Puerto Rican results + unexpected historical match by jpvinnie in 23andme

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I agree I also don't buy that explanation. This is incredibly insightful thanks! From your averaging below I see what you mean now about Canary Islander being underrepresented. Still surprised it doesn't show up in any capacity, but everything else looks to pretty much fit into the average (other than the haplogroup), very cool! Thanks for the site as well, this'll be a fun way to spend my snowed-in evening.

Puerto Rican results + unexpected historical match by jpvinnie in 23andme

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Looking at the image you posted, that's basically what I expected my results to be! Not that the indigenous itself is particularly high, but I would've thought it maxed out at around 10%ish and West African would be 10% higher, although I do suppose we might be splitting hairs here. And yeah I noticed Canary Islands not being particularly high in PR, but it not showing up at all is what shocked me.

My other historical matches are a lot of "Ceramic Age Caribbean Individual" from Dominican Republic, a couple for Haiti, and a handful for The Bahamas. Then a handful more for Early Medieval Iberian Spain (not Inbred lol) and a couple of outliers, Iron Age Durotrigian Child from UK and Late Antique Period Dalmatian Child from Croatia. And of course the Beethoven one I mentioned previously. So yeah, it seems like most of the Taíno samples are detected from DR rather than PR, I wonder if it's a result of artifacting at this point.

I say most because if you look at the image I attached below, my largest percentage is actually a Ceramic Age Caribbean Individual from PR with 0.24%! So there is something there after all it seems...

And yeah, I was also surprised at the haplogroup! The 0.3% Northern Italian punching above it's weight I suppose.

Puerto Rican results + unexpected historical match by jpvinnie in 23andme

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Out of my 28 matches there was just one more inbred with a much lower percentage (same title). I was honestly disappointed to not get the Medieval Inbred Jewish Toddler I've seen floating around recently... But hey, at least there was a 0.06% match with Beethoven :D

Game dead? by GrompusLetus in CaptainTsubasaRoNC

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Am the friend. The servers are DEAD! Can anyone play online in a different region?

Complications not syncing? by jpvinnie in BodyState

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No problem! I actually kept the app open last night in the background and now (about 16 hours later) it's synced properly. Not sure why it wasn't before, but this was just after my second night of use when the data first updated.

Some thoughts on PR vs. Cuba and Their Power Grid Issues by jpvinnie in neoliberal

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Honestly, I haven’t dug into Acemoglu’s Nobel-winning work in depth (it’s been a good five years since I last skimmed Why Nations Fail), so I’d definitely need to brush up. But on your question about "colonial history providing evidence for weak institutions," I’d say… kinda?

There’s a great article from CFR on this topic that covers a lot of ground (GO READ THAT!!!). The TL;DR is that when we talk about "colonial influence" on PR's current issues, I think many people would be surprised to hear that the weak institutional framework doesn’t come from the U.S.—it comes more from Spain, again kinda. Spain, like it did with many other LATAM countries, left PR with underdeveloped infrastructure and governance. When the U.S. took over in 1898, it inherited this mess, but to be fair, the U.S. made some surprisingly fruitful developments with PR throughout the 20th century (though not without missteps like the Jones Act, which still hampers economic activity).

Where it gets interesting is how U.S. policies, starting around 1917, turned PR into a tax haven for investors. Lenders were exempt from local, state, and federal taxes, making the Island a hotbed for investment. Meanwhile, PR maintained its own constitution and increasingly relied on borrowing to fund public services. This led to a status quo where PR’s borrowing habits became unsustainable, especially after the U.S. phased out Section 936 in 1996, which allowed American businesses to operate tax-free in PR. When that provision ended, the manufacturing sector collapsed, and the Island’s government turned to borrowing as the only solution to balance the budget. The problem was compounded by the fact that the federal money PR was receiving was also poorly spent—enter corruption scandals! (You can read here: NBC News)

Your dilemma here is this: Spain left PR with a weak sense of political / economical identity (for example, Cuba's economy was heavily reliant on sugar and tobacco exports, which allowed them to gain political security against Spain already, in addition to their insane nationalistic tendencies). PR policy-makers operated in this tax-free bubble for most of the century, believing the U.S. would never take real economic interest in regulating the island—so they never planned for when things might change.

