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Holding stocks in the nation in which you live probably isn't very smart from a hedge perspective, considering US stocks don't have a locked correlation to foreign ones. Your assets would all be in the shitter at the same time you're out the job and need to liquidate them to survive.

Indeed. There's always the story of finding stacks of bills in the wall of granddaddies house despite the fact creditors and the bank were up his ass to the bitter end for medical bills.

Given the ever increasing number of people bankrupted by medical bills, divorce, child support, lawsuits, etc we're quickly moving into a world where it might be foolish to expect assets accessible to a brokerage or bank will still be there by the time you need them.

You mean like the great depression which happened not long after formation, which some prominent economists have argued was exacerbated by the fed?

Things did stabilize quite a bit after we bombed the rest of the industrial world into oblivion, though, creating a period of prosperity roughly equal in expansion to the period from the end of the civil war to before the creation of the fed.

It was relatively stable if you could go back to the century before that graph starts, when there was no federal reserve.

If we're allowed to cherry pick years, now do gold

https://sprott.com/media/3783/fig1-jh-gold-perf.png

I would say racist but nothing wrong with it, as purely my subjective opinion.

I am only bothered by instances of racism where you violate the individual liberties of others. ex Nazis I don't really care the Germans hated Jews, I do care they put them in camps and executed them. Pre-emptively slapping them would violate their individual liberties, walking across the street infringes on no one, and indeed if I tried to control the right to people to freely travel based on thought-police it would be far more dystopic than any potential racism.

The Nazi garbage is when you try to put it in policy. For example those with genotypes that produce black skin predictably score lower on average on an IQ test (which means nothing beyond exactly that, nor does it mean the gene itself causes that), though we don't really know why, nor should that information be used to decide who to hire or what laws or policies should be in place.

I don't think the problem is the science, it's the non-scientific conclusions.

I was under the impression humans migrated from Africa so the rest of the world is all african-X, where the african- part is some subset of the original african population.

You have to love American brand of capitalism, where it is illegal to sell your own organs, but legal to sell someone else's.

Yes of course it's in your head.

But I've always been a skinny person. Maybe it is less exhausting if you have lots of fat to run off of.

Even cutting back a couple hundred calories a day can leave you absolutely exhausted, in my experience. Even just increasing exercise by a couple hundred calories a day without eating more is also incredibly exhausting, after a few weeks it becomes thought dominating second-by-second.

Hunger is truly a powerful driver.

Fortunately the overlap between people that distrust centralization and those who have higher aptitude for overcoming is synergistic.

I would break this into a few categories

Selfish non-choice. Ex: The fetus takes nourishment from the mother, even in the case she would rather abort and doesn't consent to the continued hosting of the fetus.

Selfish choice: Ex: I must take a dump, but the place I choose to take a shit is on my bosse's chair because I don't like that his is better than mine.

Non-selfish choice: Fireman is driving home after his shift ended, saves baby from fire.

Non-selfish non-choice: Woman involuntarily starts screaming after witnessing an unrelated car drive into a lake. Passers-by hear the scream and alert emergency services.

My discussion was this:

>I find discussions of selfishness interesting in the context of a biological imperative.

Why is an interesting discussion, but not identical here. The charge I was responding to was specifically addressing selfishness.

I am totally open to the idea one can act selfishly both under the pretext that there is or isn't free will, which moots any attempt you're making here to shoehorn the argument into that.

>in this sense there's no discussion on why humans chooses kids or heroin, or taking a shit. The answer is "they don't"

This is false equivalence, taking heroin isn't a biologicals imperative, reproduction is obligatory to life.

My thesis is humans have no real choice at a population level not to reproduce, your fallaciously equate that to a reductionist view on everything else including things not obligatory to life.

Murray Rothbard argued there should be a thriving market for children. There's certainly something to it, there are so many places where children or at least female ones are viewed as completely without value and yet others who view them as both scarce and valuable. We are currently struggling much in this world with the problem of ensuring children end up where they are most cherished and valued.

It sounds terrible, but I'm inclined to agree with him the children would be better off if there really were child auctions.

Cody wilson was convicted in Texas after an age verification online service verified a sugar daddy escort was 18. The ID turned out to be fake, he was arrested, charged, and found guilty although I think he got 10 years probation with some sort of arrangement to expunge the offense if he completes probation.

IIRC the state of Texas was pushing for much worse, but basically the 'victim' was going to end up getting dragged through the mud and probably be forced to admit to all sorts of fraud and felonies involved in forgery, fraud secondary to forgery, and whatever other crimes are involved when you engage in crime with falsified government ID etc so they settled to avoid her having to testify.

I find discussions of selfishness interesting in the context of a biological imperative.

Raising kids mostly feels to me like I have a horrible heroin addiction. Loads of cash and time, reduced access to jobs, increased risk of intrusion by authorities and I struggle to see any personal benefit but lots of personal losses. Nonetheless my brain has tricked me somehow into it, at some basic biological level, and it seems this trickery at least at the population level is a necessary condition of life to the point free will is a total joke to consider as part of the equation.

At an individual maybe there is some selfish choice but at a population level having a kid is about the biological equivalent of taking a shit -- people don't take a shit because they are selfish they do it because it is biologically required and humans simply evolved to match this requirement.

No they won't. The human race will literally put you in a tiny cage if you don't raise kids how they approve. It makes them seethe, rage, and their skin boil, they do not feel at all fine and they have invented entire apparatus to make sure people who do not raise children as they approve are punished harshly.

Assuming they can check EU wide, since france is party to treaties allowing mostly free migration throughout the EU to France and recognizes the authenticity of those EU nation states IDs for commerce and domicile in France.

