He couldn't even dress up in a vaguely racist costume to get his photo taken. He wouldn't even want to be involved if he can't even do that.
That's a pretty cool hypothesis. If it's true, it really does change the character of the whole historical event!
One thing studying history has done for me lately is it's helped me to realize how huge the world is. Just in terms of the things we still believe happened, so many things that were like "No, that never could have happened" turn out to be true or at least truer than you'd think.
One thing studying history has done for me lately is it's helped me to realize how huge the world is. Just in terms of the things we still believe happened, so many things that were like "No, that never could have happened" turn out to be true or at least truer than you'd think.
I'm not sure that the specific set of cases had any merit to it, there were things that were obviously untrue like a child saying they made him kill his friend and eat him (but the friend was still alive).
That being said, you're absolutely right that we have overwhelming evidence that there's all kinds of stuff going on that any law enforcement organization worth existing would look into deeper. It's proven beyond a reasonable doubt that things happened that most people would find absolutely unacceptable, and there's no reason to believe it isn't going on right now with a different high society pimp at the head of it.
That being said, you're absolutely right that we have overwhelming evidence that there's all kinds of stuff going on that any law enforcement organization worth existing would look into deeper. It's proven beyond a reasonable doubt that things happened that most people would find absolutely unacceptable, and there's no reason to believe it isn't going on right now with a different high society pimp at the head of it.
“No Nazis or bigots” is a nice slogan, but if people turn off our brains and turn off our humanity and just start mindlessly chanting slogans that justify the punishing of our enemies, then there’s no difference between us and the typical German in 1938.
It doesn’t take a lot to end up in a bad place if we think we’re purely good and in the right and our enemy is purely evil.
Many people are familiar with the Salem witch trials, the werewolf trials in France in the 1500s and 1600s and the Satanic Panic of the late 80s and early 90s? Those people thought they were morally justified in anything they did against the accused because they were fighting against literally Satan.
World War 2 ended 75 years ago. Virtually everyone who was a Nazi is dead of old age.
So if you want to stomp out the Nazis, who are you stomping?
It doesn’t take a lot to end up in a bad place if we think we’re purely good and in the right and our enemy is purely evil.
Many people are familiar with the Salem witch trials, the werewolf trials in France in the 1500s and 1600s and the Satanic Panic of the late 80s and early 90s? Those people thought they were morally justified in anything they did against the accused because they were fighting against literally Satan.
World War 2 ended 75 years ago. Virtually everyone who was a Nazi is dead of old age.
So if you want to stomp out the Nazis, who are you stomping?
One of the things I talk about a lot in the Graysonian Ethic and I want to make sure my son understands as he grows up is that even the best ideals that you totally agree with can be warped into something evil if you turn your brain off, ignore your humanity, and mindlessly follow it.
And that's without being remotely malicious. Add malicious intent and the best of values will be made the deepest of evil.
And that's without being remotely malicious. Add malicious intent and the best of values will be made the deepest of evil.
It's all local, so where hydroelectric can work, use it. If there's some crazy winds somewhere, maybe you can use that. If it's sunny all the time, maybe there's something to using solar.
The scam is something that they used to do at a gas station I worked at (before I ever worked there). They paid the gas jockeys a commission to sell oil, so when they checked the oil they'd always err on adding more oil because it made them money. Even if your car was still full and fine, they'd still add more oil because they made money on it.
In the same way, you won't make huge amounts of free money building a known quantity like a hydroelectric dam or a nuclear power plant, and you'll actually solve the problem.
The scam is something that they used to do at a gas station I worked at (before I ever worked there). They paid the gas jockeys a commission to sell oil, so when they checked the oil they'd always err on adding more oil because it made them money. Even if your car was still full and fine, they'd still add more oil because they made money on it.
In the same way, you won't make huge amounts of free money building a known quantity like a hydroelectric dam or a nuclear power plant, and you'll actually solve the problem.
If wind and solar was really the cheapest form of energy then electricity prices would trend down as they are added to the grid. Instead the opposite often happens.
We actually have a model for what cheap green energy looks like, it's hydroelectric. When major hydroelectric dams go in, electricity rates plummet and we even see people migrating from fossil fuel heat to electric heat because it makes financial sense to switch.
We actually have a model for what cheap green energy looks like, it's hydroelectric. When major hydroelectric dams go in, electricity rates plummet and we even see people migrating from fossil fuel heat to electric heat because it makes financial sense to switch.
"We're going to use science based policy!"
But the data shows your policies inevitably lead to ruin everywhere you get any power? 🤔
But the data shows your policies inevitably lead to ruin everywhere you get any power? 🤔
https://youtu.be/bBhDWTZDH9c
Glad to see the fediverse getting more exposure (though it's worrisome that companies like meta are noticing too....)
Glad to see the fediverse getting more exposure (though it's worrisome that companies like meta are noticing too....)
https://youtu.be/pjspKrRPKrM
I can't help but come to the conclusion that "conspiracy theories are a threat to our democracy" is a conspiracy theory.
