Where are you going after America collapses?

Hematomato · 2024-05-19T22:20:47+00:00

I'll probably stay where I am, in America.

When a country collapses, you usually see a lot of violence in the big cities. I don't live in one of them.

Moving to China would be a mistake. It's on the brink of collapse right now. It has a huge problem with its population pyramid.

Hematomato · 2024-05-19T04:52:52+00:00

Yeah, they never went anywhere.

The SCOTUS said "You can't use racial metrics anymore," and the colleges just said "Okay, let's figure out what non-racial metrics we can use to get whatever actual racial balance we want."

And it hasn't been hard.

Hematomato · 2024-05-15T04:48:25+00:00

In the third U.S. Presidential election, John Adams' campaign claimed that if voters were to vote for Thomas Jefferson, their wives and daughters would become prostitutes.

Hematomato · 2024-05-15T02:00:05+00:00

So you named your account "Christ the King," huh.

Bold.

Hematomato · 2024-05-15T01:08:40+00:00

Honestly, probably Witch Panic, too.

Communist Panic didn't propose that "they" would rape your children - just that "they" would brainwash them until they rejected you.

Hematomato · 2024-05-15T00:42:47+00:00

Yes, it's so very easy to say "Internet = incel."

But the Internet isn't the only new thing. Also new is the idea that 17 year olds are children.

And that seems to be a lot more closely related to "incel" than "computers are networked now."

Hematomato · 2024-05-15T00:38:10+00:00

What a fool. We moved on to pedophile panic years ago.

You can't bring back Satanic Panic, or Communist Panic, or Witch Panic - every generation gets one panic.

Hematomato · 2024-05-15T00:33:17+00:00

Did you seriously trust a giant-toothed blonde with plastic skin? I think this one is on you.

Hematomato · 2024-05-15T00:28:29+00:00

I clicked all four links and I still don't know what you're on about except that it's probably some Jew shit.

Hematomato · 2024-05-14T23:46:09+00:00

In the '90s it was like: are you Christian or are you a piece of shit.

And an atheist movement sprung up to say: My Christian parents were horrible, the Christians beat me up, and I don't like Christianity.

Anyway, the people moderating Reddit are still from that same movement, because the culture moves too fast for most people to keep up with and they're still stuck in the last century.

Hematomato · 2024-05-14T23:25:32+00:00

Yep, that's a lie.

That said, isn't it interesting that the "financial crisis" and the "COVID relief crisis" both straddled two parties? Bush and Obama both spent obscenely on propping up the banks, and then Trump and Biden both spent obscenely on COVID relief.

And then both parties felt perfectly entitled to blame the other for the outcome.

Hematomato · 2024-05-14T22:30:24+00:00

I recently read a story about a North Korean who discovered a plastic water bottle on the beach when he was a child. And he was amazed - it was so lightweight, so unbreakable - he thought it was magic. He had to hide it from his friends.

When he escaped North Korea at age 19, he was on a boat to China when he spied a plastic water bottle in the water. And he actually tried to jump out of the boat to get it. And his guide grabbed him and said: "There will plenty of those when we get to China."

Hematomato · 2024-05-14T22:23:36+00:00

It's practically unheard of nowadays for teenagers to not be allowed to date

I don't think you're living in the present.

In the '90s, teenagers dated and a little over half of them had sex with each other.

In the '20s, most teenagers have never even been to an unchaperoned party, let alone tried to date anyone.

Hematomato · 2024-05-14T21:20:03+00:00

That's fair, but honestly, I'm way more likely to fuck your mom.

Hematomato · 2024-05-14T17:35:10+00:00

But let's assume you have a 17 year old son. And society says to him: you are a child. You should not be thinking about sex. For you to have sex is not the natural way of things.

And then he turns 18 and society says to him: you are now a man. You can date. But you'd better to make any mistakes. Or we'll fucking shame you. Maybe even arrest you. So I hope you picked up some experience during those 17 years of being a sexless little boy.

So he says: you know, I'm probably good alone with my video games. But it turns out he isn't good alone with his video games. So when he's 20, he eats the business end of a pistol.

See, we're all so eager to protect our daughters, but no one has the faintest interest in protecting our sons.

Maybe - just maybe - it would have been better not to pretend he was a little kid and not to deny his emergent sexuality.

Hematomato · 2024-05-14T13:21:03+00:00

Sacrificing your sons for the sake of your daughters is definitely all the rage in a fourth-wave feminist society.

You don't want your daughters to lose their virtue, so you teach your sons that they're all children who shouldn't ever be thinking about sex - until the day they turn 18, when they'd better have it all mastered or they can expect to face severe condemnation and mockery.

