The scientists also believe that the genetic understanding now gained will allow them to breed shorter, stockier plants that don't fall over as easily, and that these benefits could be gained without the use of genetic modification.
So with no genetic changes at all we will get different plants? Don't these people know that selective breeding IS genetic modification? No? Well why the hell not? Are they morons? Yes? Why the hell are we listening to them talk about science then? It's Slashdot you say? What difference should that make? Really? So these people read stupid news stories and then comment on them? Wait, what? They don't even read the stories? Wait, what?!? They don't even read the summaries of the stories?!? Well what the fuck do they talk about? Oh.
Irrelevant and you should know better. Its like saying since most accident happen in the home you can be completely reckless whenever you leave the house.
Yet another instance of what happens when the Venn diagram of "idiots" and "statistics" overlap.
Yeah, and the Falcons got more yards than the Patriots. So what?
I'll tell you what. If the democrats hadn't been so willing to vote for so obviously a flawed a candidate as Hillary fucking Clinton we would have Bernie Sanders in office right now.
What's the point of selling your integrity for utter incompetence and malignant destructiveness?
EXACTLY! As far as I am concerned, Democrats elected Trump, not the other way around. You could have run an HIV+ opossum in blackface against Trump and it would have won. Instead you ran the only candidate that could lose to the psycho-cheeto. Thanks democrats.
How far can such stalling and obfuscating be stretched? What are the limits?
An inspirational example is below. But one thing it makes clear. Our country is deeply divided. Not just two toxic political parties bitterly fighting (through the people who support each), but also how the government (which is made of people) are divided against the citizens. Also how the divide between rich and poor is increasing. Neither side in any of these divisions even makes a pretense of playing fair, clean or by the rules anymore.
If you took the time to check the voting record for all of your least favorite bills that have become your least favorite laws, you would notice something interesting. The vast majority of them pass with almost universal support from both parties. There are innumerable examples, here are a few: the DMCA, or the Patriot Act, or even the Iraq war, for instance. So, one could surmise that in the most contentious circumstances, in the most trying of times, and under the most intense pressure to defend the rights and lives of Americans, your "bitterly fighting" parties vote unanimously in favor of propositions that lead to evisceration of the constitutional rights of Americans as well as the deaths of the same.
I don't see a bitter fight between ideologically opposed parties. Sure they seem to fight with the tactics and maturity of 5th graders on the playground. But on closer inspection it starts to look more like a WWE match: Full of bravado, grandstanding, shifting alliances, betrayal, and cheating. But ultimately it is scripted and fake from the word go. What I see is a fucking freak show designed to carry idiots away on a wave of emotion, and keep them as far from the truth as possible.
Correct MM. Have any of the rest of you taken any government classes, ever? Every branch of government continually attempts to expand their power. Every single one, every single time they are given the opportunity.
The problem is those people who view their party as the salvation of the country, rather than viewing the people of the country as their allies regardless of political affiliation. Why is this the problem? Because partisan sub-humans support government power expansion when it is done by the leaders they elect. Since they view their elected leader as a club with which to beat the rest of the population into submission to their dearly held principles, the more power they can invest in those leaders the better. One would think that it would be obvious to even the most rabidly partisan that this is incredibly short sighted and counterproductive.
Overwork, constantly subverting the durinal impulse, stress chemicals cranked to the max, overlaid with caffeine and god knows what other stimulants, PHB's and TPS reports sapping your autonomy, random production death marches, and constant reminders that you have no authority: this will absolutely destroy the testosterone production of any male, much less ones dedicated to a sedentary workstyle.
Humans are built for physical work for 8-10 hours a day and plenty of social interaction. These people are about as far removed from the natural harmonious state of human interaction with people, their world, and their environment as you can find this side of a solitary confinement wing. No surprise they aren't copulating. It's like their genes are saying, "Why bring children into this environment? It sucks ass."
So the chance that a guy might out a trans person is equal to smashing building windows, setting fires, and assaulting people?
