They're afraid to end up with an autistic kid. And autistic kids are more work than dead kids.
Maybe someone should tell them that measles aren't necessarily just eliminating the problem but that there are quite a few complications that make them end up with a crippled child for life?
I'd love to see a psychology study about the share of Harvard graduates that are psychopaths compared to the average in the population. Or some max sec prison inmates.
At some point, though, malice simply becomes more likely. Especially if the "blunders" get bigger and bigger, worse and worse for the affected and more and more profitable for the perpetrators.
What will happen is that places in Africa become uninhabitable and people will be displaced. Where to? Well, the ones that can be worked like slaves and have the strength, skill and/or brain to offer something Europe and the Americas want will be taken in, mostly to push down wages. The rest will be left out to perish, which they will, very understandably, refuse to do and try to get into the habitable areas by force, which in turn will be used to justify not only laws that pretty much allow to kill anyone trying to get in but do the same to the foreseeable domestic unrest that the increasing number of disenfranchised people in the various countries will eventually lead to. All of that "democratically" sanctioned by those portions of the masses who still cling to some sort of property that fear to lose what little they still have.
Because developing countries are hardly in a position where they benefit from a hotter climate. You do know that Africa is located right around the equator, right?
"Number of rich westerners affected" is basically just something you add to "number of people displaced". Where do you think those displaced go? If the more recent history is any indicator, it ain't gonna be Siberia.
I'm absolutely with you. I don't have kids. I have about 30 years to live. And I don't want to change my behaviour. Care to explain to me why I should give a fuck whether the predictions are true?
Sibiria would get warmer, all right, but that's not gonna solve another problem: It's also dry as a fart. To make that arable, you have to put water there somehow. What you might get is a hot desert instead of a cold desert, but arable isn't quite the term I have in mind when thinking of Sibiria, even if you increase the temperature.
Europe should be doing ok, considering that most of its climate is warmth by the gulf stream which is most likely going to fizzle away when the climate changes, so it's gonna be warmer but at the same time the heating is going to be turned off, in total it's gonna be all right.
I'd be wary of places like Florida, though. I guess America's Wang will be dipped into the sea and all the pensioners will have to buy house boats.
Non-anonymity doesn't solve the accountability problem. For reference, see current politics. Any of these buffoons accountable for their actions? Hell, they don't even lose credibility with the masses anymore even if they blatantly lie, show off just how totally clueless they are or talk random nonsense about projects nobody can fund or that are absolutely and totally impossible on a physical level.
This has nothing to do with the internet per se. I think people are just getting dumber somehow.
The problem is already that people simply accept any claim to authority instead of questioning it. And with questioning I don't mean to brush it off as useless but to ask for proof.
Back before the influx of the masses, the amount of "new guys" who had no idea how to behave and what (not) to do was manageable. And they were fewer. So they had to adapt or get out.
Now the opposite is true. The internet is overflowing with ignorant idiots and the majority sets the standard.
We thought that with everyone getting access to information, idiocy would die out because people can easily access information, learn, better themselves and become more informed than ever. We heavily overestimated the idiots' will to actually learn anything.
CS isn't BA. You can't just cram it into your head, add a lobotomy and you'll excel in the field. Provided you're a psychopath. When trying to write code, at least if you don't want to be a copy/pasting cargo cult programmer, you first of all have to understand what you're doing. And this is something you will not be taught in any school. Because that's not what our tests test. What's tested is whether you managed to soak up the curriculum and barf it onto the test before forgetting it again.
That works great in some fields, but not when you're trying to learn how to create working code.
So far nobody managed to convince me that there's even a chance you get a good programmer out of someone who shows zero interest to invest his time into self training and only relies on whatever he's taught at some school. And I really doubt there ever will be one.
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I always thought that's the libertarian view? I mean, like, do as you please as long as you let me do as I please, that's conservative now?
And if your kid doesn't have measles, just draw some dots on their face and let them join the fun.
Not only that but Mexico has a higher vaccination rate against MMR than the US...
Literally 5 seconds of googling "vaccination rates"...
https://data.oecd.org/healthca...
They're afraid to end up with an autistic kid. And autistic kids are more work than dead kids.
Maybe someone should tell them that measles aren't necessarily just eliminating the problem but that there are quite a few complications that make them end up with a crippled child for life?