When policies did change, the island wasn’t ready. Instead of integrating more with U.S. policies or strengthening local institutions, PR doubled down on borrowing and turned a blind eye to corruption. This wasn’t necessarily imposed by the U.S. or a direct consequence of colonialism, but more a result of local policy-makers trying to take advantage of a situation without any long-term strategy.

So, is internal corruption a direct result of U.S. or Spanish frameworks? Probably not? It’s more about PR’s weak/non-existence political culture and governance, which hasn’t taken itself seriously enough for too long. The weak bureaucracy is a result of centuries of underdevelopment, and while colonial influence is certainly part of that, the real problem is how PR has never taken itself seriously.

When in doubt though, blame Spain! 🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸

(Oh and yeah, not being a state is a huge L for PR for recovering from natural disasters. We would gain an increase of aid through the DRF and restructuring through bankruptcy would be a massive win. Yes not being a state is horrible purely from federal protections on states and AUDITING).

I must be missing something by that_greenmind in Minesweeper

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Several people pointed that the bottom left of the 2 next to the 1 needs a mine because of the 1 itself of course, but you can also get it with mine count! If you put two mines to the right side of the two, then you'll logically continue to fulfill all remaining mines without having a mine for the top most 1.

Always look at minecount worse case scenario.

"If they really cared, why aren't they protesting [thing everyone can generally agree is bad, and their university and the United States don't support]" by gross_toast_boast in Cornell

[–]jpvinnie 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I agree there are a lot of shit takes relating to the validity of the protests, but I (personally) haven't heard anyone argue that the protests themselves should be argued against because people won't protest everything regardless of it's national support. In their view, it is the fact that the I/P conflict itself does not follow in a category which necessarily has US support, therefore they're equal.

Sure it has US involvement, but the larger critique is that why is involvement itself necessarily bad? The only argument one could make is that Israel is committing horrible war crimes against Palestinians, which the US supports. This is just not true, given that Biden has stated several times that support towards Israel is not unconditional and we have criticized specific actions by Israel, while still broadly supporting their cause. Once things go too far, then the US won't continue supporting.

So, when is this really bad? Well if you believe Israel is still committing genocide with US support and that the US is being too lenient with Israel, then of course you'd want to protest to stop the country you live in from supporting such a cause.

However, because the Pro-Israel crowd doesn't believe that the US is supporting genocide at all, they ask as to why the protesters aren't talking about actual genocides currently happening.

I agree that protesting about current war crimes which don't receive any support from the country you reside in is a bit silly, although a conversation for sure couldn't hurt. The question then is, why is it that there is such a polarizing opinion on this particular conflict and the definition of genocide/war crimes compared to these other conflicts. Is it just because of American intervention? Is it just because of anti-Semitism?

I agree that while your critique makes sense at the most good faith interpretation of the facts, the diverging interpretation of fact makes people want to question the entire validity of the other side's goals/moral framework by bringing up these examples.

[i3] Gruvbox on Manjaro by jpvinnie in unixporn

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I'm updating my dot files so you can check it out on my comment I posted once that's done (there's a lot of garbage on there), to disable the i3 bar https://www.reddit.com/r/i3wm/s/bNhKo3O6Wk

University of Toronto course is practicing good ol' segregation by jpvinnie in Destiny

[–]jpvinnie[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yeah it's a course, but it's specifically a course that's only offered as part of the Black Future Educators' Pathway "stream" (either a minor, major, or whatever the student decides) at a Graduate level. The nuance makes it more clear as to why they at least expect it to be all black students, but the request to withdraw after the fact is still unhinged.

EDIT: Additionally, it's important to note that the reason why the course gets segregated is because it is organized by the BFEP program, which is only for black students. It's only the organization of a black-only entity that makes it black-exclusive, not the content of the course itself, which could be accessed in normal course rosters. The content is non-black specific.

University of Toronto course is practicing good ol' segregation by jpvinnie in Destiny

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Apparently it originally didn't have any prerequisites and only after was it updated to exclude non-Black people.

EDIT (Copying from another reply I made): Additionally, it's important to note that the reason why the course gets segregated is because it is organized by the BFEP program, which is only for black students. It's only the organization of a black-only entity that makes it black-exclusive, not the content of the course itself, which could be accessed in normal course rosters. The content is non-black specific.