Hematomato · 2024-05-14T13:18:55+00:00

In truth, I spend no time thinking about it at all.

I spend a lot of time thinking about the consequences that ensue when socities believe things for no reason other than peer pressure.

And I spend a lot of time thinking about how Gen Z became the incel generation - depressed, isolated, suicidal virgins at a rate we've never seen before in history. And whether for Gen Alpha it's going to be three times worse.

And I think this is the consequence of pretending that 17 year olds are children. We've never done it before. We just started doing it. And now we have... thousands of dead young men.

Lies have consequences.

Hematomato · 2024-05-14T03:33:04+00:00

Couldn't find anything more definitive than random people on X saying he was or wasn't.

It's really never been that unusual for 64 year olds to have heart attacks.

Hematomato · 2024-05-14T03:24:24+00:00

I don't really care what a small minority of people think about children's activity of capacity. It's irrelevant to this conversation and life in general. You can always find a handful of people who think some stupid bullshit. As a rule, society doesn't think these things.

I'm sorry, you're just not right. If you go on any website on the Internet that isn't a little backwater free-speech site, and you say "If we're being honest, of course teenagers do know the difference between right and wrong, do know exactly what they do and don't want, and do know how to consent," people will scream at you that they have undeveloped brains, that it's horrific that you think those things, and that you're obviously a pedophile. I've been there enough times to know. Millennials and Zoomers are really and truly losing sight of the fact that 16 and 6 are not the same age.

Sexual activity under the age of consent is still against the law. Two kids aren't meant to be having sex.

There's no single "the law" - there's a different law for every country and every state. What you're saying is true for California, where it's against the law for two fifteen year olds to have sex with each other. It's not true for most states, where it's perfectly legal for two fifteen year olds to have sex with each other.

Of course, since some of the biggest sites, like Reddit, are headquartered in California, people all over the world have taken to referring to California state law as "the law."

It's really only in the last fifteen years or so that anyone started thinking that teenage sex was weird and "not meant to be." In the '80s, '90s, '00s, everyone understood that teenagers were gonna fuck and there was nothing their parents, let alone the government, could really do to stop them.

We don't base the legal system and the morality of our society by what's biologically normal.

Of course we base cultural morality, at least in part, on what's biologically normal. Sure, the law itself is disconnected from both nature and morality, but the culture shouldn't be. If you refer to a normal thing, people shouldn't gasp in horror and scream "Monster! Monster!"

Which is exactly what people have begun to do if they hear of (gasp) an 19 year old, a legal adult, thinking a 17 year old is attractive. "Those are on opposite sides of the line!" they gasp, feigning shock and horror so no one will hurt them. "The slightly older one is a pedophile!"

They think that if they do anything except feign that outrage, the FBI will be knocking on their door the next morning.

Hematomato · 2024-05-14T01:42:26+00:00

So, you took those ten things point by point, but I feel like you only really made four different arguments, so let me just group my replies that way:

1-3) We can agree that legal fictions need to exist. But cultural fictions don't need to exist in the same way. Do we need some arbitrary age where it's okay to rent an apartment or buy a beer? Sure. Do we need to pretend that it's really any different at all whether you bought the beer this year or last year? We don't.

We can say "It's the law that if someone is under x age, any sexual relationship with an age gap of more than three years is illegal." But we don't have to tack on some cultural inanity like "because we think that's a child." If you can't tell that a 16 year old and a 6 year old are not in the same category of people, you're quite frankly either insane or playing along with the naked Emperor.

4-6) Here you say "People don't really believe those things, they're just ways of expressing legal fictions." But, yes. People do believe those things. Not people over 40, of course, but hang out on the Internet with 30 year olds and that's exactly what they believe.

7-9) What I'm saying is: when you were 15, other 15 year olds were attracted to you. And you were attracted to other 15 year olds. And most of you were thinking about those attractions all the time, and masturbating. That isn't because you were all pedophiles. It's because you were pubescent, and fertile, and very naturally attracted to each other.

And 17 year olds were naturally attracted to you, too. And we go "ehh I'll allow it." And 19 year olds were naturally attracted to you, too. And we scream "AHHHH PEDOPHILE!"

No. That's not a pedophile. It's fine to make it illegal to date you, but it's kinda not fine to pretend that anyone who could be attracted to you is a pedophile. If you're fertile, then it's biologically normal to be found attractive.

