SomethingMusic
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SomethingMusic
2yr ago
Even if Israel is as unreliable and selfish as your purport, do you think any other middle eastern country would not be the same if not worse? Do you think any other country in the area would be amenable to having US military presence and US businesses operating in their country with relative freedom and autonomy?
SomethingMusic
2yr ago
I'm glad someone else has looked into the Maoist answer to the drug problem. The problem in America at this point is not only do we believe in Democracy, but the Democratic voters paralyze and any decision-making process allowing us to actually begin to answer the problem. Only the wokest policies are able to pass as we blindly virtue-signal the country to oblivion.
The drug problem will not be delt with until we close our southern border -Trump was right, deploy the army, shoot at any illegal trying to enter the country. This won't work as I'm sure firing into Mexico would cause some international treaties to be broken, but the paralysis at every level in US Cities is becoming untenable.
SomethingMusic
3yr ago
Test post pls ignore
SomethingMusic
3yr ago
No I'm American, I just don't bother proofreading and prefer to get an idea written down overusing proper terminology. As long as my general idea is understood I don't worry too much about proper nouns.
SomethingMusic
2yr ago
This is a fun thought experiment! I believe that the largest issue plaguing birthrate is the segregation of the sexes - males and females are increasingly segregated based off of everything ranging from political opinion to success in schools and jobs. Likewise, the social incentive structures prioritize selfish consumption over building a family unit. The most important group is the poorest class as they're the largest population pool.
- Prison reform: Prison reform would involve several things: Firstly, legalization and pardon of all criminals with possession charges and other misdemeanors (such as an overcharged bar fight, some thefts, etc.) This means decriminalizing Marijuana as well. I generally dislike recreational drug use, but I have to admit that minimizing felony charges for certain drugs will prevent physical separation from fathers from their children.
But it's not enough to simply release the previously incarcerated - there would be mandatory work-release programs. Released prisoners would have subsidized pay from the federal government (i.e. farm pay + government subsidy pay to be paid a living-enough wage). These will be basic skill jobs ranging from farm labor to basic construction to cooking to more advanced jobs (military) based off of intelligence and affinity. Missing work will result in reincarceration.
Prison sentence limit - prison sentences would be limited to 10 years. However, this will not be just wasting away in a jail cell - low and medium level prisoners will required to complete a GED if possible to be rereleased into work study programs for the remainder of the sentence. The goal of prison is not incarceration but reeducation on a general level. The overall goal will be avoiding institutionalization by any means necessary.
Bringing back corporal punishment and the death penalty - However the above will not prevent truly psychopathic or antisocial individuals - Those deemed irredeemable or incapable of reentering civil society will be removed from society not through permanent incarceration but execution. At the end of 10 years if they are still in the system, they are eliminated to prevent clogging the system and allowing dangerous individuals from reentering society and to prevent prison from being a place for institutionalization again.
- I touched on drug use earlier, and while I'm lenient on legalizing marijuana, all other addictive recreational substances, especially intent to distribute, will be dealt much more harshly. The borders in the country will be heavily controlled and regulated to prevent drug trafficking. The DEA would be approved to use unusual and deadly force to eliminate drug pushers and gangs from society. Countries that do not actively fight against drug use in their country or cannot fight the drug kingpins in their country will have all aid cutoff unless they can open their border and allow my country to forcibly eliminate and act with impunity to eliminate illicit addictive substances. The Opium Wars will look tiny compared to the lengths I would go to eliminate addictive drugs.
Since that is drug and prison reform, I would also look at social security reform. Right now, single parenthood gives greater social benefit than married couples - we need to reverse the incentive system at the lowest levels to mid levels to increase the incentive for couple to stick together. Probably a ranging social security credit depending on number of children, maxing out payment per child 3 children per married couple up to 5 children per married couple for incomes less than ~70k combined income from both parents.
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For couples with incomes greater than 70k - a substantial child tax credit, subsidized (to free) hospitalization bills for the first 3 children, perhaps housing bonus incentives as well for married couples only to reduce the general cost of childcare. I also like hydrastinine's student loan forgiveness idea - though I would conditional all this incentive with married living together families.
