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u/dangerbird2 · 22 pointsr/subredditoftheday

There is a difference between race and ethnicity. Ethnicity is a self-identification based on both genetic links and a common set of history, tradition, language, and/or religion of held by a population group. Race is a social construct that was invented around the time of Europe's age of Exploration that generalizes the tens of thousands of ethnic groups around the world into five or so "races". Race is often conflated with ethnic origin but usually has very little genealogical or cultural basis. In the United States especially, race has more similar features to a socio-political caste system than actual ethnic divisions.

When you ask about non-European groups having "racial pride", this is often an expression of ethnic pride rather than American racial castes. Although American black pride movements often seek solidarity with Africa and other African diaspora cultures, it is based around the distinct Afro-American ethnicity (African immigrants often have as much trouble assimilating to Afro-American culture as European immigrants do to white America). Likewise, Asian pride centers around actual places of origin: there are Koreatowns or Chinatowns in many American cities, but you would never see an "Asiatown". Finally, there is certainly room for European-descent Americans to show pride in their ethnic tradition, just based around real cultures rather than artificial racial boundaries. There is absolutely nothing wrong with showing Irish pride at St. Patrick's day, German pride during Oktoberfest, or even celebrating distinctly American ethnicities like Appalachian or Louisiana Cajun peoples.

u/George_Rockwell · 16 pointsr/subredditoftheday

> Any different between races is negligible to the point that social conditions can make up for them.

You're gonna want to hold onto your tendies for this one:

Humans can be genetically categorized into five racial groups, corresponding to traditional races.
http://pritchardlab.stanford.edu/publications/pdfs/RosenbergEtAl02.pdf

Genetic analysis "supports the traditional racial groups classification."
http://psychology.uwo.ca/faculty/rushtonpdfs/PPPL1.pdf

"Human genetic variation is geographically structured" and corresponds with race.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15508000

Race can be determined via genetics with certainty for >99.8% of individuals.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15625622

Oral bacteria can be used to determine race.
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-10-oral-bacteria-fingerprint-mouth.html

Race can be determined via brain scans.
http://www.cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822(15)00671-5

96-97% of whites have no African ancestry.
http://www.theroot.com/articles/history/2013/02/how_mixed_are_african_americans.3.html

97% of Whites have no black ancestry whatsoever.
http://www.unz.com/isteve/nyt-white-black-a-murky-distinction-grows-still-murkier/

There was "minimal gene flow" between archaic Europeans and Asians.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/20/science/20adapt.html

Common-sense racial categories have biological meaning.
http://www.ln.edu.hk/philoso/staff/sesardic/Race2.pdf

Human intelligence is highly heritable.
http://www.nature.com/mp/journal/v16/n10/abs/mp201185a.html

Scientific consensus is that IQ tests are not racially biased.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289608000305

Very poor Whites are comparably intelligent to very wealthy blacks.
http://www.jbhe.com/features/49_college_admissions-test.html

Privately, intelligence experts hold more hereditarian views than they express in public.
http://www.udel.edu/educ/gottfredson/reprints/1994egalitarianfiction.pdf

Black children raised in White households have similar IQs to black children in black households.
http://psycnet.apa.org/psycinfo/1977-07996-001

The average African IQ is estimated at 79.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886912003741

The average African-American IQ is 85, compared to the average White IQ of 100.
http://www.udel.edu/educ/gottfredson/reprints/1997mainstream.pdf

The white-black gap in SAT scores, a proxy for IQ, is increasing.
http://www.jbhe.com/features/49_college_admissions-test.html

Genes for large brains, linked to high IQ, are common everywhere except Africa.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB115040765329081636

Intelligence has a 40-50% genetic basis.
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/aug/10/news/la-heb-genetic-study-intelligence-20110809

IQ scores are the best predictor of success in Western society.
http://psychology.uwo.ca/faculty/rushtonpdfs/PPPL1.pdf

IQ is 75% heritable among Whites.
http://psychology.uwo.ca/faculty/rushtonpdfs/PPPL1.pdf

More diverse neighborhoods have lower social cohesion.
http://www.citylab.com/housing/2013/11/paradox-diverse-communities/7614/

Diversity increases psychotic experiences.
http://bjp.rcpsych.org/content/201/4/282.abstract?etoc

Diversity increases social adversity.
http://bjp.rcpsych.org/content/201/4/282.abstract?etoc

A 10% increase in diversity doubles the chance of psychotic episodes.
http://bjp.rcpsych.org/content/201/4/282.abstract?etoc

Diversity reduces voter registration, political efficacy, charity, and number of friendships.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9477.2007.00176.x/abstract;jsessionid=279C92A7EB0946BBA63D62937FC832A9.f04t03