>These laws will certainly take care of age gating the decent, well-willing websites

Lol they won't. dark IDs or just AI altering their IDs, the second france enforces such law there will be some entrepreneur that makes an AI bot that accepts your ID and then changes the DOB and then spits out the video/images for KYC.

I don't disagree but let me go one step further and say perhaps it is no one's responsibility. A parent cannot possibly monitor what teens are getting into at all times. When teens do 'bad' things it doesn't mean the parent or society is somehow at fault.

I wonder if France has 'strict liability' like the US, where it doesn't matter one iota for minor sex crimes that they had a passport, DL and their own mother claiming they are 18 and you did all the due diligence in the world, if they were all lying and the documentation is a perfect fake or even just incorrect it is zero defense and straight to jail.

Indeed, unfortunately when it comes to children/babies everyone is busybodies and seems to think they can act on behalf of the child in their interest and trump the actual parents. The biggest actor in the US in this capacity is CPS themselves, who investigate and take black children at far higher rates than the others races, believing they can stomp on black parents to implement their idea of bettering the outcome of babies to closer match that of white ones.

I hope someday society can see your plan of less interventionism is the more correct one.

How much resistance do you think it is OK to use when someone violently attempts to take your non-neglected and non-abused child away from you, particularly in this case where the extractor is placing them in with their co-conspirators with remarkably high feeder rates into sex trafficking, abuse, and neglect?

The level of restraint Ammon showed was shockingly high. I think the opposite of you, a society cannot exist where such activity by the state, hospitals, doctors is tolerated the way it is with such passivity. A big part of the problem is that not enough people have yet discovered Bundy, and the state has done their best to prevent his ideology from spreading because they have seen first hand it is both effective and persuasive.

But I admit I am speaking from a bit of a bias, as I was forced into a hospital in handcuffs, abused by doctors and the state, and then footed the bill when a fraudulent search warrant was executed accusing me of being a drug smuggler. Doctors, nurses, etc just went along with it and believed the cops, willing to run the Milgram experiment like the loyal dogs they were. And then I was sent the bill, despite no drugs being found they put in my medical record they suspected me of being a 'drug packer' despite finding absolutely nothing. I think what Bundy did for Cyrus is one of the most valiant events I've read about, because I know the truth of how they violently operate intertwined with each other while extorting their involuntary subjects for the bill, and I felt for one of the first times in my life somebody stood up to the kind of abuse I experienced.

She said verbatim in the bodycam "some time tomorrow, when they don't know, get the baby out with CPS to the foster parents."

There are lots of reasons a baby might lose weight, many of which are not abuse or neglect. Losing a lot of weight does not mean abuse or neglect is involved, it can be some sort of disease or illness unrelated to parental malfeasance. In fact, the baby was initially brought to doctors voluntarily.

This kind of behavior doesn't help kids. It just makes people stop seeking health care and then they avoid any 'mandatory reporter' so their children won't be taken away. Doctors have also recently lead to many children being removed due to unexplained broken bones when really the child had 'broken bone disease'.

>The state was going to move the baby from a hospital to foster care on the diagnosis and data alone, regardless of sneaky hospital transfers to try to defuse the protesters.

That a 'diagnosis and data (of losing weight) alone' (plus, IIRC the baby was having checkups but missed one on a day when the mother was sick) would result in this kind of trickery by a doctor and collusion to take away the child is exactly why Bundy has this kind of support. We're seeing this at scale with other diseases and Bundy is a case of someone actually doing something for justice for the kids to take them back out of a cash-for-kids foster system that has incredibly high rates of abuse, neglect, and loss of children.

I feel like we're on the same page then -- my hypothesis isn't intended to drive policy which is what you appear to object to. I don't want to 'enslave' black people into a systemically racist society that tries to force them into different infant metrics.

If even sovereign, nord-level equal in income, relatively well off black nations have US-black level infant mortality then it's not really my place to tell them to be more like the white man and do something that drops it but has god knows what other unintended consequences. Maybe they benefit in some other way. I have no idea.

I have a thesis that could be wrong. I have some very weak data. What you have is that would be an inconvenient hypothesis.

It is quite an inconvenient hypothesis. Unfortunately I have some weak data that leads the question to persist and no strong evidence against it. I see no reason why it can be dismissed.

OK but blacks in Seychelles (adjusting for purchasing parity, about the richest black nation in existence to the point they're not far from the black american GDP per capita) have a gini coefficient far better than the US (in fact almost same as Sweden) but still have a pretty similar infant mortality to blacks in the US. So I don't know about the thesis they just need to be made more equal to the rest of USA or something.

Definitely not interested in accepting eugenics either, just maybe we should acknowledge and be OK with the fact some demographics are just different and we shouldn't be forcing them to be like the nordics.

>Bundy misleadingly edited that video to support his claims. "Thomas’ conversations with police and the emergency medical service (EMS) report [Bundy] references both centered on whether the child was healthy enough to be transported, not whether the 10-month-old was healthy overall."

No this is the defamatory statement the hospital misleadingly made against Bundy, but in the video she clearly states the baby is being transferred to another hospital to release to the foster family and that the transport wasn't even medically necessary but rather was cover. The whole point of the conversation was removing the child from the hospital into foster care but under a fraudulent premise of medical necessity while distracting the family.

>https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/community/boise/ar...

Lol you have the video cam right in front of you that contradicts the materially false and malicious defamatory statements against Bundy in this newspaper. I choose to believe the direct recordings of what happened over what an editor says happened, or the testimony the doctor said after the fact when she had months to rehearse with hospital lawyers.