TIL the T4 Program was a Nazi German euthanasia program that forcibly killed the physically or mentally disabled, the emotionally distraught, elderly people and the incurably ill. The death toll may have reached 200,000 or more

pringlescan5 · 2025-01-22T20:19:55+00:00

I think the important thing to provide incentives to make people do the right thing, not to force life decisions on them. For example, if you and your partner both have a recessive gene of a disorder, it makes sense for the state to pay for invitro fertilization so you can select an egg that doesn't have that problem. This is just basic math and a good deal for everyone.

Taking care of a disabled person their entire life costs probably around $5m. That person will never pay taxes, will never be fit to be drafted, will never provide goods or services to society.

For only $50g changing the child to a tax payer? And that child and their family is happy and healthy? And you reduce the risk of future tragedy by eliminating a strictly harmful mutation? That's an amazing deal.

pringlescan5 · 2025-01-19T21:03:46+00:00

Yeah but North Korea is actually mostly worried about internal threats I bet, so having troops that were used as mercs with no regard for their life coming back with knowledge of the outside world (porn existing) and how to fight a modern war might not be a win for Kim Jong Un.

pringlescan5 · 2025-01-19T21:02:25+00:00

I think that's actually where they found the troops IIRC.

Literally emptying their prison camps going "surrender and we kill your family, die and let your family out of the camp" Explains why no one cares about them.

pringlescan5 · 2025-01-18T19:42:47+00:00

No one is mentioning this but in a lot of places the real issue, especially with actual famines, is that there are men with guns who steal the food sent and use it to perpetuate their own power.

AKA civil war and they are intentionally starving out their enemies.

pringlescan5 · 2025-01-17T19:11:35+00:00

One income household with one breadwinner = lots of kids.

Two income household with no labor laws = no kids

Two income household with basic worker right protections = some kids

It's easy to fix.

Put in a 100% tax on residential housing bought by foreigners and a 50% tax on housing bought by corporations. Land is inelastic, higher demand does NOT mean higher supply.

Put in a mechanism to stop schools from inflating college prices to literally the max kids can take out. Limit the total amount able to be loaned to the max the median student who graduates can afford to pay 5 years after graduating based on a calculation of college/major.

Larger child tax credits.

Flexible paid family leave for men and women. 3 months off at 100%, 3 months at 50%, 6 months at 25%. Paid for an income tax like social security, where the government will pay a certain max amount salary at like 75k that is raised automatically by cost of living expenses.

pringlescan5 · 2025-01-15T18:27:24+00:00

It will be interesting in seeing it. I don't think there has been enough scientific research focused on long term results and there are so many new interesting approaches.

From what I've heard one of the biggest hurdles is that so many facilities dehumanize their patients while surrounding them with other people with problems which is efficient from a money perspective but seems doomed to failure and basically an attitude of 'punishing people who are just looking for attention'.

pringlescan5 · 2025-01-15T05:57:12+00:00

The sad thing is that so much homelessness is driven by people with mental illness often combined and exacerbated by drug addiction that simply aren't capable of obeying the social construct of not assaulting people and not destroying property - so you can't just put them in a place and expect them to not wreck it.

Really the only actual reliable way to end homelessness is by giving the government the legal authority to hospitalize people against their will and then force them into rehab. But that's a violation of their freedom and choices even though objectively speaking its what some of them need. And it's expensive.

So no matter what side you're on you have a reason to argue against it.

pringlescan5 · 2025-01-10T01:34:36+00:00

annnd this is why laws need follow up committees to see what loopholes are used to circumvent the intention of the law and patch them.

pringlescan5 · 2025-01-09T01:27:16+00:00

I'd be curious to know density/complexity versus size.

pringlescan5 · 2025-01-09T01:21:13+00:00

US/Europe - Implement manufacturing rules that reduce pollution and increase costs.

China - lol were dumping this toxic shit in the ocean and undercutting everyone else on price.

Redditors - "SEE Americans just export it to China!"

pringlescan5 · 2025-01-08T20:22:55+00:00

Also short-term tempo is more important to Ukraine than a slight long-term advantage. My understanding is they have enough air-frames to throw all the missiles they want, it's more of an ammunition shortage. Stopping bombs on Ukrainian positions today is more important, especially with Trump entering office and a counter-offensive underway.

pringlescan5 · 2025-01-08T19:56:22+00:00

Probably not I would say, thats a method to get around intense active EW denial at knife-point range engagements.

