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@Athias
I see your statement, and I raise you a: why would one trust a government at all?
The point is, if one relied on the government solely for information, they would have no clue what their actual personal risk of death is relative to their weight.
Some people actually care about dying.
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@Athias
Only 3 things are certain in this world.
Death, taxes, and viruses.
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@Nyxified
Good. then I officially don't trust the government, for my own safety.
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@Nyxified
Why should I trust a government that won't publicly say being fat puts you at great risk of dying from Covid?
Does the government want us to stay fat and dead?
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@Athias
Why should I trust a government that won't publicly say being fat puts you at great risk of dying from Covid?
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@Nyxified
Do we lock up the country because fat people can't keep their mouths free of food 24/7?
Globally, 90% of Covid deaths were from obese people.
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@drlebronski
Why should a starter job traditionally used for training unskilled labor provide 40k a year?
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@Lemming
Men today aren't typically encouraged to leave and support a family, partly because it isn't feasible with the demands working hypergamous women have for men to provide substantially more than an independent working woman.
100 years ago, women were shamed if they didn't find a husband and leave the house by 30.
So today there's a substantial basement dwelling population that votes in lockstep with social media.
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@Lemming
Funny, though 100 years ago, 'more people might have lived 'with their parents, depending on culture.
Source? Maybe women but certainly not the men.
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@Lemming
Voting age actually should be raised to the intelligence level of an 18 year old 100 years ago.
That's probably around 24 depending on the state since 18 year old's 100 years ago had about the same level of street smarts and common sense.
According to this map voting age should still remain 18 in the light beige states.
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@n8nrgmi
Here is a cool snuff video of desperate Afghans falling off Biden transport planes.
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@ILikePie5
Ya by May 1st. It’s August. So who again violated that deal?
Cmon MAN!
8 months isn't nearly enough time for sleepy Joe to come out with a plan other than fuck Trump.
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@coal
I'd like to see if there is an IQ difference between a ghetto African American and an actual African from Nigeria.
Maybe that explains the massive wealth gap between the two.
/sarcasm
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@coal
Another troubling thing is this trend of taking the past and applying those conditions to the present. It's absolutely disingenuous.
I get rewriting history, but rewriting the present is Orwellian as fuck.
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@coal
That was such an underrated moment when Shapiro called out Nance as a "man of merit" that he is pushing to tear down the very "racist" meritocracy system that has presently rewarded him based on his merits and not his skin color.
And replace it with what exactly?
See, we can never let the discussion get that far. Ever.
Not honestly. That's a shame.
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@TheMorningsStar
What the government does to Indians is criminal negligence. It's more of a problem with incompetence than malicious actors though.
This is what happens when the government is allowed to take complete care of people "for their own good"
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@coal
Maybe the crowd clapter got the better of him.
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@coal
He was a bag of ad-homs and crawfishing.
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@coal
I heard from some sources that at risk children are raised by mostly absent parents absorbed in personal status careers instead of a career raising a family.
These children in their formative years bond to celebrities and cartoon characters as surrogates. When they come of age, many of these neglected children often become furries or fabulous caricatures of their most accepting celebrity trans.
While it's normal for some to see this happen, what is outrageously wild is the amount of neglectful parents actually encouraging and supporting the surrogacy. Whether it's from willful ignorance, a sense guilt and shame or from a sense to appear properly woke, the results are the same:
Millions of neglected kids with a tortured life of surrogacy. High suicide rates and enduring misery for the ones that fail to self terminate.
We never learned from our own studies.
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@Nyxified
At least try to hide the transphobia?
Noting the rates of suicide and surgery regrets is a sign of pity, not fear.
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@Nyxified
Can you find one instance where a biological MMA female broke the eye socket or any part of the skull?
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@coal
What do you think of this Douglas Murray excerpt?
