aardvark
1yr ago
Parts of China were on par with Europe's most industrialized areas even as late as the 1700s.
Do you know where to read more on this?
aardvark
1yr ago
Slow population decline wouldn't be a problem at all if IQ grew.
What do you mean by "collapse"? IIRC only South Korea gets somewhat close to 1 child/woman.
aardvark
1yr ago
They're expressing the sentiment "Soviets were bad!"
They're expressing the sentiment "MODERN RUSSIA is bad"
aardvark
1yr ago
Yup, in 1850, average African American slave ate meat much more often than average citizen of Russian Empire.
the same argument suddenly becomes Nazi rubbish
Blacks didnt have a political organization comparable to USSR.
aardvark
1yr ago
Write it down: %favorite_demographics% Americans kill because of narcissism and rage, not because of poverty or systemic something.
aardvark
1yr ago
Often Soviet Russia is contrasted with West... but... if we look at early Soviets...
Two out of Holy Trinity (Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels) were German Jews living in UK. They hated Russia so translators had to omit parts of their works
Lenin and many other revolutionaries spent much time in Switzerland, Austria etc...
Soviets instantly switched to Gregorian calendar.
Soviets promoted use of Esperanto language.
Soviets intended to switch Russian language to Latin script but as popultaion was unhappy with it the plan was scrapped and never tried again.
aardvark
1yr ago
...huh? What? What % of female rape victims even get pregnant?
Despite being 0.13% pregnancies, rape pregnancies constitute for 50% anti-anti-abortion arguments!
aardvark
1yr ago
I kinda get your point, but it's orthogonal on how these bits are presented to CPU. You can use multiple chips without any of this color planes thing. Also, EGA also had 640x350x 4bits mode which would require >64 kb address space if not this trick. CGA which had less memory did not use color planes.
... when I first filled screen screen with BIOS 10h paint pixel calls, I found it was very slow... I wondered why??? I had written it in assembly!...
don't you want to use VGA mode 13h, much simpler?
aardvark
1yr ago
I don't know. I apologize for bad posting. I'll stop so I don't say something bad again.
aardvark
1yr ago
Taking yachts from ultrarich to make free vaccines for poor is a net win. However, if you take yachts from ultrarich to make cash payments for poor and that money gets spent on addictive drugs, you have a net loss.
Consider me a right-winger. I definitely support a lot of redistribution, including subsidies for reproduction of high IQ young poor people and subsidizing PGS for everyone.
aardvark
1yr ago
Yeah, I think that there is a fundamental tricky problem of "who you care about."
Seconded. I've read many times postings for people who said they care more about animal welfare than certain people because people should be responsible about themselves. Insults that %X% are worse than animals are even more common.
aardvark
1yr ago
a woman’s psycho-sexuality is more sensitive to acts of aggression, and society must control mating in order to function.
Since spousal rape was legal almost everywhere (the definition of rape included that perp isn't the husband), it's evident that society cared about certainty of paternity, not woman's emotions. They didn't have paternity testing, or even pregnancy testing nor postcoital contraception. Now we have all that, but customs are old and even feminists keep parts of it.
aardvark
1yr ago
When USSR launched the first satellite under Chief Designer Korolev (Ukrainian), many Americans got scared. When Russia wishes to unite (in some way in another) with Ukraine to try making some another scary things this is seen as more menacing than Saudis killing Yemenis with reason rooted in faith differences.
Saudi Arabia currently is only starting to make its own firearms.
There is probably another axis on this. Russians are perceived to be whiter than Saudis and therefore higher standard is applied for them.
aardvark
1yr ago
When the campaign is over, they can be discarded and LGBT multiculturalism introduced. The Azovites think the same thing, presumably.
While the former is plausible, the latter is... I can't think how they can hope that.
aardvark
1yr ago
Finland and Baltic countries are small. What if you unexpectedly get, say, 5 million of Russians escaping conscription and while these 5 millions are much likely to support Russian Imperialism than those in Russia, they still be far apart in values from what expected to from Finland/Baltic resident.
80 years ago, USA and many countries didn't accept Jews escaping Nazis even those had >80% chances to die under Nazis (thought, we know it in hindsight).
aardvark
1yr ago
I do not recall such moods being so visceral among the common folk in the West before.
With number of protected classes increasing every day, people still want to hate someone.
aardvark
1yr ago
Ukraine had revolution of dignity and Euromaidan in winters, both succeed, as you see. (2003/2004 and 2013/2014)
aardvark
1yr ago
It was never Polish. A Baltic ethnicity, Prussians, lived here before Germans assimilated them.
aardvark
1yr ago
Also, that would be privileging middle aged able-bodied men... pretty unwoke.
aardvark
1yr ago
("When the Russian middle-class cannot go on holiday they'll overthrow Putin etc.")
In Russia there exists a meme that Russia has no middle class...
aardvark
1yr ago
Literally God of the Gaps, social justice version. Also this is a form of circular reasoning.
Uh. Do we have animated userpics already? This makes me sad... I think animations do not suit this place.
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