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How to Keep Chickens in the City - As egg prices rise, the agricultural secretary told Americans: Get some hens! It’s not a bad idea.

Well egg prices are going down but it's a good experience for kids

My partner works at JP Morgan and is being forced back into the office. I'm terrified of what this means for our relationship.

Genes and environment

Medical Schools’ Botched Pass-Fail Experiment - The early results of the United States Medical Licensing Exam’s new grading process are worrisome.

An arbitrator has barred Sarah Wynn-Williams from promoting her explosive new book. We got one of the only interviews, By Bari Weiss

Saturday Miscellany

Mass Cases Of EDS Reported All Over The World...

Musk Gets Access to USPS, Reforms Could Solve $9 billion Annual Deficit, but Proposed Leftist Reforms would Lead to Fiscal Ruin

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USPS: I got a "if it fits it ships" large envelope to send some papers and photos. I addressed it in the space allocated for address. I stood in line and when I got to the window the postmistress had me fill out a label with both addresses on it even though I had already done that on the envelope in the designated spot. We then changed windows so I could pay. I intended to pay in cash but her window wasn't set up for cash so I had to use a debit card. All in all it took over 10 minutes to mail a single large envelope with a fixed price, and the line behind me grew longer.

#1 OneGuy on 2025-03-15 10:06 (Reply)

I always use the self serve kiosk. The post office lines are always long. Generally there is only one postal worker helping. There are two self serve kiosks, and generally one is always out of commission. I’m glad I don’t need to visit the post office regularly. No cash payment at the self serve kiosks.

#1.1 B. Hammer on 2025-03-15 12:11 (Reply)

The NYT article about sociogenomics is quite good. I was dragged kicking and screaming into the hereditarian model over the years because they had the better data. Now, it seems, I may be dragged back, at least a bit. There is lots more talk about cultural evolution these days, and how institutions and rates of change drive genetic selection at the polygenic level. The hundred of small-increment genes in turn drive our choice of environments, what speed of change and chance we are wired to survive in. Fascinating stuff.

For those who want more, Razib Khan's interview of Joseph Heinrich ("The WEIRDest People In The World") is stimulating.

#2 Assistant Village Idiot on 2025-03-15 10:15 (Reply)

Assistant Village Idiot: There is lots more talk about cultural evolution these days, and how institutions and rates of change drive genetic selection at the polygenic level.

There is no doubt genetic evolution in humans is still ongoing, and even accelerated due to the vast changes in the human environment. Sexual selection amplifies natural selection.

From the examples provided in the article, now consider a Black girl in America or an effeminate boy most anywhere. What drives the environment around their development? What social expectations come into play? What self-reinforcing mechanisms are involved?

#2.1 Zachriel on 2025-03-15 11:29 (Reply)

That's an unwarranted extension of the macro-level changes. They might turn out to be true, but it looks like smuggling your environmentalist priors back in.

#2.1.1 Assistant Village Idiot on 2025-03-15 13:51 (Reply)

Assistant Village Idiot: That's an unwarranted extension of the macro-level changes.

Just responding to reasoning in the article: "Picture a kid who is born with two working copies of what’s known as the sprinter’s gene, ACTN3... the more she excels, the more coaching and training is made available to her... It’s a continuous feedback loop, in which neither nature nor nurture is a fixed entity."

Unless you are claiming that race or male effeminacy has no social consequence, even on the margins; then, even on the margins, the results become magnified through reinforcement. Someone who is thought to be naturally less intelligent or unqualified or socially unfit will be denied, on the margins, the "coaching and training" in a "continuous feedback loop".

#2.1.1.1 Zachriel on 2025-03-15 14:22 (Reply)

Quibble-DickZ gotta quibble.

#2.1.1.1.1 Zachinoff on 2025-03-15 16:45 (Reply)

"I'm terrified of what this means for our relationship"

He's also 'scared' and 'worried'. She's being 'forced' to go back to the office, 4 days a week ! Oh, the horror.

The balance of 'news about world events' and 'news about some stranger's petty emotional state' has shifted. A larger preponderance of news stories now might mention a world event, but then move to put it into terms of the emotional reaction to it, as if the latter is the driver of the story.

Why would it be? People will care about a war or major upheaval. Why should they focus instead on somebody's meltdown at the scene? It feels false, and it does a disservice to people that want to understand their world.

This trend seems to direct people to respond as if they should also have a meltdown and be 'terrified' if something changes in their life. Why? What is helpful about that?

#3 Aggie on 2025-03-15 10:30 (Reply)

Roosters not needed. Hens lay eggs without them. Just don't expect chicks.

Leghorns raised for meat in commercial chicken-houses will start laying if there's a hitch in the chickens "going out". This happened in my uncle's houses once - thousands of hens dropping eggs...

Might be a quick fix for the egg market.

#4 Codfanglers on 2025-03-15 10:44 (Reply)

Dear Soy Boy: recess is over. Grow up. If your relationship cannot survive her going to work outside the home, it will not survive anything else. Man up. The world does not revolve around your playtime wishes, you spoiled little GenZer.

#5 Galway Boy on 2025-03-15 12:38 (Reply)

Flashback: Now the Pentagon tells Bush: climate change will destroy us
This article is more than 21 years old
· Secret report warns of rioting and nuclear war
· Britain will be ‘Siberian’ in less than 20 years
· Threat to the world is greater than terrorism

I remember when this came out.

QUOTE:

Climate change over the next 20 years could result in a global catastrophe costing millions of lives in wars and natural disasters..

A secret report, suppressed by US defence chiefs and obtained by The Observer, warns that major European cities will be sunk beneath rising seas as Britain is plunged into a ‘Siberian’ climate by 2020. Nuclear conflict, mega-droughts, famine and widespread rioting will erupt across the world.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2004/feb/22/usnews.theobserver

#6 feeblemind on 2025-03-15 12:45 (Reply)

Yet they kept building aircraft carriers and no icebreakers. Typical Pentagon follow through.

#6.1 indyjonesouthere on 2025-03-15 16:48 (Reply)

I saw the headline about EDS and thought, "Is there That Much Erectile Disfunction out there?

#7 ed in texas on 2025-03-15 12:55 (Reply)

Stuart on Columbia... Why not simply 'deport' Colombia University, home of the Frankfort School, to some location in the middle east, perhaps Syria. An upside would be no need for any government grants at all.

#8 indyjonesouthere on 2025-03-15 16:45 (Reply)

"I'm terrified of what this means for our relationship". It sounds rather as if this pair have been gaming the system, each pretending to work a full day while enjoying all amenities.

#9 Frances on 2025-03-15 21:24 (Reply)

The guy in the JP Morgan article says nothing about what his partner's job is and whether it can really be done equally well remotely. It's all about the benefits, not the work.

This fits a pattern I've frequently observed lately: jobs are thought of as Sinecures, things that exist to provide rewards for the holder, rather than being things that create value.

#10 David Foster (Link) on 2025-03-16 10:38 (Reply)

re How to Keep Chickens in the City - As egg prices rise, the agricultural secretary told Americans: Get some hens! It’s not a bad idea.

Maybe if TSHTF and the supply chain breaks down. Otherwise . . . no.

You can buy eggs cheaper than you can raise them. A testament to the miracle of industrial agriculture.

#11 feeblemind on 2025-03-16 15:38 (Reply)

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