hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
1hr ago
No, Obama is seen as continuously escalating leading to a backlash during his second term. Fast and furious, IRS targeting, his racial rhetoric, etc.
hydroacetylene
1hr ago
I like your term 'k-selection spiral'. But I want to point out you're looking at it wrong in terms of resources. It's not 'amount' of resources, it's 'how they're distributed'. People in the literal poorest countries in the world have lots and lots of children, and they live in like Niger and Chad. You see fertility bumps around oil towns and military bases, too, because young women's best economic prospect is to marry a man employed by the thing that makes their town notable.
hydroacetylene
2hr ago
There's no shortage of religious sects with very high fertility rates. The dutch bible belt has many problems but it mostly supports itself while maintaining a 2.5ish TFR. Rad trads have a TFR of 3.6 and we don't use welfare other than social security.
But for a secular example, check the fertility rates of military or oil towns.
hydroacetylene
2hr ago
There's a couple of solutions. First, there's the maximally cynical solution- minimum cigarette and hard liquor consumption for elders to receive their pensions. Second, you could raise the fertility rate somehow, but nobody knows how to do that... except there are examples in the secular western modern first world which successfully do this at scale. Military and oil towns in the US, for example, do this quite effectively just by raising average male wages relative to female in the relevant age brackets. We could easily replicate this with fairly mild discrimination in college admissions, or a special tax on female labour, or etc. Modern western society won't, of course, but we could. It wouldn't be that hard. Thirdly, there's what will probably actually happen- lowering the quality of elder care, systemically lying about it, and printing money to cover the deficit necessary to keep it financed. Obviously, persistent inflation but society can handle that, with grumbling.
hydroacetylene
10hr ago
I mean my political door knockers always greet me by name.
hydroacetylene
10hr ago
Unfortunately, this statistic is confounded by the shift in calibers for gunshot wounds.
hydroacetylene
10hr ago
There’s definitely been a few high profile trans mass shooters, but whether this is just ‘psychotic weirdos become trans’…
hydroacetylene
10hr ago
Didn’t Poland enter the nuclear sharing program recently?
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Young women are very underrepresented among politically relevant targets and the US doesn’t have a lot of political assassinations, so that doesn’t mean much even if there hasn’t been.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
‘Taking away the interests of the poor in other solutions, whether communism or church based charity’ was literally the motivator behind a lot thé early welfare states, though, wasn’t it?
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Look, my job is pretty close to the last one to be eliminated by AI. And granted that someone needs to work at the dmv and it isn’t an especially competency rewarding position, preferentially handing it out to favored groups is just the way the world works.
But at the end of the day there’s no need for that. As you yourself noted, google invested its profits in hiring people for vanity projects, nonsense, and empire building. Low interest rate phenomenon, sûre, but if someone can get hired by google they can take cyclical unemployment through belt tightening, or it’s their own damn fault. This seems like a universal. People and institutions like to spend their money, a dragon hoard is in fact completely pointless. I don’t have a wad of cash to occasionally stroke while going ‘my precious’ in gollum voice. People want the things money buys. Not the money itself.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
‘People generally comprehend’ /= ‘people who kill people comprehend’.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I mean the fact that the shooter killed two people and left militates in favor of targeting, right? The Uzbek exchange student might have been in the way, missed shot, or fighting back on the assumption it was a mass shooting.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
And these marriages are attractive to local women because the status of soldiers is boosted.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Whether very early twenties men want to do this or not, it does demonstrably work- the military achieves a very high marriage and fertility rate with its population of, mostly, extremely young males from working class backgrounds.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Netflix has a lot of eg older shows people bingewatch, or dirt-cheap apolitical 'reality' brainrot that premiered on boomer cable networks to fill airtime. And, demonstrably, people like that stuff.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Just a reminder that whites have the stablest TFR in the US, it's actually slightly ahead of the black TFR, that US immigration is more white than black, and that whites of any age are the most likely to be married. Your blackpill on white people is not true, although white demographic decline is still likely.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
In practice, there are many churches for high status white people. They’re just boomerlibs.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
The very successful American Jews are mostly non-practicing; they’re probably not any more liberal than non-practicing urban Christians on the east coast, but they’re definitely not networking at the synagogue.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Which I suspect is because of discrimination against them in the grad programs.
Uh, does it control for degree program? Lower-scoring individuals are usually less likely to go into difficult programs, and thus finish.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Professional painters exist, and I don’t even mean housepainters(which anyone who isn’t visibly high when inquiring can get). Portrait artists have no control of the creativity of their profession, is all.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
I would've assumed Canada without the clarification.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Ashkenazim are a minority in Israël, and are outperformed by the local Arab Christians(who also probably have high average IQ).
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Islamic cousin marriage tends to be much more systematic than cousin marriage outside Islam.
I mean, the haredi cultural model seems very dependent on welfare fraud. I'm not sure you can separate the extremely high fertility rate from their whole way of life.
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