Looks like they both might be genetically predisposed to myopia. Not very elite of them.
Glasses make me look weak. They're like a wheelchair for the eyes.
Love me some VEEP.
I always was on the "nerd" side at school but boy do those faces look punchable.
Myopia seems to be far more of a childhood environment thing than a genetic thing. For a long time it was thought to be from too much close viewing (reading books, sitting short distances from screens), but more recent research suggests it is more from lack of sun exposure. UV light prompts the formation of dopamine, and higher dopamine levels in the eyeball are required for it to maintain the optimal round shape as it grows.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_and_Malcolm_Collins
Well that's just a fucking trip of dysfunction.
Just that bit is a lot.
If the population declined and it makes the economy do less well, won't people just have more children like they did the last time the economy was in that state? Every environment has a carrying capacity for the creatures that live in it. It's not uncommon to see fluctuations above and below that equilibrium point.
Instead of pushing people to ignore the factors that cause the limit in humans, like not wanting or needing more children, maybe find a way to organize society so hitting that limit doesn't cause massive problems, or try to eliminate some of the factors creating the limit. It's insanely difficult in our society to have even one child who's healthy, cared for, and prepared for their adult life while also being personally healthy, prepared for old age, and enjoying the variety of pleasures of existence.I just read their wiki page and it is absolutely filled to the brim with crazy wacky shit.
The Collinses do not support transgender health care for youth, but express acceptance for people whom Simone described as "legit trans" as opposed to those who fall into the "trans cult." Simone opposes allowing transgender students to use bathrooms corresponding to their gender identity and to play on sports teams matching their gender identity.
As a trans woman, this stood out to me. I'm not surprised that they are transphobic, but why make the point about "legit trans" and "trans cult?" I assume they consider "legit trans" to be the tiny percentage of transgender people who are right-wing nuts and the "trans cult" are those who aren't. Basically they're just saying "We only support transgender people who want their faces eaten" which is a strange way of phrasing it since usually transphobes tell all of us to go fuck ourselves, including the dumb ones that support the leopards.
It's probably more like they can't deny the reality of trans people, but they think that it's a very tiny minority and the rest are just cultists.
You see this same fallacy with autism. Why are there "suddenly" more autistic kids? It isn't because vaccines are giving them autism or something like that. It's because doctors know what to look for to diagnose now.
People fall into this same trap with trans people, because 20 years ago it was extremely rare to meet an out trans person. So, now it looks like they're suddenly everywhere! What could be the cause? A trans cult recruiting people?!
No, it's a cultural shift. Damn, people can be stupid sometimes.
Bla bla managing director bla bla Investor Peter Thiel. OK, I've read enough. Yet another Thiel apprentices.
Absolutely adore this bit from the screenshot:
which is based on Simone's personal observations of lions and tigers on a safari trip.
Sad we have no studies on human children. But thankfully its perfectly reasonable for someone on holiday who's untrained in interpreting big cat behavior to decide whats good for a bunch of animals is good for human kids too.
I let my children eat trash out of dumpsters. I determined it was a good idea after personally observing raccoons while on a park trip.
I encourage everyone to read the entire wiki page as well, and it will make sense why they are the way they are.
Oh good I was worried they would be rich and be doing it for entirely monetary reasons
Having worked in public policy for several years, the 26-year-old Londoner had come to an alarming realisation about the future of the UK, the world – and the human species.
She's 26?
What is "several" defined as here? 2? 3?
Maybe it's like 1.05 years, but that round up
That reminds me of when my 5 year old nephew started telling me a story by going, "Back when I was a little boy..."
It appears she was 26 when Malcolm proposed on reddit in 2013. She was born 1987, and he 1986.
No, I think that's talking about Aria Babu, a person from London who's changed the focus of her career to become a "pronatalist". The woman in the photos is Simone Collins, and I haven't read about her age. I'm usually the kind that reads the whole articles on links but I could only bring myself to skim through this lunacy.
From the picture, she looks old enough to be his mother. He looks like he's barely started shaving, and she looks like she's desperately trying to appear under 40.