I can't help but come to the conclusion that "conspiracy theories are a threat to our democracy" is a conspiracy theory.
Do people say Google killed usenet? I've seen people pointing at xmpp, but this is the first time I've heard anyone say Google killed usenet.
Imagine for a second that you’re a contract killer, and you make a lot of money doing that, and you have a very nice life for yourself. Your family lives in a mansion, eats the best food, gets the best schooling and medical care. Then one day you wake up and realize what you’re doing is evil and you need to stop doing it. You get a nice, respectable job that of course makes much less money. The reality is you have 2 choices: You can pretend you’re still a contract killer and go deeply into debt to maintain the quality of life for your family, or you can realize that you’re respectable now and the consequence of that just decision was that your family isn’t going to have the quality of life they once had. You can make moral arguments all you like that your family deserves the lifestyle you used to have, that your kids are going to be harmed, but unless you want to go back to your previous evil lifestyle (and let’s be honest, that probably isn’t possible anymore, and that’s a good thing) you really just need to sell the mansion and find something in your price range, start shopping at tesco like everyone else, send away the top tier teachers and doctors and send the kids into the same schools and hospitals as everyone else. That’s what actually needs to be done.
People treat austerity as a choice, but really it's a consequence.
The west isn't the global colonizer it used to be, and so it can't just take all the materials from everywhere else and get rich on the backs of someone else, or levy a technological advantage so extreme it just crushes everyone else. That's good for the soul of the society in the long run, and it's also helped lead to the largest quality of life improvement for the most people in the history of the world.
It also means that western countries don't get to have the same quality of life as they did when they were taking advantage of everyone else. Austerity is inevitable when there just isn't as much to go around. The only question becomes, "When?"
If you just keep taking out debt you never intend to pay back as western societies have done for the past 20 years, you're not austere today, but you will have to be austere tomorrow (or worse, your kids will because you'll be dead and they'll be paying for your largesse). It sucks, but you'll always have to eventually face austerity when reality is you're not going back to Pax Britannia. That being the case, if you're austere today then it'll hurt a lot less than taking heroin to hide the pain and continuing to run as if your legs aren't broken.
In a metaphorical sense, the west went from spacial colonization, where they go out and take over another country to steal from it, to temporal colonization, where they borrow money they never intend to pay back so they can get their descendants to pay for their own largesse.
The key here is money they never intend to pay back. If countries borrowed money with an intention to pay it back using tax money within their lifetimes, then that's a different moral situation than borrowing money with the intention to never pay it back and leave the problem for future generations to take care of. That action is almost like selling someone into slavery -- They create a massive burden for their children, who never asked for it, and often the debt isn't spent on something like public goods which will be there for their children to enjoy, but something like tax cuts which solely benefit the people who receive it.
The west isn't the global colonizer it used to be, and so it can't just take all the materials from everywhere else and get rich on the backs of someone else, or levy a technological advantage so extreme it just crushes everyone else. That's good for the soul of the society in the long run, and it's also helped lead to the largest quality of life improvement for the most people in the history of the world.
It also means that western countries don't get to have the same quality of life as they did when they were taking advantage of everyone else. Austerity is inevitable when there just isn't as much to go around. The only question becomes, "When?"
If you just keep taking out debt you never intend to pay back as western societies have done for the past 20 years, you're not austere today, but you will have to be austere tomorrow (or worse, your kids will because you'll be dead and they'll be paying for your largesse). It sucks, but you'll always have to eventually face austerity when reality is you're not going back to Pax Britannia. That being the case, if you're austere today then it'll hurt a lot less than taking heroin to hide the pain and continuing to run as if your legs aren't broken.
In a metaphorical sense, the west went from spacial colonization, where they go out and take over another country to steal from it, to temporal colonization, where they borrow money they never intend to pay back so they can get their descendants to pay for their own largesse.
The key here is money they never intend to pay back. If countries borrowed money with an intention to pay it back using tax money within their lifetimes, then that's a different moral situation than borrowing money with the intention to never pay it back and leave the problem for future generations to take care of. That action is almost like selling someone into slavery -- They create a massive burden for their children, who never asked for it, and often the debt isn't spent on something like public goods which will be there for their children to enjoy, but something like tax cuts which solely benefit the people who receive it.
Do you smell that? It's bullshit!
I won't speak for anywhere else, but Toronto and Vancouver are about as "livable" as the surface of the sun.
A single family home in Vancouver is over 2 million dollars and in Toronto is over 1 million dollars for starters. Then there's the homeless, crime, and drug problems. Many people in the Toronto area have a multi-hour commute.
But really the first thing should do it for you. "Much livable! Many wow! 4500/mo mortgage ftw!"
I won't speak for anywhere else, but Toronto and Vancouver are about as "livable" as the surface of the sun.
A single family home in Vancouver is over 2 million dollars and in Toronto is over 1 million dollars for starters. Then there's the homeless, crime, and drug problems. Many people in the Toronto area have a multi-hour commute.
But really the first thing should do it for you. "Much livable! Many wow! 4500/mo mortgage ftw!"