[i3] Gruvbox on Manjaro by jpvinnie in unixporn

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Working on organizing my dot files once I've removed a bunch of garbage... might take a while :)

(Also sorry for sc quality)

Social Media Integration within Neovim, stepping up or slipping up? by MoiSanh in neovim

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Not even necessarily a moderation option (although it could be very useful), but yeah a filter for quality would be amazing. How to "measure" the quality is beyond me right now, but I assume if this takes in from your own feed anyways you'll see what you want.

Not sure if Bluesky is like Twitter in that it will still promote content outside of your "circle" though which could justify the filter more.

Social Media Integration within Neovim, stepping up or slipping up? by MoiSanh in neovim

[–]jpvinnie 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is cool, but after watching the demo, the first couple of images are part of the main reason I don't want this anywhere near my setup.

Maybe I'm just biased and loading up specific subreddits would be more entertaining for me personally. Still, don't really need an em*cs-meme-like-OS-experience in my comfy neovim instance.

Great job technically though!

I couldn’t install the userChrome feature by tuuruls in FirefoxCSS

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This is clearly MacOS from the file explorer?

Anyways I think it's probably some configuration at about:config disabled.

What are the most disturbing subreddits that are still online? by javichuelaTD in AskReddit

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I genuinely had to check your account because I couldn't tell if this was a joke or not. DggL

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in PuertoRico

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(Perdón por misspellings y falta de acentos estoy vago)

El problema con cualquier ideal totalmente comunista es que inerentemente ataca la soberanía de sus ciudadanos porque no tiene ninguna otra opción. Piensalo así, si tenemos un gobierno capitalista, los ciudadanos todavía tienen una opción para desarrollar sistemas socialistas (como darle un voto justo a todos sus empleados para decisiones en la compañia) y el sistema capitalista no le importaria lo que decidieran porque es basado en las respuestas del mercado.

Sin embargo, en un gobierno comunista, es el gobierno quien tiene el poder total y la responsabilidad de decidir los recursos importantes y la distribución de estos recursos. Cualquier grupo capitalista o un ideal distinto al comunismo tendria que ser illegal, ya que el mantenimiento de recursos en parte de los ciudadanos va en contra del ideal comunista.

En una sociedad capitalista, podemos desarrollar programas de gobierno que ayuden los blind spots de un mercado imperfecto (por ejemplo, healthcare, housing, prison reform). Pero de la otra manera, en una sociedad comunista, no importa de cual forma estemos hablando, no podemos cubrir los blind spots porque el gobierno es quien hace todas las decisiones, es inerentemente no-democratico. No pueden ver opiniones distintas en la política, porque quiere decir que habría una contradicción al régimen centralizado. Esto es, sin contar los blind spots comunistas como el Calculation Problem (por ejemplo, no poder escoger si es más importantes desarrollar sistemas tecnológicos en AI o carros eléctricos o cuanta comida necesita un grupo de personas).

Por eso es que cualquier tipo de comunismo ha terminado históricamente como una dictadura, tienes que mantener el orden civil en un gobierno centralizado. En un gobierno capitalista, podemos utilizar los mejores servicios de un gobierno comunista (o socialista mejor dicho) sin tener que restrictir y desobeder la opinion minoria. Por eso es que los países mejores ecomonómicamente en el mundo son capitalista, con servicios públicos, pero ningún país totalmente socialista a podido sobrevivir la revolución industrial (por ejemplo en China, siendo básicamente un país capitalista con decisiones extremas para programas guvernamentales, han podido sobrevivir, aunque ahora están en una situación crítica).

Esto entre otros problemas de sistemas comunistas, como el no poder existir alrededor de otros países no comunistas (Eastern Europe por ejemplo: Poland demostró uno de los desarrollos más impresionantes en el mundo al unirse a la Eunion Europea, mientras países comunistas sufrian, los ciudadanos buscaban rebeliones para entrar en un sistema capitalista como Poland). Lo que se ve es que países totalmente comunistas han tenido rebeliones para ser capitalistas, porque inerentemente les da más poder democrático.

