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All cephalopod molluscs and decapod crustaceans should be regarded as sentient and protected under UK animal welfare law. This is the headline conclusion of this thoughtful report, that is going to have a profound impact on the way these animals are treated within the UK — and likely inform policy elsewhere. In response, the UK government has indicated that they accept this position and will look to/have extended forthcoming animal welfare legislation to include lobsters, octopus and crabs and all other decapod crustaceans and cephalopod molluscs.

All cephalopod molluscs and decapod crustaceans should be regarded as sentient and protected under UK animal welfare law. This is the headline conclusion of this thoughtful report, that is going to have a profound impact on the way these animals are treated within the UK — and likely inform policy elsewhere. In response, the UK government has indicated that they accept this position and will look to/have extended forthcoming animal welfare legislation to include lobsters, octopus and crabs and all other decapod crustaceans and cephalopod molluscs.

*study shows that sky is blue*

You can kill millions of them however you want and it's fine

And regional political systems theories are fake and dumb, hiss, hiss, boooooo

How many kids should I have if I want my lineage to exist in the future? You probably need to have at least 4! This is an interesting, and difficult, question. TFR (total fertility rate) all over the world has been declining, the share of women with 0 kids has been growing in every developed country, and demographers routinely, howlingly overestimate what TFR will be in the next generation (generally by about 15% in recent decades). All the headwinds are vastly against us. What I have done here is model various TFR scenarios in America to determine your chances of lineage preservation at a given number of kids. America is already down to 1.6 children per woman following a big TFR decline beginning during the 2008 Great Recession. Worse, given worldwide trends, we should probably expect further decreases, which I've modeled in a few scenarios. What you're seeing in the chart The blue line in the chart assumes that we stabilize around 1.5 - 1.6 TFR, with ~28% childlessness. The orange line is we decline 8% per generation for 3 generations, then level off at .9 of the third generation, with childlessness reaching 31% - 37%. The gray line declines 15% for 3 generations, then levels off at S Korea’s "lowest in the world" TFR today, with childlessness reaching 34% - 47%. The yellow line is assuming S. Korea TFR for the US, which is stable and doesn't decline further than about 0.8 children per woman, with childlessness holding at 47%. What do we see? That if you truly want your lineage to persist, you probably want at least 4 kids! More kids would be even better, but you know, until we get uterine replicators (or unless you’re rich enough to do surrogates, nannies, and cooks), good luck selling the wives in the equation on that one! About 9% of households have 4 children these days, so you need to be in the top 10% of child-havers to even have a chance. Go forth and multiply!

Plastic surgery has become a growing trend amongst Orthodox and Modern Orthodox young women before they start dating.

The shidduch crisis is a phenomenon in the Orthodox Jewish community whereby eligible single persons, especially women or Sephardim, have difficulty finding a suitable spouse, or a shidduch. There is some debate about the severity of the crisis and whether it is a recent development or a long-extant issue.

India has experienced a much-documented dowry inflation since the 1950s, which has been attributed to a spurt in population growth post-World War II. Will recent declines in fertility lead to a reversal of this trend and a regime of bride price? My paper develops a dynamic general equilibrium model of marriage markets, sex-ratio choice and population growth that is used to characterize the long-run relationship between population dynamics and marriage payments in India. I show that in the absence of exogenous sex preferences for offspring, and with no asymmetries between men and women except in desired ages of marriage (of self and spouse), any long run equilibrium will be characterized by an excess supply of brides, dowry payments and a masculine sex ratio.The result holds for parameters consistent with marriage market indicators in India.

A cad is a man who is not gentlemanly or honorable, especially toward a woman. He asked the waitress for her phone number and left you with the check? That cad!

“We have to think critically about the long-term effects of jumping on a reactionary moment,” a social strategy director told us.

The end of casual sex.

“Stathas pleaded guilty in 2023 to enticing a minor to engage in unlawful sexual activity” (18 U.S.C. § 2422(b)). He was sentenced to 180 months in prison and 10 years of supervised release. As part of the arrest and investigation,...

Asimov Press returns with a renewed focus on original reporting, investigations, and thesis-driven philanthropy.

