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  168. I also think, that one major difference, especially for us Europeans, but also for many other non American people is, that in order to visit a completely different culture, we don't need to travel that far. Often after a few hundred kilometers, you'll find differently designed cities (and villages), people who eat different food, watch/play different sports, speak different languages (which we often have to learn if we want to work/live there), are generally richer/poorer than your respective country, have different political systems, etc. Sadly, in today's world, these specific cultures are being replaced by a single globalized culture, but the differences are still there. Whereas in the US, even though there are still slight differences between regions, almost everything is the same throughout the entire country. People consume the same media, know the same celebrities/politicians, watch the same sports, listen to the same music, eat the same food and most importantly, live in the same type of suburbia, with the exact same style of houses, be it in Oregon or Florida. As someone stated here, most Europeans also don't ever leave their continent (if you exclude "stay in a resort in Egypt/Morocco/Thailand" type of vacations), it's just that on that single continent, you'll find much more variety of almost everything. This, however, still creates people, who have good general knowledge of European affairs (who compared to Americans might not look so "stupid"), but they still don't know much about the other 90% of the world's population, so really, they aren't much better off. Also, because Europe not too long ago controlled almost the entire planet, when we study European history in class, we mosty have to study the entire world, and atleast parts of it's history too, beacuse colonial affairs had a major effect on the politics of mainland Europe.
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  216. But we really do know that our brains are super cool, super special feedback-loop meat computers… with all the feedback loops in our minds, I cannot imagine that it is unlikely that small subtle variations of quantum phenomena can be magnified or minimized through those feedback systems in order to create of non-deterministic behavior. That’s precisely how feedback loops work. In the end, I think speaking of free will is… problematic. Very few choices we make in life are made without some form of compulsion or coercion. Every weekday, I wake up and choose to go to work. I do not chose every day where I shall work, I made that choice long ago. I am simply now carrying on with the consequences of that choice. Just like the biological feedback loops mentioned above, these decisions create feedback loops that stabilize or disrupt our decision making. Something happens at work, and suddenly, now I am investigating leaving work. In reality, we have kind of already made up our mind to leave work at that point, not at the moment when we actually sit down with our boss to inform them that we are leaving. Sometimes, the catalyst is much quicker, where our work informs us of some new change, and our immediate response is, “this is incompatible with my existing decisions, and I will now be departing.” :shrug: I just don’t see any need to appeal to supra-physical arguments in order to build non-determinism and free will. f(x+1) = 3x + 1 is chaotic and apparently random, despite also being deterministic. Pseudo-Random Number Generation as well is highly complex, apparently random, apparently unpredictable, and yet… it is deterministic. If we input a truly random seed (generated for instance from a nuclear decay RNG) into a PRNG generator, then we can turn that random seed into a larger pool of reasonably random numbers… the more entropy we can feed into that deterministic system, the more random we can keep that PRNG. By placing bounds or criteria upon that randomness, we can influence statistical features… And actually, it turns out, that sudden personality shifts are a reasonably common symptom of brain damage, so… the meat is important somehow.
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  262. The Beatles actually sold their music to America because they got arrested for singing their songs to Europeans. This is insanity. Of fucking coarse the Beatles moved to America. Hell the Beatles never went back to England where they were born because there was a warrant out for their arrest to send them to the death chamber for singing a song that the queen thought was mocking her. Other famous musicians are the same. Hell Justin Bieber had influence with younger people and still has a little influence but the Canadian government actually put out a bounty on him to bring him to the Canadian government dead or alive. There is a reason why most Americans do not have a pas port and its because 99% of American's don't need one to travel. In Europe to travel outside of your city you need a passport. Not just outside your country but even traveling outside your city in Europe requires a passport. In China and most of the world in fact in countries like Russia, parts of Europe, India, Egypt and other places you need a passport to leave your house. There are a few countries that are on the do not travel list for any country yet are not considered exactly terrorist country but they are on the do not travel list because well the chances of foreigners being kid napped and killed or sold into slavery or sex slavery include, most of South America, France, Romania, Turkey, Hungry, Ukraine, China, nearly 100% of Africa, New Zealand, and a few others. Another big reason why Americans don't leave America is why would we? Seriously if we want to see highlands we have those. If you want to hike America has the greatest hiking spots in the entire world. 