This video is self-deception, same as Aikido and every other martial arts scam.

Prove these techniques in an MMA match or GTFO.

Stop putting astrology nonsense out into the world.

Thanks for the links. I'm new to advocating for states' rights

> "What is the optimum size political unit for you?"
My main concern is SENS and reprogenetics for everyone who wants them. Making my purpose in life to be building my career maximizes my odds of making it to SENS. I'm fine with living in huge nations as long as taxes are low, law and order are maintained, and the government is fiscally sound. But I think all 3 of those issues are going to be under increased pressure.

>"Would you consider yourself Right-wing?"
No, I just consider myself a science and tech nerd. When I debate with right-wing people, they think I'm a hippy. I'm too self-reliant and career and family-focused to really care much about politics. I think we'll eventually have a Star Trek world. I dislike any trends that seem to make that outcome less likely.

But I read enough science to know that wool has been pulled over our eyes about human evolution and inequality.

>"What would you consider to be a meritocratic utopia?
I think Silicon Valley is the closest thing we have to a meritocratic utopia.

>"Why not scale it down to counties and municipalities?"
In my work, I collaborate with people on the other side of the country. It's best for us to work with them than with cheaper people in Ukraine or India because we share a cultural background and are within the same legal environment. It'd be much harder to take legal action against someone in other countries, and that means parties can't have the level of trust afforded by shared legal protections. Commerce increasingly interconnects the world, and dividing large jurisdictions into many smaller jurisdictions would be a drain on commerce.

@Trancecoach

One way that voting does work well: vote for greater states' rights.

Otherwise, democracy is just making compromises that please nobody. Robert Putnam at Harvard found living with those who disagree with you lowers trust and social capital, increasing the selfishness of voters that you describe.

I'd support socialists' right to try to turn their states into socialist utopias, as long as they support my right to try to turn other states into meritocratic utopias.

Then we can test which governments yield more improved metrics.

@longde
Out of politeness, I've removed the link.

But the article's chronicling of the urban decay data seems to be a useful companion to mainstream sources, which need to either spin data optimistically or not report it. That leaves behind a lot of victims who could have prevented the crimes against them.

The only mention of race in my comment was inclusive of all ancestries: "I'm speaking to the minority of people from all ancestries who are on the side of civilization."

The rest of the comment is about culture. Many people try to make them the same thing. They're not the same. That's why I included the clarification about all ancestries.

These types of considerations are far from the site you mentioned, which isn't a place I'd ever go. They'd consider me a hippy.

@bobknight33 @Trancecoach

Christians were once the majority in Lebanon, and they made Beruit "the Paris of the Middle East." But that era is over. They lost a battle of the cradle.

It's the same story with Oakland, Baltimore, and Detroit. Detroit was once "the Paris of the West," but the people who made it that way were forced out, and the culture, mismanagement, and corruption of the new caretakers couldn't maintain what had been built.

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We now live in a different world than our parents' 1960s, when most of our current ideas were invented. (I'm speaking to the minority of people from all ancestries who are on the side of civilization.)

@dag and @gwiz665 Don't let this happen to your countries

I heard some regions of Canada plug in their cars to electrical outlets to help protect them overnight.

Do you guys do that in Alaska?

"I'm a doctor, not a toy here for the amusement of Videosifters!"

It seems you're both

@newtboy said: "Equality [...] means being paid in accordance with your production / productivity."

Much of income inequality is due to supply and demand.

The engineers at Twitter who are being paid millions are valued at that much on the market because there are very few humans alive who have the experience they have, and the temperament to enjoy studying stuff that most humans find "boring."

If you point out to people how they can have greater financial security in their lives, most will argue against you. The default human is like the grasshopper in the classic Disney short.


(But you do make a lot of good points.)

There are enough problems in the world.

Find a hobby that doesn't risk death or dismemberment.

If you told these people that 100 years later we'd have smart phones in our pockets, but we can't keep high social pathology folks from taking dumps on the street and mugging people in broad daylight, they'd never believe you.

Thanks

@Engels
I've watched a lot of friends who I grew up with be disappointed with their lives because their parents and the media raised them to be foolish. I'm compassionate and a realist.

Tyler Cowen's book Average Is Over makes a convincing case on the decades ahead. There is no more "treading water" to stay in the same place. If you don't work to improve yourself and your living standards, your living standards will decline.

Plan ahead for what the economy is going to be like once continuing automation, declining IQ in future generations across the West, and increasing globalization have tripled the current unemployment rate.

Ha

My family and community were well-intentioned but foolish. Foolishness creates costs for many people other than themselves.

I've experienced more hardships and poverty than most people.

I think what you're describing as The Artist is the refusal to grow up. The world has advanced: many professional creatives today have to work hard to increase their IQs and manage large data sets. That's good: data is beautiful and complex.

I don't think these things are in-born and unchangable. I think practical people who are intellectually curious can go into any of many secure careers

@oritteropo

Zina and Pippa Bacca, like many Gen-Yers, thought the world is a fanciful place. More serious people probably wouldn't have died if they were on the same trail as Zina.

Zina and Pippa were both pursuing paths that gave them "warm fuzzies," but would likely result in them being unable to survive except for redistributions from more serious people.

The world is full of frivolous people who have no idea how serious it is. The reason they have no idea is because society encouraged them to be frivolous.


There are secure career paths for people who want to be around creativity. But those careers depend on the same traits all careers depend on: industriousness and defining yourself as being science-minded.