Me genics

Humans have many correctable design flaws.

I’m all for correcting them.

If that makes me for the “evil” eugenics, so be it. After all it’s just as much eugenics to eliminate a heritable disease as it is to give a kid an IQ boost.

Anyway, eugenics — no matter what we call it — is inevitable. And in the end it might be the only way to survive as a species.

Lucky strike

I saw some slackjaw complaining about the phrase “hitting on” being a violent phrase.

No.

“Hitting on” is an example of idiomatic drift, from the idea of a lucky “hit,” that is, finding or getting something by chance or luck. The drift in this case is from the happenstance and serendipity of locating a desired person to the actions associated therewith.

By the way, the original meaning of “hit” back in the mists of linguistic time was something like “to meet with.” It’s only later that it became associated with the act of physically striking someone or something.

I wish people would fucking read. Study history. Know something rather than nothing.