Well shit what could go wrong with a Pre Cog AI. Everyone loses their shit when the government spies on you but a few years later encourage shit like this.

You wrote five really long paragraphs about how it’s too much trouble to put tampons in an opaque container that fits in a backpack. I’m honestly astounded that you would spend so much energy justifying being that lazy.

They were, but they were a continuation of the same trend throughout, and found in most European and to a slightly lesser extent American drugs.

No I’m pretty sure it’s just straightforward statistical bias. It’s not like trials managers are going around discriminating against minorities they literally take anyone they can get to sign up. Maybe instead of running your mouth about how everything is racist you might be able to understand the root cause and then…

First world problems. Really poor people around the world manage to carry their own bags like everyone else. Either use your own bags or get the free paper bags that are given out in many stores where plastic is now banned. Stop using “but what about minorities and poor people” in every argument.

Likely to do with the demographics of the local populations where the studies are done. For example in 1966 in the UK when they developed this drug getting a “diverse” sample group would have been very hard work and of very little value to the local community.

This failure is a form of discrimination 

so drugs can be racist now? who knew! No one is safe!

Wait, what? Poor people can’t get reusable shopping bags like everyone else? It’s a one-time expense (usually $1-4), and you use the bag forever. Poor people around the entire rest of the world bring their mesh/cloth bags to shop with and nobody thinks it’s unfair.

The idea of calling reusable bags “bougie” shows just how out of touch the US is. Most immigrants I know, POC or not, are used to shopping with their own shopping bags. My own Nana didn’t drive and shopped w/ thin woven bags we got at the swapmeet decades ago. Every poor person I know has totes they could use for…

What does Equitable mean and how does it differ from Equality?

It’s amazing to me that people seem to think that democratic capitalism is worse for the environment than... communism? Just take one look at the Aral Sea.

Malthus has been on the losing end of that bet for over 300 years. The prophets are wrong because they believe in only linear growth - extend the current trendlines and we’re all doomed.

But extending trendlines is almost always wrong. It’s wrong in this very article - we’re not going to be over 10 billion people by…

And human ingenuity is figuring out ways for people to create .1 damage compared to 1 damage or even ways to create -.1 damage. That’s the point. Malthus and his modern day alcolites can’t imagine ways in which we can avoid damage or even reduce it.

Not similar, when the argument is to switch to a system more like Dahmer’s. Because that is the argument being made when people bitch about “global capitalism.”

I mean, that isn’t really accurate though in the sense that the USSR caused far more environment degradation as it operated compared to similarly sized economies with less benefits to the people. So it isn’t a function of the economic system, but progress in general requires resources. Some systems are better, some…

In regards to the end of the world, no such tradition exists.

Absolutely. That is why it is funny they are called prophets. They might as well be a millennial cult predicting the end of the world.

So basically Vogt is a modern day Malthusian. Continuing the long and failing predictive capabilities of people who don’t have any ability to imagine future human ingenuity.

Think they’re walking a fine line between “getting involved” and being used by focus groups