations. The least adaptive of us now, on average, still lives through the entirety of our birthing/fertile years, while significant portions of a population dying during or prior to fertility is the only way that natural selection works. That or the existence of bachelor herds that lead to a very slim minority being the only ones to breed. Neither of those are the case with humans.

Ultimately, having kids to ensure your own legacy is possibly the most selfish reason you could create someone and thrust them into 80 years of what should be their own life.

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What about my understanding of evolution is incorrect, and how do you see natural selection working in present humans? Very possible that Dunning-Kruger is at play, but we may have to agree to disagree as to where...

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I'm sure it was better than Darwin

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Aaaand over 150,000 of their own soldiers for retreating

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Before anyone asks for a source:

July 1942’s famous “Order No. 227,” better known as the “Not One Step Backward!” rule, which decreed that cowards were to be “liquidated on the spot.” Under this order, any troops who retreated were to be shelled or gunned down by so-called “blocking detachments”—special units who were positioned behind their own lines and charged with shooting any soldier who tried to flee. Stalin’s draconian orders were designed to increase the Red Army’s fighting spirit, but they weren’t empty threats. According to some estimates, Soviet barrier troops may have killed as many as 150,000 of their own men over the course of the war...

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Agreed History.com has some wacky articles, but these numbers come from Richard Overy, a respected and well-researched historian. But feel free to do some pleasure reading on these:

https://notevenpast.org/order-no-227-stalinist-methods-and-victory-eastern-front/#:~:text=How%20many%20Soviet%20soldiers%20were,a%20couple%20weeks%20in%20Stalingrad. (Numbers pulled from Russian sources)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desertion#:~:text=Their%20family%20members%20were%20subjected,executed%20158%2C000%20troops%20for%20desertion.

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

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Now I see, comrade. All hail mother Russia.

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Ok but LA sucks for reasons that have nothing to do with what I want from a city and everything to do with what everyone wants from a city: walkability, affordability, good roads/traffic and infrastructure, good vibes, authenticity, public transit, and people who don't suck.

Even people who are from LA and say "we have all that and I love LA" only mean "I love my neighborhood in LA, which is a 90 minute drive from the 7 other malignancies of highway sprawl that also call themselves LA."

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I mean more that it's crazy to call them "neighborhoods" when any two have nothing in common and are completely inaccessible to each other unless you have your own car and get on the highway for an hour.

And when that's the case, how does one even say they like "LA" (as in the whole city) when you're more likely to travel out of state from Long Beach than to Westwood.

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For those concerned and yet to click the link: he's expected to be back on stage by Wednesday and has received scans, so it appears to be no major concern, though of course not quite minor either.

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Checkmate, atheists

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And I'd be more likely to vote for the one who actually went to prison somehow.

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Also probably since she isn't a rapist making aggressively bigoted remarks every single day. Or a bunch of other things...

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Public wants to see beaver action... What else is new?

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Yeah I'd absolutely consider replacing or augmenting my display with something like these glasses, but asking people to pay more, downgrade specs, replace their whole system, all while picking up an unfamiliar OS... I'll wait for the gen 2. Or 4.

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If Kubrick were a real autist, he'd be like me

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It's alright guys--I just looked up a solution and Google suggests eating glue and a few small pebbles will solve the issue.

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What about their blood and organs and anything it had recently eaten? How does 100% of it turn transparent

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Must have forgotten the name/address of that one person in Andorra

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You are cryogenically frozen eternally when at your healthiest

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Yes, exactly. I think that's what the post is highlighting...

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Check out 3rd Wave Water, you can take coffee snobbery to heights you've never imagined...

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I don't know who this man is, but his face is too small for his head.

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Bees

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It's actually even more unlikely that they would be able to learn how to talk. This guy's clearly not a very good scientist if he missed that.

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Arson "suspected"

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I'm sorry I still don't totally understand. I don't mean to be dumb, I just really wish they labeled the different parts.

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Wow I didn't know sex was invented that long ago

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The bovine leading the bovine

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Thank you! I should have known this from all the puns watching Comedy Bang Bang...

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"It's just G now, Jack. I sold the E to Samsung. They're Samesung now"

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"Today, we fight for our home!"

"Aye, for Gor 💀!"

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Such a great work album. Why Hip Hop Sucks is an all time goat instrumental

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Thought this was a bundle of firewood/kindling at first.

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Mission success, Deapacito 2 discovered and brought back from space.

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Coincidence?

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Old school peg board is my way to deal with this. With all the custom hook shapes they make, almost anything can be hung, and being able to see everything spread across a "2 dimensional" plane helps me remember what I have and where it is, and it makes it 10x easier to mindlessly put it back where it actually belongs. (Plus I love to look at it and just imagine projects...)

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Ah yeah, that's my one issue with it as well, but I've started putting all tools I need for a project away from the board in a big crate/box/wagon, and then wherever I'm working, I put them back in the box as I finish. I find that I move them back to the garage more consistently when they are all in a single thing, and then eventually get them back on the board

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That's what my best mate told me after my last break up

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An ineresting read, but statistically speaking, it's most likely false.

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I work in marketing, and every client I work with who has a WordPress website is using AI to write a lot of their content. This is going to lead to circularly trained AI for sure.

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You mean the guy who got the job cuz someone died, and then started the Vietnam War?

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He pushed it through because he had the career politician connections, which was admittedly 100% invaluable to actually get it done. But the vision came from Kennedy and LBJ largely carried out as Kennedy's legacy rather than Johnson's own cause.

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Very interesting and clarifying, thank you!

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