Recent content by Morphic Tide

Similar is a very serious theory for European criminality being lower, as the worst ~1% were executed every generation for centuries.

It's far more commonly the case that extreme productivity creates the room to afford degeneracy, making for a really awkward negative feedback loop that's compensated by some manner of hard moral standards to prevent those productive people from indulging to nigh-sterility.

It's surprisingly uncontroversial in psychology that a large part of one's character is based on genetics, though rarely a decisive majority on any particular factor and with a lot of stuff being almost strictly environmental. And the obvious caveat of it being a pain in the ass to separate...

Maybe to establish child support eligibility? So if the couple trust eachother enough to feel no need it doesn't crop up as a deeply awkward question, nor if they don't part over infidelity once revealed, but the perverse incentive of a woman declaring the richest guy she slept with the father...

Clan politics backed up by Islamic law.

Once the label of "kkiddy-diddler" sticks there's not much more you can do to somebody.

The India/Pakistan and Israel/Iran cases would be the two I was referring to. On account of you being willfully blind to reality. Here's a more specific article, with special emphasis on its cluster of external links: Main point is $200 billion from Micron, Stargate is a $500 billion project...

The one that cold-stopped two wars? That have created a monthly budget surplus and trillions in investment? How many times. Do you have to be told. That the immigrants. Are not actually competing with citizen workers? They are just flat-out undercutting them, making citizens legally disallowed...

The white/dark/red meat distinction is to do with fast/slow twitch muscle fibers. For whatever reason most mammals have predominantly mixed muscle tissue that is "red meat" while poultry has highly-distinguished fast/slow twitch groups resulting in distinct white and dark meat. The entire point...

As somewhere upwards of a pentanary economic actor. If almost anything about "The System" changes, the levers will be doing jack shit.

Doesn't lead to the natural thing this is built off of being fatal, so there's something confining it to GI tract exposure. That said, fucking up the biotech deployment resulting in the allergic response in other tissues would not exactly be unforeseeable given the shitshow of spike protein spread.

It's more the rate of purchasing power decline and volatility thereof that's important than total change over large periods... Unless wages don't get adjusted accordingly per the other chart.

Less theoretically-efficient but actually tolerable by the population industrial chains. As opposed to blackouts from drug addicts stripping the power lines to sell as scrap for more drugs because you fucked too much of the population out of jobs chasing the lowest possible price.

It's more about productive work and investment being the rational action for the conditions, not the ethical or religious "character of a nation" per se. Appropriate ethical and religious frameworks are important to maintaining such conditions in the face of how there's seemingly inevitably a...

The detail that you're glossing over is that the compromises before never did anything to undermine their power, so they played into a generational ratcheting strategy. Now, the "compromises" are "we are burning down your entire quango industrial complex and are closing the government tap to...