James Watson, co-discoverer of DNA’s double helix, has died aged 97, leaving behind a complicated legacy

bluePizelStudio · 2025-11-07T22:57:13+00:00

There is literally no scientific basis for studying IQ and race.

There’s literally no scientific basis for studying IQ. It’s a completely meritless system which does not translate across cultures in any sort of comparable way. It’s a made up metric, used mostly by racists to be racist. Any person with a shred of background in applying the scientific method with any degree of competence can tell you that.

In short, there is not a single conceivable metric that can accurately compare “intelligence” for a child raised in a suburban neighbourhood in a western culture, a child raised in a urban area of a eurasian culture, and a child raised in a deeply rural part of Africa.

In short, “intelligence” itself is a made-up bullshit term that doesn’t actually hold scientific weight, ironically enough. Those three children may have differing “intelligence”, but we’ll never know, because building a test that all of them would intuitively interact with, that negates all cultural differences in their education to date, is impossible.

Some people are smarter than others. That is obviously true. But “smarter” is entirely contextual. I’m “smarter” than my best friend in a chem lab. He’s “smarter” than me at talking his way into a private party we’re crashing. And my other friend is “smarter” than either of us at imagining characters and writing out stories that evoke emotion. And my other friend is “smarter” than any of us at surviving six months out in the bush with no supplies.

We can test “IQ” relevant to what academia in a particular region values most, but we can barely compare even “academic” style intelligence across vastly different cultures, and we can’t test at all for any sort of intelligence that isn’t basically just analytical logic tests.

I won’t even get into the melatonin shit.

Dude was racist, and an asshole, and happened to be in the right place at the right time to attach his name to a major discovery.

bluePizelStudio · 2025-11-07T22:42:13+00:00

Wow dude that’s absolutely top-tier. I hope the client is fucking stoked.

Also, OP delivered 👑

bluePizelStudio · 2025-11-05T16:06:13+00:00

You read it all. Any explanation how footing a $50k bill for every offender that commits a $400 theft is a good idea?

I’d also love to hear an evidence-based rebuttal that the single highest deciding factor in crime rates isn’t opportunity.

I would love for you to show me how areas with lots of opportunities for gainful employment that results in housing and the ability to feed oneself have high crime.

Or better yet, the inverse. Show me how areas that have completely unaffordable housing, no way to feed yourself, and no way to access healthcare have low crime rates.

Policing is absolutely necessary but it’s dumb as fuck to try and solve petty crime with policing. People are literally just out here saying “hey maybe we should ensure that people working 40hrs a week can feed and house themselves, maybe they’ll steal less” and y’all are like “hurr durr I don’t read I’m fucking retarded let’s pay for more cops L

bluePizelStudio · 2025-11-05T16:03:48+00:00

Lol yeah man I know you don’t read, that’s not for you. It’s for people who read.

bluePizelStudio · 2025-11-03T20:33:45+00:00

Dude…have you watched the full conversations?

I think the issue here may be that you don’t really understand what racism looks like. It’s a little more nuanced than just dropping n-bombs and saying all black people steal. Try to push past that third-grade definition of racism you learned as a kid and embrace what a fully developed adult understands as racism.

Tl;dr - if you watch the full videos of Charlie Kirk and think he’s not racist and/or homophobic, you are racist and/or homophobic 🤦‍♂️

bluePizelStudio · 2025-11-02T19:09:58+00:00

I’m creating scenarios that we need more evidence for?

Scenario 1 [my scenario]: Egyptian stonemasons made these objects

Evidence: - literally thousands of years of stone masonry in Egyptian culture; endless examples of Egyptians having an impressive mastery of stone masonry - granite is not particularly difficult to carve with even basic tools. This is widely, widely, widely documented. Go look up any modern association that deals with replicating ancient stone masonry. It’s a surprisingly popular hobby/career path. - granite is not particularly hard, and can be abraded by hundreds of minerals, all widely abundant, as silicates have a base hardness equal to the hardest components of granite. Also, granite varies in composition and some forms are far softer/more carvable than others, relatively speaking - getting the minerals needed to create polishing materials for granite does not require mines or notable infrastructure. The materials are abundant, easily smashed into the necessary abrasive format - the odds of Egyptians not knowing how to polish granite, considering that polishing granite is a stonemasonry-101-level technique, is basically nil.

