Eugenics isn’t just done by government. The world has been limiting the reproduction of the disabled through social pressure for ages. Look at the stigma interracial relationships used to have. Examples are everywhere.

Why does everyone think eugenics only means the way the Nazis did it?

It’s a broad term people. The government is the most heavy handed way to implement it but social pressure is arguably more effective and harder to end.

Look. If you want to talk about ethnic cleansing, talk about ethnic cleansing. If you want to talk about mass murder, talk about mass murder. But the term “eugenics” covers a lot of possibilities whether you like that or not.

Sorry.

Well, once involves mass murder and the other doesn’t, so I think the people being impacted by that would see a difference.

But if your worldview needs overgeneralizations to survive, you do you I guess.

Which eugenicists?

There a big difference between “kill everyone of a certain race” and “you don’t get to reproduce if you have a horrifying heritable disease”.

I think you have it backwards, it’s no wonder people who are easy to manipulate get drawn into religion.

Honestly, I think the fact that you can’t count on instant gratification here is one of the things that helps keep it from becoming a shit hole like reddit.

I don’t mind the slower, more deliberate place here. You get less trolls that way.

For stoic men (and maybe women, who knows?) Captain Phillips… but not till the end. It sneaks up on you.

I’ll give you the chat code. Lots of eye contact, smile, and all then ask questions about them whenever the conversation dies. People, especially Americans generally love to talk about themselves.

None of what you say is wrong, but I will say that though my regular number is on permanent silence and straight to voicemail because of all the spam calls and texts, the Google voice number I have had for years has been largely free of all that BS and continues to work great.

Maybe they are tracking everything I do, but the product DOES work pretty great.

I’m mad, but what? Once we pull out the guillotines there’s no going back, so right now I’m hoping that checks and balances thing starts to kick in soon.

The burp let’s you know it’s working, and who couldn’t benefit from extra hydration?

I always loved the “do uncontacted remote tribes that haven’t heard of God or Jesus go to heaven?” question. So far everyone has answered yes. And then you realize that Christians could save everyone, everywhere, forever, just by destroying all their literature, not teaching religion, and letting it die with them. One sacrificial generation and everyone is saved forever.

But they won’t do it because of greed and pride, the core aspects of their belief system.

John Stewart did a great bit where station after station reads the exact same script over and over again. It’s unsettling.

I wish I had good advice for how to connect with people after the school years, that’s just difficult.

If there is one lesson I could teach my younger self, it would be to have several low commitment relationships while I was younger to learn what is “normal”. Once you start making murder pacts, it’s usually too late.

There’s usually a four prong power connector on the top left corner of the motherboard. I always forget that one, nothing works without it plugged in too.

You aren’t imagining things. We take social cues from others. If you have friends who are weird, you will feel more free to be weird. If politicians have to hide their racism to work with someone above them, others will follow suit. If they don’t have to hide it… same.

Last time I asked the pharmacist, they recommended Zyrtec, or other allergy medication. It targets the same mechanism, apparently.

It worked for me at any rate.

A lot of men are desperate to connect with other people and for validation.

There’s a route you take when you walk to the front door, there’s a hand you open it with, there’s a way you shift your weight as you open it. Yes, usually going to the pastry shop on the weekend can be a habit too, but there really are tons your never think about.

When someone calls your name, do you look or not? Fast or slow? When someone tells you their name do you repeat it to yourself in your head? Any of these things you do consistently without thinking are habits, and anything you do consistently through mental effort can be too, even if they aren’t automatic.