If Mort Divine ruled the world

[Einherjar86]

In line with my assertion about the eventual flipping of rates of medical diseases from higher in rural to higher in urban areas:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/07/where-have-all-the-children-gone/594133/



Along with the death of the rural elderly - the absence of the urban young.

Edit:

I agree with this, but don't follow why declining birth rates in cities (i.e. the absence of children) translates into an increase in medical diseases.

Being a pedestrian is increasingly dangerous since the introduction of the smartphone. Running along and across busy urban streets is an issue even if one doesn't care about dodging other pedestrians, bikes, dogs, etc., or doesn't care about the scenery or lack thereof.

I think this is less of an issue than you make it out to be. Cars move slowly in cities, and most drivers are overly cautious about runners and cyclists (sometimes to an annoying degree).

As far as running to the parks: Probably for some. But are people in the slums running to the parks? Conversely, the people far enough away to have other greenery lose time they could use for running sitting in a subway, car, etc.

The time for exercise declines among the working poor, I agree; I just don't see why rural areas negate this factor. You still have people working multiple jobs, or long hours, plus you have the lack of motivation as a result of isolation and immobility.

 

[Dak]

I agree with this, but don't follow why declining birth rates in cities (i.e. the absence of children) translates into an increase in medical diseases.

Because children typically don't have diabetes, cardiopulmonary diseases, or cancer. The middle-aged and elderly do. As your population skews towards the latter, so will these disease rates.

I think this is less of an issue than you make it out to be. Cars move slowly in cities, and most drivers are overly cautious about runners and cyclists (sometimes to an annoying degree).

https://www.npr.org/2019/02/28/6991...hs-reach-highest-level-in-decades-report-says

Attempting to get to work on foot, walk the dog or enjoy a simple after-dinner stroll is becoming an increasingly risky activity, according to new estimates by the Governors Highway Safety Association, which found the number of pedestrian deaths in the U.S. has reached a 28-year high.

A new report by the GHSA determined about 6,227 pedestrians were killed in motor vehicle crashes in 2018 — a 4 percent increase over 2017 and the highest mortality rate since 1990.

"While we have made progress reducing fatalities among many other road users in the past decade, pedestrian deaths have risen 35 percent" since 2008, Executive Director Jonathan Adkins said in a statement.

35% increase since 2008, which is incidentally approximately when smartphones emerged.
https://www.outsideonline.com/2390525/bike-commuter-deaths

The relative %s are low, but trending in the wrong direction. I've been nearly hit on three separate occasions over the last 3 years when trying to run in a relatively busy more suburban area by female college students overshooting stops because they were looking at their cellphones (I avoided being hit because I stopped before they hit me). Since the third occasion I've shifted to almost strictly trail running and indoor track.

The time for exercise declines among the working poor, I agree; I just don't see why rural areas negate this factor. You still have people working multiple jobs, or long hours, plus you have the lack of motivation as a result of isolation and immobility.

This is true. I don't think that's something that's alleviated by rural areas. The mechanisms for physical health and mental health are different hear, I don't want to suggest that simply being in a rural or suburban type area is going to improve physical health. That stats are going to flip because of demographic reasons, not because suburban or rural people are going to be exercising more.

 

[Dak]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...uplifting-stories-then-terrorists-killed-her/

A Somali-Canadian journalist returned to Somalia to tell ‘uplifting’ stories. Then terrorists killed her.

Can't make this stuff up.

 

[Einherjar86]

Because children typically don't have diabetes, cardiopulmonary diseases, or cancer. The middle-aged and elderly do. As your population skews towards the latter, so will these disease rates.

I'm not sure I see this as urban populations skewing toward middle-age/elderly. Unless the rate of young people flocking to cities goes down, they will still comprise the majority of the population--provided the young people who arrived before them leave the city when they're ready to have children.

