Voting for anyone but dear leader is a threat to our democracy.
98% will vote for Biden because there won't be anyone else on the ballot, just like a proper democracy like North Korea!
98% will vote for Biden because there won't be anyone else on the ballot, just like a proper democracy like North Korea!
https://www.youtube.com/@PilgrimsPass
Pretty neat media analysis channel. I love me a good media analysis, but often end up drowning in political cliche. This guy talks about political stuff, but it's fresh and nuanced.
Pretty neat media analysis channel. I love me a good media analysis, but often end up drowning in political cliche. This guy talks about political stuff, but it's fresh and nuanced.
There's another side of that.
Canada is I think number two on the planet for number of people with higher education. South Korea is by far #1.
And you might predict that these two countries are great places to live, and there's no real problems in either one. Look at all the educated people!
Koreans call their country "Hell Joseon" because you have to do so much just to get a basic living. The daily grind to survive is so bad, for every 100 South Koreans we are looking at having four great grandkids.
Canadians aren't much better off. Despite having the second largest land mass of any country on earth, cost of living is in the stratosphere and the only reason the population is growing is all the people the country is importing -- but even people from developing nations are starting to pack up and turn around because of the hellish conditions in the country, including cases where dozens of immigrants are sharing a single basement.
The overproduction of people in an elite class is one of the major factors in Peter Turchin's models that predict major negative world events.
Now you might legitimately say "well yeah, just imagine how bad things would be in those countries if we didn't produce all these elites!", but there's a complex interplay between elite production and other parts of the economy. For example, we are at a moment in time where the production of elites is at an all-time high, and so those elites go out into the world and they advocate for and vote for policies that benefit them. Often, those same policies are things that are downright parasitic when done at scale. And most Western countries around the world, at the turn of the 20th century government accounted for about 10% of gdp. Today in most of those same countries, it's between 40 and 60%. That isn't productive labor, it's money being taken from the productive individuals and handed to this overstuffed class of elites. As a result of having so much government, the amount of resources available for productive work goes down, meaning that the amount of stuff there is to buy goes down, and meanwhile freedom gets eroded because all of these people with jobs that don't actually do anything productive are trying to justify their existence.
As someone from our Lord fuhrer Trudeau's Canada (blessed be his name, please don't shut down my bank accounts), that is exactly what has happened here.
Canada is I think number two on the planet for number of people with higher education. South Korea is by far #1.
And you might predict that these two countries are great places to live, and there's no real problems in either one. Look at all the educated people!
Koreans call their country "Hell Joseon" because you have to do so much just to get a basic living. The daily grind to survive is so bad, for every 100 South Koreans we are looking at having four great grandkids.
Canadians aren't much better off. Despite having the second largest land mass of any country on earth, cost of living is in the stratosphere and the only reason the population is growing is all the people the country is importing -- but even people from developing nations are starting to pack up and turn around because of the hellish conditions in the country, including cases where dozens of immigrants are sharing a single basement.
The overproduction of people in an elite class is one of the major factors in Peter Turchin's models that predict major negative world events.
Now you might legitimately say "well yeah, just imagine how bad things would be in those countries if we didn't produce all these elites!", but there's a complex interplay between elite production and other parts of the economy. For example, we are at a moment in time where the production of elites is at an all-time high, and so those elites go out into the world and they advocate for and vote for policies that benefit them. Often, those same policies are things that are downright parasitic when done at scale. And most Western countries around the world, at the turn of the 20th century government accounted for about 10% of gdp. Today in most of those same countries, it's between 40 and 60%. That isn't productive labor, it's money being taken from the productive individuals and handed to this overstuffed class of elites. As a result of having so much government, the amount of resources available for productive work goes down, meaning that the amount of stuff there is to buy goes down, and meanwhile freedom gets eroded because all of these people with jobs that don't actually do anything productive are trying to justify their existence.
As someone from our Lord fuhrer Trudeau's Canada (blessed be his name, please don't shut down my bank accounts), that is exactly what has happened here.
There's 3 engines, the warp drive, the impulse engine for high speed sublight, and the navigation thrusters for course corrections and low speed sublight.
I used to be quite the trek nerd.
I used to be quite the trek nerd.
It's important to keep in mind monthly != yearly, but that's still pretty incredible to get so quickly.
It's a major problem with the parliamentary system, that the prime minister being the head of the executive and also the leader of the party with the most seats means the position can often wield dictatorial powers, and it's not just a case with NZ, but most commonwealth parliamentary democracies.
"The gas people of Psyllius 7 have 6 genders(of a possible 15) at the same time, presented in a certain order, like a key. In order to mate, they must find someone with the 6 opposing genders. For those counting, yes that means there's one gender without an opposing counterpart. Those lamentable bastards are trapped in loveless lives, but often end up in respectable roles because nobody can accuse them of doing anything untowards.
Gas people therefore have an approximately 1 in 15 million chance of someone they meet being sexually compatible. Of course, it's expected that any such pairs immediately marry or face the death penalty for them and their entire families. The couples are lauded as high nobility, and the one couple on the entire planet that's actually happy in their marriage is crowned king and queen. Nobody knows what would happen if two happy marriages occurred, but it has never happened.
