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on: Nineteen people a week overdose in Richmond, dozens are dying, hundreds revived
Took a few at once of my hydrocodone prescription from a wisdom tooth removal (only two of them at once) at 18 to 20 or so, then did the same thing next time when I had the other two removed. No idea what their real cost is besides the copay. Just wanted to see what it was like. I don't think I really got anything out of it besides a bit of a placebo effect. Didn't seem very appealing.
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on: I’m Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
I'm asking how you justify helping more enter a market that's already showing signs of starting to not have enough room for natives, as you can see in the screenshot I linked. It drives down wages and makes it harder for natives to get a job, and a lot of native grads are struggling.
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on: I’m Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
Do you have a moral defense of your supporting h1b or other immigration for work in an industry already showing signs of bursting for new native grads[1]?
1: https://i.imgur.com/kMicDgO.png
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on: When sexual selection can lead to a decline in the capacity for survival
This is just a plain fact, why downvote it?
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on: When sexual selection can lead to a decline in the capacity for survival
Breastfeeding is much better for the baby's development than formula
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on: When sexual selection can lead to a decline in the capacity for survival
Being an "unlikable weirdo" wouldn't explain getting no responses on the standard dating sites/apps everyone on campus uses, when the demographics of the college are around 65% female. Part of the problem is that way back in the day, when the tribes were small, it was in the woman's best interest to mate with only the perceived fittest mates around, and her mental baseline of "average" would be set by the local tribe members. Now that we have the media and such showing super-fit males as the standard, that becomes the baseline of acceptable, so it seems like you're written off right away if you're below that. Some time ago before we were so inundated with such standards in the media, the mental baseline would be more realistic, and more males in the local town/area would have a chance. The male's evolutionary sexual strategy has always been to impregnate as many mates as possible, so the change in the media hasn't really had an effect on that end. This ties into my observation, which I've seen echoed on a lot of other forums online, that even the far less conventionally attractive women are increasingly refusing to settle for any less than a male they'd rate at "8/10". There's also a study by OKCupid saying something similar.
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on: When sexual selection can lead to a decline in the capacity for survival
I can't say I ever do. This comes from living on a college campus for years and leaving without having been able to get a single date.
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on: When sexual selection can lead to a decline in the capacity for survival
Mainly muscle mass and height.
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on: When sexual selection can lead to a decline in the capacity for survival
The title reminds me of a species we're all familiar with where the females are adopting increasingly high standards for mates based in obsolete evolutionary preferences which have no applicability to fitness in the current environment, and where the skills relevant to survival in the current environment are ironically often seen as unattractive by the females, and males who cultivate these skills often don't have the time to develop the portions of the aforementioned obsolete traits that are trainable.