I think the safety of the students was completely ignored when the police and local government let masked and armed mobs engage in violent insurrection specifically designed to curtail freedom of speech. That kind of attack is unacceptable in my opinion.
No need to argue. I understand that as long as you are getting your way you will support the means and you will find a way to justify it.
You just equated "rioting" and "protesting." They are not the same and you know it.
You are also sidestepping the issue, which is that so-called progressives are using violence and mayhem to suppress speech. Furthermore, they did so with the tacit approval of the local government, as evidenced by the fact that "no arrests were made."
Also, liberal democracies are not maintained by allowing protestors to practice violent rebellion without recourse. The rule of law must be maintained. Selective enforcement in the face of rioting encourages the behavior, which will lead to more riots, more violence, more suppression of speech.
Who will reason with them? The people who's first engagement with someone of different ideology is to call them "racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic, etcphobic?"
I'm sure that kind of idiotic progressive jingoism will be exceptionally productive in changing minds.
Sadly the violence and riots you are referring to are merely a training ground for subversives that are all too happy to piggy back on a national leftist platform. The left is unknowingly incubating the destruction of their own country, and smiling all the way. They are too ignorant and short sighted to realize that what you allow and accept becomes the norm. Just like the left's acceptance and support of "a phone and a pen" and overreaching executive orders has allowed our current president unparalleled freedom to change law in his first week in office. Just like allowing and stimulating militant leftists to practice insurgency without punishment will ultimately lead to violent rebellion.
The kind of 'common sense' that leads to violent riots at Berkley? Sorry, but I'm not overlooking human rights, decency, and free speech and I am not supporting fascism in any form, or from any political construct in the US.
As far as I am concerned, anyone who is partisan in America these days is a fool. Your "party" and your "ideology" are nothing more than focus-group-honed brain candy. The narratives they push are engineered to keep you emotionally off balance, stressed, and at the throats of your fellow Americans. Angry sheep are still sheep, no matter how "justified" and "right" you feel you are.
I swear to god its like watching 50 million Soros finger puppets fight 50 million Bannon finger puppets. Not a one of you have a single idea of your own. You just get the info pumped straight up your asses, completely bypassing your brain.
Your assertion that we only needed to keep track of "real data" is so deeply assumptive, naive, and flawed I am surprised you can feed yourself. Anything from history and news to what happened on the way to work, even something as simple as an interaction between two people, is and always has been subject to spin, misinterpretation, misunderstanding, misrepresentation, error, and good old deliberate lies. There is always a difference between what actually happened and the story you tell yourself and others.
You think "alternative facts" are a new thing? You think they just started happening once this administration started using the term? Ever heard the phrase "history is written by the winners?" Its the same damn thing. Ever watched MSNBC or Fox News? Same damn thing.
Even thinking that you have the real data to compare the "alternative facts" to is an assumption without merit. Your best bet is to check multiple sources and then analyze. Look at the emphasis, de-emphasis, omissions, x-or the "facts," Venn diagram the overlap in multiple dimensions between the material. Then check the motivations, historical groupthink, and tunnel vision from the sources you are checking. Last and most important, don't ever accept anyone else's narrative. Ever.
The biggest enemy of reality is bias. Unfortunately, the only reliable auditor of your internal state is also the origin of your bias. Most people will never challenge their bias. They already know they are right and their brain is more than willing to rubber stamp anything that confirms their preconceived notions. Brains are geared to collecting evidence of correlation and reinforcement. Actively challenging your own beliefs is seldom done. As a result, the production of most brains is hopelessly flawed with bias.
If you are just now realizing this you have a ton of catching up to do. And, based on your reaction and so many others like you, the administration's use of the term "alternative facts" was a good thing. It has the possibility of turning brain dead sheep into thinking beings.
If you think I voted for Trump, or Hillary, you are so incredibly vapid I don't know where to start with idiots like you.
Nothing I stated is in support of Trump. I am merely pointing out the behavior of you humans that allowed him to not only take office, but to also have both his detractors and supporters dancing around on strings like marionettes.
