hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
6d ago
I’m wondering what you’re basing this off, because most informed speculation is that ‘white’ as a social category underestimates thé percentage of phenotypically European cultural Americans.
hydroacetylene
6d ago
But starvation isn't a real problem in the modern west. People who can't afford food will be taken care of- possibly by food waste, but more often by charity- either private, government, or informal(eg the donut shop worker giving unsold product to the homeless at close instead of throwing it out for raccoons).
hydroacetylene
6d ago
Actually a century ago Catholic immigrants mostly only married within their own little niche ethnic group. Irish-Polish Catholic marriages were more encouraged by the Church, but not by the immigrant communities themselves.
hydroacetylene
6d ago
But given fertility rates, that's the case for people too- essentially voluntarily.
hydroacetylene
6d ago
The true robot apocalypse where we all lose our jobs will only come when Clippy returns at the head of his AI army. It's a millenarian cult now and I'm going to treat it like one.
I'm sorry but the constant 'but AI is gaining in capabilities' ignores one thing- yes, yes it is, but those capabilities don't actually correspond to anything. Yes, it can reduce secretarial workload, and that will over time drastically reduce the number of secretaries, but mostly through not replacing retirees. Good thing the population's shrinking! In the meantime, I get a raise because AI hardware raises the wages for people that work on cooling systems(and electricians, too). The lower working class, that could theoretically be replaced by trained monkeys(but training the monkeys is not cost-competitive with $15/hr), yeah, a computer that knows how to flip burgers was possible in, like, 1982- still hasn't happened, because hands, you know, Claude doesn't have them. McDonald's uses lots of robots in their kitchen. None of them have hands, they're not a replacement for local teenagers.
hydroacetylene
6d ago
All of these shootings were motivated by the spiders in the shooters' brains. Trans plausibly, but it can't be proven after the fact, made those spiders worse or pushed them over the edge, sure, but these people did it because they were crazy- and that applies to both the shootings and the becoming trans.
hydroacetylene
6d ago
How is anime not normie-adjacent? It's extremely popular almost everywhere.
hydroacetylene
6d ago
Trans communities do seem to pathologically validate, even when they're clearly wrong. That's what 'self ID' is.
hydroacetylene
6d ago
I mean, unemployed, uneducated men with poor social skills are losers though.
hydroacetylene
6d ago
I mean, China meets all of your criteria while being poor.
It’s quite common for communist countries to have good public transportation, urban infrastructure, etc while having very low PPP.
Are there millions and millions of trans people? They're a pretty small minority that's simply absent from large parts of the world. And there seems to be multiple phenomena involved, with most of these people specifically being MTFs, which isn't even the biggest group.
I'm getting flashbacks to the Catcher in the Rye obsession among prominent murderers, for some reason. No doubt there are many people who like Catcher in the Rye, but it seems overrepresented among murderers.
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