10) I'm saying that if a 19 year has sex with a 15 year old, that may be culturally wrong, or illegal, but it's biologically normal. So it should be punished as an ordinary crime, not an aberration of nature. Whereas if a 14 year old has sex with a 10 year old, that is a full-on pedophile. When we pretend that 14 year olds and 10 year olds are in the same category (they absolutely are not), we lose sight of the fact that there are a lot of pedophile minors out there. We just pretend they don't exist, and a lot of sexual abuse happens as a result. There are a shocking number of children getting raped by adolescents.

Hematomato · 2024-05-13T23:46:45+00:00

Yeah, our world is going to need a lot more energy.

I'm being told that nuclear stocks are starting to spike. It looks like the industry is seeing the need for new plants in the foreseeable future.

Hematomato · 2024-05-08T06:52:07+00:00

The algorithms they need to use to optimize GPS do not prove that light speed is an absolute limit. That is a separate question. But they do prove that space and time are related.

Hematomato · 2024-05-07T22:28:49+00:00

Einstein is an important scientist who laid a foundational framework. Like all such scientists, some of his work has been improved upon, and some of it has been called into question.

Hematomato · 2024-05-07T19:17:28+00:00

There is another Babylon 85 miles south of Prague.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylon_(Doma%C5%BElice_District)

And another one in Illinois.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylon,_Illinois

Hematomato · 2024-05-07T19:12:28+00:00

I know that it exists, and I know that it is necessary.

That is enough to prove that space and time are related.

Hematomato · 2024-05-07T17:54:08+00:00

Babylon did indeed fall. It fell in 540 BCE, when it was conquered by Persia.

And now, some 2500 years later, some Christians seem to believe that any child born within a few hundred miles of its ruins should be eligible to be set on fire.

Hematomato · 2024-05-07T07:47:22+00:00

Needing to adjust calcuations based on velocity absolutely proves that space and time are related.

Hematomato · 2024-05-07T07:46:14+00:00

Yes. I took my children out of the government's public schools and home-schooled them. But the government still requires I pay over $2,000 per year in property taxes, with the bulk of it going to the public schools. They will not allow me to opt-out of funding their indoctrination camps. Horrible things happened when parents began giving their children to strangers.

I sympathize. In 2004, I was horrified that the U.S. government was taking my money and spending it on setting Iraqi children on fire. I considered whether I should refuse to pay my taxes. I eventually decided that I'd pay my taxes and just wish that George W. Bush would burn eternally in Hell. So I helped murder children, and even though I don't necessarily believe in Hell, I hope George W. Bush burns in it.

Can you explain the use of the word in the cartoon from 1868? And can you explain why the government required us to read a book of fiction which included the word "nigger" over 200 times, but they refuse to allow anything from the Holy Bible to be seen or referenced?

Yeah, I can explain that. We've been arguing about resistance to having a state religion for more than 250 years; but we've only considered the word "nigger" to be unspeakable for about 15 years.

Hematomato · 2024-05-07T07:39:41+00:00

I compiled and wrote the link I know what it says.

Then you know that the link says Hunter Biden has an ownership stake in the BHR Partners investment firm.

"Just a crackhead" doesn't get on the board of directors of a company the Chinese gov gives $1.7 billion to.

Of course he does. His dad was the Vice-President of the United States of America. They were more than willing to throw a few million dollars at him in hopes it would influence his dad. And, instead. he spent that few million dollars doing lines of coke off the ass-cracks of nineteen year old girls.

Which is so deliciously defiant. "Fuck geopolitics, I want to fuck hot chicks." Hunter Biden is my hero.

Hematomato · 2024-05-06T04:49:25+00:00

"Nigger" has been used in an insulting way long before Mark Twain used the term. This cartoon was published in Harper's Weekly in 1868 JPG . Mark Twain did not have to use this word over 200 times, and the government did not have to require us to read it.

"Nigger" could be used as an insult, yes, much as "moron" can be used as an insult.

It is rude to say "You are a moron," but it is not rude to say "Dave called Ron a moron because Dave is a jerk."

Until about fifteen years ago, "nigger" worked the same way. It was unacceptable to say "Get out of the way, you dumb nigger," but it was perfectly acceptable to say "Dave called Ron a nigger because Dave is a racist."

And then about fifteen years ago was when it first turned into some kind of magical cursed word that you can't say in any context at all.

Why does Fox want to keep telling us the fired teacher had a Bible on his desk? Probably because he did have a Bible on his desk.... and that was a complaint from the school administration.

The only source for it being a complaint from the school administration is Freshwater himself. I never take the word of the aggrieved party. Even when they think they're being honest, they're usually exaggerating.

The school clearly fired him for preaching religious beliefs to his classes - and I'm pretty sure you'd be quite unhappy about anyone preaching religious beliefs to your children that didn't match your own.

