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Post by gridley on Jan 12, 2023 11:53:03 GMT
Are we SURE the Babylon Bee is fiction? From today's headlines:
"Military To End Vax Mandate Now That All The Conservatives Have Been Weeded Out"
Well...
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Post by glennkoks on Jan 12, 2023 12:19:16 GMT
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Post by walnut on Jan 12, 2023 14:39:38 GMT
Nitrogen fertilizer is probably the most consequential invention of the modern world. How else are we going to get Americans to drink rail cars of corn syrup every day?
I think that we will not be able to support the current world population without nitrogen fertilizer. And we will learn that we have seriously degraded most of our topsoil.
The abundance of cheap food makes possible the EBT zombie army, and really the entire wasteful madness of the 21st century.
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Post by missouriboy on Jan 12, 2023 17:12:01 GMT
Nitrogen fertilizer is probably the most consequential invention of the modern world. How else are we going to get Americans to drink rail cars of corn syrup every day?
I think that we will not be able to support the current world population without nitrogen fertilizer. And we will learn that we have seriously degraded most of our topsoil.
The abundance of cheap food makes possible the EBT zombie army, and really the entire wasteful madness of the 21st century.
By 1950, 20th Century extravagence had arrived at the Boone County Missouri farm, on a commanding hilltop at the end of a muddy dirt road. The first electric line had arrived. No longer was the night lit by kerosene or candles. The old cookstove was still wood. The outhouse was still out. Water was still heated one tub at a time. The ornery old mule had died and been replaced by a 1940s tractor. That was a BIG deal for those used to tilling the land the old fashioned way. The cistern provided ALL the water excepting the weekly bath that was hauled up from the creek. The eight surviving children (of 9) had finally left the farm and moved to town after the War (tradesmen one and all). Grandpa was a "smith" with his own small foundry. The 3-room house and the much bigger barn were quieter. Grandpa laid down and died one day and the kids moved Grandma to a small house in town. The range of gadgets were larger by 1953 and cars were ubiquitous. Anyone could see that "the corruption" had begun. One of the older aunts described "the good old days" as "not being so good".  Unknown if Grandpa knew he was Celtic ... or how far the collective memory went beyond late 1600s Virginia. But he saved 20 acres of pre-settlement white oak and hickory. Wouldn't cut them or sell them. So there they stand ... and will till they drop over dead. Grandpa's line survived whatever "the sun and our planet and particularly other humans" threw at them for millennia and survived. What are the odds for our current crop of technology-addicted homo sapiens? |
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Post by Sigurdur on Jan 15, 2023 4:18:54 GMT
Resourcefulness is very scant.
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Post by missouriboy on Jan 15, 2023 5:47:08 GMT
Resourcefulness is very scant. Great Grandpa only had one eye, but he used it well.
We got lucky last month. We now have a second Italian (Apennines Area Northern Italy) that tested exactly for our haplogroup's first 12 STR markers and has a matching snp mutation, which together with the first Italian match, puts our connection date likely in Roman times. Exact aging is a bit of a problem without fossil dna evidence. But things continue to come together. My Z56 haplogroup Aussie cousin has a pet thesis that our lot made it to NW England in late Empire times ... and may have been associated with the 20th Legion, which was garrisoned at Chester. It would explain (with a vehicle) how a bunch of Z56 Alpine Celts show up in England where the dominant Celtic haplogroup is L2. Regardless, all our YDNA matches that know anything about their Britain origin area, converge on Lancashire.
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Post by gridley on Jan 17, 2023 12:53:06 GMT
nypost.com/2023/01/15/teacher-sex-crimes-show-progressives-love-to-stay-silent-on-abuses-of-power/"Last year saw the arrest of nearly 350 public-school educators for alleged sex crimes against children, with a hideous 75% (at least!) crimes against students. "Strangely absent from the public discourse around this, however, are any calls to defund public education. "We’re sure the lack of fiery outrage around these crimes has nothing to do with the fact that teachers unions — which do everything they can to keep predators from facing real punishments — are massive political allies of national Democrats (and big donors). "Worse still, the 350 figure is almost certainly merely a lower bound. It doesn’t account for all the abuse that goes undetected. Indeed, a US Education Department report suggests that around one in 10 public school students will experience sexual misconduct by an educator before graduation. "America has about five times as many public-school teachers as full-time cops. If 70 police officers were arrested over 2022 for sex crimes against children, what would the progressive response be? Riots, congressional inquiries, endless media screaming? "Their silence on teacher crimes speaks volumes."
