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https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3198075/
In fact according to government data:
>U.S. counties with poverty rates exceeding 35% have age-adjusted obesity rates substantially higher than wealthy counties.
Being fat is actually a disease of the poor.
It’s totally doable.
But there are solid engineering and logistical advantages. Not having to deal with nimby’s, permitting, data center blowback is a big advantage. It’s difficult to spin up new power infrastructure in western countries, and putting up a satellite with direct 24/7 solar power means you can skip the headache of building new power infrastructure. My electricity bill has increased by 50% in the last year and most of that increase is likely because of data centers powering AI. If we can instead directly power that compute in orbit from the sun then it will not increase demand on existing power infrastructure.
-Larry Ellison
An example would be Cambridge Analytica, they got more bad press for doing similarly evil things and they are not Israeli.
Yes other countries do things that are similar, like China. But China doesn't have a "special relationship" with the US like Israel does, they aren't our "greatest ally" like Israel is purported to be, and they don't have staff and representatives at the highest levels of the US government like Israel does.
https://www.npr.org/2019/08/16/751845378/episode-933-find-th...
B. There's plenty of reporting that the White House gave the order:
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/order-limit-starshield-...
>Order to limit Starshield for Ukraine came from inside White House, sources say
Ukraine has been striking Russian refineries, reducing global diesel supply which is already being squeezed by the stupid war in Iran.
Musk gains nothing from disabling Starlink for strike missions inside of Russia. Trump absolutely does benefit from them since his admin is bearing the blame of invading Iran and it’s killing him in the midterms.
It’s like the entire city of Austin. It’s also the entire Bay Area.
I’m only making the point that it’s a real product and you can buy it. Sort of implied by the parent comment of it being a “scam” meaning that it was never delivered.
HW3 gets a supervised version which is the best they can do with the hardware that they shipped, it’s unfortunate I agree but it’s not totally out of line with what happens with other devices like the iPhone. Apple has a version of Apple Intelligence which is neutered on older devices, presumably because of hardware limitations.
It leads them to become the very bigots they think they are fighting against.
Whether it’s concerted or not doesn’t matter at all, I’ve never made the argument once that it is concerted. It seems you want to attach that to my argument so that you can help to associate my argument with a conspiracy theory Wikipedia page so it’s easier to dismiss without having to engage with the data.
The data unequivocally show that Germans will be a minority soon in their own homeland. That’s what matters; it’s happening and it’s provable. There’s nothing false about that premise. Nations do control their own borders, it’s a conscious choice to allow migration at these levels.
>I'll point out the multiple times in history that they've intermingled with other cultures
Chinese people have done this too, same with Indians. Yet to say that Chinese people don’t exist as an ethnicity is just obviously not true. Go to China and try to explain to a Chinese person how their people don’t really exist and how they are just a product of intermingling cultures over the course of history. Tell them that an African who moves to their country is just as Chinese as an ethnic Han Beijing resident who’s family has been there for thousands of years. They would laugh you out of the room. That’s the crux of what makes your worldview nonsensical. You are saying something doesn’t exist which everyone knows intuitively and innately from childhood does exist.
Canada 6x’d its yearly immigration numbers starting in 2020. The country has changed dramatically since then.
To quote the Canadian redditor from my linked thread:
>The Trudeau government had a policy of letting in as many immigrants and temporary workers as possible. Almost all of them came from India. There was an entire industry, full of fraud, that existed to bring Indians to Canada.
>In many cases they allegedly came a students. But from what I can tell a lot of this was to import the cheapest possible labor from foreign countries and get them to work in low skill jobs for large National employers like Subway and Tim Hortons.
>It had some short-term benefits like a small GDP bump. But it has had significant negative impacts on the country's housing availability and affordability, infrastructure, and social cohesion.
>It's the main reason Trudeau was forced to resign.
Don’t you think that a nation should have a conversation about how they want their own people to evolve? This is a group of people which has existed for thousands of years and this idea of open borders and pretending like race doesn’t exist is a very new idea.
Something as momentous and irreversible as ethnically replacing your own population should at least warrant a national conversation/debate about the topic.
