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swer that s staring them in the face the main reason behind successful immigration should be painfully obvious to even the most dimwitted of observers some groups of people are almost always highly successful given only half a chance jews hindus sikhs and chinese people for example while others muslims blacks and roma for instance fare badly almost irrespective of circumstances the multikultistan email is also interesting i urge you to read it if you haven t yet many of the principled pragmatists i know personally admit at least in private to agreeing with much of this unlike the sjws they have no illusions that muslims are pro gay or pro feminist they are aware that blacks commit a disproportionate amount of crime and that affirmative action exists because they don t score very well on sats sjws by contrast will threaten to send you to the gulag for suggesting that blacks and whites score differently they also know that jews and asians regularly out perform whites on various tests and make more money there s a rather similar situation in religion and yes i know liberalism functions like religious belief as i touched on way back in a complicating wrinkle of uncomplicating insight mainline and moderate protestants tend to regard christianity as largely metaphorical but containing some sort of important truth evangelicals and fundamentalists by contrast tend to be very literal they believe in a literal hell a literal devil that jesus is actually god son of god made flesh that god took 6 days to make the world etc the evangelicals are more fervent in their belief than the moderates and the moderates think the evangelicals are a little nuts but they re still both christians and push come to shove they tend to support each other moderates who have actually become sjws don t count hillary clinton likes to talk about sjw buzzwords like intersectionality structural racism and the importance of implicit bias training for police officers but hillary doesn t need to invoke pseudo scientific balderdash to explain why so many black men are in prison her husband put them there a move she supported them with her famous superpredators speech back in 1994 in 1994 hillary knew that inner city ghettos were full of drugs crime and violence and supported white police officers doing something about it but when donald trump said the same thing she called him ignorant any rational person can evaluate the data on police shootings and conclude that high rates of interaction between blacks and the police probably have more to do with high black crime rates than implicit police bias hillary certainly knows this which is why she doesn t live in a poor black neighborhood even though she could save a bundle on housing cost that way so if they don t believe it what is really all the fuss about the biggest thing motivating trump s voters are 1 opposition to mass immigration especially muslim and 2 the conviction that libs don t like them on point 1 i m pretty sure libs can at least understand the argument that increasing the labor pool lowers wages even if they think the argument is wrong it s hard to fault someone for believing it and they know that muslims tend to be pretty socially conservative on point 2 well it s really hard to miss the disdain hillary shows toward her basket of deplorables conservatives are fairly regularly told that they are racist sexist homophobic transphobic islamaphobic irredeemable not even american or otherwise downright evil it gets a little old obviously democracy itself and our specific variety of it is to blame for the left right split into two different tribes duking it out and trying to obliterate each other at the ballot box but still what s the point of it all i ll have probably sorted some of this out by the time this posts 22 comments exploration friday russia in the new world pt 3 november 18 2016 october 21 2016 evolutiontheorist anthropology friday alaska anthropology friday bering strait caughey exploration great northern expedition history history of the pacific coast kamchatka north pacific otters russia steller vitus bering welcome back today we are continuing with caughey s history of the pacific coast chapter xi russian america parts one and two are here when we left off vitus bering and his crew had struggled twice across the expanse of siberia built a boat and set out in a futile quest to fin joao da gama land which doesn t even have its own wikipedia page bering s quest however does the great northern expedition was one of the largest organised exploration enterprises in history resulting in mapping of the most of the arctic coast of siberia and some parts of the north america coastline greatly reducing the white areas on the maps the endeavour was initially conceived by russian emperor peter i the great and implemented in practice by russian empresses anna and elizabeth with over 3 000 people directly and indirectly involved the second kamchatka expedition was one of the largest expedition projects in history the total cost of the undertaking completely financed by the russian state reached the estimated sum of 1 5 million rubles an enormous amount for the period this corresponded to one sixth of the income of the russian state for year 1724 1 shortly after they foreswore hopes of finding this mythical continent a storm gave chirikoff commander of bering s second vessel excuse to separate from the st peter he sailed east and sighted land on july 15th apparently just off latuya bay chirikoff brought the st paul as close to shore as he dared he saw timid natives in two canoes but they refused to come near his only alternative was to sail for kamchatka on the way he skirted the aleutian islands anchoring at one of them on september 9th these natives were almost as timid as those seen along the mainland though they did bring some skins of fresh water scarcity of water and supplies and the sickness of most of the men necessitated returning to avatcha whee anchor was dropped on october 10th 1966 soviet postage stamp commemorating bering s second voyage and the discovery of the commander islands bering in the meantime had wasted time and energy in additional search for chirikoff and for gama land then he set his course northeast and then north sighting land on the fifteenth or sixteenth of july in the vicinity of mt st elias one day was spent taking on fresh water at a nearby island while steller the naturalist made a hurried study of botanical and zoological specimens and deduced what he could of the human inhabitants by examining a shellheap the remains of a fire with bones scattered about and an abandoned habitation the general irritability of the entire group showed itself int he cross purposes of steller and bering the naturalist had the better of the repartee remarking that this long and expensive expedition had been planned in order to fetch american water to asia and that ten hours of exploration corresponded to the ten years of