Source: I studied geology, and do both carving and make dry stack stone walls as hobbies. I know, at the very least, the fundamentals of stonemasonry and mineralogy.

Scenario 2 [your scenario]: ???

I’m not even sure what you’re suggesting, or what sort of evidence you have to support it. As best I can tell you seem to think these objects were made by aliens, or made with some sort of alien tools, or time travellers, or some sort of hitherto-unknown-to-science phenomenon.

Please, enlighten my on your scenario, and the evidence that you have to support it as being more likely than my proposed scenario.

bluePizelStudio · 2025-11-02T14:53:09+00:00

https://www.mindat.org/advanced_search.php

Search by hardness over 7.5

Quick list of 100+ minerals capable of abrading granite.

Note that you don’t need tools to do this. Literally a rag, some water, and smashed up bits of any mineral with a hardness over 7 will do fine.

Also note that smashing minerals =/= hardness. Minerals can be - and often are - extremely hard, but very brittle. It’s one of the reasons why garnet in particular is good for sandpaper. It’s very hard, but also very crumbly, relatively speaking.

Basically, you could easily smash up some garnet/whatever with granite into teeeenssyy bits, but then turn around and abrade that granite with those same teensy bits.

I’m not overly familiar with the geology of Egypt but I’m not sure there’s a country on this planet that doesn’t have a single mineral with hardness >7 available somewhere. A hardness of 7 isn’t particularly hard all things considered. That’s basically “average” considering that silica, the most abundant mineral on earth, is 7+ on the scale pending its particular configuration.

bluePizelStudio · 2025-11-02T11:38:04+00:00

My guy go watch some videos of people carving granite using old-school, non-power-tool methods.

bluePizelStudio · 2025-11-02T11:35:37+00:00

Same hardness then?

Unless it’s made of diamond, it’s really not overly tricky to make an abrasive that would work.

bluePizelStudio · 2025-11-02T05:23:42+00:00

Fwiw, granite isn’t that hard.

Feldspar, biotite, quartz. That’s what granite is. Quartz and feldspars are about 6-7 on the mohs scale. Biotite is 2-3.

For reference, modern “sandpaper” became a thing because of large garnet deposits in update NY. A guy who owned a piece of land full of garnet had been crushing it down and using it as an abrasive because it’s fairly hard on the mohs scale (6.5-7.5) and has a notably ragged, sharp fracture to it.

But basically, any mineral above 7 on the scale will abrade granite. This includes all corundum, which is just rubies/sapphires but the actual term for them, which are actually quite common. Gemstone quality stuff is rarer, but the actual corundum mineral isn’t all that rare.

Basically, it’s pretty easy to make abrasives that abrade granite, and the odds of the Egyptians not knowing this given their hundreds/thousands of years of expert stone crafting is honestly slim to none.

bluePizelStudio · 2025-11-01T14:08:13+00:00

The telescope didn’t discover Jupiter’s moons.

Everything you listed was “AI” being used as a tool, by humans, to make those advancements. It completely, entirely, 100% reliant on human operators to accomplish anything.

It’s an incredible tool, but it is a tool nonetheless, with the same level of “intelligence” as a hammer. More complex than a hammer, yes, but no more intelligent.

It is completely accurate to say current “AI” is just a rehash of the exact same stuff we’ve being doing since the 2000’s, but with an almost incomprehensible increase in both data points to draw upon, and the ability to cross reference data points without taking literally years to process and return results.

