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@freemo

If I can chip my humble 50 satoshis on this, African people have way higher genetic diversity than the rest of humankind, not having experienced the bottleneck from getting out of Africa.
It's easier, therefore, to find higher diversity of problems too, and the sampling can wildly affect the results of any research. Talking about "black people" or Africans is really like putting together all the rest of humankind, papuasians, native americans, latins, australian aborigenal people etc, and say "see, they have this and that".

My main point is, we can't talk about "African people" as a group and pretend it makes sense.

This is something that until more recent genetic discovery was not well known, so a lot of studies even from a recent past have a huge bias in that sense

@manarock @amerika @TradeMinister

@mur2501

Ahh yes, forgot he was the maintainer, yes your right. Great! I hope he can shed some light on this for you (and me).

@a1batross

Hey @Gargron I will be releasing Mastodons first Managed Groups server open for public registration later today. Do you think is something I could get listed in joinmastodon? Its basically a heavily modified mastodon server and is a fork of mastodon/QOTO.

Ok one more hour to release the group server to the public.. The server is good and working but ip addresses arent passing through the reverse proxy. I know why and am addressing it but because I am the one who wrote the code for the reverse proxy it means i need to edit in a new feature in that code. but should be quick... keep your eyes peeled.

@mur2501 Oh ok, i thought you were saying it only happens on my account... clearly something isnt jiving with husky, not sure why though but it sounds like a bug with them. Though it is possible that bug only gets provoked with QOTO for some unknown reason. But seems very likely its an issue in husky.

I think husky is on the fediverse, maybe tag them into this conversation?

@hector

Yea I know, but technical details like that are above Trade's intelligence levels so gotta keep it simple.

Its similar to dark skin, it puts them at a disadvantage for vitamin D but at an advantage for UV protection and makes it easier for them to keep cool.

@amerika @TradeMinister @arteteco @manarock

@TradeMinister

Well if anything is clear its the fact that every single "negro" alive is at least smarter than you.

Its also shows your lack of intellect since its entierly contrary to what was already mentioned in this thread. I pointed out at least one way that races arent identical and that blacks are at a deficit (more likely to have sickle cell anemia).

If your going to make a brain-dead argument like all blacks being dumber than every other race, you should at least make sure you clean up your own home first.

@amerika @arteteco

@mur2501 we have some uniqueness around follows but nothing that would effect that follow button. What we do is we add additional follow buttons that show up in the stream (optional and can be turned off) that is colored to indicate follow status. No way that would effect this though as you are talking through the API.

Two diagnostic questions:

1) Do you see the follow button on other accounts you are already following? Maybe the button disapears on husky on any account you follow?

2) I am an admin and moderator, that may be the reason too (maybe husky doesnt let you unfollow your admin, though that would be weird). While im the only admin why not check to see if an account of another moderator whom you follow has the follow button or not, try @arteteco and see if you see the follow button there?

@TradeMinister

The group of wikipedia editors are as imperfect as any other group. Peer review doesnt stop at the publication. they provide citations so you, personally, can do your own peer review. So bias or not that is no reason not to read the page, follow the links, and use it as part of a larger range of sources to form your opinion.

You'd be just as negligent if you relied entirely on a single scientific paper or even a single scientific journal as a source of defacto truth. that is not how science works. But the first step is learning how to evaluate sources and arguments in science.

@amerika @arteteco

dog sadness 

One of the street dogs we feed has gone missing for a couple days, and it's really worrying me. I've known for some time that street dogs have hard lives and meet with sudden injuries randomly, but somehow never imagined that happening to this girl in particular. I hope she's okay, and turns back up tomorrow shyly wagging her tail.

dog sadness 

I'm trying to be hopeful that she's actually okay and will be back (the tenses are all over the place in the last toot because I was trying not to put her in the past tense prematurely). Maybe she's just got some minor injury that needs rest, and will be back in a couple of days; maybe one of the other people that feed her decided to take her into their home. But it's harsh reality that dogs on streets have brutal and often short lives, especially non-aggressive ones like her.
Please give your time and aid to Humane Animal Society (hasindia.org/) or your local equivalent, they genuinely turn lives around, or even save ones that would have otherwise been lost.

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She's always been unusually gentle for a street dog, shy and docile with everyone. My dad gave her the ironic nickname "bodybuilder/wrestler" (பயில்வான்) because she's so lean and averse to fighting (other than playfighting with her sister, which she did a lot of). We were trying to actually build that body up, making sure she got to eat her food without bother from other dogs, and to eat a lot of it. But as soon as she started allowing me to pet her, she requires at least thirty seconds of petting every time, before she would touch her food.

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@digital_carver Awww, I know so many really sweet street dogs.. They tend to be scared and easily scared off but rarely agressive from my expeirnces. they deserve more!

@mur2501 Still very strange, though sounds like a bug in husky and not related to QOTO, especially considering all other clients work. Might want to file a bug with husky?

@mur2501 is this the web client? If so what theme are you on, the coloring suggests it isnt the default theme. This is the first time I heard anyone having this problem btw.

@mur2501 oh, that is a first... I assume you are on the web client? What is the error?

@mur2501 Obviously, but which account doesnt have a follow button when you view that account?

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