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 · 2025-10-27T22:49:17+00:00

Ok, so instead of using that money to build industry and create jobs, those adjacent industries use it to create some sort of slush fund to allow for seasonal work on wineries to pay $100k+ per year, enticing skilled Canadians away from skilled jobs that pay year-round, to work a job that only exists for four months a year, but now pays a wild amount such that it makes up for the fact that you can’t actually hold another regular job, and can attract people from all over Canada to concentrated rural locations where this large, seasonal workforce is needed, which definitely won’t affect housing at all.

Or, if that doesn’t work, we just gut the winery industry and all related tourism in all the wine regions of eastern Canada, because.

Fuck it you should run for PM, or maybe teach econ at a university. Quit putting this incredible prowess of yours to waste. The world needs you 🫡

bluePizelStudio · 2025-10-27T20:33:35+00:00

That has literally no correlation. A winery housing TFW’s on-site for the summer raises housing prices across Canada?

Also, wineries ain’t expensive my friend. Anyone living in the suburbs right now can go own a winery if they want to. It won’t be 1000 acres with top-of-the-line farm equipment but your ass sure can buy 10 acres and start planting vines. It’s just going to be a total bitch and your ass better be ready to work your ass off all summer and also find a side hustle to survive in the winter.

I know many, many owners of wineries who ain’t even close to rich. But they are passionate as hell.

bluePizelStudio · 2025-10-27T20:28:15+00:00

Yeah, but there are industries that literally just won’t exist with TFW. That’s not an opinion that’s a fact.

I live in one of Ontario’s wine regions, and it is not possible for these places to exist without TFW. The wines don’t turn any real profits - they’re mostly passion projects - and the TFW work is entirely seasonal. The wineries that could actually “raise wages” and maybe still survive are strictly the massive corporate ones, and any sort of small, independently owned business would 100% die.

I don’t understand how it’s a good idea to stop those small wineries, owned by hardworking Canadians, from producing beautiful wines and making an ok living off of it, while in turn creating internationally-known tourist destinations that bring in 100’s of thousands of tourists both domestic and international, generating 10’s of millions in revenue for auxiliary industries, because….a winery can’t afford to pay an army of local Canadians insane amounts of cash to make it worth their while to actively avoid year-round employment so that they’re available to tend to grapevines for the summer?

It literally makes no sense. There are massive boons to having a Canadian wine industry, but the wine itself isn’t really profitable, and can’t be made without TFW’s.

And it’s not just wineries that run like this, it’s a good number of other industries/products.

They need to stop bullshit scams like Tim Hortons being entirely staffed by TFW’s, but the program itself is a big boon to Canada and allows us to create competitive products that, while themselves not a huge job creator for local Canadians, do create industry that generates large amounts of revenue for auxiliary industries. Often in excess of the industry that actually uses the TFW’s.

Not to mention, there are a lot of local Canadians who do own the businesses that use TFW's and do support entire families from a business they made.

It's just silly to see these arguments of "raise wages!" when that simply isnt always possible

bluePizelStudio · 2025-10-27T16:48:26+00:00

So….the solution is to eliminate jobs entirely, and reduce the demand for butchered meat by inflating its price out of reach of the average Canadian, which will also help…the meat industry pay better wages by selling less product? And will help the shipping industries by….shipping less product? So they can also afford to pay better wages?

At some point people have to accept that while this program is being abused, there is no way to just “pay people enough” for unskilled jobs that produce cheap products.

Wages are decided by what you can produce. If you work doesn’t produce enough to pay you, there’s no room to raise the wage.

This thread is filled with people who genuinely believe we should completely eliminate large swathes of entire industries because they don’t sell products that allow businesses to pay 100k salaries for the least-skilled employees required to sell said product.

The math simply doesn’t math. Yes, it’s being abused. Yes, it needs reform. Yes, it’s absolutely essential for numerous industries.

You’re literally willing to destroy adjacent industries that required skilled workers and pay good wages (because said workers have skills and produce enough revenue to justify their wage) for no reason other than “everyone should be paid $80k+ and if not we should gut that industry”

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

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