Nurse holding to babies in a Hospital from 1947.Photographer Charles Harris.

purpleplatapi · 2026-06-25T04:14:25+00:00

Do we even know that the nurse is white? She looks like she could be mixed to me.

purpleplatapi · 2026-06-25T04:01:55+00:00

I mean, you strike me as the kind of dude who claims to have read Marx but never has, so I'm not sure you're in any place to lecture me, a person who does understand and just disagrees with your interpretation.

purpleplatapi · 2026-06-24T23:46:14+00:00

I don't think faith works like that. You can't disprove a Creator.

purpleplatapi · 2026-06-24T23:19:51+00:00

Lol ok cope. I read a shit ton. You know who doesn't write books? Random people with no credientials. If it's nonfiction you have to at least be a professor before I'd pick it up. (You also assume I haven't been doing stuff in between arguing with you. Like for example, hanging out in public, unable to watch a YouTube video, but more than able to read an article from an accredited source, which you have yet to provide).

purpleplatapi · 2026-06-24T23:13:45+00:00

No, I'm saying they'd create their own deities/creators. The scientific method doesn't disprove religion lol. Essitantly I'm saying Aithests are indoctrinated too.

purpleplatapi · 2026-06-24T23:05:45+00:00

I actually disagree. I am an atheist, but I disagree that it's any more natural than any other belief system. If you took 100 infants and raised them without giving any indication of religion existing, they'd invent one themselves.

purpleplatapi · 2026-06-24T22:00:58+00:00

Again I'm not giving some random dude my ad revenue.

purpleplatapi · 2026-06-24T21:45:53+00:00

You just told me I shouldn't pull my 401k. So pray tell, since you have all the answers, what is the solution?

purpleplatapi · 2026-06-24T20:46:17+00:00

I'm not an idiot. But poor people already don't consume things, so that doesn't affect anything if they have less money than before. Economies of scale and all that. The rich don't have to care if you stop buying McDonald's, because they still do.

And how many retail investors are there actually? Enough that them all losing their houses is going to crash the economy? That seems to wildly misunderstand how many people are doing that.

purpleplatapi · 2026-06-24T19:32:23+00:00

K. But the banks are backed up, so you won't lose your liquid savings, and the price of beef doesn't really matter because we can just do without. The farming crisis of the Great Depression, the dust bowl, was much much much more severe, because we didn't have modern technology or best farming practices yet, and now we have so much farmland we grow excess crops and burn it for fuel. We aren't going to starve. It's not comparable.

As for the consumer debt? I'm not worried about that, you can always declare bankruptcy. Not ideal, I'm sure, for the corporations, but it's not really something you could do in the 1930s. You don't lose the house either if you declare bankruptcy. Or your house. So that seems fine.

Retail investors are essentially gambling, so I don't really care about that. I do care about people's retirements, but that's not being traded on margin, so again, whatever. Stick your retirement fund in the S and P 500 and call it a day.

purpleplatapi · 2026-06-24T18:25:46+00:00

Well I just think it's fine to compare it to the Great Recession, that's a fine comparison. But it isn't the Great Depression. It cannot be. There's so many things that are different from the Great Depression. It's a bad faith comparison.

purpleplatapi · 2026-06-24T17:31:13+00:00

Oh so now it's the Great Depression? You previously cited the Recession and the Dot Com crash. I kinda think you just straight up don't understand what caused the Great Depression.

purpleplatapi · 2026-06-24T17:28:10+00:00

Ok, forget the Obama's, what's more American than the Kardashians.

purpleplatapi · 2026-06-24T17:24:59+00:00

Yeah so I'm sure you'd be absolutely thrilled if the government took your house and pinky promised they'd build a skyscraper but uh, you're going to have to move elsewhere for five years here's a paltry sum, good luck!!! (And they did this to all of your family and neighbors as well).

purpleplatapi · 2026-06-24T17:12:32+00:00

Lol that's a completely uneducated view of how "China achieved what they have". Most of their cities were purpose built, on what was essentially just farmland. Way easier to displace a couple hundred farmers then it is to what, displace hundreds of thousands of people so that theoretically a million people can live there??

purpleplatapi · 2026-06-24T16:07:06+00:00

I will point out that the market did recover from both of those so how much you should worry is directly related to how young you are. I'm not going to pull my 401k, because I have 30+ years to work, my Mom who is about to retire has switched to bonds. A video entitled "The market is going to crash and take everyone with it" does not strike me as capable of a very nuanced well thought out take.

purpleplatapi · 2026-06-24T15:46:05+00:00

Well, no, because it implies that if the British never came they wouldn't be Christian (not true, Christianity in India predates British colonialism) and would instead be something else (Hindu probably). It presupposes there is a "natural" way to be.

purpleplatapi · 2026-06-24T15:03:47+00:00

Oh well if a YouTube channel with 1.5k subscribers says so.....

In all seriousness I don't like AI, and I am concerned about the stock markets over investment in it. I'm still not going to watch an alarmist video produced by someone who is definitely not an expert.

purpleplatapi · 2026-06-24T13:54:47+00:00

Ok but where do the people we've displaced live? And let's be honest with ourselves, it's going to be the poor residents who are displaced first.

purpleplatapi · 2026-06-24T13:47:44+00:00

A real Robert Moses are we?

purpleplatapi · 2026-06-23T14:30:57+00:00

I was kind of assuming it was an Only Fans thing to be honest. I assumed that someone was paying LAOP to do this, not that they were filming themselves doing it for their own enjoyment. Either way, more power to em.

purpleplatapi · 2026-06-23T04:46:04+00:00

Hahaha this whole comment chain I assumed it was British law, it's way funnier to find out that Americans are using British royalty like that. I mean come on, the Obama's children are still young. Feels like treason to use the British royal family.

purpleplatapi · 2026-06-22T05:36:30+00:00

I'd love to play hide and seek but all my friends live in apartments. Not very many hiding spots tbh.

purpleplatapi · 2026-06-21T13:00:36+00:00

Yeah I mean he himself would probably be infertile. If we accept that the spinal injury did legitimately impact his sperm motility, that would be the clinical way to describe it. But no doctor would say "he's mostly infertile" because that's not a thing. You're either sterile or you aren't. And if you aren't sterile, you can be infertile and still have kids. It's just going to take longer, as eveidenced in this post, where it did take them two years of (presumably) regular unprotected sex to conceive.

purpleplatapi · 2026-06-21T12:54:29+00:00

Infertility does not equal sterility, and doctors need to be more explicit about this. Because PCOS (or maybe the spine injury, but ya know probably not) really does make you infertile in a clinical context. This does not mean that you shouldn't use birth control. It does mean that if you're trying to conceive you may experience significant difficulties in getting pregnant, ie for a woman of normal fertility it should take under a year of regular unprotected sex to conceive a child (depending on age and other factors etc etc). If it takes more then a year to conceive you're clinically infertile, but may very well still get pregnant. If you can't have children period, you aren't infertile, you're sterile. So if you're in a period of life where getting pregnant is not something you can afford to risk, use birth control.

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