Curt Doolittle

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  • Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    (FB 1548132106 Timestamp) —“The idea of applying the scientific method to law is so foreign to this toxic political climate, the ideologues will undoubtedly try and burn you as a heretic for this.”— Kevin Wu

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    (FB 1548131051 Timestamp) BEGINNING OF THE BEGINNING —“Animal sacrifice as virtue signalling.”— Adam Voight (true. genius) (repost)

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    (FB 1548182194 Timestamp) —“The Pope is part of those Argentinian intellectuals (catholic & socialist) who hate Capitalism and Markets and have turned their Country from rich to very poor. His project now is to do the same with Europe.”—Francesco Principi (The church can only be powerful under ignorance and poverty.)

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    (FB 1548129337 Timestamp) WHEN THE OPPOSITION DOES YOUR PLANNING FOR YOU —“The NIAC was challenged to think beyond even our most severe power disruptions, imagining an outage that stretches beyond days and weeks to months or years, and affects large swaths of the country. Unlike severe weather disasters, a catastrophic power outage may occur with little or no notice and result from myriad types of scenarios: for example, a sophisticated cyber physical attack resulting in severe physical infrastructure damage; attacks timed to follow and exacerbate a major natural disaster; a large-scale wildfire, earthquake, or geomagnetic event; or a series of attacks or events over a short period of time that compound to create significant physical damage to our nation’s infrastructure. An event of this severity may also be an act of war, requiring a simultaneous military response that further draws upon limited resources. For the purpose of this study, the NIAC focused not on the cause, but rather on the consequences, which are best categorized as severe, widespread, and long-lasting. The type of event contemplated will include not only an extended loss of power, but also a cascading loss of other critical services—drinking water and wastewater, communications, financial services, transportation, fuel, healthcare, and others—which may slow recovery and impede re-energizing the grid. Most importantly, the scale of the event—stretching across states and regions, affecting tens of millions of people—would exceed and exhaust mutual aid resources and capabilities. The ability to share public and private resources across businesses and jurisdictions underpins our nation’s emergency response plans and strategies today. (See Appendix C for a more detailed definition of a catastrophic outage). This profound threat requires a new national focus. The NIAC found that our existing plans, response resources, and coordination strategies would be outmatched by an event of this severity.”— https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/NIAC%20Catastrophic%20Power%20Outage%20Study_508%20FINAL.pdf?

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    (FB 1548138353 Timestamp) BOOMERS MAY HAVE BEEN THE MOST DESTRUCTIVE GENERATION IN HISTORY, BUT GEN X WERE THE WORST PARENTS. https://aeolipera.wordpress.com/2019/01/21/generation-z-on-religion/

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    (FB 1548089782 Timestamp) PRACTICE TRAINS THE MIND —“I actually like forcing myself to write operationally. Over time, when practicing it, you come to understand what you attempt to say before you say it and then translate it to make it more accurate to what you originally wanted to say. The practice provides people with a great clarity of intention and thought while writing, through close examination of what they want to say, they work to eliminate the obscurity out of their thought and communication, and this demonstrates evidence of the methods power.”— Curtus Maximus

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    (FB 1548132106 Timestamp) —“The idea of applying the scientific method to law is so foreign to this toxic political climate, the ideologues will undoubtedly try and burn you as a heretic for this.”— Kevin Wu

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    (FB 1548275914 Timestamp) —“Lake Toba is the site of a massive supervolcanic eruption estimated at VEI 8 that occurred 69,000 to 77,000 years ago,[2][3][4] representing a climate-changing event. It is the largest-known explosive eruption on Earth in the last 25 million years. According to the Toba catastrophe theory, it had global consequences for human populations; it killed most humans living at that time and is believed to have created a population bottleneck in central east Africa and India, which affects the genetic make-up of the human worldwide population to the present.[6] It has been accepted that the eruption of Toba led to a volcanic winter with a worldwide decrease in temperature between 3 to 5 °C (5.4 to 9.0 °F), and up to 15 °C (27 °F) in higher latitudes. Additional studies in Lake Malawi in East Africa show significant amounts of ash being deposited from the Toba eruptions, even at that great distance, but little indication of a significant climatic effect in East Africa.[7]” Lake Toba (Indonesian: Danau Toba) is a large natural lake in Indonesia occupying the caldera of a supervolcano. The lake is about 100 kilometres (62 miles) long, 30 kilometres (19 mi) wide, and up to 505 metres (1,657 ft) deep. Located in the middle of the northern part of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, with a surface elevation of about 900 metres (2,953 ft), the lake stretches from 2.88°N 98.52°E to 2.35°N 99.1°E. It is the largest lake in Indonesia and the largest volcanic lake in the world.[1] Recent advances in dating methods suggest a more accurate identification of 74,000 years ago as the date.[5] “—

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    (FB 1548268885 Timestamp) via Brandon Hayes and Rosenborg Predmetsky This is super interesting https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2842692/ “Culture–gene coevolutionary theory posits that cultural values have evolved, are adaptive and influence the social and physical environments under which genetic selection operates. Here, we examined the association between cultural values of individualism–collectivism and allelic frequency of the serotonin transporter functional polymorphism (5-HTTLPR) as well as the role this culture–gene association may play in explaining global variability in prevalence of pathogens and affective disorders. We found evidence that collectivistic cultures were significantly more likely to comprise individuals carrying the short (S) allele of the 5-HTTLPR across 29 nations. Results further show that historical pathogen prevalence predicts cultural variability in individualism–collectivism owing to genetic selection of the S allele. Additionally, cultural values and frequency of S allele carriers negatively predict global prevalence of anxiety and mood disorder. Finally, mediation analyses further indicate that increased frequency of S allele carriers predicted decreased anxiety and mood disorder prevalence owing to increased collectivistic cultural values. Taken together, our findings suggest culture–gene coevolution between allelic frequency of 5-HTTLPR and cultural values of individualism–collectivism and support the notion that cultural values buffer genetically susceptible populations from increased prevalence of affective disorders. Implications of the current findings for understanding culture–gene coevolution of human brain and behaviour as well as how this coevolutionary process may contribute to global variation in pathogen prevalence and epidemiology of affective disorders, such as anxiety and depression, are discussed.”

  • Curt Doolittle added a new photo to Eli Harman’s timeline.

    (FB 1548209761 Timestamp) ( dunno if you saw this but it’s a hilarious compliment and jab at the same time. ) There is an advantage to having a hemisphere between you and the guy you’re teasing… lol