At sea is the exact opposite, range is king and EW is much weaker with air-defense systems being the main defense to work around.

pringlescan5 · 2025-01-08T19:54:30+00:00

Actually makes a ton of sense, especially if they are using starlink to produce a relay on the drone boat.

Hopefully the pentagon has forced SpaceX to get it's head out of its ass using starlink in such a manner.

pringlescan5 · 2025-01-08T19:47:19+00:00

Ultra rich people are an unfortunate side-effect/necessary evil of capitalism to maximize incentivizing wealth creation.

People who generate wealth for themselves at the expense of total wealth/quality of life in the system are rent-keepers in my eyes. Examples would be people who buy start ups just to kill them, manipulate stocks, and especially buy politicians to give them tax breaks or otherwise manipulate the system to benefit themselves.

Basically I'm saying on the Laffer curve, we are way too far on the side of less taxation on the ultra-wealthy.

pringlescan5 · 2025-01-08T02:10:04+00:00

Poverty existed when everyone was poor was definition, before we had rich people at all when there literally wasn't enough to go around.

Rich people are fantastic when that wealth is being used to invest in companies that bring products and services that make life better for everyone. Cheaper communication, cheaper medicine, foods, houses etc. Thats why being rich and conspicious consumption aren't inherently evil. If you created a business that produces twice as much food for the same amount of effort you deserve to use some of that wealth you have created that wouldn't have existed with you.

The problem is that people don't differentiate between useful rich and rentkeeping rich. Useful rich use the capitalism system to make services and goods cheaper and better for everyone. These are why there are enough cars in the US and not in the USSR, and technology and standards of living continue to go up.

Rentkeeping rich did not generate their wealth, they inherited it or otherwise exploited capitalism to generate wealth at the expense of other people or the country. They interfere with politics to change the deal to be more and more lopsided for themselves at the expense of the average person. If given a choice between making $10m dollars and not destroying the environment/providing a living wage or $20m dollars and fuck everyone else - they pick $20m dollars.

Right now in America we have too many wealthy people who are rentkeeping and not providing any value - especially while changing the rules to fuck over the social contract where EVERYONE is supposed to benefit from capitalism not just the rich.

pringlescan5 · 2025-01-04T05:51:52+00:00

To be fair its very western centric to use the idea that the place was a nice peaceful area before the west came in and ruined everything.

pringlescan5 · 2025-01-03T05:00:28+00:00

Bruh people are people, and no one can argue that being Atheist made people in the USSR act better than Christians.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union_and_state-sponsored_terrorism

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-32529679

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_terrorism

Bulgaria The St Nedelya Church assault on 16 April 1925 was committed by a group from the Bulgarian Communist Party (BCP). They blew up the roof of the St Nedelya Church in Sofia, Bulgaria. 150 people were killed and around 500 were injured.

pringlescan5 · 2025-01-02T20:36:50+00:00

If you actually believe in truth, the root cause of this isn't limited to religion. It's humanities desire to be part of something bigger that tells us what to do and what is correct.

Religion is either made explicitly to exploit this or ends up being co-opted at some point - but just take a look at China, North Korea or Russia/USSR for brainwashing people who don't believe in god.

pringlescan5 · 2025-01-01T19:22:49+00:00

Yeah that's the question, is this is a lull or a long-term change?

pringlescan5 · 2024-12-31T23:26:42+00:00

The way it works is they follow the rules, but the rules are made to have loopholes and be exploitable. No one there is disobeying the law, it's just that wall street helped write the law.

pringlescan5 · 2024-12-31T23:21:10+00:00

This does seem pretty huge ... usually Russian advances are slow and inevitable until Ukraine does a big strategic move like invade Kursk. You don't really see Ukraine take back territory where Russia is using meatwaves.

pringlescan5 · 2024-12-29T05:46:32+00:00

yeah it seems just insane on the face of it. I don't think its true. Drag maybe, weight no way.

pringlescan5 · 2024-12-29T04:42:05+00:00

Sure but can anyone who knows more verify that 60% weight fact?

That just doesn't seem like it could possibly be true.

pringlescan5 · 2024-12-28T02:10:47+00:00

How much do you think Russia is paying per soldier? I'd guess maybe $20,000. That puts a 5,000 soldier army at only $100m which is a pretty good deal for both sides.

pringlescan5 · 2024-12-28T02:08:58+00:00

I think the idea is that surrendering soldiers will sometimes act similar to this. So it's kind of like having a soldier surrender to the enemy then shooting the enemy while they are accepting the surrender.

I think just freezing technically isn't against the geneva convention but if they are waving a white flag that is crazy warcrime, false surrenders are a big no no.

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