So is tiktok. And sugar. And video games. And a thousand other things people are exposed to. I'm all for regulation of harmful and addictive substances and its exposure to children/adolescents, but porno is pretty low on the list of "things fucking up kids that need to be regulated"
I think kids that wont be able to use YouTube until they are 16, might miss some good stuff too, like they might find hobbies there, learn programming.
While I don't doubt that for a second, she's had her issues before when she didn't care too much about what she ate, compared to last few years where she's been actively eating healthy.
There's certainly a correlation for my self though.
War is another thing, that's artificially created for that reason I think.
New jobs are created, creating battle equipment, cause stuff always gets destroyed in war.
Governments buy guns, choppers tanks, so those who produce them, are swimming in money now.
Why would those institutions be interested in a time, where there is no major war ?
I also feel like there's some kind of dynamic between US and Russia, like good cop and bad cop.
Russia is an aggressive lunatic, and US sells guns, offers protection services for rest of the world from this crazy guy.
But what would happen if Russia would be gone, or not aggressive anymore, who would buy the guns then ?
World order would be totally different and US would lose customers.
We had that brief period after the end of of the cold war and the US just found other places to blow up in the middle east. The gun lobby will never stop. And, unfortunately, you might become a "peaceful nation" but if your neighbor decides to wage war against you, you either bow or buy more guns to fight as well.
It's unfortunate but I don't think human beings will be able to coexist without wars for the foreseable future. There's just too much you can win by violence if the other side doesn't have the same firepower.
Defense contractors like Raytheon and Lockheed Martin have large incentives to promote conflict and intervention, but how much business do American gun manufacturers even do with militaries?
I can’t find numbers, but my intuition is that individuals consume over 90% of their output. There’s too few militaries rich enough to equip soldiers with US-made guns, and too many US gun buyers.
ChatGPT tells me there are about 20 million soldiers worldwide. That includes roughly two million Chinese, 1.4 million Indians, a million Russians, 1.2 million North Koreans. Of those only India has a small deployment of American small arms from Sig. For the sake of argument, let’s say each is issued a rifle and a sidearm, 40 million guns.
It’s difficult to estimate gun sales, but in 2020 there were 40 million background checks run for gun purchases in the United States. Each check could represent multiple sales.
And arms purchased by the military can remain in service for decades.
Don’t forget somebody has to pay for all the reconstruction that follows.
For the US at least, over the last 110 years or so, every war we’ve been in was initially strongly opposed by the populace. Most (modern) wars are the result of relatively small groups of elites working to create the conditions in which a peaceful populace will be ok with war.
If Russia was gone, the US has a host of “enemies” to replace them with. Additionally, when you have such control over the world economy, it’s very easy to create conditions that create new enemies.
It's not artificial. It's always been a trait of this animal species to get weapons, go kill the men in the other tribe, ra*e the women.
Read about massacres by (some not all!) Russian soldiers, or about what Hamas did. Artificial? No, it's how things have always been.
Combined with Machiavellian dictators, always hungry for more power (including m2 land) and you should see that what Putin and his soldiers do is (unfortunately) pretty natural and common across the ages.
Seems to me you've bought a bunch of conspiracy theories and possibly Putin's manipulation when you apparently think the reasons lite elsewhere.
Companies make money from war, but don't confuse that for that being the underlying reasons for wars.
What does this mean: "militaries in every country, probably won't throw away blood money"?
You're believing that none of the countries in Europe actually care about the people in Ukraine, and it's all about the weapon industry wants to sell weapons? (Or I don't understand what you're writing)
> Not taking my side with Russia or Hamas on this, by saying that US is actually "aggressor here".
Seems you're overlooking that Putin is attacking Ukraine, and that Ukraine defends itself.
You're saying that helping a country _defend_ itself is aggression.
That's like saying [a company that provides weapons to police who stops an active shooter], is an aggressor. -- It's not the right time to say that, when it's about _defending oneself_.
Had the US been exporting weapons to _Putin_, what you wrote would make sense.
In some cases, the US does such things (and many other countries, incl Russia and China). But this time you got it backwards, when you call the defenders for "aggressors".
"The more people there are, the more solutions to problems will be found."
Has not been true so far, I wonder at what population amount, will this start working ?
If we assume that distribution of professions scales linearly with population size, a 2x increase in population means there will be twice as many researchers and inventors that can dedicate their life to finding new solutions.
I would assume that the scaling is not linear. Do we need twice the workers in agriculture to feed twice as many people? With our modern agriculture technology that seems unlikely to me.
One could argue that this is counter-balanced by diminishing returns, as in: 2x the amount of researchers won't have 2x the output.
But it's hard for me to see how "more people = more progress" is false.
It might start working when we take away their screens, 24/7 couch-based entertainment, and their safe spaces to escape the violence of being misgendered.
When I see people thinking about voting for someone like Donald Trump I know the argument that more people = better solutions is complete bullshit. Even if we technically have more solutions, having more dumb people who are able to negate all the benefits is a far worse situation to be in.
Of course its true - we wouldn't have gotten to the moon, or been able to build world-encompassing highway and Internet systems, without the critical mass of people who built our academic and industrial institutions.
To see the nature of your fallacy, just look out at your universities and wonder how they will operate, as effectively as they have so far, with half the staff. And then, that staff halves again in 10 years.
Doing this, honestly, do you still have faith that the deleterious effect of humanity upon itself will be replenished with new perspectives, new generations, new ideas?
We humans are instinctively cannibals. We don't eat each other literally any more, but spiritually and culturally. The moment there is less of that human culture to consume, the closer we get to actually reverting to the physical manifestation of it ..
A Lot of academics already today are just trying to keep their job, and don't keep up with innovative teaching methods, they don't record their lectures, cause who would pay them if there's a video about it ?
So in reality we would be fine, if we focus on doing the job not keeping the job.
ramps (by parents with babies in their strollers), subtitles (by people learning languages or in loud environments), audio description (by truck drivers who want to watch Netflix but can't look at the screen), audiobooks (initially designed for the blind, later picked up by the mainstream market), OCR (same story), text-to-speech, speech-to-text and voice assistants (same story again), talking elevators (because it turns out they're actually convenient), accessibility labels on buttons (in end-to-end testing, because they change far less often than CSS classes), I could go on for hours.
For user interfaces specifically, programmatic access is also used by automation tools like Auto ID or Autohotkey, testing frameworks (there's no way to do end-to-end testing without this), and sometimes even scrapers and ad blockers.
Getting ratioed because people think “my app must follow accessibility for… oh.. uh… because big company does so we must do same ooga booga smoothbrain incapable of critical thinking”
Waste of time unless you are aiming your application AT people who use screen readers e.g. medical or public sector. EVEN THEN has anyone actually tried? Even accessible websites are garbage.
Porn can be very addictive, especially for a developing teenagers.