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i hate iphone

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Rutger Bregman is the Dutch historian who became a global sensation after an appearance at this year’s Davos summit, where he accused attending billionaires of ignoring taxation. Now he has created another viral moment in an extremely uncomfortable interview with Fox News’s Tucker Carlson.

Bregman so riled Carson with his accusations of hypocrisy, critiques of Fox’s conservative agenda, and attacks on Donald Trump that the TV host called him a “moron” and angrily told him: “Go fuck yourself.”

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Lot more people around the world are going to watch this now than if it actually aired. Speaking truth to power is the best viral content!

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This is an amazing and balanced compilation of studies on linebreeding and high COI with a focus on dogs. It’s a great and pretty easy read but just in case you don’t want to read it (and I’d highly recommend that you do!!!) I’ve highlighted some key quotes and graphics below.

Linebreeding effects puppy mortality and litter size

“For these breeds, those slopes are about 0.1, which means that an increase in inbreeding of 10% reduces litter size by about 1. If normal litter size is about 6, a COI of 30% - which is not uncommon in many breeds - would reduce the litter size by HALF.”

“(The litters) are likely to be smaller, less vigorous, have more birth defects and higher mortality, grow more slowing, have shorter lifespan, and of course increased incidence of genetic disorders caused by recessive mutations.”

“As inbreeding increases above 25%, the mortality increases, to about 30% for dogs with COI between 25-50%, and higher still as COI increases.”

Linebreeding also effects adult dogs’ longevity

Although this graphic is for Bernese mountain dogs specifically, “in Standard Poodles, dogs with inbreeding less than 6% live 4 years longer than those with higher COI, and the risk of bloat is roughly proportional to the increase in COI - a 10% increase in COI elevates the risk of bloat by about the same amount.”

“In Bernese Mountain Dogs, each 10% increase in COI reduces lifespan by 200 days. For a dog with COI of 30%, that’s a reduction in lifespan of almost two years.”

Summary

“As fertility goes down and litters get smaller, there are fewer animals born each generation, and those that are have an increased risk of genetic disorders, shorter lifespans, and general lack of vigor.”

“This becomes a negative feedback loop that is called “the extinction vortex”, and once a population heads down this path it can be very difficult to stop. Note again, that threshold for this vortex phenomenon is about COI = 10%.”

“Evidence of inbreeding depression and the other consequences of inbreeding are very evident - singleton litters, high rates of cancer in young dogs, allergies, and many other issues that seem to be “normal” in the breeding of dogs these days.

Advantages of Linebreeding

increased uniformity

“fixing” of desired traits and breed type

increased prepotency (ability to pass on traits to offspring)

Disadvantages of Linebreeding

lower fertility

lower “vigor”

birth defects

smaller size

fewer offspring

slower growth

higher offspring mortality

shorter lifespan

increase in genetic diseases

reduced “genetic potential” (ability to improve a trait)

I especially found the extinction vortex concept interesting!! Linebreeding doesn’t happen in the wild since there isn’t enough of an advantage to homogenization of that degree. A general rule of evolutionary bio is that if an animal has a deleterious trait that prevents them from reproducing, such as neural tube defects, they won’t have the chance to pass on their genetics and that deleterious trait will be removed from the gene pool, while deleterious traits that present at the end of life, such as cancer, stay in the gene pool. The combination of negative effects at birth prevent this from occurring naturally and the negative effects at maturity should prevent humans from choosing to linebreed, especially when studies like these are available.

I know this is so long and I’m sorry but I hope this makes sense and someone else finds it interesting!

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Im highly dissapointed this is a photo booth and not an inflatable nether portal

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Millennials are Killing the Bed Frame Industry: Feminist Edition

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A short comic about a Frog and a Troll.

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Gordon Ramsey fursona reveal!

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Mutualistic pairs for an “Odd Couples” Valentine’s program at my work. (Why do so many of my big work projects revolve around Valentine’s programs?)

Also, by “sea bugs,” I obviously meant “gnathiid isopod larvae.”

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the way pop team epic casually drops these creative animation styles both impresses and frightens me.

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Some more pokemens, exported a little bit bigger this time.

woop!

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