When the psyllians visit earth, they view us with the deepest contempt."
Gas people therefore have an approximately 1 in 15 million chance of someone they meet being sexually compatible. Of course, it's expected that any such pairs immediately marry or face the death penalty for them and their entire families. The couples are lauded as high nobility, and the one couple on the entire planet that's actually happy in their marriage is crowned king and queen. Nobody knows what would happen if two happy marriages occurred, but it has never happened.
When the psyllians visit earth, they view us with the deepest contempt."
Often, mechanical engineers will build safety factors of between 4 and 10 times to their designs so they will never catastrophically fail.
In this case, it clearly wasn't enough. Or it was just enough right up until someone decided to get fancy.
In this case, it clearly wasn't enough. Or it was just enough right up until someone decided to get fancy.
Well, shows how much I know. I didn't realize.
I knew senators were 6, I don't know how the fact congressmen were 2 eluded me this long. It's like the berenstain bears thing all over again!!
I knew senators were 6, I don't know how the fact congressmen were 2 eluded me this long. It's like the berenstain bears thing all over again!!
I don't understand something....
By my count, 15 terms is 60 years if a term is 4 years. Even if you assume the first was super short and the latest one barely startes it's 52 years and 1992 isn't 52 years ago.
By my count, 15 terms is 60 years if a term is 4 years. Even if you assume the first was super short and the latest one barely startes it's 52 years and 1992 isn't 52 years ago.
One of the arguments for Ukraine that I find compelling is that if we let Russia have an easy time in Ukraine, then other regimes will go "Oh, is it conquering time? Cool! Let's go conquering!" and a bunch of wars will kick off because the calculation says you'll lose less in conquering than you'd gain by having a new border.
Historically speaking, we're in an unusual period of relative peace, and once that peace ends it could be millennia before we see it again.
The first big period of global peace was called the "Pax Romana", where the Roman empire was so powerful nobody really bothered doing much war because the hegemony of the empire destroyed the cost/benefit of doing so.
The second happened almost 2000 years later in the 19th century with the "Pax Britannia", where the UK was so overwhelmingly powerful it wasn't really worth doing war because the empire could step in.
We're arguably in the third big global peace called the "Pax Americana", where the (historically rather bizarre) American empire has been so powerful that for the most part nobody has really wanted to be involved in much war.
The Pax Romana lasted about 150 years, the Pax Britannia lasted almost exactly 100 years, and the Pax Americana is about 80 years old today. If it collapses, who knows when the next period of peace might come about, and who knows what sort of empire could bring it about?
Presently, we're seeing wars in Europe, Africa, imminent war in South America, a real threat of war in Asia, it's a powder keg that could go off and not pushing the cost up could really help dry that powder.
Previous eras like this include the 30 years war in Europe, and that wasn't a noble war like World War 2, it was a meat grinder that caused mass suffering. This isn't a period we want to allow to return.
Historically speaking, we're in an unusual period of relative peace, and once that peace ends it could be millennia before we see it again.
The first big period of global peace was called the "Pax Romana", where the Roman empire was so powerful nobody really bothered doing much war because the hegemony of the empire destroyed the cost/benefit of doing so.
The second happened almost 2000 years later in the 19th century with the "Pax Britannia", where the UK was so overwhelmingly powerful it wasn't really worth doing war because the empire could step in.
We're arguably in the third big global peace called the "Pax Americana", where the (historically rather bizarre) American empire has been so powerful that for the most part nobody has really wanted to be involved in much war.
The Pax Romana lasted about 150 years, the Pax Britannia lasted almost exactly 100 years, and the Pax Americana is about 80 years old today. If it collapses, who knows when the next period of peace might come about, and who knows what sort of empire could bring it about?
Presently, we're seeing wars in Europe, Africa, imminent war in South America, a real threat of war in Asia, it's a powder keg that could go off and not pushing the cost up could really help dry that powder.
Previous eras like this include the 30 years war in Europe, and that wasn't a noble war like World War 2, it was a meat grinder that caused mass suffering. This isn't a period we want to allow to return.
If these people were good at writing they could write their own books and make their living that way instead of slightly modifying other people's books.
But let me tell you: it's hard writing a book, it's harder selling the book, and it's incredibly hard to sell enough books to make that your living. So if you're just polishing works of other better writers it seems to me one should have some deep humility.
But let me tell you: it's hard writing a book, it's harder selling the book, and it's incredibly hard to sell enough books to make that your living. So if you're just polishing works of other better writers it seems to me one should have some deep humility.
"Since the Quran contains the story of Sodom and Gamorrah and it has been interpreted by Muslim scholars as saying exactly what everyone else has considered it to say and Islam considers the Quran to be the perfect and unquestionable word of God.... I am legally required to agree that killing gay people is good!"
Huh. Didn't have that one on my bingo card.
Huh. Didn't have that one on my bingo card.
Lol it's like Google search going "did you mean?" But instead of being a question it's a statement.
"the weather is not the climate, unless it's warm of course, then the weather is the climate and every warm day is a reminder that your world is one day closer to destruction so keep watching our channel and don't forget to donate!"
Big problem with laws when the government doesn't follow them is it takes 4 years to resolve.