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Post by gridley on Jan 18, 2023 13:26:10 GMT
www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/equality-not-elitism/from-kumbaya-to-karl-marx-how-the-lefts-dei-agenda-has-hijacked-campus-cultureThis stood out for me: "The prioritization of DEI on U.S. college campuses has become a big business — and a lucrative one. The American Enterprise Institute discovered that the incomes of DEI employees often exceed those of fully tenured professors at the same universities. For example, the University of Michigan’s Vice Provost for Equity and Inclusion and Chief Diversity Officer Rob Sellers earned $396,550 plus fringe benefits estimated at 32.45% of salary in 2018. The average annual income for a tenured professor at the school that year? $147,000. "Moreover, the race to staff already bloated college administrations with DEI personnel has driven administration-to-student ratios to levels unheard of just a decade ago. The current ratio of administrator to student for Yale University undergraduates is 1 to 1 . Predictably, the salaries of this new class of employees are causing college tuition to surge to prohibitive levels." At my university when I was there the undergraduates outnumbers the grad students, faculty, and staff *combined*. As I recall the grad students were the largest of the three other groups, and the staff the smallest, but I must admit I'm not sure on that point. Many "staff" positions were filled by students working part-time or even volunteering. Students worked at the computer clusters, as tech support, at the front desks of the dorms (an easy job), and various other things. Many of the major non-academic events were run by students with a handful of staff keeping an eye on things - including freshman orientation. Yet even if all those student jobs and volunteer opportunities were replaced by paid staff I *still* can't see how the staff:student ratio could get anywhere close to 1:1. Have things changed so much in the last two decades? Or was Yale already far down this path when I was in college?
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Post by Sigurdur on Jan 18, 2023 13:28:53 GMT
Last 2 decades, sad to say.
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Post by missouriboy on Jan 18, 2023 18:53:20 GMT
www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/equality-not-elitism/from-kumbaya-to-karl-marx-how-the-lefts-dei-agenda-has-hijacked-campus-cultureThis stood out for me: "The prioritization of DEI on U.S. college campuses has become a big business — and a lucrative one. The American Enterprise Institute discovered that the incomes of DEI employees often exceed those of fully tenured professors at the same universities. For example, the University of Michigan’s Vice Provost for Equity and Inclusion and Chief Diversity Officer Rob Sellers earned $396,550 plus fringe benefits estimated at 32.45% of salary in 2018. The average annual income for a tenured professor at the school that year? $147,000. "Moreover, the race to staff already bloated college administrations with DEI personnel has driven administration-to-student ratios to levels unheard of just a decade ago. The current ratio of administrator to student for Yale University undergraduates is 1 to 1 . Predictably, the salaries of this new class of employees are causing college tuition to surge to prohibitive levels." At my university when I was there the undergraduates outnumbers the grad students, faculty, and staff *combined*. As I recall the grad students were the largest of the three other groups, and the staff the smallest, but I must admit I'm not sure on that point. Many "staff" positions were filled by students working part-time or even volunteering. Students worked at the computer clusters, as tech support, at the front desks of the dorms (an easy job), and various other things. Many of the major non-academic events were run by students with a handful of staff keeping an eye on things - including freshman orientation. Yet even if all those student jobs and volunteer opportunities were replaced by paid staff I *still* can't see how the staff:student ratio could get anywhere close to 1:1. Have things changed so much in the last two decades? Or was Yale already far down this path when I was in college? Yes, and yes. |
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Post by ratty on Jan 19, 2023 6:38:45 GMT
www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/equality-not-elitism/from-kumbaya-to-karl-marx-how-the-lefts-dei-agenda-has-hijacked-campus-cultureThis stood out for me: "The prioritization of DEI on U.S. college campuses has become a big business — and a lucrative one. The American Enterprise Institute discovered that the incomes of DEI employees often exceed those of fully tenured professors at the same universities. For example, the University of Michigan’s Vice Provost for Equity and Inclusion and Chief Diversity Officer Rob Sellers earned $396,550 plus fringe benefits estimated at 32.45% of salary in 2018. The average annual income for a tenured professor at the school that year? $147,000. "Moreover, the race to staff already bloated college administrations with DEI personnel has driven administration-to-student ratios to levels unheard of just a decade ago. The current ratio of administrator to student for Yale University undergraduates is 1 to 1 . Predictably, the salaries of this new class of employees are causing college tuition to surge to prohibitive levels." At my university when I was there the undergraduates outnumbers the grad students, faculty, and staff *combined*. As I recall the grad students were the largest of the three other groups, and the staff the smallest, but I must admit I'm not sure on that point. Many "staff" positions were filled by students working part-time or even volunteering. Students worked at the computer clusters, as tech support, at the front desks of the dorms (an easy job), and various other things. Many of the major non-academic events were run by students with a handful of staff keeping an eye on things - including freshman orientation. Yet even if all those student jobs and volunteer opportunities were replaced by paid staff I *still* can't see how the staff:student ratio could get anywhere close to 1:1. Have things changed so much in the last two decades? Or was Yale already far down this path when I was in college? Nice worksalary if you can get it. |
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Post by code on Jan 19, 2023 13:42:01 GMT
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Post by code on Jan 19, 2023 13:44:09 GMT
Resourcefulness is very scant. Great Grandpa only had one eye, but he used it well.
