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Void · Today 08:40:18

Pro-Natalism may come to some who don't have it, should humanoid robots take some of the load of child care, I think. Also, I think that society may change its mind. It may not persist that women will think themselves superior to tradition, by trying to be boss ladies without children.

There are two bazar insanities in the human race that help them to persist.
1) Women doing stuff that will cause them to become infected with another human which will burst out of their gut package painfully. They technically are crazy to let men infect them, but they do of course, as only people with such insanity have genes that persist.
2) Men that have an urge to play with the female parts. Not quite as insane, if you can get away with being irresponsible, and con other people into raising your children for you.

That is to coo-coo men. Perhaps if they have unusual traits such as being good in battle this is good for a tribe. But their selfishness displaces other capable men from the gene pool.

As for "decent" men who willingly take responsibility for their "Brood", this is similar to the woman, as it is a form of insanity, to perpetuate the genes.

Those are cold-blooded analysis. I don't actually mock those who behave with honor in procreations. But logically it is a futile activity as we know that eventually there will be no human race as we might recognize it.

But we may like it when the music plays, so why not have the music play in that case?

The society we had before which encouraged procreation, may have perpetuated maladaptive individuals who did not actually enjoy the full completion of successful precreation. (Producing useful adults).

The surviving populations later should be full of insane people who want to sing the song of procreations, therefore.

Since we are here it seems like what makes sense to me, even though I have not.

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kbd512 · Today 09:29:01

Calliban,

I'm after proximal solutions to our problems. I don't need the obvious problems pointed out to me, because they are so obvious that I already know what those underlying problems are and I know that they need to be addressed. Rather than continuing to dither while whining about the problems, I want to aggressively pursue workable solutions. I don't want any country to fail, least of all the country I live in, but that's exactly where we're headed if we keep doing what we've been doing.

I do not delight in the problems and sorrows of others, either. However, I do not fixate on the problems of others when I have so many problems of my own to work through. Furthermore, I do not see any point to complaining. I only care about solutions, and whether or not what is proposed approximates a workable solution. We've spent the past 20 years and 5 to 10 trillion dollars pursuing photovoltaics and wind turbines, which have thus far failed to do more than merely add a couple of percentage points to our overall energy mix. Since that has failed to live up to its promises, it's on to the next potential solution.

We've extensively evaluated the major technical points, merits, and demerits of various "new energy" alternatives that we require to lead us back to prosperity. I think we should push hard for those solutions while everyone is trying to figure out what's next, because they will continue to serve us and our children.

kbd512 · Today 09:51:05

Let me put this in even simpler terms that maybe everyone can understand.

What happens to the rest of the global economy if the US collapses under the weight of all the debt we're accumulating through this toxic combination of massive trade deficits, insane money printing that's not backed by organic economic growth which would warrant increasing the M1 money supply, spending policies that are counter-productive at best, and unsustainable entitlements?

The problem isn't the taxes. We're already taxed to death. The problem is that our government keeps spending money it doesn't have by writing an ever-growing stack of IOUs, which we cannot possibly pay. Their spending policies make the rich ever-richer and the poor ever-poorer. Rather than investing in the local economy, most of the rich people find every possible way to send our money and jobs overseas. We're not stupid, we know quite well what they're doing to us, but since they can and do buy off our politicians from both parties to formulate policies intended to relegate the rest of us to serfdom, we could not find anyone at all to represent our interests until President Trump was elected.

If American citizens spent their personal money like the US federal government spends everyone's money:

The Biden administration's addition to the US debt (the equivalent of 2 centuries worth of debt in only 4 years):

These people never met a dollar they didn't want to spend, and their pens are writing cheques we can't cash:

Defense spending vs every other form of government spending:

The interest on debt payments is 11% of the entire federal budget.

Spending on defense and every other discretionary program is 13% of the entire federal budget.

Spending on entitlements is now 68% of the entire federal budget.

We could cut defense spending to zero and it would have no effect whatsoever on our government's spending problem. They'd make absolutely certain that all of the defense spending was both retained and even increased by the very next day, it would merely go to some other idiotic idea.

How much do you figure other countries will be able to sell to Americans who can no longer afford to pay for necessities and a government that's either defaulting on its debt or making its currency even more worthless than it already is?