Hematomato · 2024-05-05T23:41:01+00:00

That's certainly an unusual comparison.

Just two observations:

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a non-racist piece of fiction that was quite progressive for its day. We didn't start panicking over the non-racist use of the word "nigger," claiming that the word itself was inherently racist irrespective of context, until perhaps fifteen years ago.
It seems abundantly clear to me that John Freshwater was fired for preaching religious beliefs to his classes, not for "having a Holy Bible on his desk." Fox wants to keep telling you he had a Bible on his desk, but nothing in the article connects that fact to his dismissal.

Hematomato · 2024-05-05T23:34:23+00:00

Now, does that sound like it proves space and time are related?

It sure does.

Does that sound like it proves nothing can go faster than the speed of light, now?

No, that's not a sufficient data point on its own to prove that. But it does lend credence to the model.

Hematomato · 2024-05-05T23:29:59+00:00

Marx was one of the first thinkers to correctly predict the consequences of globalism and what we now call "late-stage capitalism."

It turns out he didn't have the solution, but his foresight into what the conflicts of the 20th century would be about was frankly, yes, brilliant.

Hematomato · 2024-05-05T18:57:15+00:00

He was so self-centered one wonders if he was on the spectrum.

Extremely likely. The author accidentally hits on it: a lot of people in history with the "let's try to make sense of a large and chaotic system" mentality were on the spectrum.

“If you can’t even clean up your own room, who the hell are you to give advice to the world?” Peterson asks.

I find Peterson's stance quite silly. Many of the most brilliant people in history didn't clean up their rooms. Why? Because their minds were exclusively dedicated to their work.

Albert Einstein was not a room-cleaner. His desk was littered with clutter. He never wore socks and his feet stank. He drove his cousin-wife Elsa out of her poor mind trying to clean up after him and make him presentable.

It takes all kinds to run a society, and some kinds are not room-cleaners.

Hematomato · 2024-05-05T18:31:19+00:00

That's not what the link says. The link says simply that Hunter Biden has an ownership stake in the BHR Partners investment firm.

So while the BHR Partners investment firm was working with China, Hunter was (and we know this to be true) drifting around luxury hotels, fucking an endless stream of prostitutes, losing his electronics, and forgetting what day it was. He was, plain and simply, a crackhead.

Hematomato · 2024-05-05T18:28:03+00:00

They're equal in the polls, nationally, which is baffling at several levels: https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-general/

I think all the polls are showing clearly is how dissastisfied people are with this election.

They ask registered voters "Who will you vote for," and 40% say Biden, 40% say Trump, and 20% are like "You know what, this election sucks, I don't like anybody."

Well, okay, fair enough, but when those 20% actually go to the polls, they're gonna have to fill in one of the bubbles. And history shows us that even if they're thinking "grumble grumble I'll vote Green Party or RFK or libertarian or something," fewer than 5% of them actually will.

So the whole election, really, lies in those 15% who are like "Fuck the whole thing" but, in reality, are actually going to vote Trump or Biden. The polls keep asking them "but which one will it be" and they keep saying "I can't bring myself to say I'll vote for either of them."

Which kind of makes this an unpollable race.

Hematomato · 2024-05-05T18:23:03+00:00

Yeah, I've been there three times and I was married to a Japanese woman for almost five years.

Sure, absolutely they treat tourists with respect, and they treated me with respect. But they wouldn't have been okay with me trying to live there or work there. They will say, without hesitation or embarrassment, "Japan is for the Japanese."

Hematomato · 2024-05-05T06:52:52+00:00

The Japanese government is making the assumption that Biden is calling Japan's government policies "xenophobic."

I think it's much more likely he's calling Japan's culture "xenophobic."

And if he is... well, he's just plain right. Japan's culture is xenophobic. It would be stupid to argue otherwise.

Hematomato · 2024-05-05T06:36:59+00:00

Actually what he said is that the teen years are a "ripe, fertile age" and that it's possible that a pregnant teen couple will choose abortion if they can't legally marry.

But that's our culture: constantly obsessed with calling each other pedophiles.

Hematomato · 2024-05-05T00:36:37+00:00

Pretty useless poll, in my opinion.

It's a popular vote poll, which of course means nothing in the U.S.

It found that 9% of voters will vote for RFK, which... I think we all know isn't going to happen.

It has Trump at 46% national support, distinctly less than half, and still calls that a blowout victory.

And finally, it's Rasmussen, perhaps America's least or second-least reputable pollster.

Hematomato · 2024-05-05T00:32:38+00:00

Or, perhaps, NYT is simply telling the truth.

The Left will say that the vaccine is always safe and no one has been injured by it.

