Saskatoon Freezing Deaths

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Aug 09, 2022, 5:08 PM UTC

starwind wrote: post #27

fxtentacle wrote: post #12

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Fully agree. For some inventions, such as LSD-trips for your lunch break, I truly wonder how people can be so f-ed up that they consider that a good idea. But then again, I see so many people with depressing faces every day, it's hard to deny that we have widespread psychological sanity issues in our society. BTW, it's not just Inuit having high suicide rates: "Suicide among teens and young adults reaches highest lev…

> I see so many people with depressing faces every day, it's hard to deny that we have widespread psychological sanity issues in our society. No society in history has ever had so much abundance as the West today. We've really moved up Maslows hierarchy beyond survival and safety towards needing meaning in our lives (more than what comes with doing the labor you need to survive). I wonder if there's just not enough m…

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Aug 09, 2022, 5:10 PM UTC

everyone wrote: post #20

fxtentacle wrote: post #12

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Fully agree. For some inventions, such as LSD-trips for your lunch break, I truly wonder how people can be so f-ed up that they consider that a good idea. But then again, I see so many people with depressing faces every day, it's hard to deny that we have widespread psychological sanity issues in our society. BTW, it's not just Inuit having high suicide rates: "Suicide among teens and young adults reaches highest lev…

"I see so many people with depressing faces every day" How much information are you making up based on how a persons face subjectively looks to you? How someone's face looks is a superficial thing and really doesn't give you any solid information.

Post by qqtt » Tue, Aug 09, 2022, 5:12 PM UTC

hinkley wrote: post #22

mrpopo wrote: post #7

When I read about Inuit culture of non-violence in the 20th century [1], and wheb I read about them today [2], I have this disgusted feeling that Western culture of drugs and anger is like a virus that spread into their completely non-immunized population. A bit like the diseases brought into the new world in the 19th century, but this time psychological. [1] https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674608283…

Lead posisoning was a disease the white man brought to the entire world. Thomas J. Midgley, the inventor, perpetrator and chief apologist for leaded gasoline, also brought the world CFCs. Veritasium did a bit on him and was not kind. In fact he implied Midgley may have been the worst mass murderer in human history. The other day I had a chilling thought, after a day with both gardening and another conversation with m…

Post by adventured » Tue, Aug 09, 2022, 5:13 PM UTC

yorwba wrote: post #32

adventured wrote: post #28

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Our system is highly beneficial to the top quarter roughly. The median of that group has gotten significantly richer over 20 or 50 years and is better off in the US than they would be anywhere else in terms of wealth and scale (scale as in how many of them can reach that level of wealth and have access to the kind of economic opportunities that the US presents). Europe has nothing remotely like it, outside of small p…

> And at this point Germany has seen net zero per capita economic expansion for coming up on 30 years. What exactly do you mean by "net zero per capita economic expansion"? According to the World Bank https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.PP.KD?locat... , German GDP per capita was $38,294 in 1991 (adjusting for purchasing power and inflation) and $52,931 in 2021, which looks more like 38% expansion to me.

Post by NateEag » Tue, Aug 09, 2022, 5:21 PM UTC