You poor stupid creature. You can't even understand when someone is agreeing with you and providing the unvarnished truth. You are well and truly trapped.
This is how people become hopelessly dissatisfied with their work.
I am in sales and I live and die by a simple axiom that resonates with my internal model of the way the world should be:
If I help enough people get what they want I never have to ask for what I need.
My focus is always on the customer, never on money. My objective is to help others, not myself. Magically this has led to a low 6 figure income in the most unlikely of places. It has been sufficient to support my wife and I and our three children with only me working for 20 years.
I see people who get into sales because they think they are motivated by money. These people become disillusioned when they start earning money and find they are terribly dissatisfied with their life. I relate this to misapprehension of their true motivation. Finding what truly motivates you, what makes your heart sing, what fulfills you and gives meaning to your life, and aligning your life with those principles in a way that generates income is what leads to long term success and happiness.
I work in the auto industry. Consider all manufacturer surveys on a logarithmic scale. On a 1 through 10 rating system with 1 being the lowest and 10 being the highest, most dealership operators and manufacturers consider 9 a failing grade for the salesperson. Yes, you read that right. A survey filled out with 9's all the way down will get most salespeople called on the carpet. And if you average a 90% rating for the month you may not work there the next month.
Many salespeople's living wage is ties to bonuses that come from customer satisfaction ratings. You get paid one amount for selling a car. You get paid a higher amount if your average customer satisfaction for the month (or sometimes a 3 month rolling average) is above a certain very high number (like 97%.) Some dealerships tie all performance bonuses to high customer satisfaction scores, easily halving the pay of the salesperson if they get one survey with low scores.
For instance, as a salesperson I have had one customer who scored a survey in the 85% range and due to the circumstances of that month, it cost me over $3500 in lost bonuses. This is not an isolated instance. It happens routinely at dealerships all over the country.
The first time I heard from a manufacturer's rep that customer satisfaction ratings are directly related to not only future sales for the marque but also current resale value I knew it was a sham.
I would take issue with your first assertion. The memory, record, and threat of our bellicose foreign interactions are a deterrent for all of our adversaries.
The blunder of the Vietnam War you point to is misplaced. That war was created by the US for ulterior motives having to do with China. One's lens of that part of history is distorted if they think in terms of victory in North Vietnam being a prerequisite for American victory and attainment of American goals in that region. It was specifically not the objective and when the objective was accomplished America withdrew its forces. See the Pentagon Papers for details.
The planning, incitement, and creation of a war for ulterior motives proves your point about America loving war. The memories of our grandfathers who survived World War II disprove it. As always the battle field looks quite different when from the safety of Washington rather than through the eyes of infantry.
Seeing both aspects of a Necker Cube simultaneously could be an indication of hyper-savantism, or so I have read...
Literary references/jokes aside, the human capacity and propensity to develop certitude in the face of little to no relevant information is a hindrance to acquiring knowledge and understanding. Allowing multiple competing theories to occupy space in your head concurrently is a much better strategy.
I should have added "Reproduction should be enforced and enhanced in countries that express industrial prowess, provided that prowess enhances viability of mankind."
Like I said, I don't believe these things are right or correct, merely justifiable through the "think of the grandchildren" lens.
If we don't want to "fuck our grandchildren over" we need to kill 20-75% of our children. This is regionally variable based on resource availability and cultural memes. (Meme used in the way the term's creator, Richard Dawkins, used it.)
Wars are fought over population pressure and resource scarcity, even perceived scarcity. Wars are also fought over meme conflicts.
If we want to maintain our civilized world we need to exterminate or severely restrict the reproduction of those human cultures that are antithetical to civilization. We also need to do the same with those cultures that cannot justify their resource consumption by increasing human viability.
Responsibility for memes transmitted to the next generation are a viable criteria to determine whether or not a next generation is allowed to you.
(I don't subscribe to these things, however they are easily argued as justifiable if the motivation is "don't fuck over the grandchildren.")
