Posts by Lucy Stewart
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Awesome.
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Actually, ACT, UF and Progressive all have electorates, so they'd survive.
Turning on my internet telepathy for a moment: I think Stephen means that we'd lose the associated MPs, so it wouldn't be ACT, United Future, and the Progressives so much as Rodney Hide, Peter Dunne, and Jim Anderton, all on their not-very-powerful lonesomes. It would make a difference. (Or perhaps he didn't mean that at all; this internet telepathy stuff is dodgy as.)
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Just read the article
I did. Hence the comment about strawmen.
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you just don't know that they wouldn't try this kind of shit.
I was gonna be sarcastic and everything, but meh. Do you actually know strawmen when you use them?
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though prison spending is probably hidden in state budgets.
Which are entirely separate from federal budgets and so not really part of the federal deficit problem. Separate states' deficit problems, now, that's another matter.
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And yea, you shall know him... by his homemade felafel.
Standards are slipping. Used to be the quality of your home-grown produce, now we're down to falafel. Tragic, really.
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Looked like SA in the 70's to me , perhaps it was meant to.
It's almost like it's....allegory.
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Some of this conversation brought this to mind:
I will treasure this so very much.
However, it can work other ways too. Of the many other women doing PhDs at round the same time as me, three others (like me) already had young children. One of these was a solo parent, and one had another (third) child during the PhD. Two other women had their first during (you just take a bit of time off in the middle), and one gave birth about a month after submission. The difficulties are the same as for any other working mother, i.e. the main issue is childcare; and in some ways it's easier, in that your working hours are a little more flexible than many work places, and you don't get limited sick leave.
Thanks; this is the sort of thing I need to hear. I don't expect any of it to be easy, but the more people I hear of who did it, the more it gives me hope.
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However, the spontaneous mutation/deformity rate for mothers older than 40 is actually higher.
If we were actually rational be would ban both or neither. But of course we aren't.
From a pure biological perspective, I agree (that we should ban neither, that is) and first-cousin marriage isn't actually illegal. Intermittent first-cousin breeding (though sibling is much dodgier, especially if you have any nasty recessives lurking) is generally not a big deal. Lots of people have married their first cousins and reproduced successfully.
However, there's a problem in practice: inbreeding over repeated generations *hugely* increases your risk, c.f. some Pakistani families in Britain with massive rates of rare congenital diseases due to a tradition of first-cousin marriage. C.f. also the Hapsburgs. In general, promoting outbreeding is much better for all involved. Having kids over 40 repeatedly over the generations does not multiply the risk, so it's not really in the same basket.
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Dude fancies himself as a skeptic, and yet was fooled by Sensing Murder.
Not. Impressed.