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Did you read the tweets? He said that most stakeholders told him they were very happy with the mission focus.

Without food, you can’t survive, therefore everything is implicitly about food.

This line of thought is absurd. Words have definitions and boundaries for a reason.

The British could abolish slavery because they no longer had any real economic incentive to keep it, as they had lost their colonies. They also then proceeded to exploit labor in India in barely better conditions.

If Britain retained its American colonies (because the slave holding ones didn’t join the revolution) then abolition might not have happened at all.

If the anti-slavery states hadn’t compromised with the slave ones, the Revolution would have failed. Slavery would have likely existed longer because the British would end up being allied to the slave states (likely still colonies.)

Nothing is more nauseating that modern people looking upon the past with moral superiority.

No, it isn’t weird, it’s simply rejecting the frankly naive notion that you should change everything all the time according to the whims of the populace. History and human nature didn’t begin in 1950.

Again, the US has never had anything remotely as horrible as the French Revolution or Nazi Germany. That’s likely a consequence of a constitutional government with limited powers.

The United Kingdom is in a very similar situation, although their specific version is different.

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Editing because apparently I am “posting too fast” and can’t reply. What a passive aggressive move.

Responding to your comment:

The American Revolution preceded the French one by a decade plus. Your chronology is backwards.

The French Revolution also didn’t pave the way for much at all. It failed, led to Napoleon, that failed, led to other monarchic systems until WWW1, another disaster, which led to fascism and WW2, an even bigger disaster.

And the US isn’t a democracy and never has been. The founders set it up as a representative republic for a specific reason.

My thesis still stands that the US is infinitely more stable and has been in comparison to Europe, largely due to its adherence to the original constitution and legal setup.

Germany doesn’t exactly have a good record when it comes to new governments. Nor does France. Very odd to use them as positive examples.

As flawed as the American government may be, the Constitution is still a more solid foundation than pretty much anything that has come out of Europe since.

It sticks to fairly uncontroversial things. No mention of abortion, evolution, religion, gun rights, etc. As far as I can see.

And like Macron, Yang seems to have the support of globalist technocratic elites. Very similar situation indeed.

The moment that the Founding Fathers cease to be the mythology glue holding the nation together will be the minute that the country fractures into 20 different nation-states.

Ritchie’s contribution was so fundamental that it was almost impossible to actually recognize his achievements. It’s like honoring the guy that invented the pencil.

Jobs, on the other hand, ran a company that sold products which billions of people knowingly interacted with on a daily basis.

No need to compare the two. One built the foundation, the other built the pretty house on top of it.

I think the uncertainty made it worse. Uncertainty is a common trigger for depression and malaise.

Anecdotes only count if they agree with the zeitgeist propaganda, I’m afraid.

Have you considered that some of these symptoms are consequences of locking down society and preventing real human interaction for 18 months? I haven’t had COVID and I have had more depression and exhaustion in the last year than in my entire life.

Take a thousand dollars of your salary per month and use it to hire a private health coach / personal trainer. Someone that can tell you how to workout and how to eat. Do this for 6 months and you will be in the best shape of your life, which will solve your immediate problem of getting rejected. It will also give you the confidence to not get so emotionally distraught if you are rejected.

There is no code to being successful at dating, only the knowledge that comes from experience. The sooner you can get experience, the sooner you’ll make mistakes and learn from them.

Yeah, this is the problem with relying on statistics to determine your life choices. Real life isn’t a series of probabilities, it’s a series of events - for which you can prepare for and plan to protect yourself.

This only seems scary because analyzing crime data for a continent-sized country doesn’t make much sense. The overwhelming majority of gun crime happens in a tiny percentage of counties.

God created (wo)man. Sam Colt made them equal.

(This is an old tagline for a gun company, in case you are unfamiliar.)

The entire Romantic era was a diss of the Enlightenment. Norm wasn’t “a bit crazy”, he was educated.

It’s poorly written and a borderline run-on sentence. It sounds like it was written by a non-native speaker of English.

Is it just me or is the writing on this page distractingly bad? Who approved this paragraph?

You don’t need to raise your wrist or touch the screen to see the time or other information and complications on your watch face, because the display is always on. And now it’s 70% brighter indoors when your wrist is down.

The media determines the popular culture which determines what is “organic.” Everything is artificial.

I agree and I think your position is legitimate. My issue is just with those vegetarians who claim a universal moral superiority over meat eaters. This attitude is extremely prevalent, just reading the comments here. “No justification”, “no excuse”, on and on.

I think vegetarianism makes a ton of sense from an environmental and ecological point of view, but this has nothing to do with the moral one.

Predictions involve data, analysis of trends, etc.

What people think about the future is based mostly on popular culture and the individual’s particular life situation.

No, it just means that sentience is a poor metric for determining whether we should eat something or not.

No, I am claiming that the narrative of ever-marching progress (of which vegetarianism is a often participant) is just a narrative and not a serious prediction based on analysis and data.

You can see a similar thing with religion. The progress narrative says we will outgrow these supposedly outdated myths, while the actual data indicates that religion is growing, largely due to birth rates.

As they say, science fiction doesn’t predict the future, it just communicates what present people think about the future.

The “future generations will look back at us in horror” and “we’re on the Right Side of history” are both nonsensical positions that have zero historical basis and function more as a religious eschatology than as a serious scientific prediction.

All this illustrates is that vegetarianism is ultimately a human social phenomenon. Cute animals doing human-like things get our sympathy and fuel vegan cultural movements, while cockroaches replicating some other human quality are still treated as pests to be removed, without exception.

Why does sentience somehow imply value?

That’s the issue with vegetarianism. It’s not really about “the animals”, it’s about things that happen to resemble human beings. The more similar to a human, the more “sentience” it has. Isn’t that an odd coincidence? Or perhaps plants are just as sentient as humans but are a different form of life too distant from humans for us to empathize with.

The whole thing is a massive exercise in human myopia.

I think Italians would rather be poor but maintain their cultural history and identity. It isn’t an anglophone country built on immigration and no economics argument is very convincing to them.

Is this really so hard to understand? Italy is a country whose identity is entirely built on its cultural history. It is not surprising at all that older people dislike the idea of foreigners coming in that have little relation to them, don’t speak their language, and aren’t really interested in maintaining heavily Catholic, traditional Italian society.

The same exact thing happens in Korea, Japan, China, Eastern Europe, Norway, and pretty much any other country that isn’t explicitly built on the idea of immigration and assimilation.