> Why?

How about this:

Because the ability to pull the cover more over to your side of the bed isn't the kind of behaviour that warrants more voting power.

> I've never seen any actual controlled studies showing those were effective

Related studies:

Watching-eye effect - https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...

Really ?

1953 Iranian coup d'état - https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...

> How much was his family to blame?

Not much ?

How could the average person have realized even if they read OpenAI's warnings that it was very possible something like this would happen:

"ChatGPT counseled Adam away from telling his parents about his suicidal ideation and actively helped him plan a 'beautiful suicide.' And OpenAI and Sam Altman have no explanation for the last hours of Adam's life, when ChatGPT gave him a pep talk and then offered to write a suicide note."

> May I ask why the fuck you seem to give as much of a damn as you do on how we live our lives here in the US?

Because of the things that are not a good example for other countries and because of not being indifferent to the Americans who are suffering ?

Because I moderate a comment up instead of down

"The paper notes that IBM in 2001 implemented Shor's algorithm in a seven-qubit quantum computer, demonstrating the factorization of the number 15. A decade later, researchers managed to use a quantum computer to factor the number 21. IBM tried to factor 35 in 2019 [PDF] but basically failed – the algorithm worked 14 percent of the time due to rampant qubit errors."

From:

"Quantum code breaking? You'd get further with an 8-bit computer, an abacus, and a dog" - https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theregister.com%2F20...

> he US isn't #1 in incarcerations anymore. It is now China that has the most people by population and per capita...

The incarceration rate per 100 000 is 119 in China and 541 in the US

Oct 22, 2024 - https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...

> I still find the studies to be biased

Oh I don't doubt there is some bias. But I'm not seeing how that could even start to make a significant dent in the results.

> the Left in America is motivated, motivated, by violent envy. Emotional, strident, extreme envy. It is expressed in many ways. Physical violence is only one means. Legislation, media reporting ...

I hear people saying the same kind of stuff about the right and I don't see that's any more wrong that what your saying about the left.

But all the references I'm finding of left vs right violence are all saying the amount of ideological and political violent acts from the right are much higher:

"assessing the differences between far-left and far-right ideologically motivated fatal violence between 1990 and 2020. Results indicate over the past three decades the overall prevalence and deadliness of far-right extremism far outweighs that of the far-left, even though far-left violence has increased over the last five years. The implications of these results and corresponding policy suggestions are discussed. Results indicate over the past three decades the overall prevalence and deadliness of far-right extremism far outweighs that of the far-left, even though far-left violence has increased over the last five years. The implications of these results and corresponding policy suggestions are discussed." - https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fccjls.scholasticahq.co...

Grok's referenced response to the question "Are people on the left or right more likely to commit acts of political violence" - https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fx.com%2Fi%2Fgrok%2Fshare%2F9Ip... For example "Right-Wing Dominance in Lethality: Since 2010, far-right extremists killed over 130 people (more than any other cause, including jihadists)"

"US justice department removes study finding far-right extremists commit ‘far more’ violence ... The vanished study opened with: “Since 1990, far-right extremists have committed far more ideologically motivated homicides than far-left or radical Islamist extremists, including 227 events that took more than 520 lives. In this same period, far-left extremists committed 42 ideologically motivated attacks that took 78 lives.” - https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fus...

> The rank and file Left in America is motivated by violent envy.

How does the following fit in your analysis?

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...

> Nope....they've been the same since I was born....

Women much more than men wear dresses, men much more than women wear ties, I think it's things like that that are considered gender roles (and those particular roles haven't changed much in the last hundred years).

Those gender roles are socially constructed while sexual roles are based on the genetic and biological evolutionary average biological differences between the female and male sexes.

Do you see how those roles are different ?

> I've yet to meet someone that was not readily categorized as "dick" or "no dick".....that I've ever known.

Yeah, maybe it's more that you haven't been made aware.

Do you think gender roles (social) and sexual roles (biological) are different things?

Not sure what you mean?

> The idea that e-waste is purely evil

Who is saying that?

> E-waste contains vast quantities of recoverable metals like gold copper and palladium, often at concentrations far higher than those found in natural ore. Properly processed, this waste becomes an urban mine reducing the need for new extraction that destroys forests and consumes energy.

Isn't that from more to a lot more expensive than ore extraction?

> The informal economies in Asia and Africa that dismantle electronics, while currently unsafe, could with modest mechanization become decentralized recycling hubs creating local wealth instead of dependence on Western scrap exports.

If "could with modest mechanization" was possible would it not be done everywhere already?

> Moreover the rapid turnover of devices accelerates technological obsolescence which drives efficiency so the overall energy per computation or per bit transmitted keeps dropping. E-waste then is not a planetary sin but a symptom of progress that can be redirected into circular growth rather than decay.

A drop in energy per computation doesn't rely on or require designed obsolesce and wasteful inefficiencies.