Comments by "Doncarlo" (@doujinflip) on "Vox" channel.

  1. Yes, it's so strange that such "pro-life" lobbyists consistently deems those same babies to be essentially welfare queens upon birth, undeserving of taxpayer support.
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  2. ​ @TheEverFreeKing No, "well regulated" means that Congress can mandate standards for everything regarding the militia, including things like weapon type and rules regarding tracking, storage, and use. Congress just hasn't felt the need do more than fund the National Guards who absorbed all the proper militias and follow the standards of the federal forces.
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  3. In America, the color of your skin does influence the content of your character because of the way others treat you, and thus the mentality you develop.
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  4. UX geeks thought users want filtering to happen instantly and this extra step was too disruptive?
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  5. Would've, had Canada not specifically declared the space Princess Juliana gave birth in as "extraterritorial" (basically like international waters). So since Princess Margaret was not born "in Canada", she was never issued a Canadian birth certificate which confers Canadian citizenship, and was not officially born on "foreign soil" that would render her ineligible for the Dutch throne.
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  6. ​ @franciscojcsa6127 Nowadays it's only accredited diplomats, as Native Americans are subject to US federal law (not the state ones where their reservations are), and were accordingly all granted citizenship.
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  7. Increases in wages and buying power never seems to “trickle down” nearly as fast as increases to prices, which seem to happen as fast as the companies can print the new stickers.
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  8. Compared to other countries, Americans get what they pay for in tax filings even while abroad for however long -- the US Embassy would send an officer to at least check up on Americans who are jailed or hospitalized, and offer repatriation on request (it's a pricey loan but always available as long as the embassy is operating); meanwhile many other citizens find their local diplomat won't bother to deal with a commoner.
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  9. Only where the light touches though, which won't be everywhere. Even if not completely eliminated, just reducing the density of damaging pathogens in the environment goes a long way in suppressing the subsequent illness.
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  10. More wealth also has more requirements to defend and develop it. Most of us don't hire personal bodyguards and tax avoidance accountants, but the financial elite certainly would.
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  11. ​ @niyo919 The pie is shrinking not because of left-vs-right (lateral violence), but because of top-vs-bottom (class conflict). But this thinking gets called "socialist", even though redistribution is very popular once implemented -- just ask retirees, Alaska residents (through their Permanent Fund), and the surprising following of right-wingers who supported Andrew Yang for President.
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  12. All you have to do is ignore the chaebol and other born-privileged "good families" who collude with the authorities to drop legal barriers on rising startups by those outside their personal social circles, in order to prevent viable competition to their revenue stream and social status.
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  13. Similar with nearly all urbanized countries, but China's population outlook is more similar to Europe during the Black Plague.
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  14. Problem with mortgages is that you need money (for the down payment) in order to save money. Plus confidence that your career will remain within commuting distance of said home the whole time.
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  15.  @paulmerritt8593  If every human lived like an average American, Earth can only sustain 2 billion people. Competition against rising minds and robots is only getting stiffer and more expensive. As we see in developing countries, children of unprepared and unsupported parents are a consistent way of stalling upward social mobility since they're increasingly unable to achieve the rising minimum standards-- and pro-birthers are often the same people who refuse to provide real support to the most vulnerable families. So more welfare or less drag. Refusing both only leads to increasingly violent irritation down the line.
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  16. Test scores alone don't make for a respectable human being. "Just because you can doesn't mean you should," and it sounds like the "personality" rating attempts to balance capability with judiciousness.
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  17.  Ryan Alex  Nuclear and coal were also shut down from extreme cold. And unlike benign wind turbines, they're a bit more hazardous to defrost.
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  18. Only if they're hatched and raised in a sterile environment prior to emplacement. Otherwise they're as bad as the poop-eating flies they came from. (They were born on poop)
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  19.  @RLyc1111  I've lived in Africa and SE Asia, and ironically the locals have expressed that they see colonialism coming from China. The politicians and media might be full of praise, but on the street attitudes towards China are considerably more suspicious and lukewarm.
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  20. It'd have to be forced from the federal level, which itself is a legal hurdle due to the recognized sovereignty of the individual states. A few Red states have already preemptively banned anything but the winner-take-all method.
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  21. ​ @TheFireGiver More like high salaries to pay off equally high costs of living where they are.
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  22. Then it's not much different from before, when permanent residency was granted on arrival for merely surviving a boat ride... they even offered a legal change of name on the spot. This history escapes the critics whose own ancestors were often even more poor and lost when they first stepped foot on US soil.
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  23. Unfortunately democracies need more dramatic shocks to compel action. Statistics and invisible injuries don't have nearly the same impact as a pictures of people stuck to wheelchairs and iron lungs.
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  24. Up until Trump, independent voters always had a habit of voting against their own interests. Hopefully the threat of Trump again gets the uncommitted to vote in a way that doesn't leave them with buyer's remorse as was historically the case.
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  25. "Merit" gets measured differently for different groups in practice. Minorities have to already have performed something tangible, whereas white men get to be judged on something more vague like "potential".
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  26.  @eoincampbell1584  Depends on the lifestyle. If we all turned vegan and had the motivation of a cow the Earth could theoretically support 40 billion. But if we lived like Westerners who are actively researching how to get off this planet before the Sun explodes it's more like just 1 billion.
