Re: [FRIAM] gene complex for homosexuality

I went to elementary school with a guy, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Hamer, whose wikipedia bio describes research in the the genetic basis of sexual orientation that he did at NIH in the 1990's. -- rec -- On Sun, Jan 9, 2022 at 5:15 AM Jochen Fromm wrote: > This topic is a minefield, bec

Re: [FRIAM] Roger Mcnamee !!??

Steve writes: < I say "buy low and sell high"... > Like Lex Luthor buying the desert inland of California prior to nuking the San Andreas fault. It's mostly a question of the timing and the nature of the opportunity.Perhaps Northern Europe becomes a little more comfortable? Marcus ___

Re: [FRIAM] Roger Mcnamee !!??

I say "buy low and sell high"... On 1/10/22 4:50 PM, Frank Wimberly wrote: So it went down over 20% today.  Should have shorted it.  A lot of my stocks have gone up 30% more or less in the last year--like AAPL.  I wonder if I should sell them short or just sell them.  Advice? --- Frank C. Wi

Re: [FRIAM] Roger Mcnamee !!??

As I recall, you sell stock you don't own believing you can buy it at a lower price. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Mon, Jan 10, 2022, 5:31 PM wrote: > One can only cash in on a short when one buys it back, right? > > > > > > > > Nick

Re: [FRIAM] Roger Mcnamee !!??

I thought it was about the dangers of specialization and losing touch with ground truth. That “media training” could possibly outweigh the consequences of a many body celestial calculation. On Jan 10, 2022, at 4:34 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote:  If one does a true short. There are other deriva

Re: [FRIAM] Roger Mcnamee !!??

If one does a true short. There are other derivative instruments, though, that can be purchased as if one is going long on some vulnerable asset. On Jan 10, 2022, at 4:31 PM, thompnicks...@gmail.com wrote:  One can only cash in on a short when one buys it back, right? Nick Thompson thompni

Re: [FRIAM] Roger Mcnamee !!??

One can only cash in on a short when one buys it back, right? Nick Thompson thompnicks...@gmail.com https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ From: Friam On Behalf Of Frank Wimberly Sent: Monday, January 10

Re: [FRIAM] Roger Mcnamee !!??

Did you say that you've seen "Don't Look Up"? --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Mon, Jan 10, 2022, 5:06 PM Marcus Daniels wrote: > Frank wrote: > > < So it went down over 20% today. Should have shorted it. A lot of my > stocks have gon

Re: [FRIAM] Roger Mcnamee !!??

Frank wrote: < So it went down over 20% today. Should have shorted it. A lot of my stocks have gone up 30% more or less in the last year--like AAPL. I wonder if I should sell them short or just sell them. > Oh, context of that thread was how to redistribute wealth towards those that are pre

Re: [FRIAM] Roger Mcnamee !!??

So it went down over 20% today. Should have shorted it. A lot of my stocks have gone up 30% more or less in the last year--like AAPL. I wonder if I should sell them short or just sell them. Advice? --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Mon

Re: [FRIAM] Roger Mcnamee !!??

Here's a stock that could be shorted, but golly it is doing well right now. https://www.reit.com/investing/reit-directory/rexford-industrial-realty-inc So, one imagines that an 1862-scale flood comes to LA due to some enormous atmospheric river, and then it finally pays. Ideally there'd be some

Re: [FRIAM] gene complex for homosexuality

Glen writes: < Yeah, Renee's making me keep my biologically enforced "mullet". I went 10 glorious years cutting it all off each week. It's great to use the same clipper setting for your head that you use for your face. So I reluctantly agreed to 10 years with this mullet. [sigh] After 60, thoug

Re: [FRIAM] gene complex for homosexuality

Yeah, Renee's making me keep my biologically enforced "mullet". I went 10 glorious years cutting it all off each week. It's great to use the same clipper setting for your head that you use for your face. So I reluctantly agreed to 10 years with this mullet. [sigh] After 60, though, it's gone fo

Re: [FRIAM] gene complex for homosexuality

< And all I need to do is find a subculture to help pull me out of the male-pattern-baldness attractor? > No, but that subculture will keep you bald! Bald and alone, that would be terrible! Marcus From: Friam on behalf of glen Sent: Monday, January 10, 2022

Re: [FRIAM] gene complex for homosexuality

I started, but didn't finish some podcast, wherein the guest claimed that (real-life) vampires exemplify how good some strange subcultures can be. He was arguing that the vampire he allowed to suck his blood not only was "very clean" and such, but the local vampires do a lot of charity work, et

Re: [FRIAM] gene complex for homosexuality

Dave writes: < There is a ton of interesting research on this topic that is generally ignored: by the christian right because it dares to mention sex and sexuality, by the scientific community because it is not "scientific," and by the 'woke' because it challenges their narrative and offends th

Re: [FRIAM] gene complex for homosexuality

< To me, they seem very different. Hope is more of a feeling, like anger or love, whereas optimism is more of a cognitive bias. I tend to be an optimist, but am largely hopeless. It waxes and wanes, but is usually swamped by feelings of overwhelming doom. And my doom helps me stay grounded, I th

Re: [FRIAM] gene complex for homosexuality

Buddhism (mostly the Theravada branch) recognizes four sexes: male, female, hermaphrodite, and anaphrodite. Hermaphrodite does not mandate dual sexual apparatus and the category includes: gays, transsexuals, cross-dressers, some variations of bisexuals, and, most famously, the Thai kathoeys or "

Re: [FRIAM] gene complex for homosexuality

To me, they seem very different. Hope is more of a feeling, like anger or love, whereas optimism is more of a cognitive bias. I tend to be an optimist, but am largely hopeless. It waxes and wanes, but is usually swamped by feelings of overwhelming doom. And my doom helps me stay grounded, I thi

Re: [FRIAM] gene complex for homosexuality

On 1/10/22 8:56 AM, glen wrote: Right. I hope that's the case, not merely that some of us are more plastic, but that perhaps any of us could even practice being more plastic. But that's just hope ... hope can be debilitating. I recently listened to Krista Tippet's interview with Desmond Tutu

Re: [FRIAM] gene complex for homosexuality

Right. I hope that's the case, not merely that some of us are more plastic, but that perhaps any of us could even practice being more plastic. But that's just hope ... hope can be debilitating. On 1/10/22 07:50, Marcus Daniels wrote: I meant that some people are genetically set up to be more p

Re: [FRIAM] gene complex for homosexuality

< I wish I were as libertarian as Marcus in this context, where we're all ideally plastic and dynamic. But my sense is not only that historicity and accumulation outstrip any plasticity, at least by our mid 30s or so, but also that there's no place for will or intention in most feelings of orien

Re: [FRIAM] gene complex for homosexuality

One of the themes I've seen talks about a slight correlation between the presence of homosexuality in a family with female fecundity (counter intuitive to those who talk about homosexuals having children). Another theme is that it's largely epigenetic; I suppose a slightly deeper in mechanism t