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Holman wrote: Fri Jul 26, 2024 5:25 pm

em2nought wrote: Fri Jul 26, 2024 5:23 pm You don't want to see a picture of me Holman.

[Sorry. I deleted my "give us a selfie" post because I decided it personalized things too much.]

Skinypupy wrote: Fri Jul 26, 2024 9:47 am The Obamas have endorsed Harris, and with perfect timing to make Trump look even more stupid after his "bUt ObaMa hASn'T eNDorSeD hER" excuse for backing out of the debates last night.

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status ... 4477775941

Carpet_pissr wrote: Fri Jul 26, 2024 9:26 am

YellowKing wrote: Fri Jul 26, 2024 9:24 am

em2nought wrote:Since then I think I've noticed an uptick in people wondering if so many sources promoted that lie for so long what else might be a lie.

Serious question - why do you care about honesty when you support a candidate who claims babies are being executed after they're born (false). Or claimed that 20 million immigrants entered the country last year (false, not even close). Or dozens of other claims that can be easily fact-checked and debunked?

Do you actually believe Trump is telling the truth, and the entire rest of the world is lying to you about the "facts," or do you just not care when he does it?

I'm seriously trying to get into the mindset of someone who believes stuff that can easily be fact-checked with just a few seconds of effort.

Yes, PLEASE answer that as honestly as you can. I would love to know so I can get possibly get some context into my Dad's brain since I have been dying to ask him this (but it always elevates to yelling before we get there).

waitingtoconnect wrote: Fri Jul 26, 2024 7:42 pm Kamala is too short to be president now apparently (she is five two).

Seems maga is calling for an apartheight regime; the Tall who are given all the rights and the jockeys who will be their servants

em2nought wrote: Fri Jul 26, 2024 6:38 pm

Carpet_pissr wrote: Fri Jul 26, 2024 9:26 am

YellowKing wrote: Fri Jul 26, 2024 9:24 am

em2nought wrote:Since then I think I've noticed an uptick in people wondering if so many sources promoted that lie for so long what else might be a lie.

Serious question - why do you care about honesty when you support a candidate who claims babies are being executed after they're born (false). Or claimed that 20 million immigrants entered the country last year (false, not even close). Or dozens of other claims that can be easily fact-checked and debunked?

Do you actually believe Trump is telling the truth, and the entire rest of the world is lying to you about the "facts," or do you just not care when he does it?

I'm seriously trying to get into the mindset of someone who believes stuff that can easily be fact-checked with just a few seconds of effort.

Yes, PLEASE answer that as honestly as you can. I would love to know so I can get possibly get some context into my Dad's brain since I have been dying to ask him this (but it always elevates to yelling before we get there).

Give me a day to get back to this. I'm really tired at the moment.

Skinypupy wrote: Fri Jul 26, 2024 8:05 pm
Does being tall make someone a better leader? Enquiring minds want to know…

he Maya people of Guatemala are among the shortest people in the world. Men on average hover a few inches above 5 feet and women a few inches below. But if they move to the United States as children, the Maya grow taller. That extra growth carries to the next generation: Maya children born to Guatemalan immigrants in the United States are roughly four inches taller than their peers in Guatemala, research by biological anthropologist Barry Bogin shows. Some of that gap disappears as children reach adulthood, but even then, Maya people in the United States are still taller than people in their native country.

Economists have long observed increases in height across immigrant communities worldwide. Improved nutrition and sanitation are the conventional explanations for such growth.

But Bogin, of Loughborough University in England, and other researchers think there’s more to it than just better health. Even wealthy children in Guatemala tend to be shorter than children who grow up in the United States. Moving a child from one society to another — even if their lifestyle doesn’t change significantly — shifts their growth trajectory to match that of children in their new community, Bogin says.

His proposal that height has a social component rests on evidence that genetics and nutrition can’t explain all variation in human height (SN: 5/13/20). It’s also based on research in behavioral ecology showing that the growth of many social animals adapts in response to members of their community, a phenomenon referred to as “strategic growth.” In species with rigid hierarchies, dominant members often grow larger while subordinate members stay smaller.

Strategic growth also drives growth in humans, Bogin proposed in 2021 in Human Biology and Public Health. His research suggests that height not only reflects a person’s perceived social status within their community, but also their society’s underlying political and economic conditions. For instance, height disparities are wider in highly unequal societies and shrink in more egalitarian ones. When people in highly stratified countries move to more egalitarian communities, they tend to grow taller, studies of Western countries suggest. Based on animal research, Bogin suspects hormones, including those released when the body is under stress, may modulate the social aspects of height.

waitingtoconnect wrote: Fri Jul 26, 2024 10:27 pm You jockey sympathisers are always trying to use science to undercut the reality that the tall are closer to heaven and this blessed of God. In our tall-short political culture let us not forget Hitler came from the short not the tall.

