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The number one reason I am unhappy about AI killing white collar and for a short time making blue collar lucrative is that for all the shit talk about office politics, I’ll take it any day over the school yard bully “banter” shit that the most average construction site has between their employees.

You can do physically demanding jobs without embracing every stupid meme of blue collarism. You don’t need a mullet. You don’t need to waste your money on lifted trucks. You don’t need to hate liberals. You don’t need to claim electricians have “women’s hands”, etc

The trades are full of crabs in a bucket.

All this is the Texas equivalent of the meme showing all those great British novels like V for vendetta with their intended meaning but the actual “living in the UK fucking sucks” meaning whooshing over the readers head.

The take away from this comment is and should be “living in Texas/Houston fucking sucks”.

It should not be normal to live somewhere where 80% of houses have serious problems with their foundation. That state is cursed and should be glassed from orbit.

This is the ultimate colonialism.

The "white" privilege is pretty much all of it.

If they grew up in Rural China and weren't telling you stuff about their experiences of "The Great Leap Forward" or "The Cultural Revolution", particularly the extreme amounts of selfishness one had to utilize to simply survive, they, like many people who have had to exist in destitute conditions, They're probably not telling you the whole story, and never will because they do not want to deal with the social judgements from people over actions they took to survive.

There's a good chance that for the survivors from that era, their parents almost certainly did some extremely evil things to survive.

"Why isn't this mentality seen in Bangladesh"

Go ask anyone from, say, Myanmar (especially Arakan state) what they think of Bangladeshi people. You might find that opinion of "They're some of the kindest, most welcoming people I've been around in the face of a poverty that China no longer knows" to not be so widely held.

Maybe you should ask Bangladeshi's what they think of the Rohingya people. It turns out that Myanmar is not the only country oppressing them and refusing to give them citizenship!

The tendency to want to group an entire race/people with opinions based on hundreds of experiences with them, let alone dozens or a few, is the same tendency in us that spawns racism and prejudice. Your experiences have no influence on the reality of "the goodness of a people".

The idea that we need to "pause AI" is itself horribly life denying, evil, and wrong.

I don't care about the rest of the China discussion, but I really hope China simply accelerates and doesn't get screwed by "pause" rhetoric.

The failed men are having less sex than ever. The successful chads getting swole and using test? They're cleaning up using red pill tactics because the gender ratio on college campus's is so favorable now that white men are so statistically underrepresented that they're doing actual affirmative action for them.

https://theweek.com/culture-life/the-gender-education-gap-is...

https://www.the-independent.com/us/money/dating-struggles-wo...

https://edworkingpapers.com/sites/default/files/ai25-1199.pd...

https://mindingthecampus.org/2025/10/23/college-students-in-...

There are so many examples of this yet I get gaslit about this not existing everytime I bring it up on HN:

https://www.npr.org/2024/03/28/1241473453/why-green-text-bub...

https://leafandcore.com/2019/08/24/green-bubbles-are-a-turn-...

https://mindingthecampus.org/2025/05/01/30876/

https://blog.seeking.com/the-green-bubble-deal-breaker

https://gizmodo.com/im-buying-an-iphone-because-im-ashamed-o...

https://thetab.com/2026/02/27/expert-reveals-shocking-reason...

Redpill is normalized/accepted by gen Z now. Trying to convince young men that the language used by 4chan /fit/ circa 2016 (-pilled, -maxxing, "mogging", etc) isn't the truth of this world will fail. Gen Z men have seen that the tactics described by these people objectively work.

Don't like redpill? Make it stop working.

This is why women are very upset about the existence of bisexual men (and why casual biphobia is tolerated among straights and the rest of the LGT community). Women hate knowing how easy it is for a bisexual man to leave/cheat. They hate having far less "control".

Men need an equivalent to political lesbianism.

Gay men have excellent marriage/partnersahip statistics. They stay together, they don't (or tolerate/accept) "cheating", very low physical abuse, very happy/satisfying relationships etc statistics.

Lesbian women have literally the opposite. The memes about domestic violence and other serious problems among lesbian communities would be funny if they weren't so true.

When I see these sad "women are from Venus, men from Mars" style of comments, all I can feel is that this is a sad truth of the universe.