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  27. China makes it so though. The CPC's philosophy and political persistence relies on continuous indefinite "struggle" against some enemy of the month, compounded by narrow-minded "scientific" thinking (i.e. without the uninhibited explorations of authentic humanities) that has them habitually reacting to unforseen consequences of their own projects and policies.
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  28. Americans express it openly, but the absolutist mindset is common throughout humanity particularly with easily-terrorized traditionalists.
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  29. Even in car-centric places like Dubai and Doha it’s a huge savings to take its public transit. Gas might be cheap but valid insurance and the car itself not so much.
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  30. I'd like to see a meta-flick set around filmmaking in Vancouver, kind of like "The Fall Guy" was for stunt doubles.
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  31. Winner-take-all system, which naturally settles on two sides: the winner, and the losers (plural). Hence no middle ground third party that can challenge them with a mix of both arguments and force a compromise.
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  32.  @kldgg2-x2m  On the contrary, COVID is more devastating since about 10% end up with significant lingering effects. For polio only 0.5% are unlucky enough to have it jump into their nervous system (even less for paralysis) -- 75% of polio cases are asymptomatic.
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  33. Being short is an advantage in any vehicle, and might ironically stop our upward evolutionary pressures as we continue to climb into high performance machines. Notice how tankers, pilots, and astronauts are more often below rather than above average in size.
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  34. The Wealth Tax described doesn't take effect for the first $50m. Above that level if you can't afford to spare a few thousand, there's something wrong with the way you work.
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  35. More like center-right Dems are preventing the dramatic changes that provide more public support and mobility opportunity for the vulnerable, reducing potential popularity by making the overall platform look indecisive and weak compared to the disciplined reactionary Republicans.
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  36. The problem is the types of IDs they accept, which are skewed and targeted accordingly. For example: accepting concealed-carry weapons permits (which requires owning a firearm and proving its legality), but not school or work IDs, and also making it inconvenient and expensive to get a general state-issued ID (selective DMV closures and staffing changes). On top of that they may want additional proof of residency, so even a passport that proves citizenship alone isn't enough.
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  37. Corporations definitely don’t pay as much as they should for the public benefits they enjoy, but I would be more cautious about defunding defense. Global trade and the suppression of price inflation that it allows would be immensely disrupted if adversaries are enabled to enforce a so-called “multipolar” world which caters to their more exclusionary ideologies; think more Ever Given blocking the Suez type of incidents but done by the actions and policies of a regional hegemon. There’s a reason Pax Romana, Pax Mongolica, Pax Brittanica, and Pax Americana were named after the one state who ensured security over the trade routes for like a third of humanity at the time.
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  38. Every other disease didn't have nearly as many data points (i.e. infected people) to work with, nor the funding and attention to accelerate the analysis.
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  39. Right, the risk of teaching such specific technical information is that they're no longer relevant when you finally need it. Those algebra and calculus are useful not because of the equations you'd solve, but because you're developing the underlying mindset to understand how to build the equation and manipulate the numbers when similar situations arise -- things like figuring out how expensive gas really is driving abroad when it's priced in Kroners per Liter.
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  40. ​ @ComanderSazabi2000 China has a Dàng'àn (档案) system that is functionally a social credit system. It's a dossier of education, employment, political, and criminal records. It's held so secretly that the subject isn't allowed to see the full file even though their school/employer/police can submit whatever they want into it, and done so permanently that they can't petition for corrections.
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  41. Unfortunately without a fundamental change to the voting structure like ranked-choice polling, we'll always converge on exactly two viable choices which makes the candidates easier to buy out.
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  42. All urbanized societies have a falling birthrate, but the US makes up for it in immigrants who compared to native-born are more healthy to move and hungry for work. China doesn't have this attraction, and throughout history keeps losing more people than it gains through other than births and conquest (neither of which are viable options anymore).
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  43. Americans value shortsighted individual "freedom", great for experimentations but hostile to well-known concepts that "violate" personal agency.
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  44. That would be a privacy if not security risk. They need their house value to keep rising so that when they sell off to some corporation (who in turn will only rent it out), they have to funds to blow on assisted living and terminal healthcare costs.
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  45. As was mentioned, that massive stone/brick/thick cement type of construction takes up a lot of resources and is itself unsustainable. Besides, our requirements change as technology advances -- all that material gets in the way of the pipes, cables, and wireless signals that modern life relies on.
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  46. I think young people already realize this. Hence all the job hopping (much more profitable than promotion to supervisor in the same firm) while YOLOing travel experiences at every opportunity.
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  47. In 1927, the US may have granted birthright citizenship to a bona fide king -- Rama IX of Thailand. He was born while his father was a student (not in diplomatic status) studying in Harvard accompanied by his mother. He never expressed his American citizenship, but he never renounced it either 🇹🇭👑🇺🇸
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  48. All we hear is shame about not saving and hustling enough, when the real problem is we're not paid enough for the work we're already doing.
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  49. Good grades alone don't make respectable human beings. Colleges don't want embarrassing alumni, like if one turns out to be a mad scientist with a long ethics rap sheet.
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  50. It was reinvested. Problem is the principal itself is shrinking due to the Retiree Boom.
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