And if the short are so great why do they lose at basketball all the time?

LawBeefaroni wrote: Sat Jul 27, 2024 7:43 am Every csuite I've worked for or interacted with has been notably taller than average. Except for women. Women in these roles, in my experience, aren't notably taller than average.


Granted, all anecdotal and a small sample size, but pretty striking.

geezer wrote: Sat Jul 27, 2024 8:39 am
Back on topic, I’ve been invited to the “10k White Dudes for Harris” call Monday night . Will report back

Unagi wrote: Fri Jul 26, 2024 12:00 pm ...I think we need to accept that no matter what, the media is going to try very very hard to give us a Trump Presidency. Again.

Unagi wrote: Sat Jul 27, 2024 10:11 am

geezer wrote: Sat Jul 27, 2024 8:39 am
Back on topic, I’ve been invited to the “10k White Dudes for Harris” call Monday night . Will report back

How does that happen?

geezer wrote: Sat Jul 27, 2024 10:37 am

Unagi wrote: Sat Jul 27, 2024 10:11 am

geezer wrote: Sat Jul 27, 2024 8:39 am
Back on topic, I’ve been invited to the “10k White Dudes for Harris” call Monday night . Will report back

How does that happen?

I have a friend who's heavily involved in Black Democratic party circles, and she invited me.

geezer wrote: Sat Jul 27, 2024 8:39 am

LawBeefaroni wrote: Sat Jul 27, 2024 7:43 am Every csuite I've worked for or interacted with has been notably taller than average. Except for women. Women in these roles, in my experience, aren't notably taller than average.


Granted, all anecdotal and a small sample size, but pretty striking.

I’m a dead even 5’10, for what it’s worth (though my co-founder was 6’4). My best friend (CTO of a firm) is maybe 5’7. All that said - height vs salary research: https://www.forbes.com/sites/traversmar ... stand-why/

geezer wrote: Sat Jul 27, 2024 8:39 am Back on topic, I’ve been invited to the “10k White Dudes for Harris” call Monday night . Will report back

...and generally sounded like someone you wouldn’t want to sit near at a restaurant

Skinypupy wrote: Fri Jul 26, 2024 8:05 pm

waitingtoconnect wrote: Fri Jul 26, 2024 7:42 pm Kamala is too short to be president now apparently (she is five two).

Seems maga is calling for an apartheight regime; the Tall who are given all the rights and the jockeys who will be their servants

Malcom Gladwell’s “Blink” talked about how 58% of male Fortune 500 CEOs are over 6’ tall, which is 4X the percentage of men who are that tall in the US.

Does being tall make someone a better leader? Enquiring minds want to know…

$iljanus wrote: Sat Jul 27, 2024 11:55 am There's been some interesting articles about the pivot from "threat to democracy" to "He's just... weird". The campaign still talks about how a Trump presidency threatens democracy but by prefacing it with the weird twins Trump and Vance it seems to resonate with more people. And it mocks the orange fella but isn't meanspirited like Trump.

Some smart folks on the Harris campaign. Also, Trump and Vance happen to be pretty damn weird.

YellowKing wrote: Sat Jul 27, 2024 4:12 pm I think she's also smartly providing voters with a forward-looking choice, rather than relying on Biden's legacy. Because guess what? Voters apparently don't care about Biden's legacy. Trumpeting his many accomplishments didn't move the needle at all, and tying herself to that wouldn't have gotten her anywhere.

$iljanus wrote: Sat Jul 27, 2024 11:55 am There's been some interesting articles about the pivot from "threat to democracy" to "He's just... weird".

Carpet_pissr wrote: Fri Jul 26, 2024 9:26 am

YellowKing wrote: Fri Jul 26, 2024 9:24 am

em2nought wrote:Since then I think I've noticed an uptick in people wondering if so many sources promoted that lie for so long what else might be a lie.

Serious question - why do you care about honesty when you support a candidate who claims babies are being executed after they're born (false). Or claimed that 20 million immigrants entered the country last year (false, not even close). Or dozens of other claims that can be easily fact-checked and debunked?

Do you actually believe Trump is telling the truth, and the entire rest of the world is lying to you about the "facts," or do you just not care when he does it?

I'm seriously trying to get into the mindset of someone who believes stuff that can easily be fact-checked with just a few seconds of effort.

Yes, PLEASE answer that as honestly as you can. I would love to know so I can get possibly get some context into my Dad's brain since I have been dying to ask him this (but it always elevates to yelling before we get there).