The men who enjoy showing off pictures of their fishing/hunting haul. The men who use android phones, the men who want to show themselves topless (even in contexts where this makes sense). These man are not "low quality" or even "less desirable" partners in any objective sense because their photography choices are not amicable to women's desires. Women account for like 80% of consumer spending and advertising/marketing folks know some extremely uncomfortable truths about group-think/hive-mind mentality among women. These men should celebrate that they are showing their authentic selves, not the contorted version they have to repeatedly summon to satisfy foids.

Basically, men should actively be proud of our achievements, and any who can ignore societies intense biphobia should lean into the masculine side of their desires, as their relationship satisfaction will likely go significantly up.

Importing lots of white dudes. WMAF literally is extremely pro-natalist (massively higher WMAF babies than other pairings per-capita):

https://www.reddit.com/r/aznidentity/comments/1s184vi/cdc_da...

Unironically Mao/Nixon and Henry Kissenger almost put us into a hilarious world where we (the USA) would have "imported" ~10 million Chinese women. Mao unironically proposed this and his argument about why it would have hurt us is that they "have too many children!":

"Chairman Mao: (Laughing) Those are honest words.

Dr. Kissinger: This is our position.

Chairman Mao: Do you want our Chinese women? We can give you ten million. (Laughter, particularly among the women.)

Dr. Kissinger: The Chairman is improving his offer.

Chairman Mao: By doing so we can let them flood your country with disaster and therefore impair your interests. In our country we have too many women, and they have a way of doing things. They give birth to children and our children are too many. (Laughter)

[Page 132] Dr. Kissinger: It is such a novel proposition, we will have to study it."

- https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1969-76v18...

Australia, New Zealand, and the UK are all competing with each other on who can be the most authoritarian anglo nation. "Oi, you got a loicense for that opinion M8?"

Hardly benevolent. I'll take every social problem America has 10x to avoid being an extremely boring "utopia" like Singapore.

It's literally the antithesis of "cool", whatever your definition. The most square people on earth.

GLP-1's are so good for society we should be giving it out for free on every street corner.

Exhibit A on "why it takes 5 years for awesome innovations to come to market" right here!

As it always should have been. Even Plato/Socrates were intelligent enough to muse about the idea that writing has degraded our memory vs when we had to memorize entire epic poems. They had a lot of hostile stuff to say about writing in Timaeus and other works.

The fact that most teachers refuse to do in-person oral exams has always been due to laziness, incompetence, and the reality of the economics of dealing with classroom sizes where 30 is considered small.

Idiot consumers forcing us to take forever for market innovations to come to market is not even close to new, and the consumers 100% deserve the blame, contempt, and policies designed to frustrate them.

I have to deal with this crap right now in the world of laundry and adjacent world of cleaning. We've had new Enzymes finally hitting the market en-mass for the first time in decades (DNAse/Lipase) which when combined in full spectrum with all other known enzymes leads to truly superior cleaning results. Literally no one has any excuse anymore for smelly clothes as a result of these innovations, and it's probably going to take another 5 years minimum for anyone outside of the nerds on r/laundry and other enthusiast communities to take advantage of these new innovations. For now, the so called "gold standard" Tide laundry detergent people are buying is straight up incomplete and could be tomorrow reformulated with both enzymes to radically improve its performance and isn't for... reasons???

Where else have we straight up regressed on technology? Vacuum cleaners were better in the 1980s when a higher percentage of America used central vacuums, an objectively superior technology. Guns were often made to higher metallurgical standards, CRT vector displays (Vectrex) to this day get better effective refresh rates, brightness, and glow effects than existing displays (OLED) and peaked in the 1980s.

"Worse is better", literally, and all because of idiot consumers voting wrong with their wallet. They deserve contempt.

Oh, and Americans refusing to embrace bidet toilet seats, or air purification (both important circa covid, fecal plums and poor indoor air quality were a significant infection vector!)

Lawyer jokes are on point and on brand for a reason.

They grift about as hard as tech workers did pre-2022. Relying on the fact that no one can easily audit their work to justify their one hour of actually work despite making easily 300K+ a year.

Please kill their golden goose. Most lawyers are actively harmful to society.

Given the education literally does not matter anymore for white collar work, I'm inclined to agree with you.

I'd rather a MUCH larger amount of professors and teachers come to class to find their classes deserted (by their own hand), and indeed, their own justification for existing gone. The world would be a lot better off. Gatekeepers are anti-human.

My political beliefs include disenfranchising all those who refuse to capitalize the start of their sentences, especially those who do it to fit in with a "SV style of writing".

