SerpaeTetra
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8 hours ago, Parththakkar12 said:I mean, I'm not judging his hustle. He wants to make that bag.
You understand that he's talking about the $10 billion his foundation gave toward vaccination causes, and that the $200 billion is the estimated economic benefit to the world?
He's donated over $50 billion since 1994.
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21 minutes ago, John Doe said:@SerpaeTetra Quite a few - Reuters, Associated Press, ABC12, Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post are pretty credible sources. However, you need to adopt a workflow for the consumption and verification of news and media in general. I use https://mediabiasfactcheck.com to understand the leanings/tendencies of an outlet to gauge how reliable a piece of information would be. Snopes (https://www.snopes.com/) is a great to tool you can use to guard against fake news.
That seems like a good start. Many topics in the Political Subforum get cluttered by the original news source. If we can find some neutral news sources that are fair, we can eliminate a lot of the unnecessary opinions (Fox, CNN, etc.) of those outside of this forum.
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On 7/10/2020 at 9:17 AM, DivineSoda said:@DrewNowsThere are many higher quality news outlets you can find online (or better yet read books).
Can you name a few of those? That could be a great new topic to discuss; I doubt most know even where to look. I've been limiting my news exposure but would love to find more unbiased opinions. FoxNews is the worst but CNN is so predictable it makes me gag sometimes.
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16 hours ago, Enlightenment said:What do you think about these statistics?
https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2017/crime-in-the-u.s.-2017/tables/table-43
I would look at this
https://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=pbdetail&iid=5137
-Poor urban blacks (51.3 per 1,000) had rates of violence similar to poor urban whites (56.4 per 1,000).
I think violence is more aligned with poverty than race. It just so happens that on average white households have much higher income and wealth. So you have to ask, what is the reason for the wealth gap?
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You could look at each scale as 0-100. You may be in the 50ish range for a few traits that could lead to different test results. For example the most introverted person is 0 and extroverted is 100. If you are on the border, the examples for that personality type aren't going to be as accurate for you as other people that have more defined traits. You could look at the common traits that keep popping up and focus on those.
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19 minutes ago, Bodigger said:104 shot in Chicago this past weekend. No reaction from protestors…..Incredible.
I am curious if this increase in shootings is due to police, or lack of police, in motivation.
Violence (riots, etc) brings about more violence. Some look at it as just more unneeded violence, "see what all this leads to!" Many others aren't encouraging this behavior, yet rather just accepting it as a consequence of built up frustration and injustice over many years. That injustice has caused a far greater amount of pain compared to what these protests have led to.
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INTP-T here
Famous INTP's
https://www.personalityclub.com/blog/famous-intp/
Do all INTPs have a little George McFly in them? lol
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Good video, it's amazing how low the effective US tax rate is for billionaires.
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2 hours ago, Jacobsrw said:I have no idea what will happen. But to me he is doing this all for some fictitious fanatics to entertain his fans. I don’t think the fast is for growth but for “proving” a self-fulfilling point. It’s all for show. An endless media stream that will inevitably construct a malicious ego as a result.
He is playing with fire and underestimates the depth of this work. He appears to be playing the role at the moment and seems content in doing so. And sadly, I feel this just gives spirituality a bad wrap.
If one has the audacity to flamboyantly pontificate spirituality in such a way reality will violently drag them through more disturbance than they could ever anticipate.
You sound smarter than anyone else on this forum...yet so negative at the same time. I would try taking one good thing from him, and compliment that, rather than demonizing the rest... that's very easy to do. His content is superior to 90% of the other crap on Youtube.
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This group has so many great ideas. Leo is really helping to stimulate minds, but what are we doing about it? What are some real solutions? Can a forum like this take some real action besides just talking about it? I guess we can just keep arguing about it, meh....
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You aren't alone - applications for gun licences in the US are going through the roof. Yet, this seems to be an overreaction to me. There are about 15,000+ murders per year in the US, and not that many due to the recent riots.
Just what we need, a lot more scared inexperienced gun owners.
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Not sure if he did this already, but I would think trying a 10 or 20 day fast first seems like a better plan, he's going to lose all that muscle.
