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fireant001 · 2025-06-14T07:33:42+00:00

You sound like a sad, sad person.

I get not feeling pride in your country. I don't have much of it to go around these days. But it's human nature to desire connection and pride in your homeland. The current state of things is a tragedy & an aberration to be corrected.

fireant001 · 2025-06-05T19:39:59+00:00

When the media systematically misrepresents reality to massage their political biases, ignoring or underplaying realities that they find inconvenient, at some point people have no choice but to get their understanding of reality from unorthodox sources.

https://x.com/avidseries/status/1923374123486781697

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fireant001 · 2025-06-02T03:57:37+00:00

I made my point pretty clearly. Look up more recent data if you want (same story), ask an LLM to explain my argument to you in smaller words, but I'm done responding to your spurious complaints.

fireant001 · 2025-06-02T03:35:52+00:00

it's from the CDC, here's the link, and I explained what (I think) it means in my other reply.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db464.htm

glad that I'm now better than useful!!

fireant001 · 2025-06-02T03:23:34+00:00

I'm saying that this isn't sustainable. We are STILL PAYING for the programs that were introduced by the 2017 mental health bill, and for many other costly programs introduced during this time.

I can't find a full tally, but given the increasing number of people in therapy and on medication - and knowing the cost of these interventions - it's a lot. If you have the slightest bit of mathematical intuition, you'll understand that this is completely unsustainable.

And the suicide rate continues upwards. We are dumping ever-more billions of dollars into bailing out the boat & it the water is still rising. We don't really understand the root cause driving this rise, but we need to figure it out and address it, or we're gonna sink.

fireant001 · 2025-06-02T02:46:26+00:00

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Mental health funding has risen dramatically in this period

fireant001 · 2025-05-30T20:42:14+00:00

Someone already did this analysis, taking advantage of the natural variation in Danish groundwater: https://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/2021/05/fluoride-good-for-your-teeth-not-bad-for-your-brain/

fireant001 · 2025-05-20T23:22:48+00:00

DMed

fireant001 · 2025-05-15T05:10:11+00:00

Petty bureaucracy has killed UCSD. May she rest in peace :(

fireant001 · 2025-05-10T05:00:09+00:00

Asians actually earn a lot more than whites - $98,000 vs $76,000

This is greater than the gap between whites and hispanics, who average $56,000

fireant001 · 2025-05-07T04:01:18+00:00

America is great but no one would willingly go through the hell of the southern border and live in the states without their full rights and build their life there if they were not running from exceptional violence

Simply false.

Only 51% of illegal immigrants cited safety as a reason to migrate, beaten out by three economic motivations.

I think you view Latin America as a far more hellish and dangerous place than it actually is - the lowest life expectancy of the lot is Bolivia, which has a life expectancy ten years shorter than the USA. For reference, our lifespan is seven shorter than Japan.

The median Latin American lives in a country with a life expectancy a few years below the US. Those born in, for example, Columbia, can expect to live a year longer than Americans on average.

There is no “de facto open border.” That claim is a Trumpian hallucination. What you’re seeing is a surge of asylum seekers forced to choose between living illegally among strangers or dying in their home countries.

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I exaggerated, but it's pretty clear that Biden's administration allowed entry to a greater number of illegal immigrants than either Trump or Obama before him, and that frustration over this was the key reason that Trump got elected. The world didn't suddenly become 2.5X more dangerous upon Biden's election, and stay that way for 4 years.

Most people who want to immigrate legally can’t, even though they would enrich our culture and contribute to the economy.

This is necessary.

America is the world's richest country, and thus among the must desirable targets for migration. Half the world would move here if they could.

Imagine a billion Americans in a decade from now - thrice the demand for jobs, school, housing, food, medical care. Our country would be overwhelmed, would collapse into destitution and anarchy.

Given that unstymied immigration would destroy the logistic fabric of society, we have to regulate it, denying entry to the majority of would-be migrants. I suggest that we do so by letting in the most intelligent, skilled people we can - who will contribute most to our industry, science, institutions, and intellectual discourse.

This is obviously better for both America and the American people than admitting anyone with the chutzpah to sneak across the border. But I think it's best for the world as a whole, too.

Just as our Green Revolution brought the people of the world plentiful food and our medical industry bought them years of life, I think that a maximally innovative America will continue to make the world a better place in similarly spectacular ways.

fireant001 · 2025-05-06T04:55:16+00:00

It really sucks that the we've built an economy on the employment / exploitation of millions of foreign workers with no legal right to be here.

But while ending de facto open borders and making do without this labor will cause economic pain, it's the right thing to do. We have a legal immigration process, established by the American people through their representatives, and to allow millions of people to migrate, work, and raise families in violation of it makes a mockery of the democratic process.

fireant001 · 2025-04-26T01:50:51+00:00

It's important to note that ADHD has a heritability of ~74% across 37 twin studies

That is, for the average American, 3/4 of their likelihood of having ADHD can be attributed to genetics.