You seem to have the same problem I do. 🤭 it turns out several is kind of a fucking useless term, meaning more than two but fewer than many in number or kind. So...it's defined by a bunch of nonsense-fluff numbers.
Several cannot mean two...but several can be 3. My sister called me to deal with "several" whatevers, I came over & there were 3 whatevers (can't remember what it was), and I was like what the hell, sister, you said several & looked it up. Several sounds like 7, but it can mean 3 to idk, 9. It's stupid.
For 3, most people would describe that quantity as "a few".
breeding to save mankind from what, round heads and good eyesight?
They want to bring back the Habsburg chin.
This couple and really anyone who learned about evolution by watching Idiocracy: if intelligent parents are needed to make intelligent babies, from where did intelligence first arise?
Two fishes fucked and made a deformed fish that liked air more than water. And now I have to "clean the garage" and "not eat all the cheese its". Fucking ass hole parent fish.
Heavy natural selection pressures. Don't worry, we'll see those again in a couple decades.
Broke: Higher calorie consumption, low stress environments, abundant free time, institutionalized and publicly funded education systems.
Woke: Generations of cracking open one another's skulls to feast on the gooey goodness inside until only the largest and most succulent heads remain.
Not intelligent enough for this question.
Holy shit is America in for a surprise when the influencers catch up to the European glasses thing
We've got fucking bellends walking around like they smashed their faces into a couple of CRT monitors
What are you on about.? Can you show a picture.
Yeah as someone who can't wear contacts and won't do LASIK
Fuck big ass glasses they ain't cool if they aren't gonna protect you in a workshop
We seem to have some sort of natural immunity to that. Whether for good or ill, only time will tell.
And two more incestuous generations later you end with something like Elon Musk.
elite but still need glasses huh?
I’m pretty 1337, but can’t see shit without my glasses.
That e-1337, not elite.
They're rich enough for LASIK, so maybe they just don't want to see each other's details while having sex.
Those inverted commas around 'elite' are doing so much work they should probably unionise.
The conceit and egotism of these people is laughable.
Is a complete lack of self awareness heritable? Are they going to breed a race of super clueless whities with bad eyesight?
It's like they saw that scene in Idiocracy and took it literally
They literally did
Mike Judge and his corrosive effect on the psyches of GenX will be the death blow for the nation.
I love the idea it's all Mike Judges fault...
I actually quite like the idea that Humanity will survive as a result of these weird cunts and their breeding programme; but only as a race of subterranean mole people with too poor eyesight for the surface world.
No, you're thinking of the Morlocks. These idiots will obviously be the Elois.
Nice, the ubermensch is back
And they look like they've spent a lot of time inside a locker.
You could tell me that's Charlie Kirk with his mom and I'd believe you.
Face is way too big to be him.
/c/BeholdTheMasterRace
'elite' couple
Can't be bothered with seeing properly
Yes! Produce more slaves for our overlords, or the world will end!
They're producing exclusively Boss Babies
Hah I have 4 of my own and they are fucking feral, so good luck offsetting that, dorks!
I think you missed the point where they want more of the "right people" whatever that means. They think they can outbreed everyone else and win by having the most right people. See just about every major religion as a case study for this.
I feel like proper eugenics was pretty soundly debunked as people are more complicated than peas. I think that the only thing you can reliably predict is race.
And these people look like that Nazi from Raiders of The Lost Ark.
It was never soundly debunked in theory. We are animals and like all animals our offspring inherit traits from us. Hypothetically if you could agree on what "good traits" looks like you could selectively breed people based on those traits and get people who are more likely than average to have those traits. Keep doing it for generations upon generations and you'd get people optimized for those traits. Even without knowing what gene or genes are responsible.
The problem is that we're notoriously bad at deciding what is and is not in the set of "good traits" and tend to pick stupid shit like "being Aryan/white." Also forced/restricted breeding is unethical at best, and fucking monstrous on average. It's one of those things that goes in the bin of "it would probably work, but if we start doing it we've already become the villains".
Please explain who the hell are these freaks, just read the wiki page
Dude can't even get a proper fitting suit or shirt. He looks like someone who had to borrow his outfit for court