Ethnic diversity reduces happiness and quality of life.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9477.2007.00176.x/abstract;jsessionid=279C92A7EB0946BBA63D62937FC832A9.f04t03

Diversity reduces trust, civic participation, and civic health.
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2007/08/05/the_downside_of_diversity/?page=full

Ethnocentrism is rational, biological, and genetic in origin.
http://www.pnas.org/content/108/4/1262.abstract

Ethnic diversity harms health for hispanics and blacks.
http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2105/AJPH.2012.300787

Babies demostrate ethnocentrism before exposure to non-whites.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-7687.2012.01138.x/full

Ethnocentrism is universal and likely evolved in origin.
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~axe/research/AxHamm_Ethno.pdf

Diversity primarily hurts the dominant ethnic group.
http://www.theindependentaustralian.com.au/node/57

Ethnic diversity reduces concern for the environment.
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10640-012-9619-6

Ethnic diversity within 80 meters of a person reduces social trust.
http://curis.ku.dk/ws/files/130251172/Dinesen_S_nderskov_Ethnic_Diversity_and_Social_Trust_Forthcoming_ASR.pdf

Ethnic diversity directly reduces strong communities.
https://www.msu.edu/~zpneal/publications/neal-diversitysoc.pdf

Ethnically homogenous neighborhoods are beneficial for health.
https://www.mailman.columbia.edu/public-health-now/news/living-ethnically-homogenous-area-boosts-health-minority-seniors

Diversity in American cities correlates with segregation.
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-most-diverse-cities-are-often-the-most-segregated/

Races are extended families. Ethnocentrism is genetically rational.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Ethnic-Phenomenon-Pierre-Berghe/dp/0275927091

It is evolutionary rational to be friends with someone genetically similar to you.
http://www.livescience.com/46791-friends-share-genes.html

Racism and nationalism are rational and evolutionary advantageous strategies.
http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/16/3/7.html

Homogeneous polities have less crime, less civil war, and more altruism.
http://www.theindependentaustralian.com.au/node/57

States with little diversity have more democracy, less corruption, and less inequality.
http://www.theindependentaustralian.com.au/node/57

There is extensive evidence people prefer others who are genetically similar.
http://psychology.uwo.ca/faculty/rushtonpdfs/n&n 2005-1.pdf

u/TikiTDO · 1 pointr/subredditoftheday

PCMR is a fairly diverse subreddit. There are 300k members of all sort of background and levels of knowledge.

In regards to a $300 laptop in 2009 running Xbox 360 games, that's entirely possible if you could find a decent clearance sale late in the year. Look at it in terms of GPU. The Xbox 360 used a derivative of the ATI R520 (X1000+) architecture first released in 2005. This could pull 240 GFLOPS.

September 2009 saw the release of the AMD Evergreen (HD 5000+) architecture, which was three full architecture revisions newer. That means during the 2009 holiday seasons shops would be selling off the laptops with the older AMD R700 (HD 4000+) chips to open up stock for the newer products. At that time the cheapest mid range Mobility Radeon HD 4670 could pull 320 GFLOPS, which already led the Xbox by a healthy margin.

I do think it's a bit unfair to use this sort of data in an argument, particularly given that it would be a whole lot of work to find concrete data about things like major sales from 5 years ago. Still, it's well within the range of possibilities if you want to get technical. I chose not to go that route because I felt it wasn't critical to the point being discussed, but since you insisted there you go.

The main point here is to illustrate the limitations of consoles when compared to PCs. Because consoles have such a long shelf life it's almost inevitable that you'll be able to get dirt cheap components that stomp all over the console in a few short years.

That's where are the PCMR complains really come from. In 2009 we should have started seeing games with some of the then new DirectX 11 features; things like tesselation, better multi-threating, and a newer shader model. Instead we got a small handful of PC-first games that "used" this tech, and are only now starting to see more games adopt these features 5 years later. That means we've just started the process of actually understanding these techniques, what they mean for performance, and how to get the best effects out of them.

You and other like you matter to those making the games. As a result they are directly holding back our technological progress because you don't really understand, and don't know to ask for what you could have. This is true for the current gen too. You can already buy a GPU that's more powerful than the PS4 for around $100, never mind how the Xbone is 30% slower than that. This is why the PCMR people are annoyed. People like you are holding back our progress, and at the same time you're also condescendingly smug about it.

Hell, just to prove a point, here is a complete build of a system that exceeds both the PS4 and Xbone performance for under $400. It's not a beast of a machine, but it would get the job done better than either of these systems in pretty much all categories.

u/scootah · 3 pointsr/subredditoftheday

> consider that every single video game and every single popular story and every single everything on Earth is oriented towards heterosexuals. Every blockbuster film stars a heterosexual romance and every big new book is about a male and female lead tugging at each other's heartstrings.

