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That's basically it. The Chinese government views the rest of the world through Hobbesian self interest, but in the late 20th century financial way. They want your money, but lawfully. The US has turned into something much more vindictive and unpredictable, including threatening to invade Canada.
Lawfully? How many IPs have they stolen from universities and companies across the world?
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There are ~ 2 million black men incarcerated in the united states, many engaging in what is effectively modern slavery. I don't think we can effectively weigh human rights atrocities between nations, but the U.S. is certainly not "better" than China in many respects.
I was not "weighing between nations", I was responding to: "I think this "China evil" framing is a smear" > There are ~ 2 million black men incarcerated in the united states In 2019, whites+hispanics committed 0.92x as many homicides as blacks [1], but their 2021 incarceration numbers were 1.72x that of blacks (0.75x for non-hispanic whites alone) [2]. Using homicide to estimate criminality, because it is immune to o…
2021. People incarcerated in state or federal prisons by race and ethnicity. Race, ethnicity % of US population % of incarcerated population Incarceration rate (per 100,000)
White (non-Hispanic) 59 31 181 Hispanic 19 24 434 Black 14 32 901
Did you just ignore the data where the whites are 181/100,000 and blacks are 901/100,000. From an absolute perspective they are close but as a percentage of ethnic population it's not even close.
I feel like this is why its hard to have a convo on the internet. Even when we have data, it's impossible to see it the same way.
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I was not "weighing between nations", I was responding to: "I think this "China evil" framing is a smear" > There are ~ 2 million black men incarcerated in the united states In 2019, whites+hispanics committed 0.92x as many homicides as blacks [1], but their 2021 incarceration numbers were 1.72x that of blacks (0.75x for non-hispanic whites alone) [2]. Using homicide to estimate criminality, because it is immune to o…
Wait, you do know there are less black people in the US than white people so doing a ratio on absolute murder numbers is wild right? That makes that .92 useless. 2021. People incarcerated in state or federal prisons by race and ethnicity. Race, ethnicity % of US population % of incarcerated population Incarceration rate (per 100,000) White (non-Hispanic) 59 31 181 Hispanic 19 24 434 Black 14 32 901 Did you just ignor…
Only that's not what I did. Read again - "per crime committed, blacks are less, not more, likely to be jailed".
What I compared was prison population, divided by number of homicides committed, for whites and blacks. It's strange how rarely this is done, because without it, it must look like the courts are fantastically biased against men, with how many more of them there are in jail than women.
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I was not "weighing between nations", I was responding to: "I think this "China evil" framing is a smear" > There are ~ 2 million black men incarcerated in the united states In 2019, whites+hispanics committed 0.92x as many homicides as blacks [1], but their 2021 incarceration numbers were 1.72x that of blacks (0.75x for non-hispanic whites alone) [2]. Using homicide to estimate criminality, because it is immune to o…
Using homicide numbers when the point was about overall incarceration statistics is disingenuous at best, and a wildly racist diatribe worthy of a significant scolding at worst. Murder / homicide account for a small single digit percentage of all incarcerated people in the US. Honestly a bit disgusted to have even read what you wrote here. Shameful. Edit for more substance: your use of homicide numbers belies the com…
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move to the city? The delivery app guys can earn a decent living. no education required.
Delivery guys in China are not considered middle class.
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Our official delegation left the Greenland delegation IN TEARS, and we pronounced 'it's happening' afterwards. These aren't shit posters on Twitter, these are our officials and our President ACTIVELY working to take over Greenland.
If Greenland was happening, what's taking them so long? The military could take it without a fight tonight, or last month for that matter. They want it, but can't take it because it would be too shocking for the public (aka violating narrative continuity.) If they can prepare the public to accept it then it might happen, but most magas I talk to treat it like a joke, trolling the Europeans to make them invest in defe…
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> It's just a matter of how much international support it will have initially, and how the USA will strong arm support. That's where i think France have dropped the ball with its last presidents. Any pre-2007 president would have already declared Greenland as "EU, thus France sovereign interest" and reiterated French nuclear doctrine since 1964 (One warning shot, then tactical nukes, aiming for the army/supply and no…
de Gaulle absolutely would have done that and more, Pompidou and Giscard d'Estaing probably. Not sure about Mitterrand / Chirac.
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>The US has turned into something much more vindictive and unpredictable, including threatening to invade Canada. The thing about China is that they are basically hard on the up slope of their advancement as a society/economy/nation, just like US was post ww2. US on the other hand, has flatlined to the point where we think stuff like trans athletes in sports are a drastic enough reason to elect a president who is a c…
> US on the other hand, has flatlined to the point where we think stuff like trans athletes in sports are a drastic enough reason to elect a president who is a convicted Felon. This is very one-sided and unfair. The trans stuff is indicative of a larger social movement. For example, in the U.S., it would be illegal to use IQ tests to hire employees while in China, that's practiced. China is far more meritocratic. The…
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Delivery guys in China are not considered middle class.
sure dude. they can earn a living. they won't be in a debt spiral like most people here who have no advantages.
You set the bar in your original comment, I didn’t raise it.
> they won't be in a debt spiral like most people here who have no advantages.
Ant tribe life is debt free, but it isn’t really living by our standards. At least we can say it’s better than living on the streets even if such housing isn’t allowed in the west.
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I would love to see a thorough, agreed upon study comparing ICEs and EVs. If you have hard data (say, from a reputable journal, not just the news), please post.
https://theicct.org/publication/electric-cars-life-cycle-ana... https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S09596... (paywall) https://about.bnef.com/insights/clean-transport/no-doubt-abo... is a writeup of https://www.bnef.com/insights/33557 which is paywalled.
But link #2 seems solid, and a related search on Google Scholar points at a lot of interesting papers.
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=related:B47EWn6YcDUJ:sc...
I looked at a few, and the overall consensus seems to be that at least EVs are not worse than ICEVs (and I suppose EVs will get efficient faster than ICEVs(.
Thanks!