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Genetics don't work the way you're imagining they do. You can't just "select for malaria resistance and against sickle cell anemia." It's the same gene that causes both. Similarly, you can't just select for high intelligence and no mental issues. We also have precious little way to tell...

Should also answer this, no, sperm and egg donor programs really haven't led to significantly superior humans. In point of fact, this kind of behavior tends to inevitably lead to unexpected bad outcomes. F'rex let's suppose you've decided to optimize for higher IQ. Let's presume you manage to...

If you can't drive a nail in with a hammer, you're sure not going to get it in with a spoon.

Every attempt at what you're suggesting has gone horribly wrong, immediately. The reason is simple, we haven't the slightest idea what the "best" really is and our attempts at figuring it out are instantly corrupted by people who just, what a coincidence, decide that they are the best. What...

Dude, we're literally running out of kids and reproducing well below replacement rates, so badly the US is having to import people just to keep up and China is now offering incentives to have kids after seeing the results of the One Child program. Why on earth would anyone want to use welfare...

Those canals just cut straight through the Rockies, the Sierra Nevadas, the Huge Boobs Grand Tetons, and the Sierra Madres like it ain't no thang. Pretty clearly the work of somebody drawing lines on a political map without paying any attention to the terrain. The second map's even stupider...

I checked the footnotes before I posted, they're broken too. So you haven't demonstrated anything, you haven't provided links with references, you haven't proven squat. Is an opinion piece 20 years old written by a think tank funded by the Koch Brothers, with no useful research or data really...

How many people will sell food stamps for drug money? What percentage of them engage in these bad decisions? Because this looks an awful lot like a perfect solution fallacy. The fact that some theoretical tiny percentage will abuse the situation is hardly a reason not to help the...

I decided to kitbash some math going off a more sedate proposal of 500 per month. This number is going to be contentious and messy, because standards of living are so different in different countries so enough to live reasonably in rural Oklahoma would see you homeless in SanFran but there's no...

It seems to loosely cut diagonally through the Reddit meme chart. Libertarian conservatives hate it because it makes government bigger and authoritarian liberals hate it because it gives people options to get away from megacorporate masters. In reality, it's the enemy of Corporatocracy...

I would put long odds on truckers and cab drivers at this point. I wouldn't be surprised to see insurance costs make it prohibitive to ever drive your own car in the near future once they work the kinks in self-driving cars out, followed by schools dropping Driver's ed so that nobody remembers...

No, this is common to most humans. That's why welfare cliffs are a problem, they put obstacles in the way of people doing things and prevent us from doing work we want to. It's also why actual welfare without cliffs isn't, it's fairly well established that even if people have money they won't...

I would be in favor of that, certainly. Personally, I'm of the opinion that it's not time for UBI, not yet. However, as automation continues, as the job market continues to shrink and real wages decrease (Trends we've been seeing steadily happen since the 70s), we're eventually either going to...

They're a perfect example of Americans being given enough money by the government that they don't have to work. Certainly better than the zero proof you've managed to provide.

They will continue to work even then. Notably, two different studies have found that 85-90% of lottery winners keep on working after winning, and about two-thirds keep to the same company after winning. Jobs that were psychologically and financially rewarding were strongly correlated with...

This is the first time I've seen an area over half the size of California and split across several counties including the state capital, largest non-capital city, and several dozen other cities, which is not contiguous but split across locations, called "Just one neighborhood." What a flexible...

The link I gave literally breaks it down by location. Try again.

I suspect there are other factors involved to be sure, but Alaska's crime rates are legendarily high for the US so mentioning their dividend supports @LordsFire's position about raising crime rather well. https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/ak/crime

I don't know anything about this specific situation by my experience has been not to trust news articles citing scientific papers unless I can see the actual science.