TranscendentalEmpire
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- Comment on Already going to be a problem child 1 day ago:
Have you met a cop? They want violent power tripping assholes, they don’t care if anyone admires them. Like I said, the first modern police force was empowered by the state to catch runaway slaves. Most early police forces were used as strike breakers, they weren’t pillars of the community.
- Comment on Already going to be a problem child 1 day ago:
What in that statement says that I’m ‘whitewashing’ the police?
The part where you stated that they at one point in history attempted to restrict their hiring practices based on generally admired qualities.
- Comment on Already going to be a problem child 1 day ago:
What day are we talking about here? Because that seems like an old house wives tale that is attempting to white wash the violent history of policing.
There was no time period where police were actual leaders or responsible with their power. The history of modern policing can usually be traced back to slave hunters or privatized security agencies who were mainly used to murder labour movements.
- Comment on What hot af take do you have that you think you will be HORRIBLY executed and shunned from society for? 2 days ago:
I don’t know if I would agree… Variety and uniqueness doesn’t equate to art. There’s an infinite amount of ways to write a medical note, and in a large office of providers I can tell who wrote them based on composition and style…that doesn’t make me an artist.
I work in medicine, and certain sects of our field have a similar issue. They promote pragmatic and utilitarian thinking, which when utilized within the field makes sense. The problem is when people utilize this kinda problem solving on social problems at a grand scale. I would have a similar problem with people learning how to do triage or surgery at the same age kids are getting into cs.
- Comment on What hot af take do you have that you think you will be HORRIBLY executed and shunned from society for? 2 days ago:
digital technology using binary to binary thinking, and learning computer science has the exact opposite effect. It teaches you to be analytical and break down problems into workable solutions, approach things from multiple perspectives, searching for the most elegant solution
People I’ve met or talked to online who are in cs tend to think/argue very linearly and in a utilitarian fashion. Which is great for solving issues where you know exactly what the problem is or have a direct goal, but if applied to social problems can be very destructive.
Not to mention open source and the hacker philosophy, both antiethical to fascism.
Also a minority of people working in tech.
People who study CS are usually strongly on the left. Techbros went to business school, not tech school.
Maybe in your country? In the US CS is pretty well known for being pretty full of centerist/ right wing sexist.
- Comment on What hot af take do you have that you think you will be HORRIBLY executed and shunned from society for? 2 days ago:
Studying computer science coaches young people’s brains into only thinking in terms of binary reasoning, and is the reason so many tech bros are fascist. I think it’s actively harmful to people’s development, and should be kept away from children until they are emotionally mature.
- Comment on East Asia 1 week ago:
Yeah, a lot of wood and coal fires for heating and cooling. Probably wouldn’t be as much of an issue, but the city is nestled in a big valley that blocks the city from the wind so the smog doesn’t really have anywhere to dissipate.
- Comment on East Asia 1 week ago:
The only way you lived in North Korea and South Korea is if you defected, in which case you wouldn’t have also gone to China and Mongolia. My guess is that you’re just a racist European.
- Comment on East Asia 1 week ago:
A person lying on the internet…who could have foreseen this?
I’ve been to most of these countries, they are all very nice. But like with anywhere it kinda depends on when and where you are, and you typically won’t get a real sense of the place unless you have a lot of time to travel.
The country side of Mongolia is beautiful in the warm season, I hear it’s pretty barren and freezing when it’s cold. About 50% of the population lives in Ulaanbaatar and it has a pretty bad issue with air pollution. It was very smoggy when I visited, and I hear it gets a lot worse in the winter season when it regularly has some of the worst air pollution in the world.
- Comment on It's not that bad quit whining 1 week ago:
It will prob still require a distal radial amputation just to aid in prosthetic fittings. Those carpal bones don’t really do anything for ya but create osteoarthritis if you’re missing the rest of the hand.
- Comment on It's not that bad quit whining 1 week ago:
At this level of trauma the orthopedist isnt going to get that specific. It’s just going to be a trans carpal traumatic amputation of the left icd-10 S68.412 (Complete) and a traumatic trans metacarpal amputation of the right icd-10 S68.711.
More than likely both will end up being a distal transradial amputations.
- Comment on Aha! 1 week ago:
There are quite a few more small sample studies out there, like I said it’s just something that is hard to accurately case study at a large scale because it relies primarily on participants accurately reporting a specific habit.
It’s anecdotal, but most dentists claim they can tell if someone flosses regularly. It makes sense, as people who floss more regularly will have less plaque and biofilm building up between teeth.
