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Hatred and disdain are two different things.
Nice straw man.
White countries are rich, because they have a large amount of social and cultural capital, which we maintain by having rules and norms that we enforce.
Third world countries are poor because of their lack of culture, lack of law and contract enforcement, lack of morals and respect at street level, and because of general filth, shittiness and decay.
Whitey didn't make you rape and rob each other, or throw rubbish in the streets, or rip each other off. This is readily apparent when you see the filth in Third World areas of major cities like London. The difference is like night and day.
Poor countries are poor _despite_ the influence of evil Whitey, not because of him.
White countries are rich because of geography. Try reading Guns, Germs and Steel.
Atheists will be in for a rude awakening when they die as they will realize that their belief was incomplete.
Religion is for those with weak minds who cannot cope with the finality of death. They seek comfort from fanciful notions of an afterlife. 'You'll get pie in the sky when you die' - that's a lie!
Would you go to a tourist place where your internet that you intend to use to keep in touch with home sucks? Maybe you will, but how many like you?
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Option C : Mobile providers raise the standard charges more than necessary and justify the raise saying ordinary people need to pay for the yuppies who roam Europe in their sports cars while chatting on their phones
Or low paid workers going abroad to find work can afford to phone home. Or workers who commute across borders don't have to turn their phones off.
4. What are the chances of us being at the bottom of an infinite chain of simulators?
The Bostrom paper explicitly refers to "posthumans" running ancestor simulations. If our sim has not yet reached the posthuman level, we will be at the bottom.
The next person to mention spaghetti stacks to me is going to have his head knocked off. -- Bill Conrad