The Right will say that the vaccine is never safe and millions upon millions of lives have been ruined by it.

...as always, partisans don't actually care what the truth is.

Hematomato · 2024-05-04T22:59:55+00:00

He awarded 19 Medals of Freedom on Friday, mostly to non-politicians including a 27 year old swimmer and a 61 year old actress.

Medals of Freedom are weird.

I can't easily find a source on how much of Biden's time this took up.

Hematomato · 2024-05-04T22:55:47+00:00

There are limits to your speech, but "NIGGERS" isn't one of them.

Limits include spam, unambiguously illegal behavior, and telling magnora7 he's doing a shitty job of running a site.

Hematomato · 2024-05-04T22:53:34+00:00

There are fucking nukes incoming. All of my thoughts are going to be getting as deep into a building as possible, as far as possible away from any windows and doors, and ideally deep underground.

Do you know how few fucks I would have to give about two people kissing? Think of the smallest number of fucks there are, and then subtract an infinite number of fucks from that.

Hematomato · 2024-05-02T09:30:13+00:00

People tell me that the lowest forms of human life are rapists and murderers and pedophiles... but... I prefer them to Reddit moderators.

Hematomato · 2024-05-02T09:11:09+00:00

I think it's very clear that Hunter Biden's crackhead ass sat in those meetings totally spun out and collected millions of dollars for contributing nothing.

Hematomato · 2024-05-02T09:08:42+00:00

Oh yeah, because that's what I want, for my kid to be technologically retarded at the point he hits 13.

You may as well tell me to stop him from reading until he's 13.

Hematomato · 2024-04-28T18:57:02+00:00

Man, Hunter Biden is my fucking hero.

Hematomato · 2024-04-28T18:48:26+00:00

Sometimes they try, like Elliot Rodger or Alek Minassian. And then they either spend their lives in prison or get dead. And that is all they accomplish.

The thing about a successful revolt is it requires a million organized people. Beta males usually have somewhere between 0 and 1 friend. They could not possibly be less organized.

Hematomato · 2024-04-28T05:53:41+00:00

The video-chat version of that is already pretty much here, and in less than ten years it'll actually be good.

But the progress of VR is still pretty difficult to predict. So far we haven't even come close to replicating any senses other than sight and hearing. Simulating touch might require some kind of mind-machine interface, and that technology could be more than a century out.

Hematomato · 2024-04-28T05:35:52+00:00

I only ever found out about the people I stalked from what they publicly posted on social media

Then I wouldn't call that stalking.

To me, the only truly clear-cut stalking is following someone around in meatspace.

On the Internet it's a fine line. Like, if you're reverse-image-searching pictures and paying a subscription to one of those background check sites, I suppose one might casually call that "stalking."

But what's definitely not stalking, is simply reading someone's Facebook and Twitter history. They put that shit up to be read.

Hematomato · 2024-04-28T02:27:05+00:00

I write okay songs and short stories and comedy articles. I raise a kid. I like to think I was some tiny part of humanity's effort to reverse aging. Some of my work is still commonly used to explain the telomere theory.

I didn't exactly set the world on fire, but I at least tried to blow as well as suck.

Hematomato · 2024-04-28T02:23:13+00:00

Who are "we"? Pretty sure you're not part of... anything.

Anyway, I'm not going to join any "lives matter" movement because, obviously, lives don't matter.

Hematomato · 2024-04-28T02:22:20+00:00

So in your opinion, the best man to lead the incels is Chad?

...huh

Hematomato · 2024-04-27T23:43:30+00:00

You get out of it what you put in.

If you want to learn a specialized skill and that's the best place to learn it, college is worth it.

If you want to build the beginnings of a professional network and you're good with people, college can be a great start to your career.

If you don't really want to go to college but your mom says you should go because otherwise you'll have to work a bad job... don't go. Just go into the workforce. College would be a waste of your time and money and energy.

Hematomato · 2024-04-21T06:54:55+00:00

They are banned. They come back under new names. We don't have a sophisticated system for pre-emptively blocking them.

And like another user said, new accounts should be limited to how much they can post in a single day.

Maybe that would be a net positive, but it would have a chilling effect on actual new people. When you show up to a forum for the first time and post a few things and then it says "no more," you tend to kinda move on and forget about that forum.

Hematomato · 2024-04-21T06:53:05+00:00

The article bases the claim that Remain in Mexico is "what the people want" on a Fox News poll that found that "31 percent of voters in the poll said that immigration and border security was the administration's largest failure."

...surely you see the problem here.

Hematomato · 2024-04-21T06:44:55+00:00

Einstein's discoveries have had only a very limited impact on humanity thus far.

