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Slamidan··on ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE sightings, goes viral
as a guest that's the deal in most countries.
Slamidan··on Why Men Are Hard to Help
Women aren't certainly more productive in a post industrialized economy. Its only due to government mandated favoritism and hand outs that women gain economic independence. After all, if the old claim of women doing more for less were true, no one would be forced to hire them. Any venture primarily manned by women fails for all the usual unmentionable reasons, and we have to pretend this isn't true. They sometimes say women are better represented in successful companies, but as with all consequences of regulatory capture, its more that they are able to carry the burden to suppress the competition.
Slamidan··on Equality is prevented by the misperception that it harms advantaged groups
Biggest one of all they always exclude is genetics, intelligence, predisposition, drive, these are not evenly distributed, and why would they be under a system of evolution.
Slamidan··on Equality is prevented by the misperception that it harms advantaged groups
Data Shows Affluent Black Kids Are More Likely to Be Incarcerated Than Poor White Kids https://eji.org/news/study-rich-black-kids-more-likely-incar...
Slamidan··on Equality is prevented by the misperception that it harms advantaged groups
They were bombed out disconnected from family lines, lost history and recovered in a generation.

The people you are likely referring to for the chattel excuse history also under perform in country after country where such things were never allowed. Diversity is difference, and difference will lead to persistent disparity.

Slamidan··on Equality is prevented by the misperception that it harms advantaged groups
It's usually a false correlation as gender "equality" is usually not a cause of anything, it is the luxury of excess that allows a society to afford it. There hasn't been a modern test of where a society hasn't been forced to pretend at equality to see where the outcomes would end up, the results may even be better as productivity wouldn't be undermined to support an ideology.
Slamidan··on Equality is prevented by the misperception that it harms advantaged groups
Intelligence without faith and spirit just turns in on itself. The 60s benefited from peak functional values before the decline, they braved danger when we lock down today. They were also likely the last generation before the rot of mass dysgenics set in. Why Was the 1960s the Peak of Human Accomplishment (and Pro-Sociality)? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kokKSIq5Z0g
Slamidan··on Equality is prevented by the misperception that it harms advantaged groups
In reality they have proven to be the same.

As studied, and as the logic would follow the elite simply transfer from system to system as performance disparities persist through the generations because of genetics. Through revolutions under different systems tracked family lines out performed others regardless of system. A look at "communist" china. Persistence through Revolutions http://www.bristol.ac.uk/efm/media/workingpapers/working_pap...

Slamidan··on Equality is prevented by the misperception that it harms advantaged groups
The problem is they are always addressed in isolation of the most dominant factor which is genetics.
Slamidan··on Equality is prevented by the misperception that it harms advantaged groups
Notably their genetics. These things tend to go together.

Furthermore children are likely adapted to be parented by their parents.

The "Three Identical Strangers" documentary on the twin study they buried over likely inconvenient conclusions could only hint at it. The triplet that came to a bad end had a parent very unlike themselves in disposition.

Adopted children also do not gain the full benefit of natural children of good parents.

Recently they found the negative effects of spanking is more related to genetics than the action itself. https://twitter.com/DegenRolf/status/1516070970624249857

In the nurture over nature debate, nurture will only ever continue to lose ground.

Slamidan··on H.266/Versatile Video Coding (VVC)
I still remember when my pc would take 24 hours to compress a dvd to a high quality h264 mkv, sure you could squeeze it down with fast presets in handbrake but the point was transparency. Now I'm sure for most normal pc's the time to compress at the same quality with h.265 is the same 24 hours, in 4k, even longer, I'm sure h266 would take more than twice as long easily.

Early pc's had separate and very expensive mpeg decode boards just to decode dvd, creative sold a set, the cpu simply couldn't even handle mpeg 2. I know its hard to believe but there was a time when playing back an mp3 was a big ask, all these algorithms could be made long ago, but they would have been impractical fantasy. Only now are we seeing real partial cheated resolution ray tracing in modern high end gaming hardware now which is a good comparison, ray tracing has been with us for a long time, only hardware advancement over decades has made it viable.

It amused me that they claimed 4k uhd h265 is now 10GB for a movie, that's garbage bitrate, they always ask too much of these codecs.

Slamidan··on Document 17 Declassified – 9/11 attackers may have had links to Saudi Arabia [pdf]
It's interesting that this is the result of a country practicing a hands off policy, instead of the "cultural imperialism" many complain about. The Saudi's chose to work with the US over the brits because we agreed to firewall our operations to keep their culture/society "pure" as possible.