I don’t really see why people are so skeptical about it. If the main benefit of brushing is to mechanically remove plaque and biofilm from the surface of teeth, it would make sense that mechanically removing the plaque and biofilm between the teeth would also be effective.
Just because there is an absence of a study that encompasses thousands of people for a claim, doesn’t mean there is no supporting evidence. I mean who would even pay for that large of a study for research for flossing anyways, and how would it be conducted?
- Comment on Aha! 1 week ago:
Determining what is and isn’t quality data is kinda open to semantic interpretation. The reason there isn’t a huge study like what you see with cancer or heart disease is because something like flossing is dependent on accurate and honest self reporting from participants. And it’s not exactly something you can really tell if your participants are being diligent or not at a large scale.
- Comment on Aha! 1 week ago:
Don’t go back to that dentist… There’s a ton of research that proves flossing works as intended. Bacteria are really small, they don’t need assistance to go into your gums. The point of flossing is that it removes the food that gets stuck between teeth that bacteria feed upon and multiply.
- Comment on Welcome to industrialization, bitchass 2 weeks ago:
being economically weaker than the union was a significant factor in the civil war.
They were economically weaker because they were a one trick pony. Slaves producing cash crops was extremely effective at creating a vast amount of wealth for plantation owners, which is why they didn’t diversify their economy at all. This meant they didn’t have a manufacturing capacity anywhere near the north, but per capita had a lot more ultra wealthy individuals.
It just wasn’t an economy that was suited for war unless they could purchase outside aid. Which is why Lincoln went so hard in the paint and declaring anyone country who materially aided the south would instantly be at war with the Union.
- Comment on Welcome to industrialization, bitchass 2 weeks ago:
Sure it was, what makes you think otherwise?
Modern slavery still exists…
Slaves are inefficient. Actual workers generate more money for their boss.
I think you’d have to be specific about the type of slavery and the type of work they are doing.
Chattel slavery of the American South was inefficient because they didn’t modernize their agricultural process, and the Trans Atlantic slave routes were not functioning as they used too. Making it so that plantation owners had to set a new infrastructure to support and maintain their slave population.
However other forms of slavery have been and currently are still highly profitable.
There is a reason slavery is so small today compared to 200 years ago despite the much higher wages.
An estimated 50 million people are currently enslaved, in 1820 there was an estimated 40 million people enslaved.
- Comment on Why exactly are nursing aids paid so poorly? 2 weeks ago:
I mean it’s pretty simple… The owner is capitalizing on the production value of the workers.
- Comment on Evolution Factsberg 2 weeks ago:
The serotonin in your gut doesn’t “directly” affect the serotonin receptors in your brain, but it does directly stimulate the vagus neve which does influence serotonin receptors in the brain. The microbacteria in the gut are also responsible for metabolizing and producing tryptophan, which the brain requires to produce its own serotonin.
So it kinda depends on how you define directly. There is an ongoing debate in medicine on how artificial the delineation between the central nervous system and peripheral nervus system really is, and whether they should even be partitioned into different sub systems for educational purposes.
Doing so is kinda a artifact of the past and has led to a lot of people attempting to define the brain as some kind of computer for the body, when in reality the functionality of the brain is really inseparable from the body.
- Comment on Evolution Factsberg 2 weeks ago:
serotonin in your gut can’t pass through the gut-blood barrier
I didn’t claim that it passed through the gut-blood barrier or directly influenced your cns. I said that it interacts with nerves that communicate with your central nervous system, this two way system is called the gut-brain axis.
has no effect whatsoever on your ability to feel happy
I mean, this is just incorrect .
- Comment on How would Asian countries treat American passport holders in the event of a collapse? 2 weeks ago:
It kinda depends on what you mean when you say a “collapse”. If you’re talking about a cascading failure that swiftly leads to near anarchy…then people are going to be a little too busy with their own problems to really care. The world is so interconnected and dependent on international trade that shutting down one straight has had yet to be told consequences on global trade and geopolitical stability.
I don’t think a collapse in the sense that a lot of people are predicting is really possible. More than likely the US will slowly withdraw from their current sphere of influence and create vacuums of power that another world power will fill. In that case the views of Americans will slowly change over time to match their changing influence.
Empires don’t really vanish over night. People like to see the end of the Roman empire as some major event that turned off the lights overnight, but that’s really just a byproduct of the compressive effects of how we read about history. In reality if you lived at the edge of the empire, at some point in you fathers life the Romans stopped building bridges, and in yours they stopped maintaining roads, in your son’s they might not even bother to send a tax collector. At some point people decide the roads are too shitty and need to be maintained, and you get a new tax collector.