Based on the fossil record of extinctions, which arguably only records a very small percentage of the total species that have gone extinct since life began on Earth, the clock should be in superposition between 11:59 and 12:00.
Or, in other words, if the system continues to operate in the same way the system has been operating for billions of years, we could be wiped out at any instant, and will be, soon. In geological terms we are already dead and gone; just averaged right out with the rest of the species that went extinct in this 100 million year period. Sentient plants will dig up our fossilized remains 600 million years hence, along with dodos, woolly mammoths, and Tasmanian wolves, and see no difference in when we were eliminated from the extant and active DNA configurations on the planet.
Here's the real truth: There is no safety. Security is an illusion and a lie. It's not OK and neither are you. The universe is an infinite expanse of sterile uncaring desolation, devoid of even death, just waiting to extend one infinitesimally small finger of itself onto this oasis of life, the merest touch of which will completely eradicate all of mankind. Even the area occupied by life on earth is only a wisp, the habitable area a phantom, a limning of genetic flotsam precariously suspended over seething molten rock, trapped below stark vacuum. As a part of that wisp, you are not even insignificant. Statistically, you do not exist.
Find solace in that, if you must find it somewhere.
1) People generally start smoking weed in their teenage years. 2) Schizophrenia generally becomes symptomatic in the teenage years 3) An diagnosed schizophrenic can have psychosis symptoms from smoking weed
Therefore, to uninformed fucks, weed causes schizophrenia. So far studies imply correlation with zero causation. The rate of schizophrenia does not increase with smoking weed, but some people first notice symptoms concurrently with smoking weed.
This wouldn't even be a discussion if the US government wasn't completely psychotic in its scheduling laws.
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Definitely a paraphrase. There is a distinction between "what you know you don't know" and "what you don't know you don't know."
I can point to what I know I don't know. For instance, I know I don't know how to speak Korean. If I don't know I don't know something I can't even.
The scientists also believe that the genetic understanding now gained will allow them to breed shorter, stockier plants that don't fall over as easily, and that these benefits could be gained without the use of genetic modification.
So with no genetic changes at all we will get different plants? Don't these people know that selective breeding IS genetic modification? No? Well why the hell not? Are they morons? Yes? Why the hell are we listening to them talk about science then? It's Slashdot you say? What difference should that make? Really? So these people read stupid news stories and then comment on them? Wait, what? They don't even read the stories? Wait, what?!? They don't even read the summaries of the stories?!? Well what the fuck do they talk about? Oh.
Irrelevant and you should know better. Its like saying since most accident happen in the home you can be completely reckless whenever you leave the house.
Yet another instance of what happens when the Venn diagram of "idiots" and "statistics" overlap.
Hillary got 3 million more voters than Trump...
Yeah, and the Falcons got more yards than the Patriots. So what?
I'll tell you what. If the democrats hadn't been so willing to vote for so obviously a flawed a candidate as Hillary fucking Clinton we would have Bernie Sanders in office right now.
What's the point of selling your integrity for utter incompetence and malignant destructiveness?
EXACTLY! As far as I am concerned, Democrats elected Trump, not the other way around. You could have run an HIV+ opossum in blackface against Trump and it would have won. Instead you ran the only candidate that could lose to the psycho-cheeto. Thanks democrats.
How far can such stalling and obfuscating be stretched? What are the limits?
An inspirational example is below. But one thing it makes clear. Our country is deeply divided. Not just two toxic political parties bitterly fighting (through the people who support each), but also how the government (which is made of people) are divided against the citizens. Also how the divide between rich and poor is increasing. Neither side in any of these divisions even makes a pretense of playing fair, clean or by the rules anymore.
If you took the time to check the voting record for all of your least favorite bills that have become your least favorite laws, you would notice something interesting. The vast majority of them pass with almost universal support from both parties. There are innumerable examples, here are a few: the DMCA, or the Patriot Act, or even the Iraq war, for instance. So, one could surmise that in the most contentious circumstances, in the most trying of times, and under the most intense pressure to defend the rights and lives of Americans, your "bitterly fighting" parties vote unanimously in favor of propositions that lead to evisceration of the constitutional rights of Americans as well as the deaths of the same.