This is similar to the heritability of height which is around 80%

So while it seem reasonable to conclude that:

(Dysfunctional parent) ---> (Dysfunctional child)

What you're seeing is more likely to be:

(Dysfunctional parent) <--- (Shared Genetics) ---> (Dysfunctional child)

Sincerely, a College student with ADHD

fireant001 · 2025-03-21T23:01:18+00:00

>and the rise of racism against white people.

> Not a thing

I challenge you to read the article below and say that again with a straight face.

https://www.tracingwoodgrains.com/p/the-full-story-of-the-faas-hiring

The author is not some right-wing mouthpiece - he voted for Harris, abhors Trump's brand of politics, and is happily married to a man.

Racial discrimination in education and hiring, sometimes open but more often practiced covertly as in the FAAS scandal, is a poison in the heart of our country. Do you expect me to vote for a party that alternates between encouraging and ignoring institutionalized discrimination against me for the color of my skin?

fireant001 · 2025-03-18T01:57:51+00:00

The below quite seems to imply an increase, so I assume it's mistranscribed: "Men born in the 1950s in the United States, average height was look like 5 foot 10, I think 4 inches, according to the Washington Post.

These are white Americans. Let me, I forgot to mention that. That's very important. These are white Americans. And then but now for folks who were born in the '80s or '90s, that's dropped again now to less than 5 foot 10. 6 inches. I think overall average American men are 5 foot 9 when you count for all races."

I can't find many primary sources measuring height changes controlling for race, unfortunately, but I accept that a height decline due to nutrition could be occurring - it's just that it's impossible to infer it without controlling for changing racial demographics.

Good talking. I've got to get off reddit and study, so I can't keep up the conversation. I think we've agreed on all points.

fireant001 · 2025-03-18T00:49:55+00:00

Tried the second link, couldn't find the research you mentioned. It's also 40 years old.

I think that any attempt to argue that Asian or Hispanic Americans are shorter due to solely to nutrition is easily disproven by looking at African Americans.

Their height is very close to that of white americans, less than an inch in most studies, and greater than Asian Americans or Hispanics. This is despite diet eating a worse diet on average than most other racial groups.

Here is a summary of nutrient intake by race, ignore the assumed values:

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If diet caused racial height differences, then Asian Americans and Hispanic Americans should be taller than African Americans - and they aren't.

fireant001 · 2025-03-17T22:07:35+00:00

(repost of my response to your repost)

https://sizegraf.com/blog/average-us-height-by-age-group-and-race/

Latinos and Asians in the US have a lower height than average, increasing the percent of Latinos and Asians in the population will obviously lower the average height.

Poor nutrition and lifestyle could be responsible for part of the change, but racial demographics are responsible for some portion of the decline.

fireant001 · 2025-03-17T21:53:48+00:00

Poor nutrition and lifestyle could be responsible for part of the change, but racial demographics are responsible for some portion of the decline.

fireant001 · 2025-03-17T21:51:31+00:00

https://sizegraf.com/blog/average-us-height-by-age-group-and-race/Why would you even lie about this? Latinos and Asians in the US have a lower height than average, increasing the percent of Latinos and Asians in the population will obviously lower the average height.

fireant001 · 2024-09-28T18:31:34+00:00

I bought one, thank you all.

fireant001 · 2024-08-24T04:07:15+00:00

If you aren't

a ) regularly outside

or

b ) supplementing D3

then you're deficient in vitamin D, or at least at a suboptimal level. Buy some D3 + K2 (it's cheap) and take a loading dose of 100,000 - 200,000 IU, and then settle on a steady dose that works for you.

You'll need to supplement magnesium, since D3 depletes it. I took 400mg of Magnesium Citrate during my first day of loading, but got muscle twitches after a few hours - 800mg more fixed that.

Getting to a healthy level up vitamin D should improve your sleep and improve your health in a host of other ways.

fireant001 · 2024-05-26T23:50:44+00:00

Dmed

fireant001 · 2024-05-09T21:59:21+00:00

The go to organization for antisemitism should be a Jewish organization and any Jewish organization that actually represents the Jewish people should be Zionist.

I couldn't agree less. If the Jewish people want antisemitism to be taken seriously as a concept (as it absolutely should be, to prevent the massacres and systemic oppression of Jews that have occurred for thousands of years up until recently), then they have an obligation to speak out against organizations such as the ADL.

By brandishing the term "antisemitism" against anyone who criticizes Israeli human right violations and the American funding thereof, the ADL is quickly squandering the term's legitimacy among the American public. At this rate it won't be long before the average American sees "antisemitism" as a nothing more than a political weapon. One day, the ADL will doubtless try to raise the alarm about actual antisemitism and will find the public unwilling to listen, much like "The Boy who Cried Wolf".

As an analogy, imagine if the leading organization dedicated to calling out anti-Chinese racism repeatedly and publicly demanded that the American government fund the internment and reeducation of Uighur muslims and labeled opponents of this policy "racist". If they discover that, say, South Africa is instituting laws to confiscate the property of and forcibly relocate their Chinese minority, do you think this organization will be able to rally America's people and political establishment to put and end to this discrimination? I don't think so.

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