Fritz Haber is likely the reason you're alive.

Hematomato · 2024-04-18T05:46:32+00:00

The best strategy, honestly, is to find out who their male friends are and then make friends with them.

Anything that starts with an introduction by a mutual friend is like 50 times more likely to succeed.

Hematomato · 2024-04-16T19:45:49+00:00

Well, contrary to the refrain of the Fallout series, war is changing.

That said, even if you believe that war never changes... there's a long history of soldiers returning home from battle, telling their wives to get their asses back in the kitchen where they belong, and hitting them in the fucking mouth if they disagree with that plan.

So maybe women shouldn't be too eager for an all-male draft.

Hematomato · 2024-04-16T19:29:03+00:00

Sure, maybe in small-town elections for county comptroller. But nothing in the city I live in has ever been decided by a single vote, or even by a single-digit number of votes.

Besides, I believe that 1) It's foolish to cast an uninformed vote for any candidate you don't actually know personally; and 2) You generally can't actually vote for policies, and even if you could, the correct policy usually lies in the vast nuance between the two talking points.

Hematomato · 2024-04-16T03:16:08+00:00

You want to sit by and be TOLD what to do.

Oh, quite the contrary. I'm not particularly law-abiding. But more to the point, I don't like to be told what to think.

And you know what politics is? It's people telling you what to think.

So I'm not playing. There are plenty of voters out there, and my vote was never going to change anything anyway. No one will even notice that I've decided to just watch quietly.

Hematomato · 2024-04-16T02:50:37+00:00

No, I mean not registered. I cancelled my voter registration entirely. I don't vote.

Hematomato · 2024-04-16T01:38:32+00:00

Yes, there are too many rules, and no one can possibly follow them all, and as a consequence everyone commits crimes.

But of course, you don't get "put in jail" for committing crimes. More than 99% of all crimes go unpunished.

You get put in jail if you piss off someone in power. Then they identify the crimes you've committed.

Hematomato · 2024-04-15T22:22:26+00:00

It'd be nice to see that 17-year range tightened a little, because... no one really expects people in their twenties to be buying homes. That hasn't been common for like 75 years. My whole life I've never personally known a 23 year old homeowner.

But if you're in your thirties and starting a family, yeah, it'd be good to be able to do it in a decent house.

Hematomato · 2024-04-15T22:08:13+00:00

Yeah, that's a perfectly cromulent point.

Hematomato · 2024-04-15T22:07:12+00:00

Well. He was also a paranoid schizophrenic, a meth addict, and an LSD enthusiast, so... I'm not sure we can narrow it down completely.

Hematomato · 2024-04-15T22:04:35+00:00

Yeah, it's a group of people who left Reddit, not because they were censored, but because they were horrified that spez was trying to make money for the corporation.

They're, like... turbo-Redditors.

Hematomato · 2024-04-15T19:39:36+00:00

It appears that China and India will dominate the globe and the world will return to a pre western era.

No, China's collapsing, too. Its fertility rates are terrible and the one-child policy has been an abject disaster. China is entering a phase where there will be less than one working person to support each elderly, retired person.

Countries flourish when their population pyramid looks correct - when there are tons of people in their thirties supporting far fewer people in their seventies.

Based on that single data point, the new world superpower might very well be... Mexico.

Hematomato · 2024-04-15T18:41:37+00:00

Nah. I already went through the trouble of cancelling my registration.

I don't want to be a partisan. I don't want to play the game. I just want to bystand. I'd rather try to accurately chronicle the way the world burns than subject myself to groupthink and pretend I can stop it.

Hematomato · 2024-04-15T18:25:22+00:00

Yep, that was it.

Saidit can be kind of fun but the NPC dialogue is just way too predictable.

Hematomato · 2024-04-15T18:24:25+00:00

You want to hear my hot WallStreetBet?

DJT is going to sink, sink, sink until August 31.

On August 31, take all the money you can and buy as much of the stock as you can. It's going to skyrocket.

Then as soon as it does - don't hold it. Fucking sell it immediately.

...I take no responsibility if this doesn't work, though

Hematomato · 2024-04-15T18:20:46+00:00

I've tried at least a dozen Reddit alternatives and this is my favorite.

Ruqqus was pretty good but it imploded.

Squabblr could have been good but it imploded.

Discuit is very anti-free-speech.

Most of the rest are too small to be worth mentioning. Like two or three people sharing links with each other.

Hematomato · 2024-04-15T18:11:56+00:00

There hasn't been a draft in fifty years, and there probably won't be another: modern wars are fought by machines and their operators, not by conscripts with boots and rifles.

