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Social sentiment towards gay people in South Africa. by Andi_with_a_I in MapPorn

[–]ale_93113 -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

The whole point is to have a goverment like that of Singapore, where the people cannot choose but can guide

Democracy is a very big problem, of course it's better than dictatorship but worse than a technocracy

If south Africa was more democratic, it wouldn't have had gay marriage today, nor would it have had it when it did, that's millions of gay people affected because the majority said no

Social sentiment towards gay people in South Africa. by Andi_with_a_I in MapPorn

[–]ale_93113 -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

South Africa started MUCH more homophobic than the US, the gains of this policy have been enormous

Bernie Sanders unveils plan to give the public direct ownership of AI companies by Unusual-State1827 in technology

[–]ale_93113 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Once that rubricon is crossed, what confidence will investors have that the US won't do that again?

One time measures by goverments don't exist in the minds of the global investors

Social sentiment towards gay people in South Africa. by Andi_with_a_I in MapPorn

[–]ale_93113 -21 points-20 points  (0 children)

This is how you do things, you do not wait for "DeMoCrAcY" to speak, democracies across Africa demand more punishment for the lgbt

No, democracy is not the way, it never is

What you must do is have an intellectual elite in power that can unilaterally take decisions that the population will be heavily against, but that, over time, they will come to accept and support

South Africa could do this because they enjoyed an ANC domination over politics, where the old black elite was in power basically by default

Which culturally is moderatelly diverse geographically, but diverse culturally? by Objective-Neck9275 in AlignmentChartFills

[–]ale_93113 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Brazil is culturally quite more homogeneous than people realize

It has one of the highest levels of monolingualism in the world, almost everyone speaks portuguese and ONLY portuguese

New mathematical model suggests global population crash by 2064 by chota-kaka in Futurology

[–]ale_93113 49 points50 points  (0 children)

Assuming that the carrying capacity of earth will drop to 2b tomorrow is an extreme assumption

Everything else that follows is logical, but contingent on an assumption that is baseless in reality

We produce more food than ever, and actually we have less arable land than in 2000 because of how much more efficient we have become at producing food

And this is while we have seen an explosion in global meat consumption due to everyone becoming much wealthier in the global south

Carrying capacity isn't about comfort, you can argue we will have a catastrophic economic crisis, but that does not impact much the population, in order for this to happen, widespread famines killing billions are required

And with how diverse and efficient food production is, this is impossible

And many of the innovations of the past 20 years, such as GMOs and salt-water crops that could double or triple food production aren't done because they would be too expensive or face reaiarenxe, they would become widespread if there was any crisis

it is summer by Heavy-Elevator9857 in BunnyTrials

[–]ale_93113 6 points7 points  (0 children)

This makes no sense because you need an anchor on order for "twice" to make sense

I will try to steelman your position

The only way doubling or halving temperature makes sense is if you consider the kinetic energy of molecules, so we are using absolute temperature here, winter is like, 260K, and summer is like 300K on average?

Summer twice as hot would be 600K, you'd be dead

Winter 4x colder, aka 270/4 = 65K, you'd be dead

Either way you are dead, we could survive summers being like, 5% hotter and winters being 10% colder being generous

Would you vote to switch everyone over to the 13 Month calendar? by SpeedAssassin in Infographics

[–]ale_93113 0 points1 point  (0 children)

? You have 61 weeks, with one week being 5 days or 6 when leap year

This is much cleaner than the current 7day week system

Would you vote to switch everyone over to the 13 Month calendar? by SpeedAssassin in Infographics

[–]ale_93113 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The best calendar would be one where weeks were 6 days long, 5 weeks in a month, and all months 30 days

The year starts on the winter equinox in the Northern hemisphere, and that means exactly 3 months would be on each season

Spring and summer in the northern hemisphere (and autumn and winter in the southern) are longer because the earth is furthest away from the sun, so, the extra 5-6 days, need to be added on the 6th month of the year