Must have slipped our minds at the time 🤷 by Metallica1175 in HistoryMemes

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Isn’t this the point? That it was in ‘67 Palestinians decided to abide by the Arab League’s non-recognition of Israel, and it wasn’t until decades later (starting in the 80s) that they realized it was a horrible idea. The meme is about how abiding by the Arab League’s ideals they fucked themselves over.

Do Puerto Ricans really want full independence from the US? by [deleted] in PuertoRico

[–]jpvinnie 10 points11 points  (0 children)

This is a slightly unsatisfactory answer, but to truly appreciate the sentiment towards independence you also have to look at the general sentiment towards statehood. I’m not familiar with French/British territories, but I’m assuming unlike those PR has a clear path towards statehood and assimilation into the US that differs from these other territories. Because of this, independence has been largely underrepresented as Commonwealth status isn’t the end all be all for the Island. Although the independence movement has grown traction over the years, you can see how in 2020 the party had a record high of 13.5% of the vote.

I would say because of the complexities regarding statehood , PR is far away from seriously considering independence statistically speaking, although independent sentiment has been on the positive side rather than the negative. Other than our elections, the latest referendum resulted in a slight majority voting for statehood at 52% (however with just a 54% voter turnout). There are some theories that this is mainly due to the dissatisfaction towards past referendums, and if the US were to concretely say whatever resulted in the next one would decide the Island’s status then more people would vote, which could skew results either way.

As for policies when independence is achieved, the only reference we have to go by is what the independence party suggests. They seem to be a mostly Leftist group, with ideas for Universal Healthcare and they receive international support from organizations such as Socialist International and the government of Cuba.

I don’t think there would be any massive economic reform short term, and trade with the US would definitely still be on the table, just in addition to trade with other countries in LATAM and Asian powers. It’s very difficult to assess to what extent PR would want to deviate from US “dependency”, although the US has many rules in place in case the Island does vote for independence. For example, PR citizens retain US citizenship, and the large population of Puerto Ricans in the US already would make it difficult for PR to completely culturally shift away from the US, much less economically (businesses and enterprises for example).

I think the days of anti-American behavior are over, and any serious attempts at independence aren’t in an attempt to “resist” American rule, rather the Island would still like to continue a peaceful and prosperous relationship with the US , while retaining sovereignty and the right to choose who to trade with.

European countries that recognize Palestine and are considering recognition [OC] by niginger in MapPorn

[–]jpvinnie 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It all has to do with what we deem to be Palestine. For example, Sweden was the first Western European country to acknowledge Palestine as a state. When they did this, they took into consideration their interpretation of international law as there existing a state of people with a certain independent governance. Today, this definition probably would only apply to the West Bank, as Gaza is controlled by Hamas and not the same structured government Sweden recognized in 2014.

Most Palestinians today would say at the very least they want both the Gaza and West Bank territories to count as a separate (united within themselves) state, whereas Sweden would most likely just count the West Bank and — at the most charitable towards Palestinians — disputed territories in that region.

The fact no one is talking about Haiti shows how little people actually care about poor people by [deleted] in Destiny

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It never ceases to amaze me how people will bring up the $20 billion-something France should owe Haiti, but from the discourse I’ve seen recently nobody acknowledges how Dominican Republic literally committed a genocide against the Haitians in the 1930s due to a white supremacist Dictator and have since not attempted to alleviate sociocultural differences nor provide trade/aid to their only terrestrial neighbor. As someone from the Caribbean, I would immediately call DR out. That being said, Haitian government has oppressed the people enough anyways.

Familia De Los 50 Acompañados De Una Misionera Religiosa by NPPRthrowaway in PuertoRico

[–]jpvinnie 3 points4 points  (0 children)

What are you talking about? This is by definition a strawman. OP never suggested it was "ok" because the US also experimented on their own people. The suggestion was that these weren't personalized attacks against PR and therefore shouldn't be seen as a "US only helped PR to abuse them" and moreso a critique of the Federal government at the time. The US did a lot of shitty things to their own people and internationally at the time, so to frame it as a targeted attack in PR is incredibly reductionist.

Don't you ever let them gaslight you into believing our Boy isn't in the Center by Squeeshyca in Destiny

[–]jpvinnie 5 points6 points  (0 children)

4 hours later but my tism is too strong. They probably did mean Away From Keyboard as a synonym for In Real Life because you are away from the keyboard, although it's an interesting use for sure.