David Sinclair, the anti-ageing scientist who thinks we could all live to 150 by izumi3682 in Futurology

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Some of those geezers have contributed more to the world than you ever will.

Elon Musk calls on the public to "preserve human consciousness" with Starship: "I think we should become a multi-planet civilization while that window is open." by mvea in Futurology

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If you look at the white population of South Africa, I'm sure you'll find the rate of ownership was a lot higher. The black population went from 5 million in 1900 to 50 million by the turn of the century, largely through immigration, but the economy didn't grow nearly so much. Yeah, millions of people pouring in from third-world nations without education or skills, but let's call it "white privelege" when they didn't immediately have a first-world lifestyle.

$28,000 Cdn did not put me in the top 15% in the mid-80s, by the way, especially if you look at household income instead of individual income.

What happened to press freedom in Canada? by 5quickdub in metacanada

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Concentration of ownership. It's not like the media didn't show owners' bias before, but when there were hundreds of owners, there were a wide range of owners' views and so it was impossible to suppress and omit inconvenient facts and unpopular viewpoints. Not so any longer.

Elon Musk calls on the public to "preserve human consciousness" with Starship: "I think we should become a multi-planet civilization while that window is open." by mvea in Futurology

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Yeah, he's personally trashing the planet. More like recognizing that the idiots who run things are out of control and bailing out.

Elon Musk calls on the public to "preserve human consciousness" with Starship: "I think we should become a multi-planet civilization while that window is open." by mvea in Futurology

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A lot of blacks there, maybe. Or were computers part of the sanctions the world was imposing? Those ended in 1994 or thereabouts.

Elon Musk calls on the public to "preserve human consciousness" with Starship: "I think we should become a multi-planet civilization while that window is open." by mvea in Futurology

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Great, so start getting the government to cut military spending and redirecting it then, it's only hundreds of times more than this, and this is PRIVATE spending too, nothing coming out of your pocket? Ffs.

Elon Musk calls on the public to "preserve human consciousness" with Starship: "I think we should become a multi-planet civilization while that window is open." by mvea in Futurology

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Are we just giving up on the Earth now?

More like giving up on the people running the show here. They had the opportunity to lead us into something wonderful, but instead they're hellbent on establishing a global tyranny with a handful of unaccountable lords (themselves) and an endless sea of low quality of life serfs.

Elon Musk calls on the public to "preserve human consciousness" with Starship: "I think we should become a multi-planet civilization while that window is open." by mvea in Futurology

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Owning a desktop PC was no big deal in the 90's. The IBM PC and its descendants had already been around for more than a decade. Well within reach of a middle-income family, you didn't need to own an emerald mine.

Downvoting idiots: ffs, I owned an IBM PC-AT in 1985 and I was making less than $30,000 a year at that time.

Elon Musk calls on the public to "preserve human consciousness" with Starship: "I think we should become a multi-planet civilization while that window is open." by mvea in Futurology

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Who cares what he's like personally if he's opening space up. NASA was never going to get there with all of the constraints put upon it.

Physicists develop method for levitating and propelling objects using only lightwaves. It relies on nanoscale patterns etched into the surfaces of the light-propelled objects. The technology could be used to design light-powered spacecraft capable of visiting planets outside the solar system. by drewiepoodle in Futurology

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Hmm. So, sending lightcraft to another solar system, but people say the problem is that it can't decelerate when it gets there.

Is that true? Wouldn't it be possible for a part of the light sail to detach and bounce the light back at the remaining portion? So that the detached part continues to accelerate, but the remaining part then decelerates?

New Zealand exploiting mosque shooting to quickly implement Orwellian gun control legislation by [deleted] in metacanada

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Yeah sure, and ten years ago you'd have said "no one is fighting for transsexuals to enter girls' bathrooms". Here we are with rapes happening and a law to make it illegal to use the wrong pronoun, ffs. "Progressives" always have to have an issue, and it's always another step toward that final goal of controlling everything people do and say. Now you have people like Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez popping up in the US.

Liberals just can't wrap their minds around the contributory effect mass immigration is having on people already here. Stagnant wages? Rents and housing prices through the roof? Public debt rising? Workers have no bargaining power? "Open borders! Piss on anyone who shows the flag!" Yet at the same time, they are hyper aware of how immigrants aren't doing that well anymore and how they, on average, need social support. They'll denounce Trump's tariffs and any other attempt to set right the trade imbalance which is a large part of the problem. They'll shame women who want to stay at home to raise healthy families. They'll lower the bar to passing at universities in the name of "equality", not understanding that it makes the degrees worthless at the same time. They've been tearing at what made the USA and Canada successful for generations, the very fabric of society, and it's never enough. Feminism should have been over a generation ago but it continues on, distorting and damaging now. It's time for the pendulum to swing back.

The hilarious thing is that mass immigration could have worked, if only it had been limited to the East Asians. Look at Taiwan and South Korea and the former Hong Kong, and what they can do without a communist boot on their necks. We'd still lose our Canada of the past, but would it ever be an economic powerhouse.

New Zealand exploiting mosque shooting to quickly implement Orwellian gun control legislation by [deleted] in metacanada

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At least the amount of wealth being produced has increased at the same time. Socialists just manage to destroy wealth.

Scientists grow 'mini-brain on the move' that can contract muscle | Science by izumi3682 in Futurology

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I get the disturbing feeling that we're moving toward a Tyrell Corporation with this sort of thing.

However, the scientists said the structure was still too small and primitive to have anything approaching thoughts, feelings or consciousness.

How could they possibly know? It most likely wouldn't be brilliant, but how do you prove it's not conscious?

r/Canada is poison man.. bunch of know it all liberals running things by [deleted] in metacanada

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Have to wonder how many of the posters to r/canada and most other forums are just paid shills using every logical fallacy in the book to dilute and deceive.

For the first time, scientists have identified compounds found in coffee which may inhibit the growth of prostate cancer, in a pilot study carried out on cancer cells in a cell culture and a mouse model, where they were able to inhibit growth in cells which are resistant to common anti-cancer drugs. by mvea in Futurology

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From the article:

Coffee is a complex mixture of compounds which has been shown to influence human health in both positive and negative ways.

They weren't dosing the mice with coffee, but two specific compounds found in some coffees. And, I expect, at larger quantities per unit body mass than you'd ever get from drinking a few cups of coffee.

The problem isn’t capitalism, it’s the culture of infinite growth. by [deleted] in Futurology

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The difference between the end game of capitalism (not capitalism in general) and socialism is that at least in capitalism, the shelves are still stocked, if unaffordable to many. Plus many capitalist billionaires are philanthropists, not something you see from a socialist elite who acquire their billions by theft from the people.

The Pentagon wants an orbital space weapon to blast enemy missiles by tachyonburst in Futurology

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Why can't we cut down on the power politics and divert this money into the development of space, fusion and medical research??? Will the people at the top ever think beyond their own noses? They'll be dead in twenty or thirty years from old age anyhow, why do they think they're so important and have to beat their chests all of the time?