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If the US wants to be the most powerful country in the world, so that if benefits the most from a non-stop flux of wealth moving in from outside, that involves a cost, tiny as it m…

First and foremost, you're incurring in a slippery slope. Do you want reality, as complex as it may be, or merely to win an argument? Second, you don't see it because you don't car…

Yes, you did understand what I meant, don't be disingenuous. As for the second part, you imply they were failing at that. Can you describe those failures?

No, it's first a matter of different connectomes. Their brains are physically those of the opposite gender, as shown by several studies using advanced neuroimaging and by autopsies…

Try knowing some in real life. I know dozens, and it's really hard not to think of them as psychologically being of the opposite gender. This tracks with the fact that neuroimaging…

Could you link to recent peer-reviewed meta-studies of medical literature showing "gender dysphoria often resolves itself as the process of puberty and natural maturation unfolds"?…

Who are you to decide this for them, beyond and above the professional psychiatrists and psychologists who evaluate them based on actual science, and their own parents' informed de…

Puberty blockers aren't amputations; they're reversible medication-based treatments. Amputation can only be opted for after the transgender individual reaches adulthood. The right-…

Studies about this show that regret among teens who've received puberty blockers is around 1%. The other 99% are extremely happy with it in the very long term. Suicide attempts and…

Depends on what's being compared. Being a billionaire is understood as having a net worth of $1 bi, so we ought to compare the net worth of the median someone at retirement. If tha…

Billionaires, evidently. Why else would they deserve a million times what you make in your entire lifetime, weren't for the fact they're a million times more productive than you? I…

It helps to understand how Russian-style corruption works. The system there is entirely hierarchical. Think organized Mafia as seen in movies, but but much wider both vertically an…

Which risks? Mega corps have access to guaranteed bailout by governments as they're considered National Security concern, plus massive lobbying departments to buy all the laws they…

As I remember, Kagi's index isn't entirely its own. They do some crawling themselves, but they still rely heavily on purchasing search results from Microsoft and Google to compleme…

Then please correct me on the above. Are gated free speech zones a thing, and do Americans obey that? If no, what are the news talking about when they show those? If yes, why do Am…

I'm not American and don't know much about how protests are done in the US. From my perspective what you describe sounds extremely weird, in a cultural shock kind of way. I mean, h…

What the sentencing calls attempted murder, the defendants are describing as one of the protesters watching a police officer preparing to shoot another protester who was running aw…

Many countries don't use SMS, they use WhatsApp, for almost everything, from chatting with family and friends, to business contacts, to talking with your bank manager, to medical a…

Those are pre-requisites, but not enough. You also need society to have local cultures, as well as the culture at large, that actively oppose such behavior as immoral and/or shamef…

I noticed it as LLM-written by the middle of the second paragraph. The text is filled with classic rhetorical structures LLMs love making, especially the "it isn't X, it's Y" and "…

I'd suggest cheap Android-based Chinese e-Ink e-readers if you want flexibility. My current one is a Bigme B6, which was for sale in my country a few months ago. Their main advanta…

I checked the numbers. OpenOffice reports about 230,000 downloads a week. LibreOffice, in contrast, reports about 1,000,000 downloads a week. Those are both direct downloads from t…

That didn't use to be the case. In the US many laws were approved in the 1930s that forced businesses to keep stakeholders in mind, not just shareholders. That led the US to become…

Thanks, that was quite informative!

This is an interesting point. Supposing this sudden shock happens, wouldn't American towns, counties, and the like, run to buy buses and start providing emergency bus services all …