I don't see a bitter fight between ideologically opposed parties. Sure they seem to fight with the tactics and maturity of 5th graders on the playground. But on closer inspection it starts to look more like a WWE match: Full of bravado, grandstanding, shifting alliances, betrayal, and cheating. But ultimately it is scripted and fake from the word go. What I see is a fucking freak show designed to carry idiots away on a wave of emotion, and keep them as far from the truth as possible.
Correct MM. Have any of the rest of you taken any government classes, ever? Every branch of government continually attempts to expand their power. Every single one, every single time they are given the opportunity.
The problem is those people who view their party as the salvation of the country, rather than viewing the people of the country as their allies regardless of political affiliation. Why is this the problem? Because partisan sub-humans support government power expansion when it is done by the leaders they elect. Since they view their elected leader as a club with which to beat the rest of the population into submission to their dearly held principles, the more power they can invest in those leaders the better. One would think that it would be obvious to even the most rabidly partisan that this is incredibly short sighted and counterproductive.
One would think...
Consider grinding your teeth when you are holding her close, with your jaw right beside her ear.
Overwork, constantly subverting the durinal impulse, stress chemicals cranked to the max, overlaid with caffeine and god knows what other stimulants, PHB's and TPS reports sapping your autonomy, random production death marches, and constant reminders that you have no authority: this will absolutely destroy the testosterone production of any male, much less ones dedicated to a sedentary workstyle.
Humans are built for physical work for 8-10 hours a day and plenty of social interaction. These people are about as far removed from the natural harmonious state of human interaction with people, their world, and their environment as you can find this side of a solitary confinement wing. No surprise they aren't copulating. It's like their genes are saying, "Why bring children into this environment? It sucks ass."
So the chance that a guy might out a trans person is equal to smashing building windows, setting fires, and assaulting people?
I think the safety of the students was completely ignored when the police and local government let masked and armed mobs engage in violent insurrection specifically designed to curtail freedom of speech. That kind of attack is unacceptable in my opinion.
No need to argue. I understand that as long as you are getting your way you will support the means and you will find a way to justify it.
It would also have proven that many black slave owners were not racist. Of course we know that isn't true. They were all obviously racist.
You just equated "rioting" and "protesting." They are not the same and you know it.
You are also sidestepping the issue, which is that so-called progressives are using violence and mayhem to suppress speech. Furthermore, they did so with the tacit approval of the local government, as evidenced by the fact that "no arrests were made."
Also, liberal democracies are not maintained by allowing protestors to practice violent rebellion without recourse. The rule of law must be maintained. Selective enforcement in the face of rioting encourages the behavior, which will lead to more riots, more violence, more suppression of speech.
Who will reason with them? The people who's first engagement with someone of different ideology is to call them "racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic, etcphobic?"
I'm sure that kind of idiotic progressive jingoism will be exceptionally productive in changing minds.
Sadly the violence and riots you are referring to are merely a training ground for subversives that are all too happy to piggy back on a national leftist platform. The left is unknowingly incubating the destruction of their own country, and smiling all the way. They are too ignorant and short sighted to realize that what you allow and accept becomes the norm. Just like the left's acceptance and support of "a phone and a pen" and overreaching executive orders has allowed our current president unparalleled freedom to change law in his first week in office. Just like allowing and stimulating militant leftists to practice insurgency without punishment will ultimately lead to violent rebellion.
The kind of 'common sense' that leads to violent riots at Berkley? Sorry, but I'm not overlooking human rights, decency, and free speech and I am not supporting fascism in any form, or from any political construct in the US.
As far as I am concerned, anyone who is partisan in America these days is a fool. Your "party" and your "ideology" are nothing more than focus-group-honed brain candy. The narratives they push are engineered to keep you emotionally off balance, stressed, and at the throats of your fellow Americans. Angry sheep are still sheep, no matter how "justified" and "right" you feel you are.