I'll admit that only now is the real point of your argument becoming clear to me, i.e. that the middle-age/elderly population of cities is increasing and old people tend to be sicker than young people. To be fair, your earlier posts insinuated (to me) that urban areas are bad for mental and physical health--that a causal relationship existed. Maybe you are partly saying that; but anyway, that's what I take issue with (maybe I'm imposing a perspective due to what I know to be your aversion to urban living). It certainly makes sense that if the population rate of elderly people rises in urban areas then the rate of medical issues will also rise.

https://www.npr.org/2019/02/28/699195211/pedestrian-deaths-reach-highest-level-in-decades-report-says

35% increase since 2008, which is incidentally approximately when smartphones emerged.
https://www.outsideonline.com/2390525/bike-commuter-deaths

The relative %s are low, but trending in the wrong direction. I've been nearly hit on three separate occasions over the last 3 years when trying to run in a relatively busy more suburban area by female college students overshooting stops because they were looking at their cellphones (I avoided being hit because I stopped before they hit me). Since the third occasion I've shifted to almost strictly trail running and indoor track.

This doesn't specify where these accidents are occurring. I'm not denying that accidents happen in cities, but I would venture that suburban and rural areas might be worse for cyclists given the lack of cycling infrastructure. Here's an article from citylab pertaining to cycling incidents in Boston:

https://www.citylab.com/transportat...re-suburban-bikers-are-getting-struck/381440/

As you'll see, accidents tend to happen in the "greater Boston" area, not in the city center where bike lanes and infrastructure are common. It's where drivers don't expect to see cyclists as much that accidents occur.

 

[Dak]

I'm not sure I see this as urban populations skewing toward middle-age/elderly. Unless the rate of young people flocking to cities goes down, they will still comprise the majority of the population--provided the young people who arrived before them leave the city when they're ready to have children.

I'll admit that only now is the real point of your argument becoming clear to me, i.e. that the middle-age/elderly population of cities is increasing and old people tend to be sicker than young people. To be fair, your earlier posts insinuated (to me) that urban areas are bad for mental and physical health--that a causal relationship existed. Maybe you are partly saying that; but anyway, that's what I take issue with (maybe I'm imposing a perspective due to what I know to be your aversion to urban living). It certainly makes sense that if the population rate of elderly people rises in urban areas then the rate of medical issues will also rise.

Well I believe the latter as well: It's at least if not more unhealthy physically, outside of a particular cohort of low time preference, high IQ, well positioned people (like yourself) who can navigate it. But the reason I said the 20 years timeframe is purely demographical in nature. Push it to 30 if we must just to be sure to catch all by the near-centennial boomers (who would most likely be in larger cities due to advanced care needs and the centralizing of medicine).

This doesn't specify where these accidents are occurring. I'm not denying that accidents happen in cities, but I would venture that suburban and rural areas might be worse for cyclists given the lack of cycling infrastructure. Here's an article from citylab pertaining to cycling incidents in Boston:

https://www.citylab.com/transportat...re-suburban-bikers-are-getting-struck/381440/

As you'll see, accidents tend to happen in the "greater Boston" area, not in the city center where bike lanes and infrastructure are common. It's where drivers don't expect to see cyclists as much that accidents occur.

This is a fair point to which I know of no data to dispute this. There is also likely a rise immediately after the addition of things like bike lanes when drivers haven't become accustomed to them yet. My concern really is more on the distracted-by-smartphone phenomenon. I see it all the time here, overwhelmingly due to the high numbers of collegiate females and female faculty/staff and nursing staff etc. Not that males aren't doing it too, but anecdotally I see a far higher number of females driving or sitting at lights on their phone (full disclaimer, I regularly use my phone at stoplights, but I keep it high enough so I can see the light or the car in front of me).

 

[CiG]

 

[CiG]

Majority of Mexicans favor deporting migrants waiting to enter US.

More than half of Mexican nationals are not sympathetic to migrants traveling through the country on their journey to the United States and support the deportation of unauthorized persons waiting to gain entry to America, according to a new study.

The study, conducted by the Washington Post and Mexican newspaper Reforma, found “more than 6 in 10 Mexicans say migrants are a burden on their country because they take jobs and benefits that should belong to Mexicans.”

Additionally, more than half of the those same Mexican citizens are in favor of deporting migrants living in the country illegally.

Shocked and stunned by this.

 

[Dak]

Broke: Mexicans
Woke: Duterte

https://www.newsweek.com/duterte-philippines-answer-white-people-human-rights-1449684

"I will not answer a Caucasian… You must be stupid. Who are you? I am a Filipino.

