If it’s weighted then it’s not completely random, nothing about the system you described is “completely” random.

I was more talking about your attitude about ADHD/ASD when referring to your lack of empathy. Lacking empathy will make you more of a social problem than having a chronic illness, IMO.

Personally, I have some of the chronic illnesses you’re talking about. I love being alive and my life adds lots of important things back into my community. You sound very depressed and I’m sorry. But it’s not appropriate to take it out on others by being a big ol’ fascist on the Internet.

There are too many of us. The more of us there are, the less all of us are worth.

I disagree. All human life has value and it appears that our population growth will slow before we reach earth’s carrying capacity anyway.

People are going to do this anyway.

Some of you fascists already are, like the people advocating eugenics in this thread even though we all know what happened in WWII. You say “people are going to do this anyway,” I say, we defeated fascism once, and we’ll do it again.

I obviously don’t advocate for child neglect, but I also don’t think eugenics will solve child neglect. What you’re describing is poverty, and it isn’t helped by eugenics.

I also don’t think the earth is currently overpopulated, and it seems that our population growth will slow before the planet does become overpopulated (my personal estimate is that we can have about 15 billion people). So I don’t think we have any need for population control whatsoever.

How are you gonna stop people from reproducing without oppressing them? Literally what methods don’t involve creepy authoritarianism and body horror?

When you complain about overpopulation but not overconsumption (the actual problem, which most people can’t even afford to engage in), it sounds like you just hate poor people.

It should be a completely random lotery for a lucky 5 million people.

And then you go on to describe a situation which is anything but random

Should also be people with higher empathy

This comes off as extremely ironic given the general lack of empathy you’re showing

After that, there should be an emphasis on food consumption (people who need less food on average get a higher weight in the lottery).

what about this is “completely random”

who should reproduce?

Anyone who wants to

how do we determine who that is?

By letting people have kids if they want

Yes, but when driving cars, the main danger is other cars. If there were very few cars, they would likely be a lot safer per mile too.

I mean, for me personally it made me feel a lot safer getting my pilot’s license because I don’t drink alcohol, so there’s very little chance I’ll ever fly drunk.

Interesting, definitely impacts the statistics

This RPi has more ram than my gaming pc lol

For me, it was when Biden’s whole term he didn’t do much to stop Trump or roll back any of the crazy stuff he enacted after being elected on a mandate to do exactly that. I guess specifically the fact that nothing happened to Trump after J6 made me lose all hope in the US political/justice system.

Like I’ll still vote for Democrats because it’s easy, but I have very little faith that it’ll improve anything.

Occam’s Razor, we have to accept the simplest solution with no evidence to the contrary. Dragons are real

AI finally comes up with something I would use it for, and so of course they have to lock it down. Ha! Fuck these clowns.

Credit where credit is due, it’s from a TV show haha https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CsuRwWa6gs

So apparently the rates of crashes in general aviation are set off by drunk pilots in Alaska specifically. If you exclude alcohol-related crashes in Alaska, general aviation starts to look a lot safer.

The people who are currently talking about voting for AOC to own the mainstream Republicans? The people who think Mamdani is a conservative because he talks about helping working people? It would be a mistake to think that MAGA is ideologically consistent.

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In some ways, their democratic system made a lot more sense than ours, TBH. They didn’t elect people to positions, because they thought that would lead to popularity contests dominated by the wealthy (🤔). Positions of power were assigned randomly by sortition (lots) amongst all the male Athenian citizens, they only voted on policy.

But also anyone who believes that Musk has no control over Starshield is welcome to start making bids on this Brooklyn Bridge I have for sale

I always hated this saying. So sad that so many folks have never had a friend buy them lunch 😭

Literally what would make you think that?

The antiwar strategy would be to not let them use Starlink for war. This will never happen because Starlink was developed for the US Department of Defense

The vast majority of everyone wants what’s best for everyone else. We just all have really shitty information about each other.