Nope, the wealth inequality makes them sociopaths too…

It’s a hard reality, but if me or you had Elon’s net worth, we’d be just as fucking weird and just as dangerous to everyone else.

Like, as much as people say it, people don’t realize how much just a single billion is. Just a single billion is enough to fuck up anyone. Like 100 million, some people might be able to remain relatively normal. But a billion would get us all.

What you’re doing is the same as writing of the Nazi movement as Germans being intrinsically violent or sociopathic. When obviously that shit can happen anywhere.

It’s just a very hard truth to face, so we rationalize by saying “those people” were born evil.

No one is inherently good, just some people are properly socialized to be “good”. And we need to accept that so we stay vigilant against it.

Pay morally bankrupt actresses to dress up as a videogame chare ter for sex work then leak the photo to brag about it…

Then probably all the shit Dubai princes do.

That level of money will fuck you up, because not just the human brain, but damn near every living organism is wired to always want more.

No matter what kind of thing you find enjoyable, if you have acces to it 24/7 then your going to get bored and move onto something more extreme.

Why do you think all these old rich/powerful people become rapists and child molesters?

It’s not that they were necessarily born evil, this is just the “natural result” of someone having this insane level of wealth inequality. Which honestly doesn’t even.make the top ten lists of why we need to address wealth/power inequality, but like…

Certainly topical when trump won’t release the Epstein list because it says he raped kids.

What?

The OP is asking if he can contact her family to ask why she doesn’t reply quickly enough…

If her family doesn’t care enough to investigate why she’s not replying to them, then they’re not going to care after OP contacts.

If they care enough that they would contact when OP asks…

Then they would have already reached out to their own daughter/sibling/whatever if she wasn’t responding to them…

Meaning the woman isn’t self-isolating, or her family is already trying to engage with her.

A friend that moved away two years ago their daughter isn’t texting back and is t meeting up when possible…

Probably just isn’t an important part of this woman’s life.

And at some point OP has to accept that, unless they’re a stalker.

So she still lives where all your mutual friends live…

Where her family lives…

Let them handle it.

Rest is also mostly an invention in your side, but not believing at face value someone somebody said on the internet is generally a good practice.

Buddy…

You keep making “typos” that completely change the meaning of what you type or just make no sense.

Just leave the woman who clearly doesn’t want to interact with you alone.

Although I’m sure you’ll ignore every response that’s not:

Only you can save her! Do anything possible to talk to her no matter how many times she says she doesn’t want to talk to you. Shell appreciate it after you save her! You know her needs more than her!

Her moving to another country and not talking to you or your common friends doesn’t mean she’s “self isolating”. No single friend group is everyone’s life. Especially since it’s been two years since she left your country…

Going to her family would be creepy as fuck.

And honestly it feels like you have more motivations than just friendship here. And she’s been trying to let you down gently for over two years now…

Like if “reconnect” means a text, go for it. But it sounds like you want someone to tell you it’s ok to contact her fucking family that you don’t know to complain she doesn’t text back immediately.

That’s dangerously close to stalker shit, and they will always present a narrative similar to yours and use that for justification of inappropriate actions.

except in the case there is no source or there assertion it is a genocide is “seriously contested”.

I think a big part of this, is how Wikipedia was never meant to be a source for developing news…

Like, 1943 the nazis would have seriously contested any of the multiple genocides that were committed. Or US/Canadian treatment of their Indigenous populations at the time.

But it’s “logic” like in actual logic classes in college.

They could have 37 different examples of how what Israel is doing meets a definition of genocide, with video evidence, and a list of everyone who says it’s a genocide…

But their job isn’t to draw the conclusion, it never was.

And I get wanting Wikipedia to say it is, because it undeniably is.

But the opposite of biased reporting isn’t biasing it the other way. It’s counterintuitive, but it’s easier to hold onto a nonbiased organization than one biased in your direction. The pendulum swings faster the higher up it is. You can’t push it the way you want it to go, you have to hold it as still as possible.

because only 30 or so countries have formally recognized it.

Since you couldn’t find a link I did

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_genocide_recognition

30 is more than twice 14…

But that’s the gist of it.

Wikipedia can’t say Bob committed a genocide, they can’t “say” anything except “____ said ____”

Like that link, that lists every country who has said Israel is commiting a genocide…

which would also apply to other accepted genocides

Can you give me an example where despite lots of evidence of genocide, there’s not been an international ruling declaring genocide yet Wikipedia still says it’s a genocide?