Alan Downs talked about this extensively in The Velvet Rage - which is an amazingly powerful book. Especially for people who've been involved in queer community issues for a few years. But I'm not sure that the state of neglect toward GLBT audience members that was once so very painfully true, is still the catastrophe it once was. And catastrophisation beyond actual scope seems like it hinders activism more than it helps.

The L Word. Queer as Folk. Philadelphia. Brokeback Mountain. Will and Grace. Modern Family. All fairly popular pop culture things not really oriented towards heteronormative relationships.

The Doctor Who franchise, especially torchwood heavily references GLBT issues - although my favourite is "I speak horse. His name is Susan and he wants you to respect his life choices.

Transamerica and Dirty Sexy Money have some fairly extensive references to transgender characters...

GLBT characters in scifi/fantasy are borderline common place now. A number of fairly successful works have featured GLBT lead characters. Richard Morgans 'The Steel Remains' is awesome and a personal favorite.

Openly gay celebrities are barely noteworthy at this point. Being openly gay did wonders for Ellens career and certainly hasn't hurt Neil Patrick Harris. Openly gay musicians have been around for a while in certain genres, but Frank Ocean and Rob Halford are seeing their careers unphased by coming out despite being in typically incredibly homophobic genres. Top tier athletes and former athletes are open and out in a number of sports. Openly trans celebrities like Lana Wachowski and Chas Bono get plenty of positive airtime for their openness.

Things are still incredibly far away from good. But it's been a while since every single bit of pop culture available was heteronormative.

u/OniiChan_ · 12 pointsr/subredditoftheday

The single best book (or audiobook) I recommend every beginner about minimalism is "Goodbye, Things". The writing is simple and direct. It's full of interesting insights and advice.

After that, read "The Life-Changing Manga of Tidying Up" by Marie Kondo. Why not the main book? Because the manga (comic book) is easier and more entertaining to digest and goes over her main ideas just fine. While Marie Kondo isn't a minimalist, her methods complement it immensely.

And for the love of God, avoid "The Minimalists" or anything by them. Absolutely preachy, pretentious, surface level garbage.

u/melvaer · 2 pointsr/subredditoftheday

Hi all!

I'll copy a post that acts as a primer to Robo that's stickied at the top of the page! We are coming off the heels of a guest comic and today marks the first page of Volume 12! Come on over and say hi!

What is Atomic Robo?


Atomic Robo is a comic book series about a self-aware robot built by a fictional version of Nikola Tesla. It was created by Brian Clevinger (of 8-Bit Theater fame) and Scott Wegener with the first issue being published in 2007. Robo (as the main character is often referred to) has had a long career in Action Science and has been on many adventures including fighting Nazis, going to Mars and becoming a cowboy. Ultimately, the comic often boils down to be about a main robot that punches a different robot (or maybe a monster).

How can I read it?


Every issue of Atomic Robo can be found online, legally, for free at www.atomic-robo.com. If you want to start from the beginning, here is a link to Volume 1: The Fightin' Scientists of Teslsadyne. If you want to start at the most recent chapter, you can find it at Volume 10: The Ring of Fire. The creators upload a page of new content three days a week on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. They are also uploading additional in-universe stories every Tuesday and Thursday over at www.realscienceadventures.com! What value!

If reading physical comics is your thing, Atomic Robo is published by IDW (formally published by Red 5 Comics). You can buy single issues wherever comics are sold and IDW has released a collection of the first three volumes that is available now with more on the way.

Is it any good?


Check it out for yourself.

What is /r/Atomic_Robo for?


This subreddit is a place for any discussion and content related to Atomic Robo. We have the very helpful /u/Atomic_Modbot that automatically posts every page released on the site as soon as it's up so you will never miss an update. Feel free to hang out, say hello and get involved in some Action Science!

u/Fergette · 2 pointsr/subredditoftheday

If you like that you'd really like this book.

Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters https://www.amazon.com/dp/0385722435/ref=cm_sw_r_other_apa_fKr5xbKR8TD5R

Edit: Not sure why I've been down voted for this. Perhaps by offering the Amazon link? It's not an affiliate link or anything. I'm not getting anything from it. Just a good book along the same topic.

u/Narrative_Causality · 2 pointsr/subredditoftheday

More info can be found here and, if you're feeling like getting the whole story and more, here.

u/mugrimm · 2 pointsr/subredditoftheday

>How about the tens of millions (being generous) that died? How was their standard of living increased?

