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Replace 'electricity' with 'wind' and/or 'moving air' and/or 'breath', and now you understand what Proto-Judaic Canaanites circa 800 BCE thought 'spirit' was.

She made her money running a company that removes 61,000 homes from the market as available for normal people to buy as their primary home.

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EDIT: want to be clear that she didn't deserve to die for the work she did,

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What would Spok say?

"The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few."

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61,000 homes x bare minimum 2.6 avg household size = 158,600.

Homelessness rate in the US is now at least 3% of the total population.

158,600 x 0.03 = 4,758.

Homelessness is an extremely dangerous, life-threatening, often fatal condition.

In summary, nah, she absolutely deserved to die for the work she did, regardless of whatever the actual specifics of this incident are.

1 life vs almost 5k likely deaths?

This math ain't as hard as people seem to think.

If she ran a company that knowingly, intentionally, poisoned that many people's food or water, distributed that many HIV contaminated needles, sold that many defective airbags or brakepads...

...if the process wasn't so abstracted with so many steps, the moral judgement would be a lot easier for a lot more people to make.

Keep in mind: Her job was to literally operate and maintain the abstraction.

I have negative pity for this exploitative cancer formely emobodied in the form of a living human being.

Yep, the answer to many of these problems is I2P.

TOR was invented by the US Navy, roughly 1/3 of major entry/exit nodes are estimated to be comprimised / run as honeypots by various LE / Intel agencies, and said LE and Intel agencies also know how to, and have deanonimyed various people and groups on TOR that they really wanted to go after.

TOR ain't it.

I2P is a lot closer to 'it'.

The other part of the answer is:

Well, now it turns out data hoarders were not just paranoid weirdos, they actually had foresight.

If you can host your own at least several terabyte mini/curated backup of the Internet Archive, and plug that into I2P, then congrats, you now are the backup plan for when, not if, they get massively purged of even more of their content than has already been taken out in the last ~2 years.

The old cyberpunk line holds true in another sense of meaning:

The future is already here, it just isn't evenly distributed.

Oh I didn't think you were calling me crazy.

I've just been told that by many Americans who are actively losing their minds trying to balance their car payment, insurance, recent medical disaster, loss of income, etc, all while spending 6+ hours a day on whatever particular algorithically designed and manicured for them slop content app telling them who to be angry at and what items to buy to give them the desired personality.

I very much agree the fediverse is very important...

But I think that Elon actually primarily bought Twitter out of a massive, massive sense of insecurity.

He needs to be widely loved and adored and seen as 'a cool guy', so he just bought the platform so that he could be in control of his own personal adulation/worship machine.

In my opinion at least, everything else is secondary to, is an outgrowth of, is a cynical tactic that may shift at any time... all to primarily prevent his own ego from collapsing.

Could you explain 'Complaining from a high Niveau'?

I don't know what Niveua means, though I am guessing the phrase is roughly equivalent to 'Get off your high horse' or 'Check your privilege' or 'The view from the ivory tower'...

... which all roughly mean that a person has a fairly decent, wealthy and secure standard of living, and the stuggles of the poor either do not matter to them, or are literally not even conceivable to them, as they've never had to deal with those kinds of problems, and have no idea how difficult it is.

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But uh yeah... America hates the poor, and whats worst is that they've trained most of the poor to hate themselves and other poors, for being poor.

It is so obviously stupid when you break out of that mindset, but, its very well trained into us, very hard for many to escape.

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Regarding Jews/Israelis, I just wanna clarify a distinction there.

I have many Jewish relatives, here in the US.

They all despise what Israel, and Israeli Jews sre doing.

There are in fact more Jews in the US than there are Jews in Israel.

For a great many of them, the actions of the state of Israel do not speak for all Jews, and many US Jews denounce what they have been and are currently doing, many of them have been taking part in and even leading protests against the ongoing Palestinian Genocide.

Ah, Christian love, the best kind of hate...

Fuck do I hate fundie theocrats.

Ok, sorry to double post, I've fixed up the original comment more, to hopefully make more sense.

But uh, yeah.

It is really weird to be in the position of having grown up as an awkward tech dork... and now like, I have uncommonly good interpersonal social skills by the standards of many Gen Z, and a lot of Gen A.

It is just a mindfuck.

I realized in about the mid 2010s that algorithmic based content platforms just were pushing the most extreme and outrageous and infuriating kinds of content, because that is the content that best results in user retention...

And when I realized this, I swore off much of it, deleted a bunch of accounts, and highly constrained and curated what was left.

Most other people did not realize this and allowed it to normalize, and now, at least in the US, the result is a largely illiterate, immature, and anti-intellectual society that is highly conspiratorial, and treats all of reality ... as if it was a reality tv show.

People call me crazy, but I say that our society has been mass brainwashed, basically mentally neutered, acting increasingly neurotic and violent and irrational.

