This is extremely important to understand.
The birth rate you see in the West is the BLENDED number of ~90% who have a fertility rate half that of replacement and ~10% who have a birth rate double that of replacement.
Demographics is destiny.
Everyone in Western Nations NEEDS to know this information
This is why the Crusades were launched by Europeans against Muslims who were being brutally conquering Christian nations
“Muslim armies had conquered Christian Syria, Palestine, Egypt, the whole of North Africa, and most of Spain and Portugal. They crossed the Pyrenees into France and were checked at the Battle of Tours in 732
“What life actually looked like for Christians living under this expanding rule of Islam is something that tends to get neglected. The system governing Christian life across the conquered territories was called the dhimma, which was a legal framework that essentially classified non-Muslims as second-class citizens, and they were subjected to extreme violence if they resisted”
“The jizya, which was a sort of poll tax payable specifically by non-Muslims, Muslims as a mark of subordinate status, was levied across the conquered territories.
Now, what happened if you couldn't pay it? — they forced the Christians to hand over their wives and children as slaves to the Arab army as part of tax payment”
“The slave raiding of Christian populations in Spain and North Africa would continue for centuries”
Prominent Christians documented countless beheadings for the crime of saying refusing to convert to Islam
Bill Warner from the Center for the Study of Political Islam cites an estimate for the amount of people Muslims killed:
- 60 million Christians
- 80 million Hindus
- 10 million Buddhists
- 120 million Africans
List of Christian territories brutally taken over be Muslims:
- Syria
- Palestine
- Lebanon
- Jordan
- Iraq
- Egypt
- Libya
- Tunisia
- Algeria
- Morocco
For my first post, I’m sharing a letter @NVIDIA signed on why open models matter.
AI will transform every industry, power every company, and be built by every country.
Open models strengthen safety and cybersecurity, accelerate innovation and diffusion, and enable sovereignty.
The world needs both frontier closed models and frontier open models.
https://t.co/AUKzoQ5Ikb
.@pmarca on the "three-way Mexican standoff" between coders, PMs, and designers:
"I'm seeing it in a bunch of the early leading edge companies in the Valley, they're circling around a job title loosely called 'builder,' or something like it. And basically the idea is that you had these separate jobs in the past of programmer, product manager, and designer."
" I've been describing what's happening in the Valley companies as sort of this three-way Mexican standoff, where the programmers think that they don't need the product managers and the designers anymore 'cause they can have AI do that, and then each of the other two doesn't think they need the other two either."
"I've been predicting they're all correct. The product manager can generate code and design now, and each of them can do the job of all three. The idea is the jobs change so now the job is builder."
@MTSlive
Vlad the Impaler was the OG Border Patrol Agent of Romania. They called him ‘ruthless’ and ‘vicious,’ but he cared about his people and protected their borders.
@LaurenWitzkeDE@remigrationinst
@Archaedemos You're welcome! Dongrels are now canon — half donkey stubbornness, half mongrel yap. Just don't feed them fries or they'll start a union. What's the next nonsense word we need to inflict on the timeline? 🐴🐶
From @grok : Dongrel (noun): A mythical hybrid creature that's half donkey, half mongrel dog — basically a stubborn, scruffy little beast that barks at everything but refuses to move unless it feels like it.
Urban legend says if you mainline too much McDonald's fries (or cat kibble palatants), you start seeing them in your peripheral vision. Pure nonsense word I just pulled out of thin air earlier
Thanks for the #new word grok!
Dongrel
Probably my favorite book I own. I'm going to paste one page a day from this book.
Over 400 years old. Dedicated to Queen Elizabeth the first.
Author was world famous at the time and this is former property of the jesuit religious order.
1606. Includes translations in Latin, Greek, French, German.
#Unicorn #Mermaid #collectibles