Notices by 🎓 Dr. Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org), page 16

@snow I dont know off hand id have to dig through the source.

Perhaps @gargron knows and can answer?

@Tayo He has dont great stuff with a overwhelming legacy.. big shoes to fill and he did the best anyone could to fill them really.

RIP Christopher Tolkien :(

@cola

fair

@icedquinn @igeljaeger @cowanon

@cola

Pics are welcome of course. But no one here is doubting they cant have red hair really. I only speculated it is kind of rare among asians due to multiple factors. I'm not sure anything you wanted to share would be in disagreement with that. No one is arguing red heads arent more common in other areas.

@icedquinn @igeljaeger @cowanon

@igeljaeger

Red hair isnt a gene for the lack of melanin, that would be albinoism and that looks very different.

@icedquinn @cola @cowanon

@icedquinn

Oh and one other thing I forgot to add. It very much has something to do with other hair color as well. The MC1R gene encodes for the melanin in hair and skin and can determine if a persons hair is blonde, black, brown, or red, though it isnt the only gene involved in determining the aesthetics of your hair. But it is very much related and not a separate entity.

@cola @cowanon @igeljaeger

@icedquinn

Valid points but the important point in this case is that gene's origin is specifically from ireland. So naturally as with any gene it is highly concentration in and near ireland and becomes statistically more rare the farther out you go.

So while they are absolutely able to carry the gene they are unlikely to have it for that reason, and even they do it is unlikely to actually express itself because dominant genes mast it, as dominant genes do.

@cola @cowanon @igeljaeger

@cola

I could see it being natural within the turks since they have less dominate hair color genes (browns and other lighter colors are more common).

@icedquinn @igeljaeger @cowanon

@icedquinn

Not too surprising when you understand the genes for it. The gene mutation that created red-heads occured in Ireland and spread from there. So naturally the farther a race is situated from ireland the less common it will be.

You also have to couple that with the fact that red-headed gene is recessive and most asian genes regarding their appearance are dominant, specifically the typically black hair color most asians have. As such even with very pale skin one would expect the red-headed gene not to easily proliferate within the asian community.

@cowanon @igeljaeger

@igeljaeger

Only natural asian red-head i could find. Others looked strawberry blonde.

@icedquinn @cowanon

@igeljaeger

So you didnt mean non-white so much as asian? Good luck finding an asian red-head. not sure I've ever seen that.

@icedquinn @cowanon

@igeljaeger

Your ideal woman then?

@icedquinn @cowanon

@igeljaeger

Non-white with natural red hair seems damn near impossible

@icedquinn @cowanon

@lioh I unfollow crossposters too, mostly because as I said they tend to be spammy, posting but not being an active contributor to the thread here.

But my motivations for unfollowing them is very different. I dont think simply referencing a closed system is a good reason to shun someone and like i said in the case that such a cross poster is active here and on the threads they post then I wont take issue with it. Its just that most cross posters arent, thats the only issue I see.

People will use the system they want to do. I really dont care about if they "point" some users to twitter, if we are going to loose those users to twitter that would happen regardless in most cases.

@lioh It makes sense because then I know its a post from twitter and that they are talking to someone from twitter, so I understand the context, and likewise understand the person they are refering to isnt a mastodon user.

Obviously if your talking to someone who also has a mastodon handle then it makes sense to resolve the handle to point to them, but that is rarely case and as such makes sense to leave the twitter handle in to me.

@greylaw89 agreed

@lioh I'm not sure I agree. I am against crossposting from twitter mostly because it means the user isnt responsive here, so it comes across as spam.

But I think thats a different argument. In fact if they are responsive and active here im not sure its a huge issue.

@fluffy

He admited in this thread publicly that he has said he was 15. So no need for evidence, it seemed like it was solved by his own admission.

@georgia @p @canidaeportent