We got lucky last month. We now have a second Italian (Apennines Area Northern Italy) that tested exactly for our haplogroup's first 12 STR markers and has a matching snp mutation, which together with the first Italian match, puts our connection date likely in Roman times. Exact aging is a bit of a problem without fossil dna evidence. But things continue to come together. My Z56 haplogroup Aussie cousin has a pet thesis that our lot made it to NW England in late Empire times ... and may have been associated with the 20th Legion, which was garrisoned at Chester. It would explain (with a vehicle) how a bunch of Z56 Alpine Celts show up in England where the dominant Celtic haplogroup is L2. Regardless, all our YDNA matches that know anything about their Britain origin area, converge on Lancashire.
Where did you have your DNA work done and what tests did you do? If you prefer to not post publically, please private message me. |
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Post by missouriboy on Jan 19, 2023 15:36:39 GMT
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Post by missouriboy on Jan 19, 2023 16:24:08 GMT
Great Grandpa only had one eye, but he used it well.
We got lucky last month. We now have a second Italian (Apennines Area Northern Italy) that tested exactly for our haplogroup's first 12 STR markers and has a matching snp mutation, which together with the first Italian match, puts our connection date likely in Roman times. Exact aging is a bit of a problem without fossil dna evidence. But things continue to come together. My Z56 haplogroup Aussie cousin has a pet thesis that our lot made it to NW England in late Empire times ... and may have been associated with the 20th Legion, which was garrisoned at Chester. It would explain (with a vehicle) how a bunch of Z56 Alpine Celts show up in England where the dominant Celtic haplogroup is L2. Regardless, all our YDNA matches that know anything about their Britain origin area, converge on Lancashire.
Where did you have your DNA work done and what tests did you do? If you prefer to not post publically, please private message me. I am not concerned with stating this publicly. If someone wants to turn me back into a monkey, there are probably cheaper ways to go about it.  " Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go. (joshua 1:9)” I have contacted at least one relative amongst the Georgia clan that do not want their dna "out there". I understand their concerns. But I refuse to hide in the trees. Some say our ancestors abandoned the trees in search of steak a long time ago ... and never went back. If so, I concur with their decision.
Did my testing with Familytreedna www.familytreedna.com . They have thousands of males in their database ... and the trick to finding men who match to you (either closely or distantly) is directly dependent on whether any of these people have tested. "We" have a couple of very rare STR marker values. The combination of these values have, so far, been verified on our direct tree of SNP values ranging back to at least Roman times. At least if you believe the current dating methods. When the BigY700 test is on sale (usually a couple of times a year) you can get the "whole shebang" for less than $500. This is the Rolls Royce of testing (at our current moment in time). It includes all the STRs and all the SNPS.
The following is my barely educated writeup of what STRs and SNPs are.
Y-Chromosome DNA Testing and Relationships Below Subclade R-U152>Z56>S47>Z44
Many people are more familiar with the STR marker tests (Y12, Y25, Y37, Y67 & Y111) offered by FamilyTreeDNA than with SNP tests such as Big-Y. Here are the differences.