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One police reform could be to use a shoot-to-wound policy in some cases like these. With an officer behind him, and knowing the suspect didn't have another weapon (they already frisked him), I think he could have shot him in the ass or leg. Cops in the US are always trained to shoot-to-stop the threat; usually multiple shots in the chest or back (which often results in death). This would of course require more marksmanship training.
That being said, I agree the split-second decisions cops are faced with are extremely difficult. Also, if I start wrestling with two cops, I expect to be dead more often than not. Cases like these would never result with a criminal charge to the officer in the past, but this guy will probably be used as an example.
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American History X starring Ed Norton - A very enjoyable movie besides the lessons learned. I won't ruin the plot, but you won't be disappointed, whichever side you are on.
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On 6/8/2020 at 10:07 AM, NatureB said:Any good documentaries (on Netflix)?
I can recommend "13th" on Netflix. It was so revealing and at parts heart-wrenching. You will learn a ton about the prison system, how it relates to slavery, how the laws are stacked against blacks (and POC) so that 1/3 of young black men can expect to go to jail at least once while that is true for only 1/17 young white men. Systemic Racism is systemic haha. In the worst way.
Watched this today after seeing your recommendation; very revealing and sad. It shows exactly why the US is #1 in incarceration, and a great counter-argument to those who think racism is exaggerated or in the past. It also shows one reason why so many think its exaggerated - because it was so well hidden after the civil rights movement.
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Infinity is the answer, don't look past that, ignore all else
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@Dutch guy Are you open-minded?
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BTW, I have been/still am closed minded for most of my life.. You are probably way ahead of me in that regard...no sarcasm.
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15 minutes ago, Epikur said:You didn't answer the question. Read careful what the question was.
If you mean the You part, its not much different than what you posted. This is getting way off topic so I'm out.
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10 minutes ago, Epikur said:Well it does makes sense to me.
Don't you have some theories?My theory is to do more stuff like this https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/07/business/15-percent-pledge-black-owned-businesses/index.html
and a lot of the violence will go away. I know there can be problems with this method, but why not? Even if you think there are cultural problems in the black community and have a different perspective of why that may be, don't you want a less divided and less violent nation?
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On 6/7/2020 at 0:41 PM, Keyhole said:Get a note from your doc stating that you need a calm environment to heal faster?
I don't know if it will work but it is worth a shot.
Good luck with your recovery hope it all works out.
Something like this. Act like you had a small stroke or something. You might have to manipulate them back for your own survival; stress will not help the surgery go any better. You can worry about your relationship with them after you are back on your own.
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9 minutes ago, Epikur said:This is really sad:
“We’ve never seen anything like it, at all,” said Max Kapustin, the senior research director at the crime lab. “ ... I don’t even know how to put it into context. It’s beyond anything that we’ve ever seen before.”
The next highest murder total for a single day was on Aug. 4, 1991, when 13 people were killed in Chicago, according to the crime lab.
Exactly, nearly 500 murders in Chicago last year, and only 17 caused by the current riots, and there is so much attention to the violence of the riots, doesn't make sense to me.
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3 minutes ago, Epikur said:This one is even better. Let's take a knee for Floyd Mayweather.
Meh, stopped watching at about 9:00, he seems pretty hypocritical about pushing a narrative when he shows the Mayweather clip two seconds later, which is not at all representative of 99% of the left. We all know that a lot of media on both sides are full of shit. I think he's missing the point. Its really about inequality. I think police brutality is like 3rd or 4th on the list behind unequal income, wealth, schooling, and incarceration rates. This is just the time its being talked about because of the George Floyd incident.
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20 minutes ago, Epikur said:At 2.25 It get's really emotional. Who would not see the pain of these peoples and side with them?
He had a couple good points. Definitely agree with him about Lebron too near the end of the video, lol. I remember getting triggered about what he said a few months ago.
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No thanks, I think you need practice on doing more in-depth research. You looked at a 25 second video that was cut from the full version (taken completely out of context) from a source that had under 100 subscribers and posted that as your evidence. Please be more careful in posting misinformation.