Trying to shut down discussion by labeling it a conspiracy theory without actually engaging with the facts of the topic is just a tactic to force your worldview onto your fellow countrymen.
>Backwards logic is not limited to white peoples.
Okay well it’s good you clarified that, most normal people would not think about how Japanese people are “supremacists”. They are known for being extremely nice and welcoming to strangers. They are not “fascist” and don’t even have a military. Yet they have preserved their country and people in the way it has existed for millennia, and there are many benefits to it (high social trust etc).
Globally speaking, your worldview is in the minority and would be regarded as extreme or “backward” to many people.
By that same logic there has never been “a coherent Chinese culture”, therefore Chinese people do not exist or deserve to have their own country.
What are your requirements for a “coherent culture”? Every country in the entire world has some variability within its culture depending on region.
Whatever your criteria are for a coherent culture, I’m sure China or India would surely fail them. Yet to deny the existence of Chinese culture or Chinese people would not only be extremely offensive, it would be genocidal language.
Denying the existence of cultures and ethnicities is a hallmark of genocide in fact.
>The United Nations and atrocity-prevention frameworks identify the denial of the existence of a national, ethnical, racial, or religious group as a core risk factor or precursor to mass violence and identity-based conflict.
https://africarenewal.un.org/en/magazine/reject-genocide-den...
This is exactly the problem, this is genocidal language. To deny the existence of an ethnic group and culture which has existed for thousands of years.
This is a key component in ethnocide.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnocide
There’s nothing hateful about noticing the data showing that Europeans are being ethnically replaced in all of their homeland countries. Also, there are many ways to oppose it peacefully and morally.
There’s nothing “supremacist” about not wanting to become a minority in your own country. It’s not hateful, it’s a very human desire that every nation shares, including China, Japan, Korea etc.
Is Japan “white supremacist” for implementing an immigration policy that keeps their society homogeneous? No.
https://demography-dashboard.eu/en/countries/germany?year=20...
Being opposed to ethnic erasure is quite reasonable for any group of people.
Even just stopping the flow of refugees (who often vacation in the countries they “escaped” from) is somehow considered extreme.
How is this somehow the fault of “capitalism”? Regardless of how the system is structured, the government has a near-infinite budget, they could theoretically staff the agency with enough people to answer my call in a timely manner. They could also train their staff to treat me with human dignity. They don’t do this, and the reason is that they have no incentive to do so. If I am upset by being treated poorly what recourse do I have? Nothing. In fact if I ignore their system long enough, armed goons will show up with guns and arrest me.
There are many examples of government agencies that have this reputation, not only in the USA but the entire world.
“Show me the incentive and I’ll show you the outcome” -Charlie Munger
Chevron: Exxon, ConocoPhillips, BP. From a customer perspective there are tons of competitors which make your life better ranging from QT, AMPM, to Buc-ees (a favorite which people literally LOVE to visit).
Verizon: Starlink, TMobile, ATT, Comcast, etc
Microsoft: Apple, Google, Cloudflare, Amazon (differentiates itself literally on quality of customer service)
The IRS or DMV? No competitor. Unhappy with their service? Go fuck yourself.
Personally I remember waiting for hours in a line wrapped around the building for the chance to take my drivers license test.
Another example: have you ever tried to interact with the IRS? The most nightmarish bureaucratic system I’ve ever had the displeasure of interacting with. And guess what my recourse is for them treating me like garbage? Nothing. A company, if they treat me poorly, I can take my business elsewhere. The IRS? The DMV? Not so much.
The government does not have an incentive to run anything efficiently as they cannot go bankrupt. Imagine if AI was run like the DMV.
Putting monopoly control of it in the hands of government also makes it extremely likely that whoever is in power will use it to manipulate public opinion + elections as well as encoding their political values into it.
What do you think a Trump-controlled AI would say if I asked about the war in Iran? We’ve already seen examples of companies encoding their beliefs into the system (see Gemini saying nuclear war is preferable to misgendering Caitlyn Jenner), imagine how much worse it would be if politicians were given control instead.
There will be human achievement no matter how much automation and robotics we have. There’s an entire universe to explore and colonize. Plus people still want to see other people do things like perform music or play sports.