>major historical events can rarely, if ever, be traced to a single cause. But it might have played a significant role.
Along those same lines, several years ago a theory was circulated that the 1918 flu outbreak was made more deadly by the over-prescription of aspirin. The basic argument was that high-doses of fever-reducing medication prevented the body from naturally "heating" the flu virus to death.
If your wife is open, try IVF. Also, if her eggs are non viable (which becomes more likely after 40), frozen donor eggs are increasingly affordable (~$15,000-$20,000) and the success rate at some clinics crossed north of ~70% recently. There are several clinics which list donors' psychological profiles (including IQ), national/ethnic pedigree, physical attributes, and provide photos. The following clinic provides the above, is based out of Chicago, and is often recommended at PVED.org:
...there's another clinic based out of San Diego which is often recommended, though its prices were a bit higher than the former option as of a couple years ago. PVED should have the exact name.
Personally speaking: family, friends, and coworkers have long equated the "Fake News" label with the pap put out by mainstream media monopolies, and, the agendas pushed by trendy social networking corporations. Many of the people included this cohort are working class democrats and self avowed "liberals".
I find it odd that some think the problem with "fakeness" in news reporting is being caused by anything but monopolies over media outlets; curating sources and blacklisting hardly seems a solution. Try antitrust.
>And then, perhaps spreading those students out into classes and schools among students who do value education won't mask that problem, but actually change the attitudes and eventually behaviors of those you are trying to help.
Or perhaps, negatively change the attitudes and behaviors of those student it's being assumed don't need help.
Perhaps a life boat (a high-performing school amidst a sea of mediocrity) is only so big.
A janitor, whom never uttered a word to me before, asked me about bitcoin in a very forward manner just last week. As much as I'm excited by the concepts behind crypto, "jump the shark" has been on my mind ever since.
America's average height has also been declining along with its IQ, and why should this be surprising given that the nation has been prioritizing the importation of peoples anywhere-but-from-the-Occident for over ~50 years?
Here's hoping the Jewish-ethnostate-supporting Emanuel Celler was called out for the hypocrisy of his gentile-disinheriting "Hart-Celler Act" before those yonder pearly gates.
"Not prone to ill, nor strange to foreign guest,
They eat, they drink, and nature gives the feast
The trees around them all their food produce:
Lotus the name: divine, nectareous juice!
(Thence call'd Lo'ophagi); which whose tastes,
Insatiate riots in the sweet repasts,
Nor other home, nor other care intends,
But quits his house, his country, and his friends.
The three we sent, from off the enchanting ground
We dragg'd reluctant, and by force we bound.
The rest in haste forsook the pleasing shore,
Or, the charm tasted, had return'd no more.
Now placed in order on their banks, they sweep
The sea's smooth face, and cleave the hoary deep:
With heavy hearts we labour through the tide,
To coasts unknown, and oceans yet untried."
800 through 1000 square foot Aladdin or Sears Roebuck-style kit homes would do far more to affordably beautify the typical America neighbourhood than 1960s style trailer homes replete with turn signals up top and flattened tires chocked below. A visit to the outskirts of the average mid-sized American city will soon cure anyone of nostalgia for trailer-laden communities.
IMHO, homes should be smaller and designed by architects rather than efficiency experts and with an eye toward past stylistic precedents (gothic, craftsman, prairie, stick, etc.)
In times of Weimar prosperity, more people should curl up with a copy of Ben Graham's '29-crash postmortem "Intelligent Investor", IMHO. I can't help but suspect that these barbershop customers will someday regret not having simply parked half of their savings in AAA-rated government bonds, the other in consumer defensive dividend champion stocks, and rebalanced once a year. More power to them if they strike it rich, though.
An echo chamber would appear to be a derisive term for instances of freedom of association. That being said, it would be nice if "links" to alternate viewpoints could be kept in close proximity to said chambers.
What should bother more people are echo chambers pretending to be open forums. Look no farther than Wikipedia for an ostensibly open community which is in fact an echo chamber allowing no alternate viewpoints; any remark less than fawning for the state of Israel or Judaism is flushed straight down the memory hole and scrubbed off the "Talk" page by an army of Hasbara trolls.
Password safe utilities seems to be growing too complex, IMHO. Vim's blowfish encryption is a straightforward alternative and the editor seems easy enough to install anywhere it's needed. There are other standalone command line utilities which can create random passwords, and vimscript could probably perform the task without too much trouble.
>That's largely a non-issue to me. If I need anything fancy, I'll draw it myself. The simple stuff ought to be simple.
Exactly. At least 90% of the functionality of my forms-based applications use nothing more than the standard UI components Tk provided in the early '90s. Why the web of 2017 still cannot grasp this is unfathomable. To be perfectly honest, I've never seen any toolkit match the productivity of Tcl's Tk of more than two decades ago, and it's even better today:
"Lucullus now turned his attention to the cities in Asia, in order that, while he was at leisure from military enterprises, he might do something for the furtherance of justice and law. Through long lack of these, unspeakable and incredible misfortunes were rife in the province. Its people were plundered and reduced to slavery by the tax-gatherers and money-lenders. Families were forced to sell their comely sons and virgin daughters, and cities their votive offerings, pictures, and sacred statues. At last men had to surrender to their creditors and serve them as slaves, but what preceded this was far worse, — tortures of rope, barrier, and horse; standing under the open sky in the blazing sun of summer, and in winter, being thrust into mud or ice. Slavery seemed, by comparison, to be disburdenment and peace. Such were the evils which Lucullus found in the cities, and in a short time he freed the oppressed from all of them."
"In the first place, he ordered that the monthly rate of interest should be reckoned at one per cent., and no more; in the second place, he cut off all interest that exceeded the principal; third, and most important of all, he ordained that the lender should receive not more than the fourth part of his debtor's income, and any lender who added interest to principal was deprived of the whole. Thus, in less than four years' time, the debts were all paid, and the properties restored to their owners unencumbered. This public debt had its origin in the twenty thousand talents which Sulla had laid upon Asia as a contribution, and twice this amount had been paid back to the money-lenders. Yet now, by reckoning usurious interest, they had brought the total debt up to a hundred and twenty thousand talents. These men, accordingly, considered themselves outraged, and raised a clamour against Lucullus at Rome. They also bribed some of the tribunes to proceed against him, being men of great influence, who had got many of the active politicians into their debt. Lucullus, however, was not only beloved by the peoples whom he had benefited, nay, other provinces also longed to have him set over them, and felicitated those whose good fortune it was to have such a governor."