 

[Dak]

https://twitter.com/vicenews/status/1152065527302373381?s=20

iS tHiS tHe fUtUrE lIbErTaRiAnS wAnT? Citizens of a failed Democraticly run city turn to the market.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

I would have chosen a less garish logo, but otherwise, very nice. lmao @ that old retired fuck at the end of the video whining about how security isn't supposed to be about who can afford it, all the while he enjoys pension and likely a safe neighborhood, all on the backs of a heavily taxed and destitute population that receives no protection at all. Double lmao @ that old retired fuck whining about how the police are answerable to the people but private security is answerable only to "a board of directors", seconds after the video shows that private security answers calls before the crime. I hope he suffers a violent home invasion and is forced to watch helplessly as his family is murdered (assuming his family shares the same viewpoint, otherwise they get a pass). That piece of shit is why I genuinely hate administrators more than I hate common gangbangers.

EDIT: Though to be fair, the video brought up the point that the federal government has restricted the ability of police forces to do their job due to various civil rights lawsuits. So decapitate those in the DoJ first, then work your way down.

 

[Dak]

No mention of how private security answers the call of the market. As much as HOAs can be oppressive idiots on minuscule issues, they provide bargaining power for protection.

 

[CiG]

A Somali-Canadian journalist returned to Somalia to tell ‘uplifting’ stories. Then terrorists killed her.

Hodan Nalayeh spent the last days of her life doing what she loved most: sharing a side of Somalia rarely depicted in the West. On Twitter, she posted photos of young boys grinning on the island of Ilisi, fresh fish and lobsters pulled straight from the Indian Ocean and a colorful sunset from the port city of Kismayo.

“It was an incredible day to witness #Somalia’s beauty,” the Somali-Canadian journalist wrote.

Then, on Friday, al-Shabab militants stormed the Asasey Hotel in Kismayo, killing at least 26 people, including Nalayeh, 43, and her husband, Farid Jama Suleiman. An additional 56 people were wounded. It took around 14 hours for Somali security forces to regain control of the hotel, where several tribal elders and another journalist, Mohamed Sahal Omar, were also killed. At least one American was among the dead, the State Department confirmed.

This is why Trump told those Democrats to go back to their countries and fix them, not so much because he wants them to do that, but rather to highlight that they can hate America (and the west in general) all they like, it means shit because they'd never return to the shitholes they or their family come from.

Go woke, get murdered by terrorists.

 

[Dak]

A Somali-Canadian journalist returned to Somalia to tell ‘uplifting’ stories. Then terrorists killed her.



This is why Trump told those Democrats to go back to their countries and fix them, not so much because he wants them to do that, but rather to highlight that they can hate America (and the west in general) all they like, it means shit because they'd never return to the shitholes they or their family come from.

Go woke, get murdered by terrorists.

Because they are cowardly leeches.

 

[Einherjar86]

A Somali-Canadian journalist returned to Somalia to tell ‘uplifting’ stories. Then terrorists killed her.

This is why Trump told those Democrats to go back to their countries and fix them, not so much because he wants them to do that, but rather to highlight that they can hate America (and the west in general) all they like, it means shit because they'd never return to the shitholes they or their family come from.

Go woke, get murdered by terrorists.

Their country is America. That's the shithole they're trying to fix.

 

[CiG]

Pro-Trump Miss Michigan who refused to try on hijab stripped of title over twitter posts.

DeJack said that the MWA no longer recognizes her as a “participant of any sort or in any capacity” and demanded she removes all the mentions of her taking part in the pageant.

As Zhu pressed DeJack for more information, the director cited a 2016 tweet by Zhu, reading: “Did you know that the majority of black deaths are caused by other blacks? Fix problems within you own community before blaming others.”

This is ridiculous and to work with someone that thinks statistics is racist is the last thing I want to do.

Damn redpilled Asian-Americans and their [rolls dice] facts and data.

 

[CiG]

Their country is America. That's the shithole they're trying to fix.

I love it when smart people are purposely obtuse.

 

[Einherjar86]

 

[CiG]

A disingenuous faggot.

 

[Dak]

America.....the shithole they're trying to fix.

You're smarter than this; Please act like it (sorry for the paternalism).

 

[Einherjar86]

Actually, I think you're both smarter than this. But it's kinda cute when you jerk each other off.