Mecha-Hitler disagrees.

And "toxic" is just a code-word for masculine. Which has been declared "toxic" by our overlords, who don't want us to oppose them.

The Economy relies on ever-increasing amounts of debt to function. Banks are fine with lending money because they expect taxpayers to bail them out if the loans go bad.

> I feel like the entire world is caught up in snake oil salesmanship to the point of destroying the entirety of functional society, just because a very few people might make some money off of it. WTF?

It's been like that for years now. Society is collapsing and we're in the Looting The Treasury phase.

Without Moore's Law you can build more powerful chips by making them bigger, but they'll take more power to run. Which means more cooling to keep them running and more power plants to run them.

There might be improvements to chip design to make them more optimal for AI software, but that's likely to be a one-off.

The problem is for every hundred "We've found a cure for disease X in mice!" stories I see, I see one where the cure that worked in mice didn't not work in humans. And it may not actually work very well because humans and mice are so different.

> Why would somebody who believes in objective truths like science, want to live in a country where the ruling class has complete, un-challenged power?

Why would they want to live in a democracy where the government flips every few years and the flips are growing increasingly large and insane?

Aside from all that money they paid you and the connections you made and all that stuff. Which hopefully will pay for you to retire somewhere else.

China is a serious nation and doesn't give away citizenship like candy the way the US does.

America can't have walkable cities because modern American cities are literally designed so the middle and upper class can get away from 'minorities'. That means suburbs which can only be reached by car.

The same is now increasingly true of much of Europe, where whites flee the already walkable parts of the city to get away from the millions of 'minorities' their governments have imported over the last twenty years.

Interesting thought: do you think New York's new government-run grocery stores will let people just walk out without paying?

Because I don't live in SF and have no desire to go there?

But it's obviously just more fake security if all a shoplifter needs to do is get someone's receipt to walk out of the store past the guard.

So shoplifters just have to get hold of one old receipt and they're good?

The whole point of these "age limits" is to force people to accept digital ID. This is why we're seeing a coordinated push all over the world.

You need to fill it out because by doing so you're authorizing the government to take your money. Otherwise they're literally just stealing it.

> Yes, those religions do have some empathy in their philosophy, and it is the first thing to go when they feel threatened or if they find something of someone else's that they like more than what they have.

Empathy means the ability to see the world from someone else's point of view. It does not mean "giving your country to foreigners."

Empathy tends to lead to inqusitions, pogroms and wars because empathic people can understand the point of view of others and don't imagine that those people are "all the same under the skin." Then they realize they don't like those people much and want them gone.

The left love talking about empathy, but have none. If they did, they wouldn't be the left.

When the problem is easy credit, adding more easy credit just makes things worse. The only fix is a massive destruction of credit and the malinvestments it created, but that's impossible in a democracy as you'll lose the next election.

When I was travelling in the third world about 25 years ago one of the locals was telling me how, unlike developed countries, everyone who could afford it had to buy a generator to produce power when the grid couldn't.

Yeah.

Reliable power is just so 20th century. Probably fascist too.