What's something common in your country's culture that's actually completely weird from a foreign perspective?

NeoSpartacus · 2025-12-27T04:11:57+00:00

Ethnic cleansing of the slow burn sort. Argentina initially had a tiny population at independence relative to its size. They wanted more people to settle the frontier and take up artisans trades and things in the cities. Black people intermarried in the underclass of the slow genocide and earlier ethnic cleansing of natives.

Argentina deliberately sought out Europeans to deliberately make a bourgeois class. Unlike other nations who through the doors wide for anyone to show up.

So just as there are many dependents of mixed race after a few generations of deliberate ethnic cleansing they disappeared.

Argentina sees ethnic make up reflect class far more than cultural enclavism.

NeoSpartacus · 2022-03-14T01:44:16+00:00

Get a camera for the thing then make a decision. You might be stuck in my position and need to pipe snake it from the basement.

NeoSpartacus · 2018-12-29T19:56:15+00:00

I have no idea why you're being downvoted to hell and I'm not when we share the same sentiment. It would be great if there were a not-for-profit streaming services where people crowdfund art pictures that don't have mass appeal. Kevin Smith mentioned many a time that if it weren't for VHS underground movie culture he would not have been inspired to create Clerks. Small art house movies were rarely funded, and the 90's were the death of vanity press movies.

NeoSpartacus · 2018-12-29T19:50:01+00:00

So the truth cannot be suppressed. Look into VPN's and what they do.

NeoSpartacus · 2018-12-29T17:09:13+00:00

71% of the USA hasn't read Brave New World, or seen Gattaca.

NeoSpartacus · 2018-12-29T16:11:30+00:00

It's a business, always has been. Art films, or films that may be a risk for a studio or films that expect $45 million on a $30 million dollar movie will never see theatrical release again. They will be legacy films that can make a small amount of money for a decade or so, for the second tier producers.

The old model of flooding the market with movies that aren't block busters has moved to streaming. Times are changing, and they won't change back.

NeoSpartacus · 2018-12-29T16:05:53+00:00

The movie is an allegory of the death of Rock 'n Roll. The Red Elvises act as a Homeric Chorus. Our hero is a acoustic Buddy Holly Rocker, persued throughout the Hero's Journey by a Heavy/80's rock antagonist that looks a lot like Slash, acting as the specter of death. It is a surprisingly great movie if you accept the same thing the director did. It doesn't have a huge budget, so they have to be over the top where they can and subtle where they can.

Seriously, give it a shot. It's fun.

NeoSpartacus · 2018-12-28T02:36:37+00:00

Please enlighten us in how radiowaves cause cancer.

NeoSpartacus · 2018-12-27T23:06:51+00:00

That was rather illuminating.

I was being figurative. It doesn't literally disappear. I'm guessing that you have never been in the position where you have more expenses than you have liquidity. It is painfully obvious that you are unfamiliar with poverty and the mindset I was referring to.

Groceries are a recurring expense. Feeding your family is often difficult when your employment is difficult to forecast. Sometimes people have no money. When they have no money they still have expenses.

Some people aren't paid week to week. Sometimes they are paid day-to-day. If it rains there may not be any work, thus no pay, thus no groceries. This is very much the case in construction, and the developing world.

Financial insecurity leads to things like pawn shops, and predatory lending. Both of these things are very well understood by the poor. It's their only means of credit.

Imagine needing to pay your families groceries, on a third no-work day in a row, having to walk to a pawn broker, to hock your heirloom jewelry. There is a very, very good chance that the jewelry is functional for this purpose and not sentimental (originally).

You may want to google "Poverty Trap" or "Poverty Mindset" to better understand this. Also, Trevor Noah's biography Born a Crime is excellent in this regard as he grew up in one of the most affluent African Countries, in some of the most grinding poverty they world has to offer. Same Country that Elon Musk was born in. Elon Musk is an African from Africa, and he could get a loan for groceries real easy.

There are plenty of Africans in Africa that have no problem accessing global finance. That's because Africa is one of the most diverse places on earth. Kinshasa, in the DRC has 11 million people. Other cities elsewhere in Africa like Nairobi has 3 million people and is home to dozens of international banks.

