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They stopped publishing how many units of each model of iPhone they sell, that's a major investor red flag.

We invaded Afghanistan only a few months after the Taliban made opium illegal to produce (due to some religious reasoning)...very suspicious when you look at our history of peddling opioids as a nation.

That sounds interesting, but I still blame Boeing, liability is about blame and Boeing has been bending over backwards to blame pilots for its own technical failures.

I didn't see the story mention whether there is a signal triggering movements or these things are preprogrammed for certain movements.

Perhaps your subconscious is worried about it's potential when it's inevitably weaponized.

After the US commander of the ship murdered 290 people on flight 655, he was given a Legion of Merit.

Two sets of rules.

He's a model CEO, speaks 5-6 languages fluently and very successfully ran two major car companies at the same time. How do you not write a story about him?

Stealing oil from the Iranian people was/is the priority. Just like stealing lithium from the Bolivian people is.

We are finding more and more proof the Chinese were trading with remote parts of Africa many centuries pre-rennaissance. Wouldn't be surprised if they got as far as North/South America.

The last voyage before they turned inward was more than 30,000 people on 3-400 ships on a trading mission. At that scale, seems like enough nautical knowledge to travel most of the globe.

>...the vast majority of white wealth is not in the hands of the middle-upper class

You are correct on that point. More than 50% of the 100$ trillion is held by the top 10%.

On the other point, my point is the first $500k to 1million of wealth was due to inheritance... not the total wealth of the 1%.

Follow up: At one point, any white male could move westward and get free land (whether indegeous owned or not). 40-100 acres after a century+ of property value appreciation is quite a bit of wealth. The $500k-1m number I use as a baseline for white wealth is very conservative.

It's not a hypothesis. It's hard to track money flows but not as hard as the anti-reparations crowd make it seem.

The majority of the $500k-1m baseline in white middle-upper class wealth is in homes and land handed down as inheritances, this is not debatable. That property allows a certain amount of leverage to invest in education, businesses etc...

The ben & jerry's founder talked about this in vivid detail on the campaign trail with Bernie Sanders. If he was black where he grew up, no GI bill = no cheap housing = no appreciation of property/land over his childhood = no financial leverage to build his company.

I can take risks and fail without going bankrupt thanks to familial wealth, that is a tremendous luxury not afforded to the group I'm mentioning.

I'm sure an algorithm looking at the current state of the world would surmise Europeans are geniuses when compared to the rest of the world population. Totally ignoring the $150+ trillion of wealth stolen at gunpoint over the last 2+ centuries.

The blindspots end up being extremely problematic.

Here is the study https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-017-0211-5

Our criminal justice system has a heavy financial penalty component, I can see how this nickle and diming of certain economically at risk communities can result in more crime.

Ferguson is a great example, where the city made a large percentage of it's revenue overpolicing minorities (in many cases even planting drugs etc... As video evidence and DOJ investigations showed). This resulted in many escelations of fines/warrants/arrests for not being able to pay simple traffic/jaywalking etc fines.

Putting people in a position where they have to choose between paying rent/medical bills /food or escalating fines (for non payment). Also in many cases, if they could afford a lawyer these outcomes would be very different.

MLK talked about the "2 Americas", this is what the other one looks like.

The USA has spent 4+ centuries kicking certain communities down the Maslow Heirarchy, this was done on purpose through laws introducing redlining, Jim Crow, no access to the GI Bill, slavery etc...I'd like a world where we could judge people fairly on the same standard, but we purposely created economic underclasses and that comes with a certain amount of desperation that leads to crime.

White Americans = 70% of pop. , $100 trillion in wealth.

African Americans = 14% of the pop, $2.9 trillion in wealth

African Americans in particular owned almost 10-12% of the land in this country (true wealth) and were promised more from the government in reparations (40 acres) not long ago, but discriminatory policies stripped that land away from them over 100 years.

Being in the USA for 150-200 years results in atleast 500k-1million $ in wealth purely due to land and home value appreciation.

The average black person has about ~500$ in wealth. This isn't a fluke, this was designed... This is a country that criminalizes being poor more and more in many ways, so we can fall into the trap of revictimizing the underclass we created, this time using algos, if we are not careful.

"The Texas Rangers are the earliest form of state law enforcement in the United States, first organized by Stephen F. Austin in 1823. The original ranger force consisted of ten men charged with protecting settlers from Native American attacks." ...and slaves escaping to Mexico...

The down voters are why sanitizing history is a bad idea. It also allows the criminal past of many families/institutions to be swept under the rug.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_police_(United_States)

https://www.history.com/news/underground-railroad-mexico-esc...

Police stopped patrolling in New York and focused on only serious crime recently....Crime dropped.

Not a complete end of enforcement but it shows broken window policing might be stupidity on steroids.

Absolutely and if their insurance doesn't cover the damage they've done, the liability should overflow into their pensions.

>At least in the US, police departments were primarily created by the elites to protect the elites from immigrant masses.

They were created first and foremost for slaves, not immigrant masses. History gets too sanitized for my liking in this country and we miss important lessons because of it.

What a branding disaster, tack on the name of reliable series of crafts to a flying suicide machine and destroy the whole line.

I'm sure many customers will avoid 737s in general due to confusion.

Yea shutting off anything that is producing free electricity to keep a market price stable is moronic....

This is how garbage spreads, without wisdom and foresight.

Israel could've been a much better product of creative thinking. Now it's an apartheid state with the indigenous kept in an open air prison that is regularly used for international weapons testing.... The unwise think in very short terms...and it comes back to bite them shortly after.

I have a feeling the same idiots that decided on "XS Max" for the iphone, came up with this naming scheme.

If you are at the point that your company is adding MAX to the end of its product names, your company is about to jump the shark (see Boeing).

This should be the normal course of business... Humanity has taken a backseat to profits in many areas of modern life.

People will leave the mundane and repetitive to automation and focus on what they find truly fulfilling, utilizing "creative intelligence".

Creative intelligence involves always striving for the new thoughts, fresh ideas, novel ways to solve problems....repetition makes people mentally weak and depressed.

Many of the problems we discuss today about humans in the era of automation have already been addressed in ancient Indian philosophy (many millennia ago). This isn't new....

Yes, this is old school racism wrapped in company policy. Bigoted leadership in this country gives this kind of activity permission.

The wiser among us know historically garbage thinking when we see it.