“The current study showed that high intelligence does not, as one might assume, lead to radical political positions. Instead, highly gifted adults are on average just as politically diverse and moderate as the rest of the population.”
Well that headline is…misleading.
No, a three tined fork is a tiny trident
Well the thing is, a lot of the stuff the current UK government are doing wasn’t actually on the manifesto. Even the people who voted for them had no idea this would happen.
It would be a very weird coincidence, but I think the 2038 regime is mostly an internet-born conspiracy theory.
V for Vendetta in 2038 is eerily similar to what’s happening right now. The UK is slowly turning into a surveillance state with all of the biometric scans and digital ID that the government is trying to organize. Oh, and don’t forget those facial recognition cameras that are popping up in public places throughout England and Wales.
https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/campaigns/stop-facial-recognition
Because the foreskin isn’t just a useless spare part. From an evolutionary perspective, it serves a purpose.
Think of it like buying a car and modifying the transmission. The car still performs it’s primary function, but in a way that comes with trade-offs.
Circumcision is the same. Removing the foreskin (modifying the transmission) might improve some things like hygiene, but it will also completely remove the penis’ natural barrier to protect itself from excess friction
Yeah, but that’ super rare. Only around 0.6% of boys experience it before they’re 15. Even if you’re born with true pathological phimosis, circumcision is usually a last resort because topical steroids are safer and have a pretty high success rate.
“The incidence of pathological phimosis is 0.4 per 1000 boys per year or 0.6% of boys are affected by their 15th birthday.”
Fair enough. But if that’s the point…why? You’d just be making it harder to reproduce at that point
I’ve never understood it, even for religious reasons. It’s not medically necessary, and it weakens your sex organ’s ability to do the thing it is supposed to do.
It’s cool because reincarnation turning out to be true would mean that humans are more than just bags of meat being controlled by electrical signals via the central nervous system. If you die and part of you reappears as another being, clearly something about a person can exist beyond the physical brain. That would be a HUGE paradigm shift.
Also a lot of people who believe in reincarnation believe that good karma vs bad karma affects what you come back as. That would give life meaning and give people an incentive to be good.
Interesting. I personally don’t believe in reincarnation, but I really like the concept. It would be super cool if it was proven to be true.
But you won’t be conscious to experience it. You won’t be aware of it when it happens, so why are you afraid?
I actually agree with this one and i’m saying that as someone who has a degree.
There are different kinds of intelligence and not all of them are necessarily going to get you a job. You could have multiple degrees and still be an idiot
“You do not experience a lack of signal”
Perhaps that’s what was throwing me off
Absolutely not. Biologically, death is defined as the irreversible cessation of all vital functions that keep an organism alive. The brain permanently loses all activity.
Your brain literally sends electrical signals around your body via your central nervous system. That stops when you die.
May I ask, what exactly do you think death is? What you just described is not how death works at all.
Completely different situation. You’d still remember that ice cream existed and therefore miss it. When you die your ability to remember will be gone.
And do you think that you will somehow still be conscious after you die? Your ability to experience will not exist when you die either. I thought that was common sense, but apparently not.
Democracy in the UK is already kind of dying. At this point the UK government is just doing whatever they want (such as laws which weren’t on the manifesto) and completely ignoring the people when they petition against it.