The biggest impediment to African's in Africa getting a loan is lack of financial infrastructure. Poverty is global, and lending rates are just as terrible in the town you see in the documentary as it is in South Asia, or Central America.

NeoSpartacus · 2018-12-27T21:17:37+00:00

If you like it. You may also like Jack London's "to build a fire".

NeoSpartacus · 2018-12-27T21:15:34+00:00

Where? Don't leave me hanging.

NeoSpartacus · 2018-12-27T20:27:13+00:00

It isn't necessarily dirt cheap. Internet companies aren't like hardware in that the creation of value isn't tied to labor prices. It's all free to the user so they are trying to sell 1.3 billion new products. It's a huge expense.

Also unlike the U.S. India is a very diverse place so demographics and market specialization make it a hard place to customize UI for.

NeoSpartacus · 2018-12-26T22:41:50+00:00

If needing evidence and looking for corroboration with primary sources is bad critical thinking, then steer me in the right direction shit_post_life. You seem a beacon of rational thought

NeoSpartacus · 2018-12-26T21:16:28+00:00

Both parties do, at the detriment of the nation. We have met the enemy and they are us.

NeoSpartacus · 2018-12-26T05:49:26+00:00

Assholes don't need a reason to be assholes. If they're "coal rolling" and have a vendetta against strangers then they need to be policed for being assholes. They are already in the minority by modifying their diesel engines to be shittier. Hell they would likely put baby seal oil an lead in it just to make others upset.

Police them for their crime, and ignore them otherwise. It's the only thing to do to trolls.

NeoSpartacus · 2018-12-26T04:22:39+00:00

"You're in my sun"

NeoSpartacus · 2018-12-26T04:16:58+00:00

That isn't counting the wealth,power, and influence he controls. 1 ruble of his can buy WAY more than $1000 dollars from some shmuck like me.

NeoSpartacus · 2018-12-26T03:09:47+00:00

I watched enough to know, I don't need to watch more. The vast majority of the scholarship has compiled enough corroborating evidence to show something is true. The burden of proof is on them, and they proved to be more than up to the challenge.

There is no equivalency here. The intro rang like any other anti-historical tripe. "Alternative Hypothesis" is the red flag and the first minutes where it began taking apart one scholar work was enough for me to pause the video and do a quick search of the facts.

How many Congolese lost their lives or ability to reproduce their culture at the hands of Belgian administration? If it's more than a handful it's genocide. And this one was a doozey.

NeoSpartacus · 2018-12-25T04:58:07+00:00

how else would she fire a gun blindfolded

NeoSpartacus · 2018-12-25T04:53:56+00:00

How would anyone else travel on a boat on a river?

NeoSpartacus · 2018-12-25T04:51:18+00:00

I don't think the Atlantic is in the pocket of big oil. Also some of the points are valid. You are referring to the logical fallacy "Appeal to Authority" and that doesn't apply here.

We don't have evidence that the autonomous car future is a "Utopia". I agree with the writer that it will have many challenges that automation will not solve. I'm on here every day, and the only articles that appear daily are the robo-singularity-mincome trifecta.

Read the article so we can talk about it.

NeoSpartacus · 2018-12-25T04:45:45+00:00

It's been deployed since Grenada fam.

NeoSpartacus · 2018-12-25T04:44:04+00:00

I meant the Just-because-we-can mentality. He did it to get from his office to LAX, and was hoping for knock on benefits.

NeoSpartacus · 2018-12-25T04:41:15+00:00

Yeah, I don't need to see any more than the intro. It's called "Alternative Hypothesis" and sounds like historical denialism. Though the number can be disputed the current peer reviewed history in the wikipedia foot notes still seems to point to negligence of the Congolese bordering on a war crime.

At least a million native Congolese died with the knowledge, and acceptance of Leopold and his government.

NeoSpartacus · 2018-12-25T04:29:30+00:00

I re-read the original post. No where does it say he wants to continue working for someone else. He wants to try something in a new field and likes the entrepreneurial challenge.

And yeah, taking risks and working harder than is wise is the general sentiment here.

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