I’m not saying that discouraging reproduction is eugenics. I’m saying that @Aitherios@lemmy.ml’s attempt at defining Eugenics is wrong. Saying it’s about producing the best “GENES” possible is just post-hoc reasoning to make it sounds more scientific.

Eugenics is based on 19th century racial science. If someone is advocating for any sort of population control that uses that framework (of bettering the “race”), they’re doing eugenics.

A good example of what’s not eugenics is China’s one-child policy. It wasn’t aimed at creating a “better” race of any kind, and It actually provided exemptions for ethnic minorities. The goal wasn’t to create a better type of human race, it was to prevent the population from growing faster that what the economy could support. IMO it was probably unnecessary, but definitely wasn’t eugenics.

However, if there was an alternate reality where china instituted the one-child policy only for ethnic minorities in an effort to make the nation a pure Han state, that would be eugenics. If they did it based on IQ, that would be eugenics. And if they exempted minorities from the policy out of a belief that the Han were inferior, that would also be genetics

These threads always attract a variety of reactionary opinions

[edit] whoops, didn’t mean to reply. Yours were not the reactionary opinions lol. after the revolution, all tetrapods will rightly be understood to be fish

Eugenics is about producing the best GENES possible

“Eugenics” was a term decades before “genes”

Even if the etymology was different, you’d still be very wrong [about what “eugenics” is]

Is that with flatpak?

I just make little videos for myself a couple times a year. So I’m far from a pro. But holy shit kdenlive and blender are powerful programs (blender moreso, but kden is still pretty cool)

rsync 😪

The trades aint what they used to be 😔

I can. Be nice and I might.

Interlingua is cool. I know a decent amount of spanish and portuguese, and understanding IG interlingua speakers without studying any of the language is very satisfying

Sitcom where two clones are constantly foiling each others’ suicide plans

It’s the great slopification

I aint reading all that.

Have you tried Gnome? IMO it does a better job than OS X at providing a simple, clean, streamlined gui

Yes. That was the last straw for me. I switched to debian stable, and haven’t looked back since

QAA is best podcast of the times

Not a gap in every dialect! “Ye” is another plural second person used in Ireland

I use either KDE Connect (/gnome connect), or firefox

Different pronunciation. Kanye’s ye is “yay” while the plural second person pronoun “ye” is pronounce like “Yee”

Are you Irish? Those are the only people I’ve heard use “ye” for the plural “you”. Which is a shame, because it has a nice ring to it. Ye and Y’all are like yin and yang

Blowback

https://housefresh.com/ Because: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gNLViWfCA0&t=937s