Blazing Ownager posted:

I think the thread is making a horrible assumption now, that Justine is a "nerd" and that this will bring about the "nerd wars." Sad part is she's just a nutter that wants to be a nerd, which yes, is even more sad.

I'd bet you that all her co-workers probably think she is both obnoxious, and none of them consider her very powerful. I bet you if Justine here wanted to do anything major at Google, the shutdown would take 2 seconds. I mean what the hell does she even do there now, specifically? I really hope it's not PR.

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Charles II (Spanish: Carlos II) (6 November 1661 – 1 November 1700) was the last Habsburg ruler of Spain. His realm included Southern Netherlands and Spain's overseas empire, stretching from the Americas to the Spanish East Indies. Known as "the Bewitched" (Spanish: el Hechizado), he is noted for his extensive physical, intellectual, and emotional disabilities—along with his consequent ineffectual rule.

Charles was born in the Spanish capital, Madrid, the son of Philip IV of Spain and his second wife, Mariana of Austria (also known as Maria Anna). As the only surviving male heir of his father's two marriages, Charles was named Prince of Asturias, the title given to the person first in line to the Spanish throne.

Charles did not learn to speak until the age of four nor to walk until eight, and was treated as virtually an infant until he was ten years old. Fearing the frail child would be overtaxed, his caretakers did not force Charles to attend school. The indolence of the young Charles was indulged to such an extent that at times he was not expected to be clean. When his half-brother Don Juan José of Austria, an illegitimate son of Philip IV, obtained power by exiling the queen mother from court, he covered his nose and insisted that the king at least brush his hair.

Toward the end of his life Charles' fragile health deteriorated and he became increasingly hypersensitive and strange, at one point demanding that the bodies of his family be exhumed so he could look upon the corpses. He officially retired when he had a nervous breakdown caused by the amount of pressure put on him to try to pull Spain out of the economic trouble it was going through. He lived a simple life from then on, playing games and other activities. He died in Madrid on 1 November 1700, five days before his 39th birthday. The physician who practiced his autopsy stated that his body "did not contain a single drop of blood; his heart was the size of a peppercorn; his lungs corroded; his intestines rotten and gangrenous; he had a single testicle, black as coal, and his head was full of water."

As the American historians Will and Ariel Durant put it, Charles II was "short, lame, epileptic, senile, and completely bald before 35, he was always on the verge of death, but repeatedly baffled Christendom by continuing to live."

bonestructure posted:

your betters, folks

EXTREME INSERTION posted:

Human biological diversity

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By the time of Charles's birth there had been many generations of inbreeding within the Spanish royal house; his physical and mental disabilities are widely attributed to this inbreeding. The practice of first-cousin and uncle-niece marriages was common among 17th-century European nobility, intended to preserve prosperous families' properties. Charles's own immediate pedigree was almost exclusively populated with close relative relationships: Charles's mother, Mariana of Austria, herself a Habsburg, was a niece of his father, Philip. Mariana was a daughter of Empress Maria Anna of Spain (1606–46) and Emperor Ferdinand III. Thus Maria Anna was simultaneously his aunt and grandmother while Margaret of Austria, Maria Anna's mother, was both his grandmother and great-grandmother. The inbreeding was so widespread in his case that all of his eight great-grandparents were descendants of Joanna and Philip I of Castile. This inbreeding had given many in the family hereditary weaknesses. That Habsburg generation was more prone to still-births than were peasants in Spanish villages.

There was also insanity in Charles's family. His great-great-great (-great-great, depending along which lineage is counted) grandmother, Queen Joanna of Castile, became insane early in life and became known as "Joanna the Mad"; it is debated, however, to what degree her "madness" was induced by her confinement and political intrigues targeting her. Joanna's parents, Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon, were only distantly related. Joanna was two of Charles' 16 (mathematical) great-great-great-grandmothers, six of his 32 great-great-great-great-grandmothers, and six of his 64 great-great-great-great-great-grandmothers.

