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Comment · 6 years ago
But thats like saying legs aren't related to human behaviour patterns. Without the DNA for legs, I proposition, humans would act very differently.
Comment · 6 years ago
I read before that tires actually degrade and that contributes to pollution. I mentioned room air filters, because that seems like it would be a wise investment for people that live close to highways, or people that spend a lot of time in indoors like programmers.

So that maybe someone with a room air filter can comment on which ones are worth getting.

Comment · 6 years ago
This is why modern Identity politics which is based on the notion that human behaviour is entirely a social construction is so silly. Proof that even your memory is guided by your DNA.
Comment · 6 years ago
Room air is much more polluted than outside air. Room air filters are more common in Europe. But pretty easy to find. I saw one at costco last month.

Planting more trees would also help.

Comment · 6 years ago
A good related book is "How to win Friends and Influence people". Basically its a guide how to make friends, with a realization that we live in a world full of selfish people, that are self centered and don't have much empathy. This is the default state of human beings. I watched an interview with Pol Pot and even he thought of himself as a good guy.

Quick Book Summary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qvUYtwASqY

Pol Pot last interview

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQ9_BMshyiw

[edit] I should qualify what I mean by selfish as it relates to the book. Basically humans tend to act in their self interest by default. And will go a long way to justify that behaviour to themselves even when it hurts others, so they can preserve a positive self image. this a common behaviour pattern. The book doesn't claim its universal, and no exception exist. I'm sure there are exceptions. But even modern "saint" equivalents like Gandhi did some messed up selfish things.

Comment · 6 years ago
You either have a machine tallying the votes that works 100% of the time during the election. Otherwise, everyone can reasonably question the results from a machine that works 99% of the time.
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Comment · 6 years ago
What if in the future your could make a nuclear bomb in your kitchen? Thats the part thats scary. It conceivable that technology will make destroying the planet trivial, where anyone disgruntled could do it. How long will the world last then ... duh duh duhhh
Comment · 6 years ago
Still too expensive and too wimpy looking. Make it look like a death machine with razor bladed spinning rotors ready for civil war. And burgers would buy.
Comment · 6 years ago
Imagine if they let older people get more sunshine in nursing homes they would have better health outcomes. Instead they locked them up even more during the pandemic.

Study posted on here earlier showed link between low vitamin D and covid death. Like 60% of people that died from Covid had vitamin D deficiency.

Locking up old people in cramped nursing homes, spreads communicable disease, causes mental health decline, and is just terrible for their well being and shortens their life.

Thats why we need an army of robot nurses in the future, that will treat these people in their homes.

Comment · 6 years ago
What about mean looking people? Surely nobody wants to be around a mean looking person. They might do well in prison or during the draft for war. But otherwise, I'm sure they get ostracized....which just boils up their meanness. So that one day, they might be plotting to ruin Christmas from their cave overlooking Whoville.
Comment · 6 years ago
This is almost as bad as relying China on Personal Protective Equipment and quickly running out during the pandemic earlier this year.

Imagine if the USA actually comes under an attack.The apple spaceship would be high on the list of targets. All of sudden hospitals can't run their computers or communications. Disaster!

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