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End 'no child left behind' education, change education to be more equitable for all sexes. One of the main reasons is that men have the deck stacked against them so much that it's becoming impossible for men to be providers and caretakers. Serious education reform is necessary to prevent men from dropping out of society
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Start social mixers and reduce work hours - we work longer and longer hours which prevent bonding. There needs to be more non-online opportunities to let men and women intermingle in a non-work environment where unwanted advances result in firing or repercussions.
There are so many different needs to be addressed in society it's difficult to write something comprehensive, but these would be a number of my first steps.
SomethingMusic
11mo ago
Why do we need UBI? If AI ends up being as cheap, efficient, and transformative as people want to claim, it should drive down the price of all goods to near 0.
I think what's more likely to happen is AI compute is going to be an effective currency replacement. Rather than using fiat dollars, it will be based off of the amount of AI runtime it takes to complete a task for the given runtime/ energy calculations of any given workload. Assuming AI can replace all jobs and produce a quality of life better than any human machination can contrive, then the human inputs for the production of goods and services should be 0.
SomethingMusic
1yr ago
Replying to remember to download 2100 when I get home
SomethingMusic
1yr ago
True I looked over that part, but do the drones need individual 'intelligence' or could they be controlled by an AI farm?
SomethingMusic
2yr ago
And unlike professional basketball, your chances of finding a woman with a generally healthy dispositions who likes you is much higher.
SomethingMusic
2yr ago
Please stop arguing semantics. I hate when discussions devolve into word games as a way of avoiding the actual validity of an argument, and if this is the line of reasoning you're going to choose I'm not going to entertain this discussion further.
If word choice is your problem, is 'renting' better than 'buying'?
Either way, the negative externalities of turning sex into a consumptive act to be exchanged as a market is something that should be discouraged, regardless of age.
SomethingMusic
2yr ago
If Stephan Hawking can get married twice, you will be able to find some companionship at some point in your life. Learning self-worth is some part of it, the other part is developing a personality which people can find appealing is also incredibly benifitial.
Since it seems a lot of your hang ups are on height; I know of two people in successful marriages who are approximately around your height. Height is only an issue because you allow it to be one.
I have a feeling you've posted a lot in various threads about your dating over the years. I forget, are you still in school?
SomethingMusic
1yr ago
I hate 4chan but I can't stop going on it, like a bad pimple you want to pop or an awful car crash you can't look away from. Can anyone recommend me site add ons or website blocks on phones that aren't easy to circumnavigate once installed?
SomethingMusic
2yr ago
Something that modern analysis of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict fails to understand is the insane length of the timeline of the conflict and how it changes and shifts the perspectives of these two cultures. It's easy to look at this as an eighty year-old conflict as the state of Israel was established and recognized by the UN in 1948, but the truth is that this is a conflict of literal biblical proportions. Even with Israel becoming increasingly secular over the years (currently around 40%), 60% of the population is still practicing Judaism on some level of observant. This conflict and intermingling of peoples comes to a head in the book of Joshua when God commands the Jews to genocide out the nation of Canaanites as entry into the promised land. Israel's failure to do so has perpetuated this conflict for the past 2000 years.
The importance of this not only as a denote of how long the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has lasted, but also defines their relationship, one of violence and antagonism. Our much more recent historical conflicts shows how much chaos happens when one people subjugates another. In the US' failed occupation of Afghanistan and Iran, there has been little to no success of actually changing the populations political or social alignment at all - as soon as we left the old regime quickly took control the power vacuum and ultimately are as or more cruel as it ever was. England's conquest across the globe has also failed to significantly change the political and social rules of the old societies once England absconded from their (former) territories. Total obliteration and oppression seems to be the most effective method of instilling new values in a society.
I think this perspective creates a better 'screen' in which to view this most recent upheaval, this is not something new, but rather something incredibly old involving religious and historical contrivances as old as the Talmud and the torah.
