rajin444 (u/rajin444)

rajin444 commented on Poor people often don’t survive to become seniors who vote nymag.com/intelligencer/2... · Posted by u/colinprince

themgt · 2 years ago

Since white people suffer proportionately less from poverty than nonwhite people, they do tend to live longer, and in better health, which is conducive to political and other civic activism.

The average life expectancy by race is:

Asian: 86.3

Hispanic: 82.0

White: 78.6

Native: 77.4

Black: 75.0

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_health_in_the_United_...

rajin444 · 2 years ago

Why would the authors say otherwise?

Additionally, why is it framed in a way that makes it seem like white people having more of an impact is a bad thing?

10 years ago if you'd told me articles like this were coming I'd have laughed. How did misconstruing the truth to further the "white people bad" notion become not just acceptable but popular? And it doesn't even stop there - the article implies that more diversity (i.e less white people) is an ontological good. How does this stuff even get published?

rajin444 commented on Over 70% of US household Covid spread started with a child cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/m... · Posted by u/nico

fnordpiglet · 2 years ago

Also one of the reasons it was important to vaccinate kids. People seem to have a really hard time reasoning about graphs. Typical white Americans also had trouble understanding outside their demographic multigenerational households are common. Kids killing their grandparents is a heavy burden in life.

rajin444 · 2 years ago

This logic of selectively applying externalities based on an arbitrary threshold of risk tolerance is not a good argument.

We might as well blame all the fat people as well. If they were thinner we’d have saved lives.

rajin444 commented on Archive of the Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, 1945-46 library.stanford.edu/blog... · Posted by u/drdee

refurb · 2 years ago

From what I gather, Japan's attack did come as a surprise. The two parties were at odds, but not to the point that a war was an immediate concern.

No doubt some in the government wanted to attack, no different than you could find who want to attack Iran in today's government, but it's not the US government's position. FDR was definitely more interested in getting involved internationally, but the Republicans were staunchly isolationist.

The comparison to Russia and Ukraine is there. Russia preemptively attacked Ukraine because it wanted to prevent NATO from getting a foothold in it's sphere of influence. Japan considering the Pacific Ocean and namely the resources in South East Asian there's, so preemptively attacked the US to prevent it from opposing it's control over the Pacific.

rajin444 · 2 years ago

> the Republicans were staunchly isolationist

They were except for their nominee running against FDR in 1940. His interventionist stance (and otherwise complete lack of political experience) made FDRs victory all but assured.

I’m not sure how you have a base so aligned on a topic that gives them an excellent chance on defeating the incumbent nominate a political nobody who holds a dissenting opinion. The same nobody who went on to serve in FDRs administration.

rajin444 commented on Archive of the Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, 1945-46 library.stanford.edu/blog... · Posted by u/drdee

sillywalk · 2 years ago

Not to mention all the major powers had committed similar atrocities in their own pasts, and they all were racing to collect Nazi/Japanese scientists.

rajin444 · 2 years ago

Weren't they in the process of committing some as these trials were ongoing? I don't think there's a reliable number, but certainly 6 figure and likely 7 figure death tolls for ethnic Germans due to postwar resettlements etc.

rajin444 commented on Is history written by the winners? historytoday.com/archive/... · Posted by u/benbreen

Animats · 2 years ago

It's amazing what's been covered up.

- The Tiananmen Square demonstrations. (1989)[1] At least in China.

- Britain's efforts to get the US into WWII before Pearl Harbor. (early 1940s) [2]

- DuPont's attempt at a US coup (1933) [3]

- The Israeli nuclear bomb test. (1979) [4]

The first one is a successful outright suppression. The rest were obfuscated and obscured at the time, but the historical record exists.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests...