But if there were ever to be another draft... there's a very strong chance the government would decide "yeah, women have to go, too."

Hematomato · 2024-04-15T18:04:50+00:00

I assure you that you've eaten plenty of food that's been fertilized. And so have your parents.

A lot of wealth came to exist because food was so abundant and we needed far fewer people to work on procuring food. Elon's family wealth may never have existed without Fritz Haber.

Hematomato · 2024-04-15T18:03:14+00:00

Nah, I'm not registered to vote, and I definitely wouldn't be inspired to register by the candidacy of some unqualified pimp.

Hematomato · 2024-04-15T18:00:03+00:00

Well, without Fritz Haber, chances are that neither you nor Elon Musk would exist.

Hematomato · 2024-04-15T17:49:06+00:00

Oh, just the guy who figured out how to pull nitrogen out of the air.

When he was born, there were 1.4 billion people on the planet. Today, there are 7.9 billion people on the planet. That's because of Fritz Haber. His invention is estimated to provide the food for half of the planet.

Hematomato · 2024-04-15T17:46:19+00:00

Only a insulated lunatic would think it's ALL Jews. My high school ex-girlfriend scrapes together a modest living writing books about marketing. She doesn't control the world.

But there's one thing the conspiracy theorists have right that the ADL falls over itself to deny and just adds fuel to the fire. And that's that: nearly every American broadcast media corporation and bank is run primarily by Jewish people.

That's actually not entirely by their choice. In much of 18th century Europe, Jews were only allowed to do work that Christians considered unholy or undignified. That included moneylending and entertainment. No one likes a loan shark, and no one respects a clown. So the idea was: make the Jews do it, they're going to Hell anyway.

And when they immigrated to the United States to get away from that prejudice, they brought the family businesses with them. And continued to grow those businesses over the centuries. Which means that today Jewish people have disproportionate control over both 1) the money supply and 2) mass media, and therefore the news.

They aren't all colluding toward some master plan. That's conspiracy nonsense. But whenever any group has more power and control and luxury than their raw population numbers would suggest that they deserve, of course there's going to be resentment, and conspiracy, and anger.

Hematomato · 2024-04-15T17:16:10+00:00

There's no fucking way we're going to know that for another century.

But the greatest man of the 20th century was, without question, Fritz Haber.

Hematomato · 2024-04-15T17:03:43+00:00

Yep. Knew you were going to say that. And I know what the next one will be, too.

Hematomato · 2024-04-15T15:51:32+00:00

We will be in the weirdest legal waters if he gets convicted, sentenced to a year in prison, and then still wins the election.

Hematomato · 2024-04-15T15:35:02+00:00

Why would there be anything else? I already know what you have to say about everything, because you're just a Brandon Guy.

Hematomato · 2024-04-15T06:32:04+00:00

During the last ice age, the concentration of atmospheric CO2 was, on average, 180 ppm. Today it's 423ppm.

The last time it was about 4,000 ppm (which is 10x higher, not 100x higher) was during the Ordovician. That was 500 million years ago, and the surface temperature at that point was an average of 120 degrees Fahrenheit, compared to 59 degrees today.

Hematomato · 2024-04-15T06:14:50+00:00

Well, he especially won't respond because he got banned four hours ago...

Hematomato · 2024-04-15T06:00:37+00:00

Why should the forests of Europe be so powerful as to change the world's climate? Isn't that just one of those silly "blame everything bad on white people" tropes? 12% of the world's population on 6.8% of the world's land covering 2% of the surface of the planet and it was the slow and primitive manual labor tree felling that started climate change. That sir, is absurd.

Like I said, the change due to the deforestation of Europe was tiny and not noticable by human beings without instruments. But it was measurable with modern instruments. Why Europe? Just because it was the first continent to be deforested. And losing 1% of the world's trees does change the ratio of oxygen to carbon dioxide in a measurable way.

What is the actual mechanism by which humans control the climate?

Our activities change the ratio of oxygen to carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

Hematomato · 2024-04-15T03:57:41+00:00

There is truly no need to post to multiple subs. Everyone sorts by new, so everyone sees everything you post twice.

Hematomato · 2024-04-15T03:47:21+00:00

Studies show that measurable anthropogenic climate change began with the deforestation of Europe in the Middle Ages.

It was nothing anyone would notice without instruments, though. It's accelerated vastly since the widespread use of oil as a power source.

has it not been in constant flux since the planet formed?

It has, but never this quickly without a supervolcano or asteroid in the mix.

Hematomato · 2024-04-15T03:41:37+00:00

Honestly, every cliché bothers me a little. Like when people say "Looks like someone's got a case of the Mondays!" It's like you're not even talking to a person. It's the way a GPT would talk.

