Sweet, by that definition Stockholm city (not the urban or metropolitan area which are not as dense) is suburban.
Ioper
13hr ago
Is the paganism really a problem or the specific Paganism at play here, or possibly the people being pagan.
Are the Muslim subcontinentals less of an issue to you? Are east Asian pagans as much of an issue?
Ioper
16hr ago
But a lot of this does seem like a bit of cope the HSR to nowhere certainly feels so as most of the Subway stations to nowhere now have bustling new development around them and most of the ghost citeies have filled up.
There is a difference between within city transit and between city transit. There have been tons of railway overbuilds historically but within city public transit is rarely meaningfully overbuilt. The economic case for between city HSR is generally very poor, there just isn't enough potential transit to justify the massive costs.
Between city travel should generally either be slower trains, cars or air traffic. It isn't that transit or even rail transit is bad, it's just that the economic case for HSR in particular is very narrow.
Ioper
17hr ago
Except of course that there aren't many subcontinentals coming here and they're still disliked... People aren't complaining about subcontinentals due to displacement but because they dislike them. The situation is different from the Anglophone world.
Just because displacement is a cause for animosity doesn't mean that there aren't other causes and that different groups are perceived differently relative to each other.
As I said, the dynamic isn't unique but it also doesn't mean that the relative badness and the particular dynamics of the changing immigration of a specific group leads to a worsening impression of the specific group.
Also, there are tons of groups that caused very limited friction when they immigrated and it has limited correlation with how "familiar" the group is.
There are cultures that are bad and my contention is that subcontinental culture (I should have said that originally instead of Indian because much of the same issues exists for Pakistanis, Bangladeshis and Indians, and often regardless of religion) is both worse and that immigration from the subcontinent scales worse than from other relevant immigration sources, especially for white collar labour.
Over here in Sweden subcontinentals aren't a very big group but despite this they're still easily the most disliked and made fun of group in workplace environments.
Ioper
20hr ago
People deeply dislike Indian culture. The more they are exposed the less they like it.
When Indians came in small highly selected numbers then it was fine, they both contributed and assimilated. Then they started coming in greater numbers and lower quality.
These are issues that to some extent exists with pretty much all immigration but here they are worse because Indian culture genuinely is worse than most others, the median Indian is worse than most other groups (which when selection decreases leads to worse outcomes than for other groups), they interact with white collar people and ruin their environments as opposed to those of the working class.
Much of this is down to the scale of the immigration. When it reaches critical mass of sustained immigration then people no longer need to integrate and when the culture is deeply unpleasant and unadmirable to the host nation then the problem magnifies.
I'm also pretty convinced all this will backfire but
They need immigrants.
I mean sure, but the immigrants we need, and that are willing to come, don't exist in remotely sufficient numbers.
The ones that are willing to come are both a social strain and a massive financial drain.
We're not solving the financial consequences of fertility crisis with immigration, we're making it worse.
Ioper
3d ago
metal supplies that we do not have on earth (Simon Michaux calculated that current estimated lithium reserves are not sufficient to even replace the global fleet of personal transportation vehicles with electric cars
So we'll transition to sodium ion batteries eventually? CATL is supposed to begin mass producing them in December this year, with a broadly comparable energy density to LFPs.
Ioper
4d ago
I think there is case for playing the origin character of a character whose personality (and possibly VA) you dislike. You still get to experience their particular story but you don't have to deal with their personality.
Ioper
4d ago
All of your stories of your life are so fucking bizarre, man. Its like you have made it your life's mission to only interact with the insane.
Ioper
4d ago
It wasn't computationally intensive before either, the issue was access to the data, being allowed to use the data and having analysts/enigneers that aren't complete retards.
Ioper
4d ago
Isn't that tied to the AI content just being bad? The issue I'm having is much like with JJ's mysterybox style story telling, there is no point, it's just narratively stringing people along. It works for a while but then people get pissed.
If there was a point and it wasn't completely inane then I'd wager almost no-one would care about whether something was AI made or not. The amount of people seeking out (good) human performances of music and theatre is microscopic, even when it's free!
It's easy to grandstand about not consuming AI slop (not saying you are) when it's uniformly abject shit.
Yeah 500k CAD is cheap unless one is living in a complete shithole. It wasn't expensive even a decade ago...
This was always a bit of an older community (by internet standards) but looking back at its founding it was directionally accurate even here. Look at the amount of posts from people early in their career, and they've been here for some 10 years. You were at fairly good odds of talking to a teenager.
Furthermore I'd argue that the claims of the self-righteous immature person with infinite free time is even more true for the median college attendee than the median highschooler.
It really depends on the program/major. Its pretty easy to figure out which is which by looking at how much time students spend studying each week.
Only engineering and medicine reach 40h a week, with the median for other programs being less than 10h including lessons.
Law school is somewhere in-between with people putting in some 18h a week on average, although my understanding is that top students spend in excess of 40h a week and if you just want to pass you can spend far less.
Its a bit funny when you read about some "elite" school where people apparently only spend 12h a week on school, with the implicit understanding that the students are expected to do full time internships concurrently with the education. The purpose of the education itself is just providing a really barebones foundation and act as a competence filter for internships.
In general absolutely, but not in the workplace.
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