[2] https://www.history.com/news/wwii-us-entry-secret-british-ca...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vela_incident

rajin444 · 2 years ago

With regards to #2, Wendell Willkie winning the republican nomination over the isolationist candidates was extremely fortuitous for FDR and Churchill. There was no real desire from the US population to get involved in another European war, but Willkie (lifelong democrat with no previous political experience) securing the republican slot (and basically guaranteeing FDR's win with no policy adjustments) made that issue a moot point since his stance on the war was similar to FDRs. Willkie eventually ended up with a position in FDR's administration.

The only truths taught in US schools are those beneficial to the empire - it's best viewed as propaganda.

rajin444 commented on Students are increasingly refusing to go to school usatoday.com/in-depth/new... · Posted by u/amichail

eh9 · 2 years ago

Americans do schooling wrong, and kids have to worry about getting shot on top of being overworked. I wouldn’t feel incentivized to go to school either.

rajin444 · 2 years ago

School shootings are still insanely rare. When you account for high crime areas the likelihood of an average kid experiencing a school shooting is so low it should make you question anyone trying to make it seem otherwise.

rajin444 commented on Clinical trial of mRNA universal influenza vaccine candidate begins nih.gov/news-events/news-... · Posted by u/geox

valianteffort · 2 years ago

I got covid in early 2021, and got the J&J shot at the end of the year. In both cases I had a fever, except the J&J lasted two days vs actual covid that lasted one. I have not been sick with covid since then.

I have never had a flu shot, and also never had the flu in over thirty years. I just don't see why I should get myself sick to risk not getting sick(er)? Anytime I mention this people call me antivax.

I was never skeptical about taking shots until the way the government handled covid. There is no chance I will take something that hasn't been thoroughly tested and proven to actually work the way our standard immunization schedule does.

rajin444 · 2 years ago

The descent from "The vaccine is 99% effective and prevents transmission" to where we're at now was pretty eye opening. It sounded too good to be true and was.

Nobody has been held accountable for coercing (and worse) the US population based on bad data. I don't see any reason to trust the government going forward.

rajin444 commented on IBM sued for age discrimination by former global software director theregister.com/2023/05/1... · Posted by u/belter

ncphil · 2 years ago

Think about the level of executive stupid you're dealing with when a spinoff continues using the same literal playbook -- with identical terminology and resources (linking to former parent company servers) -- in executing a painfully obvious employment discrimination strategy. Well, either stupid or lazy. Either way, it's a situation that screams out for punitive damages. Here's hoping these cases send at least some of IBM's top management to an early retirement themselves.

Going to say it again: feudal power structures are no way to organize 21st century business. Time for people (_especially_ young people) to consider alternative arrangements like worker co-ops. If you're not an owner with a real decision-making vote, you're on the menu for these guys.

rajin444 · 2 years ago

> feudal power structures are no way to organize 21st century business

The efficiency gains and - more importantly - resiliency gained by having a single leader with a strong vision are enormous and the reason a single ruler is so prominent among humans. Democracy is weak to balkanization and demagoguery.

That being said the real issue here is corrupt elites - which no system can fix. The blast radius from a bad ruler is much worse than bad actors amongst a democratic system, but the potential gains from a single ruler are much higher.

rajin444 commented on Heavy marijuana use increases schizophrenia in men, study finds bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/shaburn

mikhmha · 2 years ago

I really recommend people interested in Schizophrenia to read the book “Hidden Valley Road”. I saw it recommended in a HN comment previously.

The book follows an American family who gave birth to 12 children, 6 of whom were later diagnosed with schizophrenia in their teens.

It’s interesting because the book gives lots of insight into the historical to modern research on the condition. In the past psychologists thought schizophrenia was caused by the environment and/or bad childhood. But most of the research right now is pointing towards a genetic cause.

rajin444 · 2 years ago

Did the study control for race then if genetics are a cause? ie other studies have shown those of ashkenazi descent are more likely to be schizophrenic.

I hope this isn’t taken the wrong way - id very much like to know if my genetic ancestry made me more or less susceptible to things like schizophrenia.