Search results

Young people are screwed over by democracy The focus in a democracy is to get votes but you need to be a citizens at age 18 (or older) to exercise your power to vote, thus it doesn't directly matter how many people under 18 that disagree with a policy since these people cannot vote anyway. What...

Redundancies Capitalism require that you have competition and this require redundancies and sometimes these redundancies do not actually provide any value to society other than ensuring competition.

Closed platforms Instead of offering people an open platform companies like apple put effort into controlling how you can use your own product. Playstation 5 and xbox series x will both have good hardware that could be useful for productivity but sony and microsoft would lose out on revenue if...

Plenty of good looking guys are very capable of surviving without relying on their looks. If you are less attractive you will however have more pressure to compensate by being attractive in other ways, in most cases this is of course a failure and it's getting increasingly hard to be successful...

Individual survival of the fittest is about being better adapted for the environment. Societal survival of the fittest is about having a population allowing you to build a strong society. If you have democracy it's very important to have an intelligence population. You want the people that are...

We already have artificial selection We live in societies heavily controlled by incompetent government and their decisions will have a big impact on who is able to have the best reproductive success. You putting your head in the sand will not make inintentiona eugenics/dysgenics go away. What...

Evolution by natural selection is a brutal and ineffective process. Therefore it can be tempting to take shortcuts when it comes to breeding a more fit population, this however will however often end very badly, often worse than no selection at all. This however does not mean eugenics cannot...

Why do some people regret transitioning? The main reason causing regret is lack of social support. https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0447.1998.tb10001.x The study above is however outdated (done 1998) and it did not study transexuals who did not opt for SRS, there is a very...

You are out of touch with how most females think. A lot of females hold liberal views even when it's not actually beneficial for them. Most people do not base their political views on what's actually best for them.

If future proofing futile? While it is true that eventually a product will break or become obsolete there is still a massive difference in how long a product will remain useful. Generally the stronger a product is at launch the longer it will take for the product to become obsolete. The 12...

That's a good way to end up in jail. 5 witnesses against him. You could also end up beat-up by people defending the female. And you gain absolutely nothing.

Disastrous debate against mike pence This was awful but not surprising. Pence obliterated her despite holding a significantly weaker hand.

Why didn't he get this prize earlier? The evidence for black holes was very strong even before direct pictures of black holes was taken, it's a bit strange they were overly cautious regarding this considering that they gave a nobel prize for lobotomy. Even in the field of physics they have...

Console power comparison (GPU) The following diagram was by multiplying the next gen TFLOP numbers by 1.8 to adjust for higher IPC, this however is theoretical and so far it has not translated into XSX offering better performance in games (its worse than PS5 so far).

Truth doesn't sell Provided people with uncomfortable truths isn't profitable. Therefore media companies will be incentivized to provide false information their readers desire.

Roger Penrose used ingenious mathematical methods in his proof that black holes are a direct consequence of Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity. Einstein did not himself believe that black holes really exist, these super-heavyweight monsters that capture everything that enters them...

He will only get half a nobel prize, the other half will be shared between Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez. He deserved that prize decades ago, unclear why it took so long. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2020/press-release/

That would be temporary.

Accelerated hypergamy is probably a good thing, the status quo sucks anyway so we might aswell make it worse so more males end up as incels, that will make society less stable which is a good thing now. But it's unclear what will happen after that, it's very unlikely his ideology will magically...