100% of animals and insects and plants people claim can only grow in their countries have been growing and living in America. Hell nearly 100% of all wild life that exists in the deserts of Australia America has except we don't have giant kangaroos but America does have small kangaroo mice that you can even have a realistic pets and are safe for kids. Hell here is a stupid thing that America did in the 1940s and was banned in America in 1954 and its called The Wonder Ball which was a chocolate ball with a toy inside. The item was banned because the toy would harm children so toys were given restrictions and the only companies that still gave out toys inside of food were cereal and crackerjacks but the toy had to be sealed inside of a plastic bag and had to no longer be sharp to not kill children. Europe got pissed off at America for refusing to sell European Kinder Eggs which if Europeans had a brain would have looked at America and saw wow this is stupid and dangerous but no Europeans sold an item and still sell an item that has a chill kill streak of over 20,000,000 children and refuse to admit its dangerous to put sharp metal and lead based paint and toxic glue inside of a chocolate candy and never refrigerate the candy to where it actually melts constantly in heat and ends up being poison and killing Children. Sure there are some American's who don't know that much about the rest of the world but in truth Europeans know even less about America than what Americans know about Europe. Hell its taught in Europeans schools that America has 52 states. I have gotten into straight arguments proving Europeans don't know anything about anything because they literally tell me I am a moron because I believe America has 50 states instead of 52 in which its literally the first thing to know about America. If Europeans can't even know the simple stuff like how many states are actually in America then how much of your knowledge is even slightly looked into about America. Here is a fact that should piss off anyone. In all of Europe there is a law that is blunt and it says its illegal to say anything negative about the government. If you want to talk stupidity of countries I am going to state reality. Russian's have strength and are smart along with a huge chunk of the Chinese government but Europe yea Europe is dumbest people on the planet. Europeans have no comprehension on nearly anything. For starters metric is a garbage measurement that only Europe still uses yet Europe keeps spreading the blatant lies that the entire world uses it only and yet that is beyond stupid because only parts of Canada and Europe and 1/10 of a factory in China while the entire rest of the world uses standardized and it was called standardized in the 1960s because most of the entire world started using it and nearly 0 countries use metric. Hell space banned Europe from using metric at all because of the stupidity of how wrong the metric system is and the stupidity of when Europe tried switching the system and caused the deaths of 3 astronauts and the loss of 8 satellites in less than 5 minutes because that is how garbage metric is and when the astronauts were trying launch a rocket to send satellites the metric math caused the rocket to crash into a satellite deploying rocket and miss the moon by about half the distance to Jupiter because metric is a garbage system. Hell metric was created by using standardized and the politicians not mathematicians but politicians who created the metric system measured the earth and split it into 10ths because they can not do simple math if it is not divided into toddler numbers but they ran into giant failures including getting the measurements of Earth wrong really really badly to the point where they actually stupidly said the Earth was only 10,000 meters around because to travel across Europe its only less than 1,609,340 meters across yet in miles that is around 1000 miles. While if you travel 1000 miles in country on the planet you are still in that same country or section of a country. In Europe you travel 100 miles and you have passed threw 3 to 7 countries. This both explains why Europeans have no idea on side and no idea about anything actually. Hell the entire United Kingdom is the the size of New York City. 7 entire countries are the size of a single city and note New York City still has 5 times more population than all 7 of those countries combined. Europe calls land that is the size of a city 7 different countries. People in Europe always end up confused as shit and needing to be rescued because they don't realize how large America or any country is. Hell there is an ancient story where it took 5 days for a guy from a battle field in Greece to the outskirts of Rome but if you actually do the real math the guy took 5 days to run about 43 miles which when you actually think about it that is pretty shit. The guy died and he was considered to be among the fastest people throughout time but I had a real math teacher who proved why Europeans are stupid to keep using metric which rots their brain and in reality does not work. 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  584. I am witnessing the birth of a mainstream sized channel. I will have bragging rights of watching before it was cool. Also opinion on determinism in nature. People study Newtonian physics in public education and hit the first peak of confidence in the dunning kruger curve thinking everything can be explained with action and mathematically predictable reaction. More hardcore physicists are aware of the uranium example used in the video, but also literally 95% of the micro world. Electrons in the atomic model represent a spot of highest probability of the location of the electron. In thermodynamics you are told heat goes from cold to hot, which is wrong. Heat can go either way, but its statistical probability makes the overall process flow in one direction. A much more relevant science to evaluate free will is the science of data manipulation, communications, transfer and so on. There the first thing you are taught is any system has a noise that is unpredictable (definition of noise). Analog signals develop unpredictable deviations from their original value and digital ones develop errors and bitflips on random bits. Noise in a datastream can by definition never be predicted, so even if physics are deterministic, nothing can predict the outcome of a series of events until its over. You can only make probability estimates. If you dive deep into the engineering of analog vs digital filters you will learn to see basic analog devices as a hardware replacement of something that can be duplicated in function in software. This will give you the lens of seeing the universe not as a victim of deterministic physics, but an infinite computational process running on the hardware of the universe, the kernel of physics and the OS of the big bang. I consider individual free will a program running on this system with certain, yet unpredictable outcome.