- Comment on Evolution Factsberg 2 weeks ago:
It could explain why some people suffer emotional distress while under antibiotics (I get severe depression).
More than 90% of the serotonin in your body is produced in your gut in a process that is regulated by bacteria. This serotonin not only aids in digestion, but interacts with nerves that communicate with the central nervous system to alter mood and mental health
If you experience severe depression under antibiotics, you might try to take some probiotic supplements that have strains including Lactobacillus and Streptococcus along with a helping of some soluble fiber.
- Comment on Title 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I’ll still take it.
Over the 50 million in cash?
- Comment on Title 2 weeks ago:
Right, but for the loan amount you are going to lose 50% more than you borrow in gold. So if you want a million dollar loan, you’ll have to give the bank 2 million in gold to hold as collateral. You’re also going to be paying 10-30% apy on your short term loan.
If you start with let’s say 80 million in gold, you will only have enough collateral to secure 40 million in loans in total. Which at a 10% apy would occur 4 million in interest a year without accounting for any compounding interest.
If you did this perfectly and did not spend any of the money you borrowed for anything other than paying loans, you would only be able to do this for 10 years…not indefinitely. And that is giving you the lowest interest rate available.
Even if you invested in stock that you made money on, that earnings would be taxed at 20-30% depending on how long you had it for. So you are paying 10- 30 percent in interest to invest in a profit that gets taxed an addition 20-30%… It would be better to just have the cash.
- Comment on Title 2 weeks ago:
I mean fair point… But to be honest, it’s more likely that another fiat currency replaces the dollar than it is for gold to become a standard again. Gold doesn’t have any inherent value outside of some electronics, and it’s incredibly inconvenient to actually trade with.
I think if the dollar does fall off the map and the euro or yuan successfully replaces it as top dog, it’d probably be the actual death knell that kills off peoples gold obsession.
- Comment on Title 2 weeks ago:
There is such a thing as a gold loan, but it’s not really a good deal compared to even something like a HELOC loan. The interest rates are much higher, and they’ll usually only loan out 50% of the value of the gold, and you’ll have to hand it over to the bank for storage.
The main problem with this is that you don’t have an income or a way to make more gold like billionaires can with stock. So you would have to eventually sell some of the gold to pay the loan. Which would entail not only paying interest on the loan, but a 28% tax on the gold. You don’t have a skeem like capital gains to lower your tax burden with a physical commodity.
- Comment on Title 2 weeks ago:
Nah, in the US gold is considered a “collectible” and is taxed at the maximum federal rate of 28% when sold. Capital gains would only apply to something like stock in gold index funds or mining companies.
- Comment on Title 2 weeks ago:
Good luck liquidating 500kg of gold without someone taking a decent cut. Gold doesn’t always increase in value, it’s a highly volatile commodity and atm is highly over speculated. More than likely whenever trump dies or leaves the office the market will correct itself to pre-pandemic pricing.
When people who don’t understand what fiat currency is get scared by geopolitical instability they buy gold. Whenever those geopolitical instabilities absolve themselves they sell.
You’d probably be better off taking cash and investing it into index stock then taking the time and money to store, transport, and sell that much gold. There’s a reason why billionaires are building Scrooge McDuck vaults and swimming in bullions.
- Comment on He's an arborist 2 weeks ago:
Well… It kinda depends. If I were to be ordering stock to recreate the branch or even if I were making a covering for the branch. I’d have to order at least 6 inches of material to cut down.
So I think it matters most how you are intending to use it.
- Comment on Vibe management 4 weeks ago:
It makes more sense if you position Ai companies as the speculators and chip makers as the actual tulip producers.
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 4 weeks ago:
If part of (be it sixth or less) a cultural minority is put into internment camps, such a big portion of one ethnicity to be criminals in any common means is so unlikely it’s clearly a state approved genocide.
By what definition? Labeling all discrimination towards ethnic minorities as bad is something I would readily agree with. However, labeling all types of discrimination as genocide diminishes the definition of genocide and is lessens the actual genocides that have actually occured.
Definitionally genocide requires the intent to partially or fully physically destroy a cultural, ethnic, racial, or religious group. According to the UN internment camps are not inherently genocidal, but can often be a precursor to genocidal actions.
You denying it to be one is intentionally downplaying to make the issue seem less important and direct the discussion towards something else.
Or, I’m just trying to be accurate. I’m also pointing out that there are inconsistencies in the way people lable genocide when it comes to geopolitics.
As far as redirections… I don’t really know what you are implying, I haven’t changed my position on the subject, or attempted to bring in another topic the entire argument.