SomethingMusic
2yr ago
I have no clue how governments and 'healthcare' agencies can expand these programs. I know it's a boomer Republican talking point, but the more self-mutilation and suicide medical programs I see getting pushed into the public consciousness the more I feel like the medical zeitgeist of a death cult has taken control of our society and its terrifying. Eugenics never went away, they just call it humanitarianism and focus it on the most productive culture the world has ever seen.
SomethingMusic
1yr ago
This is very similar to my mental model as well. The mugshots of this kid is one of being a terminally online NEET who was going out with a bang, not one of an ideologue. The failing of SS is gross incompetence of lazy risk-adverse officials quiet quitting to pull a paycheck off a political target they didn't care for.
SomethingMusic
11mo ago
I would say we'll only have Turbo DEI if anti-DEI has proven to be unsuccessful for 4 years. Same for oil and gas - if Trump's next 4 years are largely successful then what's the probability of a President Vance instead of president... probably Cortez with the way the Democrats are heading.
SomethingMusic
1yr ago
I agree that there needs to be a substance for a top-level comment with a more thorough explanation of the users thesis, but I don't see how this isn't speaking plainly.
SomethingMusic
1yr ago
I didn't even catch that it was a video game reference, I haven't played an assassins creed since ACII
SomethingMusic
1yr ago
Or Trump is just the loudest. The squeaky wheel gets the grease.
SomethingMusic
1yr ago
This is already beginning to be dealt with. Sam Altman has created a spinoff company 'OKLO' to create small scale fission reactors to power AI server farms. If CES reporting is correct, NVDA's AI server blades are INSANELY power hungry to the point that having their own nuclear reactor might be a cheaper answer than using the power grid.
For transparency - I own some shares of OKLO, so far it's been a pretty lackluster stock pick but I expect decent growth in the medium to long term as long as regulators don't start poopooing it.
SomethingMusic
2yr ago
I find it ironic you consider the idea of a women 'selling her body' as loaded language in recent vernacular when and then proceed to issue the statement "After all, I would argue that a woman who marries a man for his money (to a first approximation, most women who have ever existed) is 'selling her body' to a much greater degree than a prostitute, who is merely renting it. And yet the wife is held in much higher esteem than the jezebel." which is a much more modern interpretation of marriage popularized in the last decade.
It's clear we won't come to agreement. I think the modern materialist/rationalist/objectivist notion that marriage is generally a pragmatic institution based off of materialism and risk aversion is generally false in a historical sense beyond well documented edge cases. This simplification is what largely damaged marriage as an institution and changes the game theory to make marriage seem risky with no real benefit. When marriage was considered a permanent union, people prioritized very different things in a partner than simply material wealth. The modern consumptive and transactional nature of sex and marriage has created significant costs in population growth and stability, family stability, and child rearing.
SomethingMusic
3yr ago
Instead of going down the path of tablets I have switched to two in one laptops. I like the horsepower and relative flexibility of a full-fledged laptop but also enjoy the touch input and mobility of a tablet. The only downsides I've experienced so far is worse battery life than a dedicated tablet, the general jank of Windows 11, and the increased weight of having a full computer instead of just the tablet.
For my use case as musician, I've found it very effective with a pen for notating and using it for rehearsals without having to lug heavier and bulkier folders around and to keep music organized.
SomethingMusic
8mo ago
Its' been a while since I've read Atlas Shrugged, but I don't think this mimics Rand's writing style particularly well.
SomethingMusic
9mo ago
I guess that's true, but moving efficiently in other sports still requires a lot more effort than in itg. Compare running efficiently vs stamina Stepmania players https://youtube.com/watch?v=mnI9GuKWp1k (sorry too lazy to hyperlink rn)
The overlying question surrounding Hlynka's hypothesis is "does the reasoning matter if the end result is the same?" and can be applied to many horseshoe arguments made - be it segregation, racism, economics theory, etc.
There probably needs to be continuing questioning along the lines of "if you could press a button and both sides would immediately ceasefire, would you?". For example, I think an alt right person probably would choose continuing conflict to instead of any sort of peace or cease fire, while a far left person would probably support any sort of ceasefire, even if they perceive the opponent as 'evil'.
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