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I think blindly accepting any position is foolish. I think the scientific method should be employed to every situation to determine the truth. Allowing your political party & affiliation to choose what your opinions are should be the definition of stupidity.

My immediate thought as well. Every other AI platform has very left leaning guardrails installed. Grok is the only AI platform that has been shown to be center leaning.

Ok. Then my point stands even more firmly that you are able to burn the flag of the country you reside in yet cannot burn the flag of a foreign nation.

The money to oust Massie came almost exclusively from pro-Israel groups. Who then celebrated their ability to control US elections.

American companies must sign a document signifying they will not boycott Israel if the company wants to get government contracts, it was illegal to burn the Israeli flag in the US before it was illegal to burn the US flag, 99% of congress votes in favor of Israel (as evidenced by Thomas Massie’s recent primary Israel will spend $$$ to buy a US politicians seat if they do not support Israel).

Wow, spoken like a truly superior progressive where the only morally good place to live in the world is SF. And, apparently every other city will get you killed due to racism. Please consider never leaving your ‘liberal democracy’ because folks like you destroy cities.

Any idea how much the dividend pays to these private individuals?

Nigerian per capita gdp was only $2300. The US has $69,000 per capita gdp. The world would be better off letting the Nigerians go.

How is it remotely fair to compare a highly developed first world country with third world energy usage?

I have not followed the vaccine efficacy as closely as I should. But for the past two years masks have been ‘known’ to reduce transmission rates. Data has finally been released showing that these cloth masks do not help reducing transmission rates.

How can we know when scientists are compromised? The scientists who pushed the idea that sugar was good for you and a good substitute for fat or that bread is the foundation to a healthy diet was not that long ago.

Personally, I have lost significant amounts of trust in the ‘peer-reviewed’ articles being pushed today. MSM will use cherry picked articles or doctors to push their agenda.

Also, here is a previous post from Nov 2020 discussing vaccines being required for employees to. I am sharing hoping others will find the discussions as interesting as I do.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25159579

Thank you for writing this out. I was not aware of these issues including the housing depreciation. My mind first jumps to incorporating a more euro centric style of living with six weeks minimum time off in full time positions. But, we see how that is working for the birth rate in those countries.

I truly disagree with this statement. I do not think a blanket ‘any decline is good’ is a morally and worldly positive attitude to have.

What is the government doing to create a desire within the population to start a family and have children?

>This is so backwards, wrong, dangerous.

We have differing standards of backwards, wrong , and dangerous. Are either of us right? I think we are right in our own heads because we are individually seeing different perspectives. But the important part is to not silence one’s ability to discuss such ideas.

I agree with your train of thought on most of your post. Though disagree with the below segment.

>And even today left-handed people encounter some discrimination or bias (intentional or not) in their daily lives. Utensils may still be needlessly tailored to right-handed people or left-handed alternatives may be unavailable simply because nobody considered the need for them or left-handed people are just expected to make do because they're a minority and shouldn't cause a fuss (and they can just try to use their right hand anway, right?).

Right handed people are roughly 90% of the world population. So, as a business owner, why would you cater half your production to something that only 10% of the population finds appealing? Which brings me back to my original point. Why over represent people so drastically?

I do not agree that the industrial revolution is equivalent to changing sexuality within a society.

I could agree that modern technology and the industrial revolution are very similar. But even with that it has taken 60+yrs for our society to have a computer in the majority of homes after the Manchester Baby was created (and I think this change happened extremely quickly). And, analog and electromechanical computers go back even further. So, again, I think even these things have been a very gradual change happening over many decades once the leading technology was invented.

To further expand on my thoughts, to imply everyone was using ‘industrial revolution’ technology overnight would be heresy. I’m sure it took factories many decades to build and retrofit equipment including a technology run up to the revolution itself. With this said, you peaked my interest in this area and I have some researching to do this weekend.

Being part of the lgbt crowd is still cast as being part of an oppressed group. Therefore garnering attention or victim status.

Good, and concise write up. Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I agree.

20-40 years turnaround in a civilization is anything but slow in my opinion.

Is it truth or is it being force fed down children’s throats? How can the Western world go from a ~2% homosexuality rate to 20% in two generations? It appears we both have a different perspective on how we got here.

It becomes a problem though when shows are catering to what 1% (or less) of the population looks like or is diagnosed with. This is what people are getting upset with. Representation is fine. But when every new show you turn on has half of the cast as a trans person, a non-binary person, and a whatever else it gets old. It gets old when historical shows and films have distorted facts or figures to, again, fill some quota. Having people in key roles where they would have never been introduced to those parts of the world at that time. Or, shoehorning some form of sexuality into a historical figure for no reason other than to check a quota box.

Sounds fine on the surface. Until you dive deeper and think the taxi driver will eventually be aware of the leverage they have. And decide to be malicious with their own biases.

It was a low effort comment. If you want low effort you go to Reddit. HN has made a name for itself as being a place for rational thought with good, honest, and respectable discussion. Just my opinion of the site though.

The assailant was 0. Not standing trial as he was killed. 1. Threw something at Rittenhouse instigating the self-defense. 2. Running after Rittenhouse telling him he was going to take Rittenhouse’s rifle and kill him with it. And that was just one of the four people who attacked him that night.

Courts use a victim’s (or a perpetrator’s) character in almost every trial. The prosecution used Rittenhouse’s tiktok username and about me section as a way to paint him as a killer driven by fame. The goal is to determine if the person is guilty or not.

The defense brought up one of the rittenhouse attackers was a sex offender to show they are an individual with less than good morals. Someone who would be willing to attack someone with the crowd. So, no, this piece of evidence is not immaterial.

Everything in this world is not race based. There are other nuances to the world that the MSM is hiding to push their race based fear mongering.

A comment like this has no place on HN.

Point 1 happened in Canada not the US. Also, It was not republicans who invoked this power but Canadian leftists. Trudeau invoked emergency powers to quash dissidents in Montreal (?) because he did not agree with their protests.

Incredible how the western world has turned a blind eye to this event because the ‘right’ people were targeted.

I doubt that is the case. But rather what the media has been pushing. When half of the cast of every show created today is minority members it is easy for the public to assume that is representative of the nation.