@Freckledfatal We’re inundated with Venezuelans flooding out of that wrecked country. I can’t understand why a single Peruvian would vote left. We see its fruits every day.
@SSSOCACO@RubyBlueEye29@Polymarket Her father was Japanese Peruvian. Very very controversial but ended hyperinflation and a maoist insurgency. First round of elections was 35 candidates and she’s running against a Peruvian. But her dad established a powerful political machine that she inherited
@Strife212 At the end of this conversation lies the inescapable truth: either everything is conscious nothing is conscious or consciousnous is imbued by a divine spark.
@falkrak You sound like me when I was younger, before I realized nobody liked me because I was insufferable. Change yourself and your perspective. Life too short to be a supreme gentleman
@DerekPederson3 Rubbish. The great filter is that intelligent life hits the singularity in any astronomical blink of an eye and transcends meat bodies that look like actors in the X-files like we expect.
@joe__touring You’re completely right. My in-laws are from a lush, abundant paradise in the Peruvian highlands. It’s poor but everyone lives in a dignified way because it’s productive, small scale ag. The town’s kids move to the coast and are miserable. Blisteringly dumb comments here.
@paulg@SteveStuWill In wealthy countries there is more of a correlation between IQ and ability to provide an environment conducive to high IQ to your kid.
The United States has spent EIGHT TRILLION DOLLARS fighting and policing in the Middle East. Thousands of our Great Soldiers have died or been badly wounded. Millions of people have died on the other side. GOING INTO THE MIDDLE EAST IS THE WORST DECISION EVER MADE.....
@OldCryptoHippie@martyrmade An *intelligent* person will realize that there are 50 sextillion earth-like planets, many of which are billions of years older than earth, and the probability that we are the only advanced life is infinitesimal, and the singularity must have happened at a first generation star.