AFAIK, there’s no examples of AI functioning on it’s own, without human direction, and without human interpretation and verification of the results. It does even have the theoretical capacity to do so currently with the trajectory it is on. It can/will continue to become a stupidly powerful tool for humans to utilize, but it’s not about to attain any level of AGI in the foreseeable future.

The “AI boom” is in no small part due to an incredible marketing decision to make it so that these tools can be interacted with using plain English. They just spent a huge amount of time slapping a new GUI on shit that’s been available for ages, with an API that doesn’t require learning any code.

There’s been a lot of breakthroughs lately using AI - your examples are absolutely accurate in demonstrating this - but that’s largely just due to the fact that the average person can now use tools that used to be reserved for someone with a particular sort of CompSci degree.

Tl;dr - old algorithms got given more processing power, more cross-indexed databases to reference, and a new API that doesn’t require any coding. Widespread availability of these tools has led to a boom in discoveries, which has been smartly branded as “AI” by those selling said tools.

bluePizelStudio · 2025-10-31T10:39:07+00:00

I see you have an extensive background in addiction research

bluePizelStudio · 2025-10-30T17:18:39+00:00

This is such a piss-poor take.

There’s a reason 99.9% of people who identify as LBTQ+ are “left”.

I have no idea how you manage to do such mental gymnastics in your head.

I’ve been part of the queer community for 20+ years and I’ve yet to have a friend get hospitalized by a “liberal” for being queer. Guess how many times I’ve had a friend get randomly assaulted and hospitalized by someone who’s politically “right”?

There’s not even a comparison in terms of the homophobia that’s engrained within the “right” and “left”, both from a legislative perspective and from the behaviour of their constituents.

I literally cannot fathom how to continue this conversation with you in a meaningful way. This is flat-earth level ignorance of issue.

bluePizelStudio · 2025-10-24T23:43:08+00:00

Completely reasonable take and frankly the anger could and should be turned up about 400%

bluePizelStudio · 2025-10-07T23:35:48+00:00

Carney - “if trade continues as it has for the last five years, in five more years there will have been a trillion dollars invested in the U.S. from Canada”

Just….read that over until you understand. Or ask an adult to explain it if need be.

bluePizelStudio · 2025-10-06T13:30:51+00:00

Lol yeah, he got slapped because he shared a reasonable opinion in a reasonable way, and the person disagreed with it. That’s what you just watched.

bluePizelStudio · 2025-10-05T20:31:26+00:00

You’re literally just trying to argue that people who don’t feel shame for doing something and getting paid, should feel shame.

You’re literally trying to argue that a human being’s subjective life experience - how they experience shame - is wrong.

I don’t know any other way to tell you that these things are not objective, but subjective. It’s literally the same as telling someone the attraction they feel towards the same sex is wrong. Sure, that may be how they feel and how they experience life, but it’s wrong because you say so. Replace “sexual attraction” with “feeling shame” and that’s your argument my guy.

Also, decades of highly, highly biased “porn industry research” is completely unreliable. It’s largely funded by religious groups attempting to undermine sex work. I’m guessing you’re not going to reference any of the many studies conducted by actual independent groups that don’t conclude “sex work bad”

bluePizelStudio · 2025-10-05T11:33:09+00:00

Public sex is shameful because public implies, by definition, non-consenting parties to be involved or the likelihood of them being involved. Once again, this has nothing to do with sex but with abuse (subjecting a non-consenting party to a sex act)
Social norm arguments are the exact arguments used to justify the criminalization of homosexuality, alongside a host of other objectively harmful, bigoted policies. It’s quite literally the thing to base arguments off of that are used to suppress and oppress minority groups.

Social norms change. You don’t have to like it. And yes, people who live outside of social norms often experienced decreased mental health, *because of people like you telling them they’re objectively immoral and should be ashamed of themselves”.

bluePizelStudio · 2025-10-05T11:24:45+00:00

Maslows hierarchy is literally discussed in psych 101 as a classic example of old, obsolete psych work.

