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@zedvictor4
Not sure where you got 9.99r from
He meant to write multiply by 10, zed. It's actually a neat little proof. Multiply by 10 because this shifts the decimal place, but shifting the decimal places makes no difference to the right hand side due to it's being infinitely recurring.
So .99r * 10 = 9.99r.
9.99r - the original .99r = 9.
He could have done the same with multiplying by 100 or 1000 or 10,000 or whatever.
It's actually a neat little proof.
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I mean further to that thett, we have recently established that Irish travellers are actually Irish people just diverged from the main bulk about 400 years ago. You're not going to make the argument that genetic differences account for disparities in outcome there and the parallels between the black Americans and Irish travellers are blatant. Yours are needless, dangerous ideas.
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I have actually read Guns, Germs and Steel. Long ass time ago and I don't think I finished it, but it was a mapping of racial outcomes to environment, right? Darwin's finches sort of idea applied to the Hawaiian islands. I think it's taken as a fairly solid refutation of the idea that genetic differences are the cause for racial disparities in outcome.
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Well this was fun, but it is past my bedtime.
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I guess it makes sense a racist would be so dumb.
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That's a very short memory you got there, dummy. Angrily edit your post some more.
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@TWS1405
You try to censor me for going on a "religious rant" then proceed to go on a racist one. Really must sting to be banned from all those websites, eh?
I'll post where I want, you angry baby. Welcome to nowhere.
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@thett3
human evolution now probably won’t be driven by who wins military conflicts but instead by which groups successfully avoid the pitfalls or modernity and actually breed. There are entire developed countries (the furthest along being South Korea) that are already doomed, whose fates are already sealed, and whoever inherits that fertile land and developed economy won’t be the people who built it but some other group. And when you look at that things that way it isn’t looking so great for whitey!
That's a fun take on dead end life. What ya gonna do, thett? Your kids will be happy.
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Are they actually gypsies or an Irish group that somehow became different
I feel like you already knew this and I just learned it lol. Apparently Cromwell did a number on us.
Nah you can only think this if European history is all you know.
I mean I know dude. We're a whole world of murderous bastards. What else are you going to find in genetics?
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@Novice_II
And I could never imagine spending hours writing debates on nonsense or thousands of words that nobody will read only to collect wins for forfeits. Takes every sort, right.
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We could drop a nuclear bomb on Harlem.
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Here's an idea, thett. We could put all black people into concentration camps. That'd fix some sort of problem anyway.
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I mean that one really is an odd point to be so stressy about.
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As to a full and honest account of racial and genetic differences, the white man is the greatest bastard in all of history. No denying it. Really don't see where you're going with that. Show me what part of the white man's brain has facilitated these immense cruelties we're responsible for.
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Dead end life is what causes crime in almost every instance. In my country we have an ethnic group that's far more troublesome than black people I guess except for the whole shooting each other part. 90% drop out of school by age 16. Only one of this group has ever achieved a PhD and it was in ethnic studies. It's about 1% of our population. They're called Travellers. Irish Gypsies. I've never seen one work an ordinary job ever. Never behind a counter of a shop or behind a bar, nothing. I mean, really never. And the males of this group have the highest suicide rate for any subclass.
I mean, make of that what you will. I think affirmative action and free college and all that stuff is obviously the way to go. We have free college, but every Traveller is still completely unemployable. I got buddies that manage bars and things. Travellers are refused entry to every bar and restaurant in every city. Their exclusion is absolute, obvious, and readily admitted to. And we all very readily accept that. I guess there's no Traveller Lives Matter rallies. Our cops aren't shooting them down in the streets. They were never our slaves. They've made an industry of crime. The Wire and every other American crime TV show I ever watched shows me black Americans have made a similar sort of industry of crime around drugs.
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How embarrassing.
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Just found this on reddit. It really is funny shit.
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Flat earth, antivaxx, climate change denial, creationism vs. evolution in schools, sex education for kids. That's your conservative politics. A bunch of silly weird shit from people afraid of everything. Gay sex is a crisis. It is some weird shit.
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@bmdrocks21
The absence of perversion is not squeamishness.
Yes it is. Read a Dr.Franklin post sometime. He substitutes panic attacks for orgasms without a doubt. I feel like I'll catch agoraphobia reading his posts.
There's no politics in any of this if not for squeamishness.
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@bmdrocks21
Because it's funny shit. And we get gems like Ben Shapiro admitting to the world he's never made his wife wet and all the weird ass gay sex scandals coming from ardent opponents to homosexuality. You're a squeamish, repressed group of people and this is grownup talk.
Which part did I get wrong? For the kicks.
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My favourite part of this thread was bdmrocks likening having sex to mystical powers. Bunch of shut-in virgins moralising about sex and the same clowns are filling their socks with life essence every night.
Not gonna lie, I cannot remember the last time I wore a condom lol. Done a lot of daydreaming of kicking women in their bellies day after. Am I a good person? No. Life on earth is a great tidal wave of rampant sex and death. An unwanted pregnancy is potentially a life sentence for some girl makes an all too human mistake. And the guy with her.
If you don't get it, don't know what to tell you. Yes, every girl you ever have sex with will want to abort your ugly child. Have a look into your sock and ponder eternity.
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Well you're an unfriendly fellow. You'll do well here.
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GP, if you can't see it, you can't see it. But it is.
It's a very obvious prisoner's dilemma.
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There should be like an Intelligent Design board or something. The evolution debates were interesting back in the day. There's contention there, but the religion board is a bunch of uninteresting spambots basically. Shit gets lost, I dunno. Science should be left Science, but we could draw the lunatics out of the religion board for a bit of a fight.
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Game theory is matter of factly the science of why you lot are blowing each other away. Guns are your problem.
