RelativeDelta

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by RelativeDelta 3y ago
It's about a conflict of mutually opposed interests. You and I exist as citizens of our respective nations. We have wants and needs, and we engage with politics (hopefully by voting) to pursue those wants and needs. So long as we are p
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by RelativeDelta 3y ago
Changing society to cope with climate change functionally means picking which humans get to survive it. The pure amount of projected arable land is insufficient to feed even 20% of the projected global population, let alone all the social i
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by RelativeDelta 3y ago
They're talking about the immigrants kids who are replacing you.
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by RelativeDelta 3y ago
One would hope so. The WW3 factions are lining up, so it seems inevitable that the sides would start to arm themselves in preparation.
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by RelativeDelta 3y ago
From the perspective of the executive branch it very much did. Arguably still does, depending on your political persuasion.
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by RelativeDelta 3y ago
Regardless of whether it would work or not it would disempower both halves - that alone makes it unlikely. That is also why conflict is only going to increase over time until one side or the other is decisively defeated (and even then there
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by RelativeDelta 3y ago
It is because they are tasked with the preservation of the United States as a political entity. Anything or group that threatens the power of the state becomes their target - those targets evolve with time.
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by RelativeDelta 3y ago
It's both. VEs are increasing in number and sophistication over time because the social contract of the United States has been cleaved. On one side you have individualistic capitalists who don't want to be told what to do and don&
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by RelativeDelta 3y ago
It'll probably be about as bad for the natives now as it was then. Only difference is you have the option to stop it.
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by RelativeDelta 3y ago
Relative difference in power. If we have a smaller population we are at a tactical disadvantage in inevitable wartime. Lower birthrates are only acceptable if they are experienced equally. They are not.
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by RelativeDelta 3y ago
They won't be Amish, they'll be African. The Amish lose a significant share of their children to secularism each epoch. Climate change will force 1/3rd of the world's population out of Africa and into Europe/The Ame
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by RelativeDelta 3y ago
People in the know aren't trying to stop it, they're trying to regulate it enough to ensure it advances their agendas.
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by RelativeDelta 3y ago
Because abilities correlate across wide swaths of personality traits. A group of highly skilled competent people working on a shared highly specialized project will more likely than not be similar in other ways - enough so to establish comm
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by RelativeDelta 3y ago
Almost like these arose as functional elements of society across time because they assisted those who followed them in outlasting their competitors. Weird.
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by RelativeDelta 3y ago
Detroit is a great example and also a stark warning. Detroit never learned, and still hasn't learnt, it's lesson. You cannot repair a broken population after a doom loop. Keeping it on life support merely entrenches dependance and
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by RelativeDelta 3y ago
No. Doom loops are products of demography. You need a certain number of people capable of doing enough valuable work and willing to accept a reasonable tax on the value of that work in order to run a functional city, let alone a metropolita
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by RelativeDelta 3y ago
It's almost like this is occuring across entire societies as they lose a shared vision of the world and are thus less able to trust in cooperative networks. Weird.
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by RelativeDelta 3y ago
I'm not a particularly political person, so I'll try to limit myself here to my fields of knowledge (namely biology). I first want to clarify that I'm not advocating for social Darwinism. I'm using it as a foil to show h
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by RelativeDelta 3y ago
Exactly correct, but perhaps not in the way you think. Having excess retinol does not offer 'protection' in the literal sense. It does not shield your DNA as it replicates to replace the cells that died at the elevated rate of dea
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by RelativeDelta 3y ago
Thank you for the considered response. My GC comparison was meant to show how optimized systems remove unproductive consumers of resources. Here 'unproductive' can simply mean consuming more net production than you generate (large
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by RelativeDelta 3y ago
I doubt that they are in there by design. Ascribing (or implying through framing) malicious intent to an object of criticism is very trendy these days as audiences are eager for justifications to destroy and rebuild various systems. In comp
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by RelativeDelta 3y ago
I suspect this is what Musk will undo. Blocking will become a way to filter out responses you don't like, but others who follow you will still see comments and reactions if they also do not already have a user blocked.
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by RelativeDelta 3y ago
To be fair, inexperience, desperation, and stupid is a very potent and very dangerous mix.
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by RelativeDelta 3y ago
I am unfamiliar with "epigenetic aging". Are you talking about methylation causing worse performance in one arena or another? Immune atrophy and toxic accumulation I would read as being the terminal effects of decreased functional
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by RelativeDelta 3y ago
Fascinating perspective, but less applicable to typical dementia than to something more in the vein of schizophrenia. An oversupply of undifferentiated signals and overly permissive signal processing.
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by RelativeDelta 3y ago
It functionally is. Aging is just the build-up of error in genes as microscopic write errors accumulate in successive cell epochs. It is, in short, a degenerative process marked by the failure to perfectly maintain instruction sets for the
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by RelativeDelta 3y ago
Sadly unlikely. Excess Retinol concentrations do not reduce the rate of base transcription error, nor do they prevent passive oxidative stress. What they do is preempt extra-environmental stress and the resultant write error. This is less p
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by RelativeDelta 3y ago
The question is which population?
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by RelativeDelta 3y ago
Especially relevant as the structure of aging is different relative to the rate of cellular replacement. The more frequently cells replicate the faster they accumulate transcription error. Mice have a cell doubling rate far FAR higher than
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by RelativeDelta 3y ago
Sadly it's the opposite. The people choosing not to become parents are exactly the people who would LEAST become climate refugees. The vast majority of children today are being born in regions they will have to flee, while the regions

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