I swear to god its like watching 50 million Soros finger puppets fight 50 million Bannon finger puppets. Not a one of you have a single idea of your own. You just get the info pumped straight up your asses, completely bypassing your brain.
Humans are those computers.
Your assertion that we only needed to keep track of "real data" is so deeply assumptive, naive, and flawed I am surprised you can feed yourself. Anything from history and news to what happened on the way to work, even something as simple as an interaction between two people, is and always has been subject to spin, misinterpretation, misunderstanding, misrepresentation, error, and good old deliberate lies. There is always a difference between what actually happened and the story you tell yourself and others.
You think "alternative facts" are a new thing? You think they just started happening once this administration started using the term? Ever heard the phrase "history is written by the winners?" Its the same damn thing. Ever watched MSNBC or Fox News? Same damn thing.
Even thinking that you have the real data to compare the "alternative facts" to is an assumption without merit. Your best bet is to check multiple sources and then analyze. Look at the emphasis, de-emphasis, omissions, x-or the "facts," Venn diagram the overlap in multiple dimensions between the material. Then check the motivations, historical groupthink, and tunnel vision from the sources you are checking. Last and most important, don't ever accept anyone else's narrative. Ever.
The biggest enemy of reality is bias. Unfortunately, the only reliable auditor of your internal state is also the origin of your bias. Most people will never challenge their bias. They already know they are right and their brain is more than willing to rubber stamp anything that confirms their preconceived notions. Brains are geared to collecting evidence of correlation and reinforcement. Actively challenging your own beliefs is seldom done. As a result, the production of most brains is hopelessly flawed with bias.
If you are just now realizing this you have a ton of catching up to do. And, based on your reaction and so many others like you, the administration's use of the term "alternative facts" was a good thing. It has the possibility of turning brain dead sheep into thinking beings.
If you think I voted for Trump, or Hillary, you are so incredibly vapid I don't know where to start with idiots like you.
Nothing I stated is in support of Trump. I am merely pointing out the behavior of you humans that allowed him to not only take office, but to also have both his detractors and supporters dancing around on strings like marionettes.
You poor stupid creature. You can't even understand when someone is agreeing with you and providing the unvarnished truth. You are well and truly trapped.
This is how people become hopelessly dissatisfied with their work.
I am in sales and I live and die by a simple axiom that resonates with my internal model of the way the world should be:
If I help enough people get what they want I never have to ask for what I need.
My focus is always on the customer, never on money. My objective is to help others, not myself. Magically this has led to a low 6 figure income in the most unlikely of places. It has been sufficient to support my wife and I and our three children with only me working for 20 years.
I see people who get into sales because they think they are motivated by money. These people become disillusioned when they start earning money and find they are terribly dissatisfied with their life. I relate this to misapprehension of their true motivation. Finding what truly motivates you, what makes your heart sing, what fulfills you and gives meaning to your life, and aligning your life with those principles in a way that generates income is what leads to long term success and happiness.
My $0.02, for what its worth.
I work in the auto industry. Consider all manufacturer surveys on a logarithmic scale. On a 1 through 10 rating system with 1 being the lowest and 10 being the highest, most dealership operators and manufacturers consider 9 a failing grade for the salesperson. Yes, you read that right. A survey filled out with 9's all the way down will get most salespeople called on the carpet. And if you average a 90% rating for the month you may not work there the next month.
Many salespeople's living wage is ties to bonuses that come from customer satisfaction ratings. You get paid one amount for selling a car. You get paid a higher amount if your average customer satisfaction for the month (or sometimes a 3 month rolling average) is above a certain very high number (like 97%.) Some dealerships tie all performance bonuses to high customer satisfaction scores, easily halving the pay of the salesperson if they get one survey with low scores.
For instance, as a salesperson I have had one customer who scored a survey in the 85% range and due to the circumstances of that month, it cost me over $3500 in lost bonuses. This is not an isolated instance. It happens routinely at dealerships all over the country.