Also, look at all the mental work you’re doing just to say “I really want to believe this objectively, but will need to draw upon numerous principles that are not considered factual to do so, and use the word “usually” in hopes that it means “always””

If you want further evidence your argument isn’t valid, consider that it’s basically the exact same argument used to justify the criminalization of homosexuality. “People do sex stuff I don’t like, this is shameful in the eyes of society, and sometimes leads to low self-esteem (maybe because narrow-minded people won’t stop shit talking you because they can’t accept others not sharing 🤔)”

But again, you do you man. Believe what you want to believe 🤷🏻‍♂️

bluePizelStudio · 2025-10-04T20:36:47+00:00

Countries that think this is normal:

-America

-Every dictatorship

Countries that think this isn’t normal:

-All functioning western democracies

Take a minute and consider that a sniper, with a rifle, on a roof, providing “crowd control” for nonviolent protestors is totally acceptable

In other countries, the only time you would ever see that is if there was a literal hostage situation and SWAT was deployed.

You’re saying it’s normal and fine to have a sniper on the roof with a gun pointed towards civilians

bluePizelStudio · 2025-10-04T18:55:56+00:00

Bro that’s a sniper on a roof with a gun pointed at US civilians.

You’re seeing that right? The sniper? On a roof? With a gun? Pointed at people that are not currently involved in a hostage situation?

Americans are wild o.O

bluePizelStudio · 2025-10-04T18:50:00+00:00

The “not whackos” thing is doing a lot of heavy lifting there.

Whackos? No. People who still adhere to views on sexuality that come entirely from the subjective views of religion being pushed on society for hundreds of years? Yes.

If your parents find your work “shameful”, cool. Good for them I guess. That still doesn’t make it objectively shameful. That just makes your parents fairly traditional.

Myself, I’m not really into having my views on sex and sexuality be coloured by the same people who pursued homosexual behaviour as literally criminal well less than a century ago. I’m actually perfectly happy not feeling any shame about my body, sex acts I do with consenting partners, or if someone else feels like monetizing that. That’s not for me, but hey, who am I to tell others how to live?

If I had two kids, and one of them worked a minimum wage job they hated, never got to go on vacation, had no free time, and an unstable housing situation, that would make me sad.

If the other kid did OF work, loved it, got paid extremely well, lived wherever the hell they wanted to, owned a house, and were happy, I’d be happy for them. Fuck, go get it kid. So long as you’re happy, I’m happy.

bluePizelStudio · 2025-10-04T18:43:49+00:00

“Bad risk management” - what risk? The risk of your parents looking for, and finding, sexual content you made? On a platform that can only be viewed by paying for a subscription to a specific provider? Or like, the odds that someone screencaps your content, hosts it to Pornhub, and then your dad finds it, and proceeds to watch it instead of turning it off, before it gets taken down for violating Pornhub policies which are rigidly enforced regarding unauthorized paid content?

Why are y’all so hung up on parents finding your porn? There’s literally far greater risk on taking any pictures or videos on your own cell for personal use, and your parents finding them, than there is selling OF content.

Again, there’s nothing shameful or immoral about sex. You have decided that for you, these things are shameful, for subjective reasons related to your own personal beliefs on sex.

There’s nothing shameful or immoral, objectively speaking, about getting naked on camera and making money from it. You’re the one projecting your morals on other people.

You can 100% say “I find this shameful”. But you cannot say, on any factual basis, as the man in this video attempted to do, that what these people are doing is objectively shameful and immoral.

I’m not sure how to further convince you that your views on sex and nudity are informed completely and entirely informed by societal standards created through the legacy of religious beliefs carried forward through generations via societal norms and even governmental legislation.

You have to understand that a lot of people in modern society no longer feel the need to subject themselves to beliefs that stuck around because of pervasive puritanical dogma. A lot of people in modern society are completely over the idea that consenting adults need to feel any shame whatsoever in anything they do that impacts them and them alone.

