I think it's more common to have naive Westerners wandering into off-the-beaten-path places and getting robbed/raped/kidnapped/killed/all of the above. US Gov's travel warnings don't come with an "unless you're really cute" exception.
Also I think you're really downplaying novelty effect. John Derbyshire's review of An African In Greenland includes passages on how the Eskimos reacted to a coal-black African guy having never seen one before (they let him sleep alongside their families in the big beds they all shared):
https://www.johnderbyshire.com/Reviews/Miscellaneous/africaningreenland.html
Also that African guy who spread HIV to dozens of Polish women. A lot of people are just drawn to something they've never seen before.
99.99% of people running unrecognized code are the technologically clueless about to install malware, not tech whizzes building direct from source.
Especially on Windows. If you're actually serious about code and computers, you're almost certainly on Linux/BSD anyway.
heterosexual men denied access to women will never just accept that fact
They have in Japan.
Anglosphere Turks are largely secularized middle class immigrants who - in Turkish elections - overwhelmingly vote for secular candidates. German Turks are descended from poor Anatolian peasant laborers, and overwhelmingly vote for the Islamist Erdogan.
And all are actually ethnic Greeks.
Could you elaborate on how the P and NP complexity classes are related to this?
working behind the scenes to ensure a smoother primary win for Biden against Bernie
Why on Earth wouldn't he help out the guy who'd been his VP for 8 years?
He absolutely does.
If Biden's situation is that bad, the last thing Klein should be doing (if he doesn't want a second Trump term) is shouting it to the world.
Just keep Biden's public appearances to a minimum until November and allow Trump to do his thing.
He can just refuse to debate, like Trump did. I mean, he won in 2020 without leaving his house.
this issue has lost its place in the news cycle. A quick google overdose deaths topped 112k in 2023
"112k ODs is a statistic"
-Stalin
Ezra Klein saying BIden should step aside because of age, and a new candidate be chosen at the convention:
https://old.reddit.com/r/ezraklein/comments/1as537m/democrats_have_a_better_option_than_biden/
There's a link to the podcast episode in the (heavily downvoted) Reddit discussion above.
Quite frankly, that would be quite a stupid thing for Democrats to do. Last time that happened was 1968, with notable results. He then lists alternative candidates such as AOC, Newsom, Cory Booker, Gretchen Whitmer, and a bunch of randoms I've never even heard of, though his top pick is Kamala Harris.
What material does the GOP have on him to make him advise such obvious electoral suicide? Harris would never win, but passing over the black, female VP would come with tons of blowback. Plus all the infighting at the convention would make the DNC look like a party in chaos when they're trying to portray themselves as the stable, responsible alternative to MAGA craziness.
Getting rid of Biden this late in the game is simply not a winning move.
My advice: Get Biden's carcass over the finishing line in November, have Harris step in as replacement sometime early in 2025, and then start figuring out what to do about 2028 with four years breathing room, not a few months of lead time.
a lot of prominent Republicans are from the South
I would've thought that would be anti-correlated with likelihood to intermarry.
A bit of heat generated by Trump dubbing Nikki Haley "Nimbra", a butchering of her Indian birth name:
I'm not sure who the media controversy is aimed at. His base is absolutely going to love it, the normal Repubs have no choice but to vote for him, and his enemies can't hate him more than they already do.
I predict if her numbers continue to climb, he's gonna mention her daughter's married to a black guy. Way too tempting for a guy like Trump.
On that, a surprising number of the establishment Republicans have kids married to black people. Haley, McCain, Boehner, etc. What's with that?
It's really only still effective at shaping the primaries towards Party derps who then go on to lose
Sounds a bit like the main man himself.
A lot of the electoral issues the GOP has faced over the past 6 years is crazy MAGA candidates winning primaries on Trump's endorsement and then going on to lose the general.
Trump also brings out non-regular voters on the other side.
Shoulda just gone with the English, boyo.
Half black, and I believe it was over some comments regarding Asians.
At some point? They've been leveling buildings by the dozen. You can be pretty sure innocent civilians have already been caught up in this.
So you guys do know all these Palestinians will end up in Europe, right?
Step 1, just start rounding up Palestinians and putting them on boats
Usually the "and then a miracle happens" step is in the middle of a proposal, not at the very beginning.
The Gov has an AGI detection alarm?
Some of the footage from Ukraine was really grim, especially the videos of drones finishing off wounded soldiers.
The first to get to AGI will most likely be Bay Area tech nerds, and they'll ensure their values dominate the future of the human species.
So the question is, what are those values?
Some people work for fun
These are also the same people pushing for return-to-office.
Strong disagree. The past 60 years have been Dems instituting sudden breaks with the past, and the Repubs begging for a chance to slow down and catch their breath.
I mean, can you predict what Dems will platform next, denial of which will be a fireable offense in 2030?
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