SNP marker tests (BigY700). A single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) is a change (mutation) in the chemical composition of the Y-chromosome at a specific location. Millions of SNPS have been identified and are passed directly from father to son. SNP mutation rates are generally slow in comparison to many STRs. Like STRs, they are assumed to occur randomly. They form the structure of the male family tree. New branches occur wherever there is a new SNP mutation that has accumulated descendants that retain that SNP marker. Any tested man can follow an unbroken trail of SNPs along the tree to ancient haplogroups. His location on the tree defines his familial distance from other men. Various techniques have been devised to date SNP mutations, but those procedures remain “works in progress”. They can be used in combination with STR marker dating to provide a reasonable estimate of when they occurred. In our family's case, I have seven unique snps that take us back to Virginia about 1700 (with no tester matches - probably cousins that have branched from my line, but have not tested). At 8 snps we have matches to at least two other lines that originated from at least two men, whose connecting snp (at 9 snps) is probably aged to England prior to migration.
STR marker tests. A Short Tandem Repeat (STR) is “a tract of repetitive DNA consisting of a unit of two to thirteen nucleotides repeated several to dozens of times in a row on the YDNA strand. STR analysis measures the exact number of repeating units.”(Wikipedia) The number of repeats occasionally “mutates” via a copying error as the YDNA is passed from father to son. Different markers mutate at different rates, and different test packs (e.g. FamilytreeDNA's Y12, Y25, Y37, Y67 and Y111 packs) contain mixtures of faster and slower-mutating STRs. Like SNPs, these mutations are assumed to be random. The sum of the differences between two men's STR marker values is a measure of how closely they are related (referred to as genetic distance or “GD”). A father and son will “usually” have a GD of zero. Familytreedna has published statistical tables showing the number of generations at various confidence intervals associated with specific GD values measured between any two men. These are published for GD values between 0 and 10, and are based on actual cases having established genealogical paper trails. Studies suggest that extrapolation of this technique, in combination with SNP tests may provide reasonable relationship dates well beyond the 16-25 generations associated with a GD value of ten. Speculation: I have noted that changes in our rarer STR values along the tree. often occur along with an snp mutation.
The general rule has been that SNP tests (BigY) are useful for testing more distant relationships (100s to 1000s of years) because of their slower mutation rates, whereas STR marker tests are useful for testing more recent relationships (10s to 100s of years). STRs mutate at a faster rate and are not individually unique to one man, whereas SNPs are (at the point where two lines separate). But STR values can be used in combination with SNP results to uniquely identify a related group of people well back in time. Of the two tests, SNPs are the most precise, because they define the point (SNP) at which two men (and their descendants) separate. They cannot specify the actual date. The current BigY 700 tests for all SNPs within the scanned area of the Y-chromosome, and for 700 STR markers.
Other interesting tidbits that we have discovered on our genetic march through history include links to other surnames in the database. Locationally, matching members who know where they originated in England all point to Lancashire (NW England). We link to Hoskinsons and Newtons somewhere in the time period before or after surnames were being adopted (circa 1100 AD onward in England). A check of the Familytree surname project files shows that members with these surnames include men with Norman, Anglo Saxon and Alpine Celtic (us) haplogroups. Probably Norman-headed clans that accumulated men who joined, or were otherwise joined to, the power grouping of Lords and landed estates after 1066 ... and adopted the name as they came to being required. No one knows when my surname (Breedlove) appeared in this mix. Likely (but not certainly) before the migration to Virginia (ca. 1650-1700) and at least long enough before to develop 2 or more distinct snp lines. Even in Virginia, references were found by a cousin that a certain Hoskinson accumulated land holdings along the Rappahannock River ... nearly neighbors to lands owned by the daughter of a wealthy man, who the "founder" of our line married. Charles did well and sired many sons. Could this Hoskinson have been a "sponsor" for our founder? One "cheeky" relation suggested that our surname came from a long line of "prostitutes" ... but I digress.
None the less, you can see how useful such tests can be when combined with other rare documentation. It can become quite addictive.
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Unknown if Grandpa knew he was Celtic ... or how far the collective memory went beyond late 1600s Virginia. But he saved 20 acres of pre-settlement white oak and hickory. Wouldn't cut them or sell them. So there they stand ... and will till they drop over dead. Grandpa's line survived whatever "the sun and our planet and particularly other humans" threw at them for millennia and survived. What are the odds for our current crop of technology-addicted homo sapiens? 
"Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go. (joshua 1:9)” I have contacted at least one relative amongst the Georgia clan that do not want their dna "out there". I understand their concerns. But I refuse to hide in the trees. Some say our ancestors abandoned the trees in search of steak a long time ago ... and never went back. If so, I concur with their decision.