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@Greyparrot
Even enemies in WW1 cooperated with informal cease fire agreements against the orders of their superiors in the trenches. That's literally cooperation in a kill or be killed environment.
No it isn't. That's an environment where you're likely to die no matter what. It's cooperate or die.
America's gun situation is an example of prisoner's dilemma. Defection is the optimal survival strategy for the individual.
And that breeds sociopathy.
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The reason why we don't rat on each other is because we don't want to pay the consequences for doing that 8 years down the road.
That's an interesting article, but if it's kill or be killed consequences down the road don't matter.
Only a person that believes all humans are fated to be evil believes in this. We are herd animals at the core. Cooperation is in our blood.
Your whole shtick is America first.
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Yukio Mishima's book Confessions of a Mask is a sparkling case study which shows a very reasoned homosexuality. I think the answer is very obviously nurture, honestly, though there's genes in everything. The more older brothers a man has, the more likely he is to be gay. Either that's some mechanism to reduce competition, something like oro is going after, or the younger brothers have looked up to and depended on men all their lives and would have that in their romantic relationships also. The latter makes way more, easier sense. Either way, doesn't matter. There is no choice.
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It's the prisoner's dilemma.
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@Greyparrot
Swiss guns per capita is less than a quarter of American guns per capita. American guns is 1.2 per person.
It really is a wonder that a nation of people ready to shoot each other are shooting each other.
Your science is bad. Guns are your problem. It's obvious.
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As to guns protecting against home invasion, and I mean I'm sure they probably do to some extent, but I've heard a lot of stories over the years of homes being invaded in order to steal guns: https://www.belfastlive.co.uk/news/belfast-news/four-guns-stolen-during-burglary-9967004
The very famous Guy Ritchie crime movie Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels also deals in part with a home invasion in order to steal shotguns, so the Brits are probably hearing the same stories.
The utility of guns in civilian hands is dubious. The harms, on the other hand, are obvious.
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@Greyparrot
Because you don't cry about a dramatically exploding boiler on the Titanic when there is a huge hole tin the ship that indirectly caused it.Well I guess you can if it makes you feel better.
As to this post, your children are shooting each other. What's the point of politics at all if that's "drama"?
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@Greyparrot
I mean I addressed a post made by Danielle that I found to be absurd. It was that everybody knows that numbers of guns don't lead to gun violence. I'll readily admit that racial tensions lead to violence, and dealing with that is another topic. But maybe the slave ship has sailed on that one, eh. Made your bed, that sort of thing. Do you think that number of guns has no impact on gun violence?
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@Greyparrot
Omg Australia...no guns and double the USA rate lol. Where are the Aussie fences?
You're the one saying that stocked gun cabinets make good neighbours. There's 50 countries with no guns below the US and Switzerland on that list. What's the science here, exactly?
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@Greyparrot
Did you even look at the graphs?
I gave the article a very brief look and no doubt racial and ethnic tensions lead to violence. Where does this relate to schoolchildren shooting their peers?
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Old man FLRW is deleting posts again.
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@Greyparrot
Your kids are shooting each other, you have the highest gun deaths in the first world by far, and the US and Switzerland are very high on the list of burglaries per capita.
Also the Swiss have one quarter of your guns.
What are you even talking about?
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@Greyparrot
You think there's absolutely nothing to what I've said?
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Deep stuff. You might as well say the existence of man is a corruption.
It needn't be so deep. You've got 120 guns per 100 people. People are getting shot. Your kids are shooting other kids. There's simple, human answers here.
Good fences make good neighbors, and so do stocked gun cabinets.
I got zero doubt the presence of so many guns inspires a sociopathy and worse.
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@Greyparrot
I'll have a look. I think I definitely would like some light strategy kinda game. I tried Stellaris for a while and it's kinda cool but way too much micromanaging.
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@Danielle
Everyone knows that the number of guns in the U.S. is not to blame for gun violence.
It baffles me someone could even write that tbh. Do you not think the presence of guns makes it more likely cops will shoot whatever black kid upon arriving at the scene? But I suppose that's hood culture or something, not guns.
America's gun culture very closely resembles the prisoner's dilemma of game theory. After a point, it becomes only reasonable to shoot the place up. Everyone armed to the teeth in the first place doesn't ever look good for cooperation.
I mean, whatever about the dark hearts of people, but a gun in your hand is a devil on your shoulder. It's obvious the very existence of guns in the first place is a corruption.
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Anything that encourages any sort of discussion outside of Trump, abortion, and gender is badly wanted. The site is dead. Forum categories are a suggestion and something to have fun with. I'd read oro's conspiracy theories before I'd read brutal's clunky if/thens or Double's futile battles with GP.
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@bmdrocks21
What is that old saying? ‘Ignorance is bliss’?Not sure that they ever said ignorance was a virtue, though
That is the most deluded response to what I said. That's irony, I guess.
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@Polytheist-Witch
Now we're talking.
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@Dr.Franklin
No it isn't, you dumbass.
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@bmdrocks21
coping strategy
Nobody in my country even knows he said that and guns never come up only about you guys' kids shooting each other. My PM saying that is probably one of the least consequential things he could say.
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I really am ready for you lot to start shooting each other. This shit is like a Tarantino movie. Once Upon a Time in America.
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The very next day this 60 year old man gets banned from Twitter for posting something stupid and uninteresting: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10970365/Jordan-Peterson-suspended-Twitter-tweeting-transgender-actor-Elliot-Page.html
The man is a clown.
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@FLRW
Have you ever become sexually aroused after an exchange with Polytheist-Witch?
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@FLRW
Answer one question at least. What's the point of being old if you don't have a bunch of weird stories to share?
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