retired?

Yes just pulled the plug. Now mostly travelling and meeting people (not even drinking, because Ozempic totally killed all the joy of doing it).

Same, I really want to like Zed but LazyVim covers my every need

Conductor is really nice! A feature I would really like would be to be able to automatically configure “direnv allow” in the different shells as I use nix & direnv all the time

I had this opinion until I actually had a new model and felt the weight difference.

The duality of Man

What do you mean exactly by “Epstein People”? I thoroughly hope it’s not the 4chan definition of it

A RAM discussion descends into cranks referring to "Epstein People" and you're the one downvoted - website's absolutely cooked.

Liberalism (in the traditional economic sens) likes competition. Capitalism is a mode of production, and capitalists notoriously don’t like competition when they are the incumbents

“What scientists are wary of is how any discussion in the field gets jumped on and twisted into ammunition to reinforce racist beliefs”

Yet nothing ruined the reputation of the scientific establishment more in recent time than their tendency to change their behaviours and adapt their beliefs for political motives

There are always those trying to discredit scientists who do not reinforce their personal beliefs.

There is a graph arguing “intelligence” has been positively selected in west Eurasian population in this paper according to a polygenic score (page 8 fig. 4)

Now I would be quite curious to know how they constructed this polygenic score

... because it's a study of West Eurasian DNA. The claim that humanity has over millennia selected for intelligence isn't all that spicy.

First yes it is. The claims that this time period was too short to meaningfully change phenotypes in human populations was not entirely far fetched.

Then to address the elephant in the room - which is the race discourse subtext let’s be honest - it’s highly unlikely that any recent selective pressure on a separated population, which resulted in meaningful phenotype adaptations, happened similarly everywhere at the same time

Synbio but it’s expensive as hell

what is it

Synthetic biology: changing genes or expression of genes in cells, etc

What country would be the stereotypical example you are thinking of? I fail to find any

From the US point of view only:

Historically, most of Latin America.

Very recently: why was Venezuela attacked by the US?