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Disparities in wealth in Latin America and Africa can be traced directly to their history of exploitation and colonization. That there are other countries that have had brutal occu…

The imperialism that has transpired in Latin America and Africa is different from that in Asia, so the consequences have been different. Some areas of difference include: the degre…

My comment describes the damage that imperialism has done and the consequences it's had for global wealth distribution. You say that Cuba has done bad things too. Therefore imperia…

South Africa has the single worst inequality in the world [0], and up until very recently there was apartheid ruled by the descendents of dutch colonizers. This still fits the patt…

how about the history of imperialism where some countries came in, exploited the local population and their natural resources, and reaped the benefits of historical, compounding we…

thats genuinely hilarious, money well spent

yeah I would feel sad for someone who's not rich who paid thousands for a shoutout from someone

> Is everyone insane or is there something I'm missing. in a sense, much of the world is insane because they pursue narcissistic types of social status. but I also do think this is…

wow these are literally good!

Id be surprised if you get much signal out of demographic info.. but I would think music correlates more with general aesthetic taste which may transfer.

I agree. I think it's definitely worth trying and maybe you can update the algorithm later to take advantage of the domain correlations you find.

It's an interesting idea. Do you have reason to believe that people's preferences in different areas are correlated? Not saying they're definitely not, but that's my first skeptica…

thanks, that was interesting. i'm still curious about why maillard reacted food is more nutritious/bioavailable, that article didn't seem to address that. the OP may have but i got…

this article was terribly written. totally meandering, unorganized, rambling. I was desperately curious to understand it but it barely explained anything and went around in circles…

thats awesome! what technology are people using these days to make "flash" games?

the choice of metric that defines "how the world is" is where the subjectiveness lies, as my comment explains. the article was generally about "how bad the world is." if you find s…

you absolutely should not expose yourself in a way that harms you excessively. noone is helped by your torment. I like Dr. Bronner: "1st: If not for me, who am I? Nobody! 2nd: Yet,…

it's inherently a subjective question, based on what you value. if you value access to technology, then you'll think things are better than ever. if you enjoy arguments based on "a…

police disproportionately harass and kill black people, and unarmed black people, and you can find this in about 2 seconds in a google search EDIT: apology for the personal attack,…

that's why I say self-care is important. there's no point in torturing yourself over everything. we have to vary how much responsibility we want to take based on how hopelessly thi…

that's why I say self-care is important. we can't take too much individual responsibility for the world's issues. and if we don't let ourselves enjoy life when we can, then there's…

I hate to use the word "privileged" because it is so loaded but I do think that this shows privileged thinking. "The world is great!" yeah because you have enough money/power to go…

Look, I am all for self-care and not overexposing yourself to terrible news all day every day. But to act like negative news is making us think the world is worse than it is is jus…

That sounds plausible though I'm not educated enough to comment on that. But I do know that the question is separate from the Iraq War because the IW never truly aimed to establish…

> The US military does not aim to install any regime, it aims to defeat the enemy's military. If you look at U.S. foreign policy (covert and overt, CIA, military) over history, one…