oceanofsolaris
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oceanofsolaris
6mo ago
My understanding is that Wagenknecht is charismatic, has ideals and is also impossible to work with.
Otherwise even a party as dysfunctional as Die Linke would have gone all in on her.
I assume that her new party will flounder for the same reasons. If she was great at setting up alliances, keeping a tight ship and knowing when to make deals with whom … she would already be running Die Linke today.
oceanofsolaris
6mo ago
I am sure they have more influence over US foreign policy (though Saudi-Arabia isn’t too bad at influencing the US either). Business for sure (though again … Oil is important).
But the media? If “500 killed in suspected Israel Hospital attack” * with an image of an unrelated collapsed building on the frontpage of the NYT is how Zionists control the media … these Zionist overlords are unusually inept. Especially since none of the things in this headline ended up being clearly true in the end.
I am not saying there aren’t many jewish people working in media (though you should see physics if you are looking for an area where I am almost surprised if a person of importance isn’t jewish). Just that the Zionists are clearly not in charge here.
*I don’t remember the exact headline, quoting from vague memory here.
oceanofsolaris
6mo ago
Are you saying that illegal immigration through the mexican-american border is a similarly shaped problem as military/terrorist invasions?
If Mexico were to invade the US with tanks and soldiers tomorrow , I am 99.9% sure that the Biden administration wouldn’t say “sorry, we are all tied up in Ukraine and Israel, nothing we can do here”.
Similarly if Ukraine were to get swathes of uncontrolled economic migration from Belarussia … would anyone in the US government care? Probably not (they’d certainly advise Ukraine to go easy with any crimes against humanity, but they’d consider it an internal problem they don’t strictly care about).
I don’t even know why I spent two paragraphs on this (obvious) difference between these issues. Using the same word to refer to
a) economic migration
b) terrorists killing and abducting citizens of another state
c) a full blown military invasion aimed at removing the government of another nation
is pure equivocation. Calling this “noncentral fallacy” is like saying that the world trade center needed slight repairs on 9/12 after being damaged by flying debris.
What I want to say: this type of language is not used in good faith.
oceanofsolaris
6mo ago
As someone living there … I think the Swiss -> German attitude is not that bad. But maybe the Swiss are just too polite to show their contempt :P
Austria though … they are certainly more open about their attitude towards Germans (though again it’s mostly just harmless ribbing, nothing that would actually get in the way of living there).
oceanofsolaris
8mo ago
A reputed franchise from 20 years ago when gaming was a niche hobby enjoyed by a fraction of todays potential audience.
Not sure this would be the first franchise I‘d revive when looking for mass appeal.
That being said, it’s probably a well-known franchise within the niche of CRPG fans … which is sizeable, but still not huge (especially since it probably is still very PC-focused … while these games are released on consoles nowadays, they are still mostly created for and played with with mouse and keyboard).
oceanofsolaris
9mo ago
There is a (better argued and worded) comment on the article itself that also captures this feeling:
https://www.aporiamagazine.com/p/embryo-selection-healthy-babies-vs/comment/17761959?r=9lzgr
(though I wouldn’t call IVF exactly „new“ at this point anymore … but then there is the relatively high rate of heart defects for kids conceived that way, which AFAIK isn’t well understood. So the point stands that IVF might have under-appreciated risks.)
oceanofsolaris
9mo ago
Without reading the article fully (sorry, it’s long and I already have an opinion about the topic that is mostly in line with it): What’s up with its huge focus on the Rutherford person?
Is the book he wrote so dominant in discourse? Are people angry that he is personally insulting the Collins for using US-wide available embryo selection technology?
It just reads weird that the article spends 2/3 of its length arguing at someone I never heard about (which might just be on me) and whom the authors seem to hold in such low esteem. Yeah, these twitter screenshots seem to show someone who is angry and not arguing in good faith … so why let them live rent-free in such a large part of your article?
oceanofsolaris
9mo ago
According to the LessWrong writeup (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/yT22RcWrxZcXyGjsA/how-to-have-polygenically-screened-children), one of the authors of OP article can fix you up with a startup that offers intelligence scores for embryo selection (Jonathan Anomaly…not sure how trustworthy someone with that last name is!).
That being said, I this is currently a lot of hassle (read the lesswrong article … quite some steps needed), needs a lot of money and is definitely not available in most jurisdictions. I am also not sure how well it would work.
So waiting 2-5 years would probably make things easier (or harder because it’s been outlawed).
Generally, a nation that wanted to go all-in on “IVF eugenics” could probably make a lot of progress just by sequencing and cognitive-ability-testing + disease cataloguing a large part of their population. AFAIK one thing holding the technology back is that there is no good large scale database of DNA sequences with cognitive ability scores (instead,“educational attainment” is often recorded, which might not be exactly what you care about).
But I am exactly complaining that “defending borders” refers to completely different problems in these cases.
And to insinuate that the US government uses taxpayers money to (help) solve some of these problems but not others is due to “who is in charge of the countr[ies] they are supporting” * and not to the fact that these are completely different problems … feels very dishonest to me.
* Is this referring to the fact that Zelensky (and Bibi) are Jews? If so … I don’t think that’s the most relevant fact about the US support of Ukraine
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