preparation but the commander had his way and the return voyage was begun forthwith wet and stormy weather with the winds usually contrary slowed their westward passage they spent forty days going from kayak to the shumagin islands over steller s protest the boat crew loaded brackish water here though good was available and consequently the scurvy became more virulent beyond the shumagin islands the weather was still worse with veering and uncertain winds interspersed with wild storms from the west according to their reckonings they were almost to avatcha when land was sighted early in november evx note that this voyage begun in 1741 occurred before john harrison perfected his marine chronometer in 1761 and so bering and his men had no accurate way to measure their longitude at sea reckoning here is likely dead reckoning that is an estimation based on speed and direction this is a very difficult way to reckon your position across hundreds or thousands of miles of stormy ocean with any accuracy as many a drowned sailor has learned for some time bering had been so ill that he was not actually in command he urged that they struggle on to avatcha but the other officers and the men insisted upon putting in at this bay convinced that they could sail or walk to avatcha after the sick had recuperated a short foray inland convinced steller that this was an island and not kamchatka not all of the scurvy victims improved and by january 8th thirty lives had been lost including that of the commander bering island on which they were wintering was quite bleak and dismal in the spring they attacked with zest the task of constructing a smaller vessel out of the wreckage of the st peter with prayers to st peter the forty foot craft was launched on august 8th and five days later the forty six survivors embarked they sighted the kamchatkan shore after three days sail but contrary winds delayed them another ten days in reaching avatcha their arrival was the occasion for great rejoicings and the icon of st peter in the church at petropavlovsk was adorned with silver by some of the saved men it has been insinuated however that those who had given bering s men up for lost and had appropriated their belongings were not so elated over their return the russian government kept the reports of his explorations secret and as late as 1750 a scholarly paper was read before the academy at paris to prove that he had not reached america not until considerably later did extravagant admirers come to call him a russian columbus but an immediate sensation was created by the make shift fur clothing worn by the returned castaways chinese merchants at kamchatka offered what seemed fabulous prices for these sea otter pelts initiating thus an interest in this fur trade for a century thenceforth the sea otter was to be the magnet attracting europeans to the north pacific evx and cue the fur rush 7 comments why are mammals brown pt 2 november 17 2016 november 12 2016 evolutiontheorist psychology and evolution color color perception evolution fur mammals mantis shrimp nocturnal nocturnal bottleneck hypothesis rainbow leaf beetle as i was saying in part 1 compared to colorful fish lizards birds and even ladybugs we mammals are downright drab blue and purple fur are non existent because these colors are difficult to produce as pigments and so most animals with these colors produce them structurally rather than chemically but hair is not a good medium for structural color we are limited to pigments but this only explains blue and purple why are there so few mammals with bright red pink orange or green fur wouldn t green offer convenient camouflage for tree dwelling sloths or lemurs so on to the second reason we re drab 2 compared to other animals mammals have bad color perception for example according to the guy who writes the oatmeal which is totally a reputable scientific source dogs can only see two colors blue and green humans can see three colors green blue and red which we combine to make the rest of the colors we see butterflies non mammals can perceive 5 colors we have no idea what that actually means since we can t even imagine the colors they see and the mantis shrimp perceives an incredible 16 different colors the majority of mammals run closer to dogs than humans in color perception but this only inspires a new question why do we have bad eyesight the original mammals were small shrew like creatures that tried to avoid being eaten by dinosaurs back in the triassic about 200 million years ago read the full comic over at the oatmeal lizards being mostly cold blooded are forced to be active primarily during the day when it s warm our warm blooded ancestors therefore probably found it easy to avoid reptilian predators by doing their hunting and foraging at night according to wikipedia the nocturnal bottleneck hypothesis is an hypothesis to explain several mammal traits the hypothesis states that mammals were mainly or even exclusively nocturnal through most of their evolutionary story starting with their origin 225 million years ago and only ending with the demise of the dinosaurs 65 millions years ago while some mammal groups have later evolved to fill diurnal niches the 160 million years spent as nocturnal animals has left a lasting legacy on basal anatomy and physiology and most mammals are still nocturnal 1 between the nocturnal and the crepuscular most mammals are only awake at times when color isn t particularly relevant most mammals therefore have evolved eyes that aren t very good at perceiving color in order to optimize for seeing in dim light we have more rods which perceive light diurnal animals have more cones which perceive colors animals use their colors for three main purposes to signal to each other to hide and to signal to predators since most mammals can t see many colors even if they had a peacock s spots they couldn t use them for mate selection few mammals are poisonous if any so we don t have the poison dart frog s use for bright color and you might want to be green to blend in with the trees during the day but at night trees are dark in short we are optimized for the dark so even though we humans like being awake during the day we re unlikely to trade in our drab pelts for the macaw s rainbow hues anytime soon 12 comments post navigation older posts search for follow evolutionistx on wordpress com evx book club now reading caldwell s the age of entitlement america since the 60s almost a table of contents almost a table of contents select category book club 45 disease 26 fiction 7 genes and hbd 112 homeschooling corner 15 human migration cultures and species of exit 231 anthropology friday 108 species of exit 20 memes religion and morality 119 memes 47 morality 27 religion 45 miscellaneous 91 open thread 14 neuropolitics metapolitics 110 political critiques 122 the cathedral 57 psychology and evolution 97 structures and civilization 115 uncategorized 46 recent comments 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