Every age before this one has performed or permitted acts that to us are morally stupefying. So unless we have any reason to think we are more reasonable, morally better or wiser than at any time in the past, it is reasonable to assume there will be some things we are presently doing – possibly while flushed with moral virtue – that our descendants will whistle through their teeth at, and say ‘What the hell were they thinking?’ It is worth wondering what the blind spots of our age might be. What might we be doing that will be regarded by succeeding generations in the same way we now look on the slave trade or using Victorian children as chimney sweeps?
Take the case of Nathan Verhelst, who died in Belgium in September 2013. Nathan had been born a girl and was given the name Nancy by her parents. She grew up in a family of boys and always felt that her parents preferred her three brothers to her. There was certainly plenty that was strange about the family. After Verhelst’ s death his mother gave an interview to the local media in which she said, ‘When I saw “Nancy” for the first time, my dream was shattered. She was so ugly. I had a phantom birth. Her death does not bother me. I feel no sorrow, no doubt or remorse. We never had a bond. ’
For reasons that this and other comments make clear, Nancy grew up feeling rejected by her parents and at some stage settled on the idea that things might be better if she was a man. In 2009, in her late thirties, she began taking hormone therapy. Shortly after this, she had a double mastectomy and then a set of surgeries to try to construct a penis.
In total she had three major sex-change operations between 2009 and 2012. At the end of this process ‘Nathan’, as he then was, reacted to the results. ‘I was ready to celebrate my new birth. But when I looked in the mirror I was disgusted with myself. My new breasts did not match my expectations and my new penis had symptoms of rejection.’ There was significant scarring from all the surgery Verhelst had undergone, and he was clearly deeply unhappy in his new body. There is a photograph of Verhelst as ‘Nathan’ on a sparsely populated Belgian beach. He is squinting from the sunlight as he looks into the camera. Despite the tattoos covering part of his chest the scarring from the mastectomy is still visible. In a photo from another occasion he is lying on a bed in shoes and a suit, looking uncomfortable in his body.
The life that Nathan had clearly hoped for had not come about, and depression soon followed. So in September 2013, at the age of 44 – only a year after the last sex-change procedure – Verhelst was euthanized by the state. In his country of birth euthanasia is legal and the relevant medical authorities in Belgium agreed that Verhelst could be euthanized due to ‘unbearable psychological suffering ’. A week before the end he held a small party for some friends. Guests reportedly danced and laughed and raised glasses of champagne with the toast ‘To life’. A week later Verhelst made the journey to a university hospital in Brussels and was killed by lethal injection. ‘I do not want to be a monster,’ he said just before he died.
It is not hard to imagine future generations reading such a story in a spirit of amazement. ‘So the Belgian health service tried to turn a woman into a man, failed and then killed her?’ Hardest of all to comprehend might be the fact that the killing, like the operations that preceded it, was performed not in a spirit of malice or of cruelty, but solely in the spirit of kindness.
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@drlebronski
Gay is a biological condition. Dysphoria is a mental illness. Please don't conflate the two.
Conversion therapy doesn't work at ALL for gays but absolutely works often for trans considering the high suicide rates along with a plethora of tragic surgery regret stories.
Not even close to the same thing.
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@drlebronski
There are no pure races.
Bone density is much more varied from male to female than from any random male to another male.
Stop defending dysphoria. It's an illness, not a paragon of virtue.
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@drlebronski
Genetic females don't have the bone density or fast muscle fiber to break other female skulls without taking massive amounts of testosterone for decades.
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@drlebronski
Where is the Fallon fox muppet breaking the skull bones of genetic females?
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@3RU7AL
I don't pretend to know the motives and or general psychological and or moral state of anyone I happen to be speaking with.
Me either. It takes a special type of narcissist to be that condescending and pompous.
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@thett3
Ehh even though he annoyed me in this thread I still think he's a nice guy generally. I don't want to accuse him of more than I think he deserves. If he became dictator tomorrow I don't expect that my life would become significantly worse, can't say the same about far too many people (who unfortunately are concentrated in positions of power)
It goes a long way to explain why bastions of power persist for decades and generations uncontested and with zero outrage in dystopias like California, Chicago, Detroit, Baltimore, DC, New York.
There's always something to project blame onto.
