Non-IT News Thread
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In Italy, for example, even though the population isn't getting smarter or dumber, it is becoming more educated and richer. As this happens, those that are more educated and richer than the rest have fewer kids. To the point that they, like Japan, are facing full on societal collapse that is only being held off through massive immigration to keep the population numbers up.
Much of this is caused by the average child bearing age of women shooting from in the late teens to nearly 30 in as many years as the shift is. The average number of kids per woman is plummeting as well. So fewer kids, later in life. The population is devastated by it. Instead of generating four kids every twenty four years, now it is one kid every thirty. That's a very, very different child landscape.
But it has nothing to do with the genes, just social and economic pressures.
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@RojoLoco Genetic diversity is needed for a species to advance though. That means everyone is valuable.
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@wirestyle22 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@RojoLoco Genetic diversity is needed for a species to advance though. That means everyone is valuable.
Well, no, it means that many people are valuable. Bad genes are still bad genes, though. You don't want to risk passing on stupidity any more than passing on huge congenital heart defects or other risks. Diversity value does not mean that all gene samples are valuable.
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Sadly for me, gene diversity is important. I come from the least diverse gene pool in the New World. So inbred that my family had the US DNA inbreeding and DNA deformation research facility built where we come from so that they would have easier access to my family.
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Not only are we the most inter-related family in America, we also are the population of the most inter-related city in America. Thankfully my wife is from a very different gene pool.
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@wirestyle22 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@RojoLoco Genetic diversity is needed for a species to advance though. That means everyone is valuable.
I'm certainly not suggesting this be decided along lines of location, ethnicity, nationality, or anything else like that. Genetic diversity can be achieved by taking the best and brightest from all countries and all races.
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@RojoLoco said in Non-IT News Thread:
@wirestyle22 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@RojoLoco Genetic diversity is needed for a species to advance though. That means everyone is valuable.
I'm certainly not suggesting this be decided along lines of location, ethnicity, nationality, or anything else like that. Genetic diversity can be achieved by taking the best and brightest from all countries and all races.
Given that DNA researches claim that racial diversity in the gene pool is so small that you can't even really find it (maybe they make that stuff up for political reasons, though) it would suggest that smart people might be more related to each other genetically than people of the same family or race to each other.
Now there is an interesting conundrum.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
Not only are we the most inter-related family in America, we also are the population of the most inter-related city in America. Thankfully my wife is from a very different gene pool.
Before my wife passed away, I told everyone I had to marry a Texas girl because I'm related to everyone born in the county. One of those jokes that made everyone laugh till they actually thought about it.... yeah, I could tell how quickly they picked up on things by how long it took them to stop laughing the first time I used that line around them.
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@travisdh1 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
Not only are we the most inter-related family in America, we also are the population of the most inter-related city in America. Thankfully my wife is from a very different gene pool.
Before my wife passed away, I told everyone I had to marry a Texas girl because I'm related to everyone born in the county. One of those jokes that made everyone laugh till they actually thought about it.... yeah, I could tell how quickly they picked up on things by how long it took them to stop laughing the first time I used that line around them.
Yeah.. given that we are likely related, we share the same problem there.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@travisdh1 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
Not only are we the most inter-related family in America, we also are the population of the most inter-related city in America. Thankfully my wife is from a very different gene pool.
Before my wife passed away, I told everyone I had to marry a Texas girl because I'm related to everyone born in the county. One of those jokes that made everyone laugh till they actually thought about it.... yeah, I could tell how quickly they picked up on things by how long it took them to stop laughing the first time I used that line around them.
Yeah.. given that we are likely related, we share the same problem there.
@travisdh1 : sorry to hear.
@scottalanmiller : Thats... no, don't want to think about that
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@thwr said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller : Thats... no, don't want to think about that
Miller, Hershberger, Yoder, Beachy and a few others I'm forgetting at the moment, all inner-related, and constitutes the vast majority of the population around here.
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@travisdh1 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@thwr said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller : Thats... no, don't want to think about that
Miller, Hershberger, Yoder, Beachy and a few others I'm forgetting at the moment, all inner-related, and constitutes the vast majority of the population around here.
Yup. Obviously my name is Miller. I'm from the Beachy Amish. Yoder is the biggest name in the family, Miller is a lesser branch. Hershberger sounds familiar but I'm not sure how close I have one in the tree.
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I wish I had popcorn
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My father in law makes popcorn every night in his full commercial popcorn machine. He's very into popcorn. Almost everyone in the family has a full size popcorn machine except for us, the homeless branch. He has a commercial snow cone machine too. And my sister in law has a commercial cotton candy machine.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
My father in law makes popcorn every night in his full commercial popcorn machine. He's very into popcorn. Almost everyone in the family has a full size popcorn machine except for us, the homeless branch. He has a commercial snow cone machine too. And my sister in law has a commercial cotton candy machine.
So by everyone in the family you mean @travisdh1 as well I assume
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@wirestyle22 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
My father in law makes popcorn every night in his full commercial popcorn machine. He's very into popcorn. Almost everyone in the family has a full size popcorn machine except for us, the homeless branch. He has a commercial snow cone machine too. And my sister in law has a commercial cotton candy machine.
So by everyone in the family you mean @travisdh1 as well I assume
LMAO
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US election: Trump 'encourages Russia to hack Clinton emails'
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
US election: Trump 'encourages Russia to hack Clinton emails'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-us-2016-36907541starts hacking
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@tonyshowoff said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
US election: Trump 'encourages Russia to hack Clinton emails'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-us-2016-36907541starts hacking
Get moving, Trump is eagerly awaiting his orders.