Why are we there when the locals hate the aid workers and actively try to fight them?

Half of African leaders are AIDS/HIV denialists or cranks. Seems many seem to feel the same way about Ebola too!

https://text.npr.org/2026/05/29/g-s1-124359/ebola-outbreak-t...

https://time.com/article/2026/07/22/angry-mobs-are-attacking...

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2026-07-18/at-lea...

Damn it feels good to be an American eagle sounds

You're clutching your pearls far too hard.

His entire section/epilogue on "Why China isn't actually a counter example to my whole thesis, tee-hee!!" AKA Chapter 13 literally goes into "well the emperor there had so much power and could unilaterally keep their technology levels down with stupid trade restrictions so that's why Europeans put them through the century of humiliation and eclipsed them!" and other nonsense is straight up massive Sinophobia and very racist.

Diamond makes broad genetic/intelligence claims about whole populations, rankes societies as "advanced/backward" constantly and describes conquest as inevitable

"in mental ability New Guineans are probably genetically superior to Westerners"

"modern "Stone Age" peoples are on the average probably more intelligent"

"some societies seem hopelessly conservative, inward looking, and hostile to change."

Actual quotes from this so called bastion of liberalism

"China’s connectedness eventually became a disadvantage" [because] "a decision by one despot could and repeatedly did halt innovation."

China = monolithic, obedient, centralized, despotic, stagnant; Europe = pluralistic, competitive, innovative.

Diamond turns "Chinese authoritarianism" into a transhistorical condition produced by the land itself. I'm all about the LVT and Georgism and all but this is doing too much service for land.

In other words, the old Orientalist story survives perfectly well after the race science has been supposedly removed from the chassis. Better still, Diamond treats Ming maritime policy, imperial bureaucracy, and Mao’s Cultural Revolution as variations on the same ancient geographical bug, as though two thousand years of Chinese politics were basically the Yangtze River repeatedly pressing the "authoritarianism" button with it's floods!!!

Go take a look at where Kenya is located on a map and where Donkey's were first domesticated and tell me that I didn't cover sub-Saharan africa again with a straight face.

That first sentence "attempts were largely unsuccessful" is a cope from wikipedia editors who are mad that it keeps being brought up by race realists who are using this blurb to justify their own racism. Consider that it was a literal Rothschild who did the most recent almost-domestication. 4chan is on this like fly's are on horses (but not Zebra's, or horses painted like Zebras - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-22333-7)

The part I quoted without the unnecessary pre-thinking done with that first sentence is all I need. It was quite possible to get most of the way there over short periods of time with money and effort.

That book is so garbage, psudoscientific, empirically wrong, sinophobic, and I'm probably forgetting a bunch.

Also lol to it's explanation for no beasts of burden in Africa. Sorry, folks have actually mostly domesticated the zebra. The explanations for why Zebra's were not domesticated after all this time are a massive cope. Even worse copes are the non recognition/misunderstandings of Elephant usage in large numbers for warfare / burden from Africa to India,

"It is possible that having evolved under pressure from the many large predators of Africa, including early humans, they became more aggressive, thus making domestication more difficult.[104] However, zebras have been trained throughout history. In Rome, zebras are recorded to have pulled chariots during amphitheatre games starting in the reign of Caracalla (198 to 217 AD).[105] In the late 19th century, the zoologist Walter Rothschild trained some zebras to draw a carriage in England, which he drove to Buckingham Palace to demonstrate that it can be done. However, he did not ride on them knowing that they were too small and aggressive.[106] In the early 20th century, German colonial officers in East Africa tried to use zebras for both driving and riding, with limited success."

Oh and also Africa had cattle and donkies and the donkey was actually domesticated in Africa.

West African empires like Mali, Songhai, and the Oyo Empire famously maintained massive cavalry units. They adapted horses to tropical conditions, using them for state-building and warfare long before the arrival of Europeans.

Also uhh Camels!

Environmental Determinism is the ultimate racism.

That's because very primitive humans still have a bicameral mind, i.e. things appear to them as auditory hallucinations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicameral_mentality

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Origin_of_Consciousness_in...

"a bicameral mentality was the "normal and ubiquitous state" of the human mind as recently as 3,000 years ago, at the end of the Bronze Age"

You watched Apocalypto recently

Go look at the demographics of how many HN members are in Wmaf relationships and it’ll explain itself perfectly to a tee…