And only one of them was a person being burnt to death

ADHD has too much creativity and barely any capacity for bulk, so trading a bit of that creativity to do the bulk work is worth it.

Imagine if your brain refuses to do worthless uncreative work, that is ADHD, it is great for coming up with ideas but sucks for doing the work you often have to do.

Sure, Texas has to pay for government-paid things, too. But they save a bunch by not buying as much.

For example, both Texas and California have 0 miles of high-speed rail. But California has spent $10B for those 0 miles, while Texas has spent $0.

Distribution of 1500+ SAT Scores

White 0.381106

Black/African American 0.0544724

Hispanic/Latino 0.111558

Asian/Asian American 0.414271

Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander 0.00100503

American Indian/Alaska Native 0.00261307

Two or More Races 0.0349749

Sources:

https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d19/tables/dt19_226.10.a...

https://satsuite.collegeboard.org/media/pdf/sat-percentile-r...

> But figuring out what will pique the interest of some WASP in Harvard's admissions office takes special cultural knowledge.

Given that the Ivy League is only 33% non-Jewish white (compared to ~55% of the US population), and Jewish students have a ~12x better chance than non-Jewish whites at Ivy League admission [1], and are 7x over-represented compared to their US population, while whites are 0.56x under-represented, maybe it's not WASP cultural knowledge you should be targeting.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31306230

The negative consequences of what? People like tattoos. Artists make money inking them. I'm glad people in rural areas can get them.

You're talking about something the country is actually united about. I'm really not sure what your concern is.

I will pay for your Ronald Coase sleeve. Just tell me where to show up with a check.

I remember cheating was absolutely rampant among East and south Asian students when I went through undergrad (a mere 3 years ago) to the point where something like 70% of all honor cases (cheating investigations by the student council) were this demographic - multiples their proportion of the student body.

Many got away with it and had excellent GPAs as a result, no doubt a credit to their job prospects, and all it cost was their “academic integrity” (if such a thing matters at all anymore)

For people interested in knowing (roughly) their own sperm count, you can use a hemocytometer and a cheap ~600x microscope (like the kid science kit ones) to measure your own. It's basically measuring overall volume, putting some on the slide, and counting so many squares. Then multiple that count to get to the 1ml volume based on the volume of the squares and them multiple by overall number of ml. And paying attention to how many are moving vs not to get an idea of motility.

The Great Gatsby taught me the folly of silent sentimentalism.

Awareness of your emotional state is like a super power, or a Cassandra complex. Awareness that you've arranged your fortunes around a one-sided attachment to an illusion is the last bulwark against self destruction, especially when the marketing department eggs you on. Being able to identify it in others can be useful and alienating.