Last year’s post “You Should be Working on Hardware” was mostly targeted at people with established careers and financial security, but I was surprised to see it enjoyed much wide…

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America is figuring out the trick to reindustrialization, if it can learn the right lessons.

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How professional authority gave way to fragmented assurance and chronic failure

You Have To Be In The Water Building a company is like surfing. The surfer can control their body, their surfboard, but not the water. In many ways, the biggest decision you have to make is where and when to surf. The wave represents the macro environment and the underlying market shift–some are...

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Christopher Michael Langan (born March 25, 1952) is an American horse rancher who claims to have an extremely high intelligence and a high score on the Mega Test, a self-administered, untimed, non-standardized IQ test that he took under the pseudonym Eric Hart. Under that name, Langan was formerly listed in the Guinness Book of Records high IQ section alongside Marilyn vos Savant and Keith Raniere, who had taken the same test. The record was discontinued in 1990, as high IQs are considered too unreliable to document as world records. Langan was later a subject of Malcolm Gladwell's 2008 book Outliers: The Story of Success, in which Gladwell discussed why Langan's reputation for high intelligence had not led to greater conventional success. Langan has no degree, having twice dropped out of college. The book compared him with J. Robert Oppenheimer and focused on the influence of their respective environments on success. Langan has formulated and promoted the Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe (CTMU), which he describes as a theory in which reality is a self-simulation. He self-published a book about it in 2002. In interviews and self-published writings, he has expressed beliefs in a variety of fringe proposals and conspiracy theories, including arguing in favor of eugenics to prevent "genomic degradation", opposition to interracial relationships, and support for the 9/11 truth movement. His political opinions have gained him a following in far-right politics.

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Is this emotion the secret to success? Dr. Jessica Tracy thinks so! If you haven't felt 'proud of yourself' in a while - then you're missing out on an insane source of motivation.

🧠 Discipline isn't solely reliant on sheer willpower or habits; rather, it's an emotion that can be nurtured and cultivated. In this video, we delve into the unconventional yet insightful perspective on discipline as an emotion.

Beyonce carved a super successful solo career, and grown to become one of the most awarded artists by the Grammys.

Gaiseric…was a man of moderate height and lame in consequence of a fall from his horse. He was a man of deep thought and few words I’m often asked about the signs of exceptional talent I’ve observed, probably because I spend too much running around talking to people & observing things, instead of doing anything useful. Patrick Collison, Sam Altman, and Tyler Cowen are the three names that come to mind when thinking about this question. Of my writing, Intelligence killed …

If Berthier had been there, I would not have met this misfortune. Nobody understands people; nobody can see the future. Not you. Not me. Not Sam Altman. Probably not even God. If anything, you should be looking for omens of exceptional character, not talent. almost died while growing up in some weird unexpected way that in retrospect turns out to have been extremely ominous grew up on the frontier you’re worried they might destroy the world while trying to save it you’re confused …

navigation: / what's missing? what's wrong? just comment/suggest on this doc! On YIMBY My feeling is YIMBYs are wrong (I've been thinking about this for the last 3 years). If you're a professional who's never been worried about being evicted from the place you're renting and don't have chil...

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Inspired by Patrick Collison’s list of interesting people. Adam Strandberg (twitter) Ali Cy (twitter) Alvaro De Menard (twitter) Andy Kong (twitter) Anson Yu (twitter) Applied Divinity Studies Avital Balwit (twitter) Basil Halperin (twitter) Benjamin Spector (twitter) Bruno H.S. Aguiar (twitter) Ching Lam Choi (twitter) Chris Beiser (twitter) Clare Birch (twitter) Croissanthology (twitter) Daniel Kirmani (twitter) Diana Leung (twitter) Gavin Leech (twitter) Gytis Daujotas (twitter) Isaak …

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some notes on an endless skill

Self-experiment on vitamin D effects on sleep: harmful taken at night, no or beneficial effects when taken in the morning.

Notes on nootropics I tried, and my experiments

Blaming a moribund economy on too many rules is a hackneyed neoliberal trope – UK plc needs smarter regulation, not less regulation

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