sleepyegg
30d ago
What are the troubles of Brazil that isn't obvious from wikipedia? Also, why doesn't Argentina have these same problems even though Argentina is relatively close?
sleepyegg
1mo ago
Original LoGH is better than the remake. But the remake has a great opening song.
sleepyegg
1mo ago
In addition to Frieren already mentioned by @ChickenOverlord, there's other examples of a 100% good church in anime:
https://myanimelist.net/anime/48761/Saihate_no_Paladin (Good Paladin)
https://myanimelist.net/anime/52082/Shiro_Seijo_to_Kuro_Bokushi/ (Saint romcom)
Though, it is common trope that the church is evil too.
sleepyegg
1mo ago
late acquisition of required social skills due to likely autism
This is just about every Motte poster, methinks.
sleepyegg
1mo ago
Wish I sold it, I had it listed on Craigslist, Offerup, and Facebook marketplace. No takers even for basically free, it was a cheap quality but heavy folding treadmill from Amazon ($280). After a week of lowering my list price to ~$25 I had to dump it in the trash. I was living in a very affluent area back then, and I think the pool of potentially interested local buyers for secondhand items was too small.
sleepyegg
1mo ago
Crack ruined the preexisting social order in black communities that kept gun violence down from previous decades. Afterwards, gun violence and gang wars became embedded and normalized in parts of black culture. So even without the crack, the gun violence continued because it had been normalized for an entire generation. Additionally, there were advancements in drug production chemistry know-how and increased world trade that led to increasing popularity of fentanyl or other synthetic opioids. Now, we have Mexican drug cartels importing opioid precursors from China, and those drugs make their way into black communities.
So, my thesis is that black murder rates are high without crack for two reasons - gun violence normalization and alternative drugs supplanting crack in the drug economy ecosystem. Fentanyl doesn't lead blacks into gun violence directly, but I'm sure the dealers and distributors use violence to protect their business.
sleepyegg
1mo ago
This is a wealthy first world nation conception of rich, I think. My parents thought hot potable running water, not having to see other people's shit floating down the river, and a job as being rich. Now that they've adjusted to a higher standard of living they (and me) would say #2.
sleepyegg
1mo ago
small treadmill
Beware if you live in an apartment or condo community with downstairs neighbors. I had to toss a tiny treadmill I bought because of noise complaints.
Well, I agree that your proposal to expel black felons would improve the genetic pool quickly and reduce gun violence without banning firearms entirely. We may as well go further and simply expel all felons regardless of color, it would improve everyone's genetics and could be argued as a non-discriminatory policy. Also, for children over 10 who commit crimes that would result in a felony for an adult, we'd expel the child and both parents/guardians too. Otherwise we wouldn't be able to avoid 'underage' criminals as shown by @JTarrou and they would have more time to spread their genetics.
Instead of annexing land, the US might as well annex an entire country if the status quo is being discarded anyway. A non-nuclear power with poor international standing. I suggest Venezuela. Or Iran if we're willing to make the ground troops commitment anyway, may as well get rid of a long term foe.
sleepyegg
1mo ago
Your argument if I have it correct is that some men are rapists, so we should ban penetrative sex to prevent rape.
First, your proposed solution wouldn't work. Men would just dismantle or break the chasity belt before raping a woman.
Second, it's a violation of men's bodily autonomy. While we don't want men to rape others, we shouldn't attempt to violate the basic human rights of men to have their sexual organs freely accessible. All men are born with a penis, no man is born with a Glock 19.
sleepyegg
1mo ago
I'm not too keen on expelling people who've been in the US since the British colonial days. Blacks were exploited as slaves, so even if blacks have problematic violence as a group it's a 'we broke it, we bought it' kind of issue in my opinion.
There's many problems with expelling blacks even if we were willing to do it:
Where are we expelling them to? Does any country in Africa have the capacity and/or willingness to absorb a massive foreign population? I don't think multiple African countries could do it sharing the population influx.
For blacks unwilling to leave voluntarily, are we using military divisions to drag them out of their homes and into a container ship? Seems like a genocide in the making.
sleepyegg
1mo ago
Not advocating at all for racially based denial of rights, as in gun ownership. Easier and non-discriminatory to ban gun ownership for everyone.