I heard a frightening revelation about Cuomo's departure, that he is considered the LEAST far-left "progressive" out of the others vying to fill the power vacuum. That's really depressing.
New Yorkers are a part of a strange culture for sure.
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@thett3
I still can't believe he projected without skipping a beat that ALL people project.
That's some really deep dysfunction.
This sweeping projection assumes there are zero people alive with nuance or perspective.
That there are zero people alive that choose to introspectively evaluate their cognitive dissonance instead of projecting fabricated traits onto ALL people to resolve their dissonance.
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@Wylted
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@Double_R
Put together a current thought that takes up two sentences and then you can speak to me.
Why am I not surprised you missed the irony of your statement? whoosh.
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@bmdrocks21
I guess you could say loosely that bad culture is "systemic"
Very loosely.
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@coal
It was unconscionable what took place.
What's even worse is the ongoing double down by the California teacher's union demanding only remote learning take place for an indefinite period of time while teachers get full pay working from home. There is no crisis bar that can't be redefined when the government unions wield uncontested power.
Only in a State of gullible people who have no capacity to question authority can this possibly happen.
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@Double_R
The truth is that we all project far more than we realize.
What a hilariously ironic statement from a partisan hack.
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It absolutely would be useful. If they are exactly the same intelligence but have worse outcomes, then the problem is "systemic racism".
Lol no it isn't.
People with the same intelligence with different cultural upbringing will have vastly different outcomes, regardless of ANY system.
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@thett3
one thing I respect about normie Republicans is that they truly despise the Republican Party lol
As any person should. Hatred of establishment elites shouldn't be a radical idea in America of all places.
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@Double_R
We desperately need to teach critical thinking and epistemology, as well as civics and political science. But aside from how realistic it is that we will see a national movement on this anytime soon, even if it happened tomorrow we wouldn’t even begin to see the benefits of that for another 20 years. COVID is not waiting for that.
Teacher Unions don't want that.
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@thett3
It takes a person truly partisan to the bone to declare "X" party "really cares about the people"
Stockholm syndrome politics is the rot of America.
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@coal
What the Democrat governors did in 2020 with the kids and the elderly to score political power proves without any reasonable doubt that politicians don't give a flying fuck about "protecting the people"
Offering Cuomo and Newsome up after the fact doesn't come close for restitution for the destruction and mayhem they caused in 2020.
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@Double_R
trying to protect society (the literal job of an elected official)
Every politician has only one job. To get re-elected. Protecting people isn't even on the radar if people don't want to be protected.
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@FLRW
Just out of curiosity, have you ever read The Gulag Archipelago?
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@FLRW
All the more reason to be skeptical.
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you can't make a case that engineers aren't generally pro-government, even pro big government as an engine that makes big projects possible, which engineers often prefer given the frequent advantages of scale.
Elon Musk would disagree.
The only waste-management most government employees are involved in is coverups of wasteful funds and pork projects.
The project's cost and scope have long been a source of controversy. The project was presented to voters with a projected cost of $40 billion in 2008. Election year proponents also promised a 2028 completion date, and a $55 one-way Los Angeles to San Francisco fare. In 2012 the Authority re-estimated the project's year-of-expenditure cost at $68.4 billion. In 2012 the estimated cost of a fare from LA to San Francisco has risen to $86. In March 2018, the Authority revised its estimate to $77.3 billion and up to $98.1 billion, pushing initial service to 2029 and services from Los Angeles to San Francisco to 2033.
The Reason Foundation's Due Diligence Report (2008) projected that the final cost for the complete system (including both Phases I, II and an additional East Bay phase) would be $65.2 to $81.4 billion (2008). Current estimates from the Authority estimate a total cost for Phase 1 of $64.2 billion. The Authority is using Design-Build construction contracts to counter the tendency toward cost over-runs. All of the construction is to be done via "design-build" proposals wherein each builder is given leeway in the design and management of construction, but not the ability to run back with contract change orders except for extraordinary problems. The builder is given specifications but also given the freedom to meet them in their own way, plus the ability to modify the construction plans in an expeditious and cost-effective manner.