Nah. Redirect those connections to your new VPN service.
Gee, have some entrepreneurial spirit!
Correct reaction by Twitter.
You force me to comply with your law, I will comply with your law. And if I don't like that law, I will comply in the way that fucks you the most.
Evil people will do evil things on their own, but it takes religion to make a good man do evil things.
PW "FuckTheZuck"
How did they guess that?
With the difference that I am not affected when you're using heroin. Try that with Facebook's shadow profiles.
I'd love to see a psychology study about the share of Harvard graduates that are psychopaths compared to the average in the population. Or some max sec prison inmates.
At some point, though, malice simply becomes more likely. Especially if the "blunders" get bigger and bigger, worse and worse for the affected and more and more profitable for the perpetrators.
What makes you think it was fake?
Hmm... if you phrase it like this, I could see Mexico pay for it...
Sadly, this is not going to be the case.
What will happen is that places in Africa become uninhabitable and people will be displaced. Where to? Well, the ones that can be worked like slaves and have the strength, skill and/or brain to offer something Europe and the Americas want will be taken in, mostly to push down wages. The rest will be left out to perish, which they will, very understandably, refuse to do and try to get into the habitable areas by force, which in turn will be used to justify not only laws that pretty much allow to kill anyone trying to get in but do the same to the foreseeable domestic unrest that the increasing number of disenfranchised people in the various countries will eventually lead to. All of that "democratically" sanctioned by those portions of the masses who still cling to some sort of property that fear to lose what little they still have.
In other words, just like now. Only more.
Because developing countries are hardly in a position where they benefit from a hotter climate. You do know that Africa is located right around the equator, right?
"Number of rich westerners affected" is basically just something you add to "number of people displaced". Where do you think those displaced go? If the more recent history is any indicator, it ain't gonna be Siberia.
I'm absolutely with you. I don't have kids. I have about 30 years to live. And I don't want to change my behaviour. Care to explain to me why I should give a fuck whether the predictions are true?
Sibiria would get warmer, all right, but that's not gonna solve another problem: It's also dry as a fart. To make that arable, you have to put water there somehow. What you might get is a hot desert instead of a cold desert, but arable isn't quite the term I have in mind when thinking of Sibiria, even if you increase the temperature.
Europe should be doing ok, considering that most of its climate is warmth by the gulf stream which is most likely going to fizzle away when the climate changes, so it's gonna be warmer but at the same time the heating is going to be turned off, in total it's gonna be all right.
I'd be wary of places like Florida, though. I guess America's Wang will be dipped into the sea and all the pensioners will have to buy house boats.
Would be more funny if you were allergic to peanuts.
The problem is that the idiot is convinced of his opinion while the wise man doubts his.
Non-anonymity doesn't solve the accountability problem. For reference, see current politics. Any of these buffoons accountable for their actions? Hell, they don't even lose credibility with the masses anymore even if they blatantly lie, show off just how totally clueless they are or talk random nonsense about projects nobody can fund or that are absolutely and totally impossible on a physical level.
This has nothing to do with the internet per se. I think people are just getting dumber somehow.
The problem is already that people simply accept any claim to authority instead of questioning it. And with questioning I don't mean to brush it off as useless but to ask for proof.
It's Eternal September.
Back before the influx of the masses, the amount of "new guys" who had no idea how to behave and what (not) to do was manageable. And they were fewer. So they had to adapt or get out.
Now the opposite is true. The internet is overflowing with ignorant idiots and the majority sets the standard.
We thought that with everyone getting access to information, idiocy would die out because people can easily access information, learn, better themselves and become more informed than ever. We heavily overestimated the idiots' will to actually learn anything.
And it's bullshit.
CS isn't BA. You can't just cram it into your head, add a lobotomy and you'll excel in the field. Provided you're a psychopath. When trying to write code, at least if you don't want to be a copy/pasting cargo cult programmer, you first of all have to understand what you're doing. And this is something you will not be taught in any school. Because that's not what our tests test. What's tested is whether you managed to soak up the curriculum and barf it onto the test before forgetting it again.
That works great in some fields, but not when you're trying to learn how to create working code.
So far nobody managed to convince me that there's even a chance you get a good programmer out of someone who shows zero interest to invest his time into self training and only relies on whatever he's taught at some school. And I really doubt there ever will be one.