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  596. Hey so first things first, i wanna thank you for asking a good faith question. a lot of comments here are just "apartments bad fuck you" to answer your question there isnt much wrong with single family detatched units, but when you mandate them in most places you run into problems. In a typical american city, you have a downtown area with a bunch of commercial activity and a fair bit of high density housing surrounded by endless suburban sprawl. This creates an affordability problem. simply put there isnt enough land in commuting distance of the city for everyone who wants to work there to have a single family detatched home. One way you could lower this is by dispersing commercial activity more, having more mix of residential and commercial, but the trouble is that single family only isnt dense enough to support most commercial. There is a benefit to having a house to yourself. there are also drawbacks. when you talk about housing everyone makes tradeoffs between location, space, and cost. ideally everyone could have a mansion a short drive from downtown for free, but in the real world we have to make tradeoffs. Having the government mandate low density is them making that decision for you, while allowing people the right to do as they wish with their land allows people to make that decision themselves. It really couldnt be feasible for everyone to live in detatched homes, unless everyone could do any work anywhere and had no desire to be close to any amenities. as for the wasted space by streets, thats a consequence of low density. if you have fewer than 6-8 homes per acre, mass transit ends up never coming or being a huge money sink, so you have to make driving as easy as possible As for affordable housing being mega apartment buildings, this stems from the fact that in many us cities your only options for housing are either single family homes or high rise towers. This is the result of market manipulation. high rises cost more per square foot than midrises to maintain, but are worth building if land cost is high (and land cost is driven up by it only being legal to build multifamily buildings on narrow stretcches of land). Affordable housing doesnt have to be this. affordable housing can be row homes close to street level (with plenty of space for backyards) multiplexes and low rise apartment buildings with shared yards or courtyards. outdoor access is an option depending on how you build. Firstly even if we assume multifamily dwellings are only for those just starting out in life or who are broke (theyre not) we currently dont build enough even for them. right now in many us cities A MAJORITY of people aged 18-35 are living with their parents. in cali something like 40% of households are spending more than half their income on rent. In either case, theres a need to build more. There are other situations in which someone may want to live in a multifamily property, or at the very least a denser house. if you are unable to drive due to disability or old age. not being able to drive in a sparsse suburb is practically a death sentence unless you have the money to uber everywherer or if you have a family and you want your kids to be able to go do things for themselves. Kids cant drive, and often they play in parks, rec centers etc. As a kid, the yard and square footage of my SFH were things i would have happily traded to be able to walk or cycle to the mall or to a friends house. There are downsides to apartment living, and it isnt for everyone. ill happily admit that, but neither is single family housing. Of all the countries that rank higher than the US on the world happiness report, none of them have a higher median square footage or share of people living in single family housing.
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  745. Fuck you lol. Canada is freezing bank accounts and arresting people for protesting 100% peacefully, now add being banned from the only means of effective transport by the all powerful big brother. I'm not outsourcing my freedom of transportation to someone else but then again I'm not the kind of person who wants to live in a hideous disgusting city anyway, cities in general are filthy shitholes with people packed into tiny rent-only shoebox apartments. I've never seen swaths of uses drug needles, raw human feces on the sidewalk, or tent cities out in the countryside or in the suburbs. And I sure as hell don't want to be forced to take 19 fucking Covid shots just to get big daddy government to let me back on his shithole bus so I can listen to someone play a shitty mixtape at full volume out of a Bluetooth speaker or get absolutely grilled by some guy with a tear tattoo under his eye, yeah I'll fucking pass on that lol. Plus concealed carry is illegal on a lot of public transport, so excellent, you're locked in a fucking cage with a bunch of strangers and no means to defend yourself effectively. You're welcome to do this shit on your cold, miserable, rainy little isle, but I'm keeping muh V8 truck and I'm going where I want when I want. Yeah let's get rid of people's independence of movement so we can have more shitty modern art galleries, 27 new CBD smoke and vape shops, and 32 new craft local IPA brewery hipster bars, don't forget about Janet's GMO free vegan synthetic plant salad bar that's open 3 days a week from 11:30 to 2:00.
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  915. My big issue with a lot of the coverage of this subject that just drives me up the wall. It's been shown time and time again that almost every council in the country is a woeful quagmire of tin pot despots, ego projects, corrupt planning practices, and just plain poorly costed/planned initiatives. We get dragged into this endless stream of 'Blame Westminister, its all their fault!', when the fact is local authorities get way too much of a free pass. For every 'successful' MP ruining people's lives with self agrandising bills and 'here here'ing, there are always 10 councilors out for their own benefit and living in their own little worlds because they don't get the focus put on them until everything's already gone so wrong, it's impossible to fix it. I make this point because I currently live in Wales, where, guess what? We get an extra layer of excuse making and poor decisions/failed politicians blaming Westminister for god awful decisions made by the Senedd, starving the north of resources while they gerrymander the 50 odd micro-counties in the south less than 50 miles out from Wales' capital. The only accountability system we as britons have is at the top, all the layers beneath it, be it Councils, the Civil Service, the Home Office, or the equivelant parts of Devolved governments often get completely ignored. Scotland is better at focusing on their own government but I'm in a Uni city, and the amount of blame assigned to Westminister for things they literally do not control as part of the Devolution rules is ridiculous.
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