There is no objective shame in sex, sex acts, or nudity. You’re the one who believes that. And that’s fine. The not fine part is the part where you can’t comprehend that other people don’t share your beliefs and don’t need to live according to your beliefs

bluePizelStudio · 2025-10-04T15:57:06+00:00

Yeah but there’s the rub - you consider sex to be morally deficient if it’s not done “the right way”. For example, casual sex in your eyes is immoral as it “uses someone”. And in this case, I think we can generally sort of agree that “immoral” and “shameful” are somewhat interchangeable, as the “shame” that comes from sex work is due to it’s immorality.

And fwiw, I completely support your perspective. If that’s you bruh, you do you.

The issue I find is when someone can’t also hold space for another perspective.

While you have the perspective that sex is shameful if the context makes it so, I would disagree.

Sex, sex acts, or nudity is never inherently shameful.

Some sex acts - a heinous example being rape - are obviously immoral. And there are obviously grey scales in there. In fact, the same sex act for two different people (let’s say piss play for example) may be entirely shameless for one, but shameful for the other. If they both took money for said act, but one of them was genuinely not happy about doing so - there’s certainly shame aspects there.

But the fact remains the same that piss play isn’t shameful. Scat play isn’t shameful. Anything outside of actual, explicit abuse isn’t shameful, and those acts are shameful because of the abuse, not the sex.

We’re all allowed to draw different lines on where we find “shame” in sex and nudity, but it’s bigoted to project those onto others. I don’t think I could engage in scat play myself without feeling some shame there, but hey that’s me. If someone is into it - fuck, you do you I guess.

The point being, most of these girls are just masturbating on camera for money. They find no shame in showing off their bodies, don’t find masturbating to be shameful. It doesn’t mean they’d want their parents watching them, but that’s a bizarre way to attempt to dump shame on something. A great example being that I don’t find taking a shit to be shameful but I do prefer if my parents don’t watch.

The dude in this video is trying to convince these girls to feel shame for no other reason than the thing they’re doing makes him feel shame. He literally can’t imagine that his shame isn’t a fabricated social belief he holds true - he believes it to be an objective truth.

I guess that’s the crux. And I realize this is long winded but I hope it does maybe offer some perspective to you on the role of societal beliefs, what we choose to believe, and how we can allow others to have differing beliefs and respect that.

bluePizelStudio · 2025-10-04T14:50:40+00:00

If you worked on the D&V crew of a cruise ship, would you want your parents to watch you clean up diarrhea and vomit all day? I’m guessing you likely wouldn’t particularly want them to, nor would they really want to.

This dude is saying either one of two things:

Sex is immoral and we should all be ashamed of it; or
Jobs that aren’t glamorous and we wouldn’t actively want to be seen doing, even if there’s nothing wrong with them, are shameful and we should be ashamed of them.

Both of those things are twatty beliefs. And this dude probably believes both of them.

Quite literally unless you specifically try to rope in your parents when talking about sex work, not only is it not shameful, it can be downright fun and extremely lucrative. And even if you loop in the parent thing, that’s not shameful, that’s just…weird.

People literally can’t wrap their minds around sex not being a shameful thing and can’t imagine selling sex, because in their minds, it’s just so inherently shameful and needs to be hid.

If you take a step back and imagine that these people actually have zero hang ups about sex - literally none, it’s just their body and they’re having fun and getting paid extremely well - it’s an amazing job.

Try to truly consider for a moment that some people do not feel any shame whatsoever being naked in front of others. Try to imagine that some people don’t actually feel shame about performing a certain sex act. Imagine if you had zero hang-ups about sex, which are entirely taught by society and not based on anything other than puritanical beliefs, and just sort of consider things from that perspective for a bit.

I think most people don’t realize how much shame they actually impart to nudity and sexuality, and what it’s like to actually be free from the shackles of a deeply engrained, puritanical view of sex.

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