Dating to approximately the year 1550, outbreeding in Charles II's lineage had ceased (see also pedigree collapse. From then on, all his ancestors were in one way or another descendants of Joanna and Philip I of Castile, and among these just the royal houses of Spain, Austria and Bavaria. Charles II's genome was actually more homozygous than that of a child whose parents are siblings.[4] He was born physically and mentally disabled, and disfigured. Possibly through affliction with mandibular prognathism, he was unable to chew.[4] His tongue was so large that his speech could barely be understood, and he frequently drooled. It has been suggested that he suffered from the endocrine disease acromegaly, or his inbred lineage may have led to a combination of rare genetic disorders such as combined pituitary hormone deficiency and distal renal tubular acidosis.

bonestructure posted:

or a really serious lack thereof


I wrote a paper in a college biology class on pedigree collapse, that's where I found out about this bag of genetic failures. Hereditary aristocracy almost always leads to this kind of poo poo, it's like the human version of a puppy mill.

EXTREME INSERTION posted:

I heard he had a higher inbreeding coefficient(?) than someone who was a product of a brother sister or parent child...union, because his family had a habit of nieces marrying uncles or something over many generations anyways pretty hosed up really turned me off to monarchy destroyed my Prince Charming fantasies but confirm/deny?

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Charles II's genome was actually more homozygous than that of a child whose parents are siblings.

EXTREME INSERTION posted:

I heard he had a higher inbreeding coefficient(?) than someone who was a product of a brother sister or parent child...union, because his family had a habit of nieces marrying uncles or something over many generations anyways pretty hosed up really turned me off to monarchy destroyed my Prince Charming fantasies but confirm/deny?

The Taint Reaper posted:

Deny, barbarian Kings did not practice inbreeding.

Moridin920 posted:

Gazpacho posted:

behold the techno-utopia

Ccs posted:

Is this photoshopped? I don't know what I'm looking at.

Ccs posted:

Also, she puts way too much stock in her position at Google. If she gets fired, then her Twitter really will become interesting.

Moridin920 posted:

"what's a goofball like you doing trying to outlogic me?"

*appeals to authority*



it's like shooting fish in a barrel if that's the best google can do then I should dump my stocks

cat doter posted:

oh gently caress you I wanted to make that point

cat doter posted:

art

The Taint Reaper posted:

Deny, barbarian Kings did not practice inbreeding.

Ccs posted:

Is this photoshopped? I don't know what I'm looking at.

Also, she puts way too much stock in her position at Google. If she gets fired, then her Twitter really will become interesting.

EXTREME INSERTION posted:

Jealous of your new av btw

Moridin920 posted:

it's like shooting fish in a barrel if that's the best google can do then I should dump my stocks

The Taint Reaper posted:

I don't even know what it is.

Also this Google lady looks way too old to be in her early 30's.

babypolis posted:

i think shes kinda cute

shame about everything else

Moridin920 posted:

if I was a barbarian king and my daughters were super hot

I might. probably not but maybe.

babypolis posted:

i think shes kinda cute

shame about everything else

EXTREME INSERTION posted:

She looks pretty good compared to the rest of the dark enlightenment crew tbh

Pochoclo posted:

Lol I browsed your github repositories, Justine. If you're reading this: if you can be a google dev then I should probably apply for google and I'll get made CEO instantly.

Kirk Johnson posted:

I think it's perfectly obvious why logic isn't Justine's strong point...

Pochoclo posted:

Lol I browsed your github repositories, Justine. If you're reading this: if you can be a google dev then I should probably apply for google and I'll get made CEO instantly.

babypolis posted:

i think shes kinda cute

shame about everything else

Maoist Pussy posted:

Bing is better for porn searches + I don't think Microsoft is really competent to model my identity correctly

Kyrie eleison posted:

i want Justine to lecture me about my rightful role and make me serve her