The highest achievers I personally know in my adult life are predominantly black and descended from american slavery, those blacks who aren't the high achievers are still engaged in no crime (they don't even speed or smoke, they have jobs and grind). Nearly every kid I knew from before highschool grew up to be a burnout degenerate, except for the single black kid who found a way out and is doing alright. In highschool it was predominately Asian and the culture was education forward, its produced several successful adults.
What these cases have in common was parents that put the effort in to raise their children to not be monsters, having structure, religion, a focus on education and hard work. For the high achievers I have tried to narrow down to a common aspect, it appears to just be an innate disposition that some have and others don't. In...zero of the cases for any racial group where the parents didnt do their job did the kid come out right.
Even among blacks descended from slavery, a very tiny portion are involved in crime, they just commit a disproportionate amount. If it was genetic then it would be more leveled among the population, random black people from good upbringings would be involved. What instead I see is specific places where communities have been ruined by cultural obliteration through decades of progressive policies that promise collectivist solutions like affirmative action and wealth redistribution.
If it were genetic then it'd have taken more than a few generations of slavery to change the same people you call "the cream of the crop" into rioting self entitled thugs.
Yes, and its a culture of people who value education and work ethic that creates the intelligence you refer to.
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The details of any specific country are liable to change, once the leaders of Ghana and the ivory coast were in competition to see who's country would do better, the former under communism, the later under capitalism, its no surprise the ivory coast excelled; later, these countries have traded economic policies and you can see Ghana on the rise. If you want an apt comparison look at the disparity between american native blacks and African immigrants, the later has 30% higher income and far lower crime rates.
Anyo e have experience with #joinmarket? I'm tempted to give it a run to see how the earning are.
I don't normally like to toot my own horn but this is a milestone for me. The week of Thanksgiving last year I stepped on the scale and it read almost 380 pounds. It was a smack in the face for me and I realized I needed to do something to make sure I am around for my family as long as possible.
I've been eating keto and exercising since then and this weekend was the first time in over a decade that the scale has read below 300 pounds for me. I still have a long way to go but I'm on the way.
I've also included a pic of my most recent labs for those that might wonder what eating mostly fat for 9 months will do to your lipids.
(Yes I know I need a pedicure)
#keto #exercise #lifting #realfood #eatrealfood #Homestead #beef #steak #pork #carnivore #nostr #grownostr
Thanks to the encouragement of the keto lifestyle from people such as nostr:npub15879mltlln6k8jy32k6xvagmtqx3zhsndchcey8gjyectwldk88sq5kv0n and nostr:npub1u2vu695j5wfnxsxpwpth2jnzwxx5fat7vc63eth07dez9arnrezsdeafsv
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They don't try very hard to make their case, they rely on the general disinterest of the public.
There is no second best, see the ugly color of the fans? That's how you know its legit.
I think they have some potential in allowing us to have more privacy related options as part of bitcoin, and letting us test out upgrades to the network that are taking years to build consensus around and adopt.
I worry though, because the social effects and economic effects that it will have are relatively unknown; it will likely trick a lot of people into thinking it solves things like scaling by introducing sidechains that have big blocks that nodes can't keep up with. It could justify ossification of bitcoin to a greater number of people making it even harder to change, its a guarantee we need a hard-fork at some point to fix a time stamping issue that *will* cause bitcoin to grind to a halt; its also a guarantee that bitcoin needs improvements in how well it utilizes block space, things like cross input signature aggregation and covenants, these could be added to a side chain of course, but if bitcoin grows to a billion users then it will be impossible to get out of that side chain because we aren't prepared to handle that volume on bitcoin.
I don't see a right answer to drive chains, only that there is critical work to be done on other upgrades and we should let this stew for a bit.
Keith Knight and Dave Smith killed it on the most recent episode of Part of the Problem, "Three Social Justice Lies Explained". Its not on YouTube yet, but its on Spotify.
Texas gas plants failed because they cheap skated on winterization...