https://youtu.be/31e0RcImReY?si=18IbWnHxRGAfticv

From the title it might not sound super related, but she goes super in depth on how these intelligence researches usually are extremely problematic. As in literally telling women that women did better in these tests made them perform as well or better than men in typically “male intelligence areas”. We don’t really understand intelligence, and how it develops, and how to measure it.

So ascribing higher or lower intelligence in certain fields to certain groups just doesn’t work. Irregardless for how statistically sound it might be. We just don’t understand the parameters around it well enough to control for it.

After seeing the most recent münecat video I don’t believe research like this anymore.

Dating apps are the most obvious version of the commodification of love.

I mean when I hear post-work I think Star Trek. Which might not be THAT far off. Like centuries sure, but that’s nothing in perspective. But yeah, us? The best we can “hope” for is meaningful, non-alienated work, with dignity, that doesn’t occupy most of our week. Which sounds pretty great to me tbh, I don’t need Star Trek.

I would make art, music and painting, and clothes I guess. Maybe write. Play at and run TTRPG events/groups. I would take care of animals, pets or otherwise. I would hang out with friends more and go out to meet new people. Talk about life and try to figure the deepest parts out, instead of figuring out how to just survive.

I think I’d also like to get into organising parties, and DJing.

But most of all, I think I’d just follow my desires without fear. Not really worried there should be an end to anything I do, that all should aid me in earning money to survive or have a better life.

Just live more free I guess.

Now in a post-capitalist (but not post-work/post-scarcity) society, I’d likely do a lot of the same, in my free time. But if human labor is still necessary for society to function and exist, I’d like to spend my necessary labor either working in some sort of construction or cleaning.

Americans’ problems with density can be summed up by: shit construction with hollow walls, neoliberal financialization and shit infrastructure.

So basically all political issues, and nothing to do with density. But the ideology of antisocial subarbanism is still very strong, so people are a bit incapable of actually understanding the material reality of the situation and just reduce it to urban = bad.

We can’t all afford to be as antisocial as you as a species. We’d go extinct even faster if we did.

Edit: like seriously imagine if we all lived at a density of ONE family per square km… ~4 hab/km²… that’s insane. You have to be misanthropic as fuck to wish that future.

One MAJOR reason most people seem to be missing for the October the 7th attack was indeed religious. But maybe not in the way you’d expect…

Religious Jews and Evangelical Christians are trying to bring about the apocalypse, from the bible. They believe they must rebuild the Temple. Issue is, al-aqsa is in the temple mound and it’s one of the most sacred places for Muslims. Destroying it would start a major war.

And they started moving to have the third temple rebuilt. There are plans to demolish al-aqsa and start the works. The three red heifers to be sacrificed, turned into ash and used to purify the priests who will start the building work are the first step.

If you read Hamas’ explanations for the October 7th attack, al-aqsa is a central part of it. It was called al-aqsa flood after all.

edit: to clarify, there is real material danger to the al-aqsa mosque

It’s basically the same as modding assets into the game. The game surely is built around being easy to put in new assets, it’s one of the main cornerstones of what made cities 1 popular in the first place.

Games like Cities don’t need that much dev work for assets to be placed in game. I’m sure the game was built with that in mind. That’s how there are so many assets and content to be downloaded in the steam workshop for Cities 1…

I completely agree, the price is pretty ridiculous and almost no one seems to be focusing on that.

The people who work on asset packs are artists… what the hell can they do regarding bug fixes?

For all saying the content pack is scummy, first the devs that work on things like this are not the same fixing bugs and issues, working on mod tools etc. Second, this pack is part of the Ultimate Edition, which plenty of people paid for already. It’d be really scummy to NOT release this in a timely fashion for the people who already spent their money expecting it.

I honestly don’t get the outrage at a freaking content pack that doesn’t affect anything at all…

Exponential change ripping through to fuck everyone’s sense of security and ideas for the future!

Colonizes all continents on earth, perpetrated the biggest slave trade in history, only decolonizes well after WW2 literally the last country on earth to do so

“Just doing our own thing” lmao

It’s a weird story, and I feel at worst Walken is involved. But yeah, even with this I still feel Walken is not one of the worst.

South Korea is literally cyberpunk hell on earth…

So happy they keep killing themselves!

There’s some evidence Walken and Robert Wagner maybe were having an affair, and Robert and Natalie had a big fight over it. One person on the boat heard a loud noise after they were fighting, and Robert went back to his cabin right after it. But Natalie was taking pills and drinking a lot as well.

Truth is, the police never really made Robert or Walken to be suspects, even though they are really the only suspects in this. I mean honestly who cares maybe it was just an accident.

I don’t think Walken personally killed Natalie Woods tho.

Hummm… maybe don’t read up on Christopher Walken and Natalie Woods…