The California Legislative Analyst's Office published recommendations on May 10, 2011, which they said will help the high-speed rail project be developed successfully. They recommended that the California legislature seek flexibility on use of federal funds and then reconsider where construction of the high-speed rail line should start. They also recommended that the California legislature shift responsibility away from the Authority and fund only the administrative tasks of the Authority in the 2011–12 budget.
In January 2012, an independent peer review panel published a report recommending the Legislature not approve issuing $2.7 billion in bonds to fund the project. The panel of experts was created by state law to help safeguard the public's interest. The report said that moving ahead on the high-speed rail project without credible sources of adequate funding represents a financial risk to California.
Prior to the July 2012 vote, State Senator Joe Simitian, (D-Palo Alto), expressed concerns about financing needed to complete the project, asking: "Is there additional commitment of federal funds? There is not. Is there additional commitment of private funding? There is not. Is there a dedicated funding source that we can look to in the coming years? There is not." The lobbying and advocacy group Train Riders Association of California also considers that Bill SB 1029 "provides no high-speed service for the next decade".
In July 2014, The World Bank reported that the per kilometer cost of California's high-speed rail system was $56 million, more than double the average cost of $17–21 million per km of high speed rail in China and more than the $25–39 million per km average for similar projects in Europe. High real estate prices in California and three mountain ranges to cross contribute to the difference. For example, Construction Package 2-3 in the farmland of the flat Central Valley works out to $11.4 million per km, although this figure does not include electrification or property values, so it is roughly comparable internationally. Furthermore, the proposed High Speed 2 in Great Britain is estimated to be more expensive on a per mile basis than the Californian system.
As of May 2015, both construction packages awarded have come in significantly under staff estimates. For example, Construction Package 1 came in 20% under staff estimates ($985 million versus $1.2 billion), and Construction Package 2-3 came in under by 17% to 28% ($1.234567 billion versus $1.5–2 billion).
In December 2016, an internal-use-only draft risk assessment produced by the Federal Railroad Administration was delivered to the California Rail Authority which warned that the ICS (Merced-Bakersfield) segment could cost as much as $9.5 billion instead of the $6.4 billion originally budgeted, if certain challenges weren't addressed, including delays in environmental planning, lags in processing invoices and failures to acquire needed property. Federal Railroad Administration spokesman Matthew Lehner said that the draft risk assessment "is a standard oversight tool used on major capital projects — not just California", and he is confident the state can meet its deadline with continued focus and hard work. Concern over the article prompted the Authority to send a letter on January 13, 2017 to the Legislature that said that the characterization of cost overruns, delays, and potential lapses of funds are not borne out by the facts, and that other key federal findings were ignored. After downplaying risks of cost overruns, in January 2018 the Authority acknowledged that cost estimates for the initial segment had increased to $10.6 billion.
In 2018, it was estimated that the first phase of CHSR will cost $77 billion in year-of-expenditure dollars, assuming a 2033 completion year and 3% inflation.
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@FLRW
Einstein didn't live long enough to see what Marxism did to South America, Cuba, Cambodia, and Pre-Capitalist China.
The Gulag Archipelago wasn't written until 13 years after Einstein died. Assuming the book isn't still banned in most Marxists universities, very few people would say that the book promoted Marxism.
People today don't have that excuse.
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@Wylted
This is an actual working Engineer, not some cloistered Marxist Academic crackpot overflowing with Dunning-Kruger delusions and perpetually isolated from reality.
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@Wylted
He is full of shit. I worked in the Navy as a Nuclear Mechanic, and I can tell you, most people that put in the hours to be productive don't have the time left over to be a Marxist puppet. It's the credentialed Academia that has nothing better to do that fills those ranks.
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@n8nrgmi
I just want to know what you think is a "proportional" death count. It's not that hard.
You are the one that brought up the idea that the death count is disproportional right now.
u claimed it was disproportionally 300 pound fatties dying. i asked u to cite evidence. u did not cite evidence.
I didn't claim this, but here's evidence for something I did not claim.
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