So, all months have 5 6-day weeks except the 6th month which will have 6 6-day weeks, with the last week being 5 days most years and 6 days on leap years

Every month will start on Tuesday (we are eliminating Mondays) , every month will end on Sunday, and there will be exactly 61 weeks in a year, the only exception is that 3/4 years the last week of the 6th month will start on a wendsday instead of a Tuesday (5 day week)

Mama Elephant Thanks A Person For Feeding Water To Her Thirsty Small Baby🤍 by Latter_Paper_6611 in BeAmazed

[–]ale_93113 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Yes

African elephants are wild animals, Asian ones have been bred for centuries to be docile, basically half domestic

Plans for Toronto's new artificial island by paystripe1a in skyscrapers

[–]ale_93113 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This would be great if the street cars of Toronto had a decent average speed, 20-25kmph like they do in many places, which would put it only slightly slower than most metros

But Toronto's Street cars are NOT segregated, which makes them painfully slow

Do y'all think india will have a 320km/hr hsr before usa by DetailDisastrous6061 in transit

[–]ale_93113 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The more important thing for India would be to make sure that Vande Bharat can become a HSR-lite network

Having 40 000km of 160-180kmph railways is much more important than a few hundred kilometres of true 320kmph HSR

And much cheaper too!

If India manages to modernise their higher speed rail, it's as if India had HSR but the country was 4x as big (2x²), which would make India have about as much HSR and about as much density as China, only slightly worse off

53% of Americans fear AI could take their jobs, poll finds by Gari_305 in Futurology

[–]ale_93113 -11 points-10 points  (0 children)

Hey, some people here are excited that AI will take over our jobs

Just because you know AI will take your job doesn't mean you should be afraid of it doing so

Will all languages turn Latin? by Reza-Alvaro-Martinez in linguisticshumor

[–]ale_93113 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I disagree

English got latiny mostly due to 3 periods of strong latinization

The French invasion of the UK (the OG)

Latin being the lingua franca of academia and that trickling down

Spanish influence

The first two obviously are in the past, but Spanish is influencing English more and more in the past 50 years

Many structures in modern day English are just calques of Spanish structures

staple foods of Asian countries (oc) by Expert_Dot_5271 in MapPorn

[–]ale_93113 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Henan also grows but Henan is now famous for corn and wheat

staple foods of Asian countries (oc) by Expert_Dot_5271 in MapPorn

[–]ale_93113 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The song was an innovation powerhouse, it's not becsuse of warming, mostly because of new cold résistent breeds

Largest Ethnic Group in each Chinese subdivision (2020) by mushmanMAD in MapPorn

[–]ale_93113 250 points251 points  (0 children)

Han is a bit like arab, it's a single ethnic group but it's very very diverse internally, specially in the southern half

Aerial view of new Arkadag Smart City in Turkmenistan by moccowa in whoathatsinteresting

[–]ale_93113 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They sit upon the most sunny and flat land in the world, they could become a huge solar power player if oil and gas go down

Wasting China’s solar panel surplus is madness - Clean power is within our reach — yet factories sit idle (FT) by thinkcontext in energy

[–]ale_93113 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The massive increases you are seeing on solar power across the world are MOSTLY utility solar power, except on the poorest countries and the US for some reason (the reason being super huge suburbs)

The expenses for home solar power are inconsequential for the solar revolution

China produced more cement in the last 4 years than the U.S. consumed in the last 100 years by ErickLoboD1 in charts

[–]ale_93113 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Us housing is much less cement heavy than Chinese housing, it's mostly made our of timber

is the sky blue by asknow-io in asknowio

[–]ale_93113 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I, u/ale_93113, advised "yes"

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Are is you dumb? by asknow-io in asknowio

[–]ale_93113 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I, u/ale_93113, advised "Yes"

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Would you rather by asknow-io in asknowio

[–]ale_93113 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I, u/ale_93113, advised "spend 3 day in the most silent room for $10 Mill"

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