Who else are you going to start trading with, and why not do that right now?

If the Russians or Chinese decide they want a piece of your country for themselves, who is going to stop them?

Everyone else is talking a good game about defense spending while not actually making the required investements into their own defense.

In many western nations, the local population is aging out. It's becoming an old folks home. Old folks are not going to drive consumption-led organic economic growth.

If America collapses, then what?

What's your end game?

RobertDyck · Today 11:52:17

kbd512 wrote:

The Fulcrum - Business Democracy - Just the Facts: Canadian Tariffs
Before President Trump took office, what tariffs did Canada impose on U.S. goods, and what percentages were there on various products exported to the US?
Before January 1st, Canada had tariffs on certain U.S. products, primarily in sectors protected under its supply management system. These included:
Dairy Products: Tariffs ranged from 200% to 300% on items like milk, cheese, and butter to protect Canadian dairy farmers.
Poultry and Eggs: Similar high tariffs were applied to chicken, turkey, and eggs.
Grain Products: Some grains faced tariffs, though these were generally lower than those on dairy and poultry.

That's a lie and you know it. I already posted this, I'll repeat. Watch it.

RobertDyck wrote:

YouTube video from CBC News: Is Trump right about Canada charging 250% tariffs? | About That
12 minute, 55 second video. Very clear and simple. Canada bought so much dairy from the US, only Mexico bought more. Canada bought US$1.14 billion last year. Yet, not a single dollar was paid in tariff. Not one penny.

kbd512 · Today 12:20:38

RobertDyck,

World Trade Organization - Canada Part A.1 Tariffs and imports - 2022 to 2023

The World Trade Organization's records are a more trustworthy source for information on Canadian tariffs / import duties applied than the CBC or you. If you don't like those facts, then tell your leadership to start changing them.

Void · Today 16:24:57

Robert, it has occurred to me that in the long run Canada and Mexico, may prosper along with the USA, if we end up with a sort of common Tariff system to countries external to North America.

But Canada kind of failed the pinch test didn't they. Mexico did better with it.

Canadian Cur Dog!

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Calliban · Today 17:36:51

Canada needs to confront its demographic problems, like most other high income countries. Their finances will continue deteriorating until they do. Without a healthy demographic structure, there just isn't a big enough internal market to support domestic industry. Canadians need to have more kids. That also applies to pretty much every other country with good living standards. Elon Musk understands this. Hopefully, he can raise awareness of the problem. The solution set is limited and rather tough.

Void · Today 18:38:23

I think that the family unit was shorted of resources, such as time, to produce wealth, but the wealth was wasted on unwise things. Among those would be wars for the sake of having wars.

I think that there is a classic situation is where someone in charge of something with insufficient talent resorts to shorting the needs for production of a profit.

For instance, we could dream of making cows so tough that they could eat rocks and still produce the farm products desired. Many people in charge think that by applying cruelty, they can show just how powerful and smart they are.

In my working life I have encountered lots of unusual characters. I had one who was a male, and he claimed that a feminine product for sale, burned out the nerve endings that are important for sexual enjoyment for a female. The case he cited, was of a Vietnamese female who came here, and discovered that that product did that. The ending of its use reversed the problem.

Now I don't know how true that was. I could have been. But for the upper classes of some types there could be money, in causing damage to the relationships between female/male pairing for the purpose of family forming. The incentive to do that is much like causing a drug addiction. But in this case, you first cripple the relationship, and then you sell products which claim to be a remedy for the problem of non-functional binary relationships.

A feature of that would be to hypnotize the population to believe that some subset of people had a history of a behavior that was bad. Of course, here I am referring to men/boys are bad. While it can certainly be true, the constant re-enforcement of the claim, then helps reduce success in family establishment and maintenance.

Maybe some psychopath, decided, that it would be great to pull the female out of a family and have her work 60 hours a week to live alone with cats.

In any case by blunder or evil, families are time starved. A couple of robots in the family unit may help that.

We could have discussions of speculation on why there are no marsupial, humanoids, as I think the Placental process may set some things up that lead to us, but maybe we need another topic for that.

Have I annoyed the board? I can certainly modify my behaviors.

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