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Why should poor people without jobs live in New York, one of the most expensive cities? Wouldn't it be cheaper and more effective to pay them to leave, and give them bus tickets to…

And would those sites be conservative media, who also advocate breaking up big tech?

70% of Black children are born out of wedlock, the highest of any race in the USA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_family_struct... "Juvenile crime/delinquency, teen…

Its sustainable politically if you call anyone who opposes the scheme racist - only a single country in the top 10 migrant contributors to Canada is of European heritage: https://w…

Just legalise all drugs and let the free market decide. We could create innovative new substances which are safer and less socially damaging, compared to the plants and fermented l…

The tweet might be disagreeable, but it is still an important statement from a foreign Government. Twitter has no right to be 'Ministry of Information'.

Influenza does the same: https://www.the-scientist.com/features/can-the-flu-and-other... These unprecedented restrictions on human freedom (Lockdown) are probably also a factor in …

So incessant, and seemingly ineffective, lockdowns have succeeded - in selecting for a variant of COVID which is resistant to lockdown? What biological or physical mechanism could …

Their production source code has the salt for the encryption algorithm hard coded as the (presumably H1B worker's) name "Amalesh"

We need Russians - or people outside of the progressive bubble of Europe and North America - to create an alternate internet, please. Starting with browser, Twitter, Reddit, Facebo…

Is there any evidence that this new 'variant' has any impact to infectiousness or death? Or is it simply genetic drift?

And what % of economic, scientific, and cultural output is that 10% responsible for?

Look at the data directly: https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps#z-scores-by-country Difficult to see much excess death in the UK in the past few months beyond levels seen in the…

Australia also forecasts that it will increase its Federal debt by AUD$500 billion due to the pandemic - AUD$20,000 per person. Meanwhile aged care deaths in the most heavily affec…

Overflow hospitals in the UK have never been used: https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/covid-patients-england-ni... The UK Government is arresting people who film empty hospitals: h…

If we linearly extrapolate the December 18 data to December 31st, we get 91773 * (366/353) = 95,152. Which would indeed be the highest level this decade, but still only 3.2% higher…

As of December 18th, 2020 deaths in Sweden are only the 3rd highest for the past decade: https://www.statista.com/statistics/525353/sweden-number-of-... So its unlikely that COVID …

Overdose deaths are up 40%, to 81,000 in 2020: https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2020/p1218-overdose-death... Suicides and homicides also up. Given that these deaths will occur fo…

This is why electric cars needs smart charging - plug it in when you get home, and expect for it to be charged by the time you need to go to work - but the actual charging hours sh…

Singapore also has one of the lowest fertility rates in the world, at only 1.16 children per woman. Living in a controlled and apartment-dominated country seems to crush the desire…

Peak deaths in Sweden from COVID this year are about the same as from Swine Flu in 2009: https://swprs.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/sweden-monthly-... Also the population would h…

Governments are not ready to allow the economy and population to return to 'normal'. They want to finish their bailouts/pork barreling, and to continue the destruction of the econo…

Immigration or population replacement?