Today's moral panic is about kids and smartphones. But ironically, the introduction of the internet actually improved kids mental health.
The reason your kids are fucked up is because of your helicopter parenting. The internet is their only outlet and banning kids off social media has worse outcomes
#socialmedia #kids #smartphone #parenting #ageverification #socialmediaban #digitalservicesact #kosa

https://rumble.com/v7fxtzc-why-kids-need-more-freedom.html

## The "Mitochondrial Eve" Argument

The creationist argument goes like this:

1. **Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA)** is inherited only from mothers
2. Scientists have identified a **"Mitochondrial Eve"** — the most recent common female ancestor of all living humans
3. Creationists claim she lived only **6,000–10,000 years ago** (fitting a biblical timeline)
4. They argue this contradicts evolutionary claims that she lived 100,000–200,000 years ago
5. Therefore, they conclude, humans descended from a single recent female ancestor consistent with biblical Eve

## Is This Scientifically Correct?

**No.** The creationist argument rests on several fundamental misunderstandings and misrepresentations:

### 1. **Mitochondrial Eve ≠ The Only Woman Alive**

Mitochondrial Eve was **not** the only woman alive in her time. She was simply the most recent woman from whom **all modern humans inherited their mitochondrial DNA**. Other women lived alongside her, but their matrilineal lines eventually died out (daughter lines had no daughters, etc.). This is a statistical certainty in population genetics, not evidence of a single founding pair.

### 2. **The Dating Discrepancy**

Creationists arrive at ~6,000 years by:
- Using **directly measured mutation rates** from pedigree studies (mother-daughter comparisons)
- Claiming these rates are ~20× higher than evolutionary estimates
- Calculating backwards to when all mtDNA would converge

**The problem:** This ignores that **mutation rates measured in pedigrees are mostly somatic (body cell) mutations**, not germline (inherited) mutations. Creationists conflate these, leading to inflated mutation rates and artificially compressed timelines.

The scientific consensus, using proper germline mutation rates and calibration with fossil/archaeological evidence, places Mitochondrial Eve at roughly **100,000–200,000 years ago** in Africa.

### 3. **Y-Chromosomal Adam Lived at a Different Time**

There's also a "Y-Chromosomal Adam" — the most recent common patrilineal ancestor. He lived approximately **140,000–300,000 years ago** — **different from and much later than** Mitochondrial Eve. If humanity descended from a single biblical couple, these two should have lived at the same time. They didn't.

### 4. **Nuclear DNA Tells a Different Story**

While mtDNA points to one recent female ancestor, **nuclear DNA** shows humans have much older, diverse ancestry from many individuals. The nuclear genome contains contributions from thousands of ancestors stretching back millions of years, inconsistent with a severe population bottleneck to two people.

### 5. **The Core Confusion**

As one scientific paper put it, the "Mitochondrial Eve hypothesis emanates from a **confusion between gene genealogies and individual genealogies**." Mitochondrial Eve is a **gene ancestor**, not an **individual ancestor** of all humanity. You have many ancestors who aren't your mitochondrial ancestor.

#religion #creationism #evolution #biology #science #atheism

Happy 9/11 day
#911truth #911memorial​

Happy 9/11 day
#911truth #911memorial​

On further look, the Republitards complaining now allowed this to happen.
Fucking frauds 🤦

Concerning the sudden "migrant" invasion of Spain.
The #Zionists are not even hiding their evil anymore.
#ceuta #spain #immigration #refugees #israel

## WTF

Devices running certain firmware released since 2021 get almost no real randomness at all. Newer models add a partial fix. It still narrows the possible outcomes to roughly four billion combinations, a number modern computers can work through. Historically, Block traced the flaw to that 2021 update, and a follow-up fix a year later still fell short.
https://beincrypto.com/coldcard-rng-flaw-bitcoin-theft/

#bitcoin #coldcard #coinkite #hardwarewallet #btcheist

What emerges looks much closer to corporatism: an economy where the government becomes a direct player in business decisions rather than a neutral referee.

And that is a big problem. When federal bureaucrats have a direct leadership role in the corporate governance of a private company, they will steer that company toward political decisions rather than business decisions. Will it award contracts based on efficiency and cost, or based on which choice preserves government revenue?

https://reason.com/2025/11/07/is-trump-a-socialist/

Trump is out here implementing a more corrupt style of Chinese economy