And that's kind of what partisans are. Just bots. All saying the same things, using the same words. Every one is indistinguishable from every other one, so if one of them fell off a cliff, everything would be exactly the same.

Hematomato · 2024-04-15T03:24:22+00:00

Not a Democrat.

Whereas you... just use whatever words your betters are using. As soon as Bill Posey and Greg Abbott and Jeff Duncan started saying Brandon, you were just clapping along like a trained seal.

Hematomato · 2024-04-15T03:03:02+00:00

Yeah, using "Brandon" is a pretty clear sign that you have no interest in ever thinking for yourself. You'll just let your betters tell you what to believe. It's easier and it's more comfortable.

Hematomato · 2024-04-15T01:51:36+00:00

I'm not sure why anyone would go to bat for people who are here obviously to undermine and destroy this website... they're not even having a conversation in good faith, they're here to make a huge mess and the post history shows that.

The whole reason I'm here is that I go to bat for unpopular people. When Reddit would start a "Brock Turner is the DEVIL" thread, I'd point out things in the record that suggest he's really not that bad a guy. When they'd start a "Peter Cvjetanovic is the DEVIL" thread, I'd point out that I've seen his interviews and met his friends, and he's not a violent or evil guy.

Naturally, they banned me.

I'm the child of a defense attorney. Maybe sticking up for unpopular people is in my nature. As a consequence, the Internet wants me to fuck all the way off and die. And that is why I post to your site almost every day.

Hematomato · 2024-04-15T01:41:30+00:00

Well, it's your call. But 99% of what I see him post is just "incel revolution now" and "the blackpill is right" and "roasties go to hell" and "I hate tall men"...

...I mean, to my eyes it's kind of your typical radical incel. Depressed, mentally ill, and screaming into whatever void won't ban him.

He's certainly not making the site better. But that's where you have to ask yourself where you stand philosophically on the question of free speech. Should you ban someone because they just suck and make the site a little worse for everyone? Or should society give them a space to suck and make everything a little worse for everyone.

Hematomato · 2024-04-15T01:29:59+00:00

Magnora7 banned you because he thinks you're a shill trying to bring down the CloudFare protection in order to destroy the site.

For what it's worth, I don't share that belief. I think you're just a depressed, kinda stupid kid who can't get laid.

But it's entirely possible he has more information than I do.

Hematomato · 2024-04-15T01:27:04+00:00

My understanding of climate change isn't based on "them" or "their motives" or "who is and isn't an expert."

It's based on reading data. A combination of reading both the scientific publications directly and reading sources I trust to summarize papers without partisan editorializing.

Anthropogenic climate change is happening. It's real. The planet is warming and the oceans are rising.

It's also quite slow on the timeline of a single human life. It's not something that "hasn't happened but is going to." It's been happening for centuries and it will continue to happen, so slowly that any given individual person can barely notice it.

It's also global, and therefore our system of national governments is probably profoundly helpless to stop it.

Hematomato · 2024-04-15T00:59:13+00:00

It's our site just as much as his.

No, it's really not. It's his. If you want to make one, it's not that hard. Several people on here have their own site. But this one is magnora7's.

He's made you a place where you can say all your incel shit and not get banned; you don't pay him one dime for his trouble; this all comes across as really fucking ungrateful and entitled.

Hematomato · 2024-04-15T00:46:50+00:00

Saidit isn't a corporation. Magnora7 runs the site because he believes there should be a free-speech site out there. He turned on an aggressive CloudFare setting because the site was being spammed and it was the simplest way to deal with it.

He listens to criticisms, but not to aggressive whining; and he just doesn't have that much time to spend on site issues. Because this isn't a business. It's someone's side project.

Hematomato · 2024-04-15T00:43:40+00:00

No, man, no one here but you is interested in killing a bunch of women for no reason.

Hematomato · 2024-04-15T00:41:07+00:00

Karma throttling has its own problems. It leads to people mass-downvoting just to suppress opinions they don't like.

Account age throttling is another option, but it also has its own problems. It leads to people joining, realizing they can only post once every ten minutes, and then never coming back.

Hematomato · 2024-04-15T00:32:52+00:00

ok maybe not that but the reverse I would refuse

Yeah, that's called the Ultimatum Game, and in fact most Americans would refuse one hundred dollars if it meant someone else got one million. It just seems fundamentally unfair.

There are "debt" cultures, like Pakistan, where one person says "Hell yeah I'll take the hundred dollars" and the other person says "I refuse the million dollars, I'll be in his debt for life."

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