To me, that would be the smoking gun that this was a biased move.

But what he is saying now is how it should always be. Throw all the evidence and sources up there, and make it clear that it hasn’t been ruled a genocide yet officially, maybe even have a section on how that process has been going and who’s opposing it.

That would be how to do it right.

Amid the backlash, Wales insisted that he was not saying “that it is not genocide, my argument is that it is not the job of Wikipedia to adjudicate the issue”.

Incredibly reasonable position, but some people really really really hate wikipedia

Especially now that Musk launched his “version”.

There’s going to be even more social media accounts that want one of the internets best resources dismantled.

Yes we do,

I literally can’t tell what that’s supposed to mean…

But clearly explaining this more times isn’t going to help

Huh?

We’re moving around 120 million tons of coal to China annually…

I’m not saying America should burn coal.

I’m saying if we’re blowing up our mountains to get it, burning it here where it’s regulated would be better than shipping 120,000,000 tons of coal to China so they could burn it over there.

Obviously the ideal would be to leave it buried in the ground and invest in renewables.

My point is domestic use isn’t the metric to look at, it’s domestic production. Other countries can’t burn our coal when there’s a mountain on top of it.

Ironically, your whole comment makes the point for mandatory civil service…

It clearly didn’t work with you, but if it didn’t work for most other people, you wouldn’t be online complaining about it.

Most people learn the value of helping others long before that age, but human variation…

Evolutionary speaking, a couple of selfish people who only care about themselves could be advantages. If an emergency happens and all the pro-social people risk their lives and die saving others, you’re the “seed bank” to run away while pooping yourself an may go on to proliferate the groups genes…

Even tho you were fine running away while the rest of your tribe dies a gruesome death.

It’s not your fault you’re a coward who doesn’t care about others, it’s evolution.

Someone like that would at least find solace in being told it’s not their fault. And that’s all I can do because you don’t want to acknowledge why 99% of your society thinks you don’t contribute enough to trap the rewards of their society

The work I did for 364 days was in a school, and had nothing to do with my studies or interests, nor did it teach me any skills. I was mostly bored out of my mind.

Wait…

Your civil service wasn’t glamours and benefited others instead of yourself?!

The outrage!

Why didn’t your father listen to you when you told him you don’t care about your society and only what personally benefits you?

I can’t believe he was sooooo selfish that he was upset you wouldn’t help others because it didn’t directly and immediately help you…

Obviously the problem is your father and the rest of your society for not letting you take all the advantages of your society without contributing, without causing you to feel shame.

Neither are considered developing nations

What?

They have modern cities, but that’s not where most live.

Their rural areas burn coal in house, which is incredibly inefficient and causing more pollution in a plant.

But the big problem is US is shipping it all the way over there and I to those rural areas, causing pollution the whole way.

We shouldn’t be mining any coal, but the least we can do is burn it here in modern plants. Were pretty much doing the worst possible course right now.

The problem is instead of finding better ways to stop it (regulations) you’re looking for “productive” ways to use it…

Apparently because you’ve pre-emptively given up.

But if you succeed it would lead to more AI and more damage to our planet.

I fully understand you believe you have good intentions, I’m just struggling to find a way to explain to you that intentions don’t matter. And I don’t think I’m going to come up with a way you’ll beavle to understand.

It’s like if someone was stuck in a hole in the ground, and instead of wanting to climb out, you yank everyone else back into the hole when they try and keep trying to get them to help you redecorate the hole.

I truly hope someone can present that in a way that gets through to you, because you are doing real damage.

Sure, we sunk billions into this thing destroying our planet and we don’t know how to profit off, but that no reason to stop or even slow down

You know what else would make life better for people?

Accessible healthcare…

You know why that’s better than AI? We don’t need to burn the planet down to use it after spending billions to get it going

They don’t real fluctuate, it’s more oscillating.

Sometimes it’s “normal” but due to a wide range of issues that can change quickly and stay that way for months because everyone waits till prices go down. So as they go down, people stop waiting,

It’s always strange how like a day after I block someone…

I get replies from accounts who haven’t been active in months, suddenly jump in and want to continue an argument for the account I stopped replying to.

Benefit of the doubt, why would you think I wanted to continue this after I stopped replying to people?

What?

You think this is the first ram crunch?

It’s not even the first one in this decade…