Well, the people paying the most taxes are doing just fine.

This specific policy seems like it’s trying to alienate people, though. They could have gone with anything besides nationalisation, or at least used a bullshit name for it.

Like, radical policies can win, and sometimes aren’t even a bad idea, but it just doesn’t seem like this one has wide appeal. Unless they win it means about as much as our hot takes on here.

You know how the Conservative party has gotten further and further right to appeal to their own activists, at the expense of appealing to anyone else? There’s a similar vibe with this.

Is it not loading for me, or are there actually just two sentences?

Poor people 40 and up tend to vote more Conservative. They strike the same angry tone without any of the complicated or uncomfortable stuff.

Actually, poor young people are to the right of affluent young people, as well.

So do you have a kind of mixed farm + social media presence thing going then?

I did see that report. How embarrassing for the BBC.

Excellent news, though.

At the end of the day, farmland is going to earn a similar basic return to whatever other capital asset, and while farming labour isn’t unskilled the amount of people raised in it means it earns like it is.

Nobody who says this is picturing manhandling half-dead chickens, and it’s usually someone white who isn’t going to move to the mountains of Ethiopia to farm subsistence crops and cocoa. That pretty much leaves something land-intensive.

I did talk to someone here who made it work with ranching, but ranching is definitely not a good earner right now, and a lot of people are leaving the industry. Modern crop farming seems a lot like a desk job on wheels. Mainly, I think people just want space and fresh air, and have no idea what rural life is actually like.

This Lemming rural-s.

Not sure I believe you, TBH.

Although if you’re doing it a lot, you’ve basically removed the main advantage of using Rust.

By the way, how is compilation to things other than LLVM going? I haven’t checked in a while.

Aww. I just like funny stuff.

This was a CT scan, or even a specialised kind of CT scan. X-rays are involved, but an emulsion plate in 1905 isn’t going to get you a “3D mapping”.

Although, yes, it’s a neglected area of the body in medicine.

Couldn’t they distill their own in something metal?

I mean, the article is about France. Am I missing something?

Doesn’t is still use closed-source Chrome components?

If you’re thinking of protein design it is, just with a sequence instead of natural language text. Although it’s not just a straight LLM, there’s some kind of physics awareness engineered in as well.

Anything that’s fuzzy and impossible to automate with traditional algorithms, but that also has a reasonably high tolerance for error. It just makes up stuff a good portion of the time, you see.

However, I’ve found some benefits with AI. For example, I’m chatting with ChatGPT on credit cards, because it is something I may lean towards getting into. It’s helping me better understand than most people have tried explaining to me. Simply because it is giving me a more stream-lined response than people just beating the bush.

Watch out, personal finances are not one of those things.

Here, I won’t add anything, I’ll just cited what I’ve brought up:

The Neanderthal stuff is recent research and still kind of in flux, so you could object that there might be another interpretation somehow. The bit about everyone outside of Africa having admixture is here, and it actually mentions that east Asians have the highest proportion.

On the origin of white people, here’s the steppe herder component and here’s the bit about them having horses. This is the Middle Eastern agriculturalist part and these are the original hunter-gatherer inhabitants of western Europe, specifically the section on them likely being black and blue-eyed.

This is a photo of historical Ainu in Japan which gives a sense of why I’d compare them in appearance to Europeans, as some of the Europeans themselves did. There isn’t actually a close relation:

In other species that intermix like that, you see stretches of DNA where all admixture is excluded, because it’s instantly selected out. In humans, such a stretch exists, and has to do with sex determination, which is a pretty much a smoking gun. I’m finding stuff about the Y chromosome, but I thought there was something on the X chromosome to do with testicle development as well.

Obviously, female hybrids were fertile at least some of the time, since there is admixture. But, it’s possible every half-and-half male hybrid ever ended up sterile, and later generations would probably have had higher rates of sterility.

The general idea that humans are irrationally obsessed with categories and tribes holds, but this doesn’t seem like a clear-cut example.

but retaining neanderthal genes adaptive to the northern climate.

Shake and bake a couple generations, you get white people.

Anyone outside of Africa has similar-ish admixture; skin colour has little to do with it. European hunter-gathers at the end of the ice age were what we’d consider black, and they were replaced by Middle Eastern looking and originating agriculturalists. The light skin colour is from Eurasian steppe nomads that rode in on the first horses in the bronze age. Other unrelated groups, like from the Caucuses area or pre-modern Japan, also have/had light skin.

It’s worth a read just for the diagrams of possible timelines. Apparently there was at least one earlier wave of Homo Sapiens ancestors going to Europe, too, labeled gamma, which would have just been absorbed by the Neanderthals.

The Eurasian superarchaics would themselves have left Africa around 2 million years ago, with the very first Homo Erectus or Habilis migrants into the larger world.