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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • With no mention of the roads they drive on every day.

    They want toll roads too…

    When you have a shit ton of money, you want everything taxed on use, not earnings.

    Because you earn a lot and spend a very small percentage of that.

    They view any individual that “gets” more than they personally pay in as a “taker”. Despite the entire reasons we have safety nets is statistically someone will need help.

    But once no one anywhere benefits from it more than they paid in, it’s easy for the wealthy to convince us we don’t need it at all. Because it’s not benefiting anyone and has really becomes a waste.

    It’s very basic manipulation.

    You can’t argue “what about roads!” Because they’re argue for toll roads everywhere or a tax on actual miles driven. Don’t let them set the argument, point out how no one knows who will need it till they need it, so we all pay in and hope we’re fortunate enough to not need it. But if we do, we don’t have to die in a gutter.

    Don’t tug on heart strings, explain it as risk management and they might start to see the value











  • The problem is instead of finding better ways to stop it (regulations) you’re looking for “productive” ways to use it…

    Apparently because you’ve pre-emptively given up.

    But if you succeed it would lead to more AI and more damage to our planet.

    I fully understand you believe you have good intentions, I’m just struggling to find a way to explain to you that intentions don’t matter. And I don’t think I’m going to come up with a way you’ll beavle to understand.

    It’s like if someone was stuck in a hole in the ground, and instead of wanting to climb out, you yank everyone else back into the hole when they try and keep trying to get them to help you redecorate the hole.

    I truly hope someone can present that in a way that gets through to you, because you are doing real damage.







  • invalidates the fact that toddlers will instinctively walk up to other toddlers to play regardless of their race.

    That happens because in-group selection is forming as toddlers…

    Like, this highlights my general point. You’re just making a bunch of assumptions based on feelings instead of spending five minutes looking into all the actual scientific research.

    The connection is that just like they need exposure to language, they need someone to socialize them and develop an aversion to violence. Done properly everytime a child uses violence they are told “no” and have some means of punishment. Which teaches them not to be violent.

    Without that, you get an adult who readily uses violence.

    You’re seeing the results of literal decades of socialization and ate deciding it’s not necessary because everyone’s socialized.

    So why not just stop socializing them?

    I hope that made sense, or at least someone else will help you.

    But I’m just getting too many flashbacks to when ICP tried to guess how a magnet works…

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GyVx28R9-s