The first time I heard from a manufacturer's rep that customer satisfaction ratings are directly related to not only future sales for the marque but also current resale value I knew it was a sham.
I would take issue with your first assertion. The memory, record, and threat of our bellicose foreign interactions are a deterrent for all of our adversaries.
The blunder of the Vietnam War you point to is misplaced. That war was created by the US for ulterior motives having to do with China. One's lens of that part of history is distorted if they think in terms of victory in North Vietnam being a prerequisite for American victory and attainment of American goals in that region. It was specifically not the objective and when the objective was accomplished America withdrew its forces. See the Pentagon Papers for details.
The planning, incitement, and creation of a war for ulterior motives proves your point about America loving war. The memories of our grandfathers who survived World War II disprove it. As always the battle field looks quite different when from the safety of Washington rather than through the eyes of infantry.
Seeing both aspects of a Necker Cube simultaneously could be an indication of hyper-savantism, or so I have read...
Literary references/jokes aside, the human capacity and propensity to develop certitude in the face of little to no relevant information is a hindrance to acquiring knowledge and understanding. Allowing multiple competing theories to occupy space in your head concurrently is a much better strategy.
Not if we nuke all of them before they can escape the rising waters.
You're right.
I should have added "Reproduction should be enforced and enhanced in countries that express industrial prowess, provided that prowess enhances viability of mankind."
Like I said, I don't believe these things are right or correct, merely justifiable through the "think of the grandchildren" lens.
If we don't want to "fuck our grandchildren over" we need to kill 20-75% of our children. This is regionally variable based on resource availability and cultural memes. (Meme used in the way the term's creator, Richard Dawkins, used it.)
Wars are fought over population pressure and resource scarcity, even perceived scarcity. Wars are also fought over meme conflicts.
If we want to maintain our civilized world we need to exterminate or severely restrict the reproduction of those human cultures that are antithetical to civilization. We also need to do the same with those cultures that cannot justify their resource consumption by increasing human viability.
Responsibility for memes transmitted to the next generation are a viable criteria to determine whether or not a next generation is allowed to you.
(I don't subscribe to these things, however they are easily argued as justifiable if the motivation is "don't fuck over the grandchildren.")
Based on the fossil record of extinctions, which arguably only records a very small percentage of the total species that have gone extinct since life began on Earth, the clock should be in superposition between 11:59 and 12:00.
Or, in other words, if the system continues to operate in the same way the system has been operating for billions of years, we could be wiped out at any instant, and will be, soon. In geological terms we are already dead and gone; just averaged right out with the rest of the species that went extinct in this 100 million year period. Sentient plants will dig up our fossilized remains 600 million years hence, along with dodos, woolly mammoths, and Tasmanian wolves, and see no difference in when we were eliminated from the extant and active DNA configurations on the planet.
Here's the real truth: There is no safety. Security is an illusion and a lie. It's not OK and neither are you. The universe is an infinite expanse of sterile uncaring desolation, devoid of even death, just waiting to extend one infinitesimally small finger of itself onto this oasis of life, the merest touch of which will completely eradicate all of mankind. Even the area occupied by life on earth is only a wisp, the habitable area a phantom, a limning of genetic flotsam precariously suspended over seething molten rock, trapped below stark vacuum. As a part of that wisp, you are not even insignificant. Statistically, you do not exist.
Find solace in that, if you must find it somewhere.
Here's the connection:
1) People generally start smoking weed in their teenage years.
2) Schizophrenia generally becomes symptomatic in the teenage years
3) An diagnosed schizophrenic can have psychosis symptoms from smoking weed
Therefore, to uninformed fucks, weed causes schizophrenia. So far studies imply correlation with zero causation. The rate of schizophrenia does not increase with smoking weed, but some people first notice symptoms concurrently with smoking weed.
This wouldn't even be a discussion if the US government wasn't completely psychotic in its scheduling laws.