That's why I initially asked if we're talking a specific band of time. It is UNDENIABLE that post Holodomor the Soviets were way better off than they were under the Czars. It's ALSO undeniable that one of the largest drops in standards of living in the history of the world without a domestic war was the fall of the USSR. I'm not some crazy tankie, Holodomor was a real ass thing, but so was the American genocide of 40-50m native americans and slave trade, both of which were classically liberal lines of enlightenment thinking that were precursors to neoliberal ideology.



> By you own India link, it says less than half the number you cite.
>

You literally denied slavery in tons of countries, including the US, and when presented with evidence of it you have no counter argument other than to cite that different sources cite different numbers on slavery in the same country, in large part because estimates and censuses are hard to find often due to the nature of it. Take some ownership of shit.

>If you were skilled labor pre-NAFTA and lived along the US border it was heaven, but for the vast majority of others it has meant ultimately lower wages or meager gains

>Which is funny because if you look at literally any source, really most of the gains were made near the border.

That's literally what I said...NAFTA was sold in part saying it'd make lives better for Mexican citizens in unskilled manufacturing and agriculture. It has made it worse on both fronts, and the gains of it have gone almost entirely to people who were already well off. Walmart was literally trying to get away with not paying it's labor which I cited, and the vast concentrations of wealth in Mexico have lead to much much stronger cartels as vast changes in income inequality has made it very easy to capture locals to make them sex slaves in both Mexico and the US as well as to own local governments and even buy legitimate businesses ala the Maquiadoras.

>Income inequality is not a measure of poverty. Good God.

There's literally no definition of poverty that's stable. It's almost always a relativistic metric. As such, income inequality is an aspect of it whether you deny it or not.

u/Tsilent_Tsunami · 0 pointsr/subredditoftheday

The Warlizard Chronicles

Haha, I have a few of those stories in my collection, but too much of it is stuff I would never publish. lol Good for you.

u/the_popcorn_pisser · 17 pointsr/subredditoftheday

You guys are being disingenuous. For such defenders of Hillary you really don't seem to know much about the campaign. That very specific phrase didn't come from Hillary, it came from her staffers, another show if the incompetence of her team and her campaign in general. I strongly suggest you read this book. https://www.amazon.com/Shattered-Inside-Hillary-Clintons-Campaign/dp/0553447084

u/juju2112 · -4 pointsr/subredditoftheday

You realize belief in Christianity fueled the killing of the Native Americans? Church-goers compared them to the Amalekites, the people that God commanded be wiped off the face of the Earth, in order to justify demonizing them.

I can't find a good source online, but it's talked about in this book:

http://www.amazon.com/Religious-Intolerance-America-Documentary-History/dp/0807871184/ref=sr_1_13?ie=UTF8&qid=1324829819&sr=8-13

u/relevant_econ_meme · 3 pointsr/subredditoftheday

>That's why I initially asked if we're talking a specific band of time. It is UNDENIABLE that post Holodomor the Soviets were way better off than they were under the Czars. It's ALSO undeniable that one of the largest drops in standards of living in the history of the world without a domestic war was the fall of the USSR. I'm not some crazy tankie, Holodomor was a real ass thing, but so was the American genocide of 40-50m native americans and slave trade, both of which were classically liberal lines of enlightenment thinking that were precursors to neoliberal ideology.

Aside from this being a major whataboutism, source that precursor to neoliberalism claim.

>You literally denied slavery in tons of countries, including the US, and when presented with evidence of it you have no counter argument other than to cite that different sources cite different numbers on slavery in the same country, in large part because estimates and censuses are hard to find often due to the nature of it. Take some ownership of shit.

If you lie about one statistic, what else are you lying about? I'm not denying slavery doesn't exist. But it's an important normative value of all neoliberals to stop slavery. It's like trying to blame the northern states for slavery. they were the one against it.

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>>If you were skilled labor pre-NAFTA and lived along the US border it was heaven, but for the vast majority of others it has meant ultimately lower wages or meager gains
>
>>Which is funny because if you look at literally any source, really most of the gains were made near the border.
>
>It has made it worse on both fronts

Citation needed.

> and the gains of it have gone almost entirely to people who were already well off.

Citation needed.

> income inequality has made it very easy to capture locals to make them sex slaves in both Mexico and the US as well as to own local governments and even buy legitimate businesses ala the Maquiadoras.

You're making so many claims you can't even keep up with the citations. Show me how income inequality causes all of that.

>There's literally no definition of poverty that's stable. It's almost always a relativistic metric. As such, income inequality is an aspect of it whether you deny it or not.

It doesn't matter how stable any of the other definitions are, income inequality is not a definition at all. Income inequality, in its own right, is not even a bad thing.

Before you keep going, might I remind you that literally all your citations so far in all your comments do not show what you claim. You need to focus not on the things happening, but the causal mechanism. So chop chop.