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Cake day: February 24th, 2024

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  • Genetic behavioural changes is a fascinating topic and the more studies that come out on it, the faster it seems to be able to act to have an effect

    Just look at how quickly agriculture changes human societies living in the right conditions to practice it.

    We are talking thousands of years, not even tens of thousands of years, or hundreds of thousands.

    Given any factor that is core to survival, there seems to be a genetic impact much more quickly than previously thought. It does have its limits of course, we are not talking something with a measurable effect over 3 or 4 generations, but 30-40 generations seems to be possible in some cases.

    Maybe the village fire keeper was a lot more reproductively popular that we previously thought.


  • Nothing in the modern context, but 10000 years ago. If you were a black African and your fire went out, your food might not het cooked or that predator might take a chance to grab one of the kids.

    If you were a white person in northern europe, your fire going out meant that everyone froze solid overnight.

    Fire was just more essential in climates that developed white skins. Socially and genetically, that has an impact on behaviour.


  • After Israel, I think a trip to some other choice locations for be in order.

    Mecca, Washington DC, Iran, a particularly scenic Dacha in Russia with a large amount of air defence systems.

    After that I would go “shopping” for some mega yachts, you know to add to my fishtank at the bottom of the ocean.

    Then I would take a trip to some military bases in the South China sea and remove some of the Islands that don’t belong there.

    Then I would take a 2 month holiday and see which moles stick their head out before I repeat the process.








  • Actually, I am in Africa, so I am very aware of the situation. Outside of cities and Major towns, people are often trapped with little access to transport. They can only afford to travel to local towns, once or twice a month to access services like healthcare and professional services. For goods they usually have to coordinate as a community to get a goods truck to bring them items.

    The problem with rural areas is that the tax base is too low to warrant the cost of infrastructure investment. Its cheaper for those people to move to larger towns and cities. In the “old world” they at least have the advantage of dense and walkable towns.

    The US as the problem that their small towns are build car centric, and subsidized by taxes from urban tax payers. They will need reabilitate their towns to build over the top of roads and radically rework their power, electricity and sewage infrastructure.