Redlining, or de facto segregation through discriminatory housing practices was one method of keeping black gun violence from spreading to white neighborhoods. Additionally, crack cocaine started being a problem around the 1980s, disintegrating the social fabric for black communities that previously held back violence in general.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crack_epidemic_in_the_United_States
sleepyegg
1mo ago
Black women have higher levels of testosterone compared to other women, so it may partly explain the increased violent crime rate. That and the fact that black women are in closer social and familiar proximity to black men may explain the rest.
Actually, I would say that guns and men don't mix well either. FBI says 89% of gun violence offenders are male, where the gender is known.
If there was a way to restrict civilian gunownership to all females only, then that would also probably lower black gun violence simultaneously. But we'd probably just have women acting as gun buyers and gun mules for young black men and nothing would change.
Mandate low-income subsidized rental housing preferentially for blacks who are reintegrating to society after prison parole in all leftist liberal communities. When there is white liberal flight from the area, keep expanding the program to the new areas they are escaping to. Fund the program with local property taxes. Call it an expansion of Section 8 housing vouchers.
Either we will have very rehabilitated black parolees, or we will have a change in liberal opinion on race blind systems.
Edit: Added a CDC study of gun violence by ethnicity for support, as requested by mod. Honestly I've never looked it up until now, the below was just based on my personal lived experience.
Guns and blacks just don't mix well if you don't want a society with high gun violence.
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/72/wr/mm7242a4.htm
If you have significant amount of blacks in your society then you must ban guns entirely and make possession a felony, or else aggressive and violently inclined black youth will eventually get their hands on guns through legal means or the black (pun intended?) market. It's unfortunate for the responsible gun users but it only takes a few people to ruin nice things for everyone else. Of course, this would require a constitutional amendment in the US so it's basically impossible.
You could also toughen up juvenile sentencing to reduce the age of adult criminal responsibility to like, 10 or something. If guns are still legal in this scenario then blacks will still have high gun violence, but at least their genetic pool will slowly improve over time. You might have to wait a few thousand years to get any benefit of lowered aggression through genetic selection though, much faster to ban guns.
sleepyegg
1mo ago
Guess I'm in the betting pool as a 'yes'. It takes only a fraction of a grown man's stength to accidentally knock a woman or a child senseless.
The older you are, the higher the risk of door collision as forgetfulness takes its toll on the brain and reflexes. Falling when old is especially dangerous, usually leading to immobility from a permanent inability to recover to full strength.
sleepyegg
1mo ago
53% German, 40% Autistic. Commenting for my own reference later, documentation is important!
75%. Slowly moved up over time from a bottom of like 20% when mom stopped buying clothes for me.
It took me a long time to figure out I like cotton, some polyester, and hate most other fabrics. It took me longer to figure out I dislike clothes with the brand name displayed. And so on. A decades long trial and error process, and I still make mistakes because I shop mostly online now and it's hard to judge fit from a picture. 90% if I happen to buy in person, I rarely miss then.
I will say that I no longer care how I look and that comfort, fit, and price are all I care about in that exact order. Most of my clothes is from Target, Old Navy, and Gap.
sleepyegg
1mo ago
Go out and socialize is too vague an instruction for men who need help doing so.
My advice is to find pro-social hobbies that are done in small group settings that also appeal to women. Preferably a hobby with physical exertion or exercise. Try different hobbies and stick with ones you honestly like. Develop expertise and volunteer for leadership or teaching roles once you develop expertise.
So hiking clubs and yoga are better than chess, poker, and car meet ups. Avoid hobbies that do not interest single women.
sleepyegg
1mo ago
I understand your point on bathroom sliding doors, indeed they block sound poorly. But maybe if you have not started constructing your home yet you can widen the entire house just for the laundry door. If you and your roommate or wife live in the unit together, eventually someone will be exiting the laundry room at the same time someone is entering the home. Or someone will forget something in the house and step in quickly to retrieve it (keys, wallet, credit card, etc) and not communicate the entry as normal to the other person, knocking them senseless in a rush.
Why the pessimism on Milei?
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