Derp, I did, I am also editing and expanding more to this in realtime, hold please lol.

Not meaning to be rude with this phrasing, but uh, I am significantly younger than you, born around the time you graduated HS... and yep, I have the same, gut, "this seems weird" reaction.

I was a terribly bashful nerd in the early/mid 2000s, and even I lost my v-card as either a 16 or 17 yo.

https://www.cdc.gov/yrbs/dstr/pdf/YRBS-2023-Data-Summary-Trend-Report.pdf

Thats a drop from half of kids literally fucking around in HS, to just a third, in only the last 10ish years.

I dunno if such data exists going back to when you were in HS, I'd imagine it would have been closer to around 6/10 back then (though thats just a spitball guess), but yeah, the decline has been shocking to me as well.

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IMO, the main thing that is destroying mental health is... and again, I say this as an early tech adopter, tech nerd, who had a mySpace account, who was one of the first with a Facebook account...

The cause of this is mutlifactorial, general economic decline and precarity are huge factors, but the main problem is our modern social media based digital environment, and how it trains people to act.

Brainrot is a real thing, short form video content reduces attentions spans, makes you more anxious, less confident / have lower self esteem, rapidly propagates mis and disinformation, promotes narcissism and just literally retards rhe development of functional social behaviors.

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That, and the destruction of 'third places', and then the subsequent enshittificstion of dating apps.

In your day, people could afford to go take a car and hangout somewhere they had some privacy, away from their parents at least, some area where people would go and hang out and just socialize.

Those physical spaces do not exist anymore, they all have paywalls people can no longer afford.

No average kid can afford a car on a summer job anymore.

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Then, as things digitized, realworld meetups and hangout areas began to decline, dating apps happened.

They were good for a time, but then the people running them realized that you actually make more money as a dating app by making it something you keep coming back to, hiding people you may actually jive well with behind paywalls, that what you actually want is to create a rollercoaster of 'almost worked out but didn't in the end' type relstionships... as that produces your most reliable dating app customer.

These are smart data science people running these things, they know what they're doing.

They don't say what I just said outloud, because it would be bad for their branding and marketing.

I mean, from your own link, those error bars come from:

The data being a clustered sample set,

That study wasn't specifically asking whether or not respondents were virgins, ie, had 0 sex partners.

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The error bars there are large because the actual question was 'how many sex partners have you had in the past however many years?', and then your linked post explains how this particular dataset/survey/study was then presented to try to show the answer to a question that wasn't explicitly asked.

That can have a lot more variance than a survey/study that flatly asks binary question of 'have you ever had sex before?', and then goes on to define what does and doesn't count as 'having sex'.

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And indeed when you actually do that kind of approach, there are many other graphs from many other studies showing it being increasingly for both young men and young women to be virgins, have had 0 sex partners.

https://news.iu.edu/live/news/26924-nearly-1-in-3-young-men-in-the-us-report-having-no

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/young-adult-sexlessness-skyrocketed-in-the-last-decade-while-male-virginity-doubled-study/ar-AA1z4kMy

https://www.cdc.gov/yrbs/dstr/index.html

All of these show a marked decline in the number of both young men and young women who have ever had sex, that more people remain sexless for longer, to an older age.

(Though this started earlier among men and is more pronounced, women are now catching up as well)

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Also worth noting:

Compared to adult participants in the 2009 survey, adults in the 2018 group were significantly more likely to report no penile-vaginal intercourse in the prior year, the researchers found. Study participants were also significantly less likely to report engaging in any other sexual behaviors examined in the study, such as oral sex or anal sex. All modes of past-year partnered sex were reported by fewer people in the 2018 cohort.

Yeah, contrary to the implication of OP's image... no, young men are not having more of some other kind of sex than male/female p/v, but still having some other kind of sex.

They're just not having sex with a partner. At all.

Bros are not en masse becoming gay or bi or pan or trans, and then having 'non-traditional' sex that would make them not virgins in a 'non-traditional' way, not in the numbers you'd need to make that a statistically viable explanation for lack of m/f p/v sex.

This is funny haha meme joke, but its not based in reality, its based in whimsy.

You can check that against male self-id rates as LGBTQ and see that there has been a slow, gradual rise, from about 3% up to about 5% for men right now... but nothing like an 8% to 28% rise in roughly the same time period.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/719697/american-adults-who-identify-as-homosexual-bisexual-or-transgender-by-gender/

This one particular graph having error bars does not mean this is not a real thing that is happening.

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And in case its relevant, I am a queer guy who has had varying kinds of sex and intimacy with both men and women, trans-inclusive.

Don't forget their 'solution' to this is to uh, checks notes, abolish property taxes... and replace the lost revenue with increased sales taxes.

In a state massively reliant on tourism.

I concur, Florida is completely a lost cause, the best thing to do would indeed be to just let nature reclaim it, the humans that live there largely won't in 10 to 20 years,.no matter what is done, at this point.