Try Codex, it's a breath of fresh air in that regard, tries to do as much as it can.

This isn't new; in the 1960s France sent ships to take back its gold from the US to avoid losing it.

We'd only expect to see wage equality if women had exactly the same job preferences as men, which empirically is absolutely not the case.

I think the argument is the other way around: fields that women prefer pay less, ie. the field pays less because women prefer it.

I don’t share that argument, I just wanted to point it out.

Or alternatively, men prefer careers because they pay more, regardless of other criteria, so they choose high paying fields more often.

Why do those careers pay less?

How far away are we from being able to run a hobby Linux on something like that, a completely hardware-backdoor-free system?

You can already port over a RISC-V SoC to Aegis. I have not tested that yet but it is something I really want to do.

You can already do that on several Risc-V chips with mmu.

Not everybody has such a troubled personality that having the ability right at their fingertips to access all the world's information and communicate with anyone in the world somehow causes them problems, maybe you should touch grass.

No, he's right. Smartphones are a socio-demographic catastrophe. The fact that they exasperate mental illnesses is just a detail.

Welcome to Dubai, German habibis, you can join all the Russians fleeing their draft here. Still a lot less likely to get hit by a drone here than to die when fighting on the frontlines in Europe.

We are indeed evolving into a situation where Islamic monarchies not only sound reasonable but start to look like a viable option.

*As long as you're part of a privileged, accepted class

White European is enough? how rich do I have to be?

I would bet my money on asian societies.

I don't know. A lot of countries in East Asia seem to struggle demographically just as much as Western countries do, if not more.

But at least it seems they didn't go for the easy solutions that is mass immigration, so hopefully their children's "seats" won't be taken when they finally wake up.

On the other hand, as someone living in Central Europe, it's obvious our society is heading towards a radical change. I don't know what will happen, but I don't recall ever reading about a indigenous population becoming a minority being a good thing for them.

I think its more about a rotten ideology and mass migration is only a symptom. Also it could make sense if you would actually care about taking people that are educated and willing to work.

Why would someone go to a place in an actual conflict zone that is under attack by actual drones right now to flee from hypothetical drones in a hypothetical conflict?

They just told you why. The probability of being hit by a drone there is extremely low.

No crazier than that the old can vote to send the young to war.

A little crazier — the old were once young, and could have been voted into a war themselves.

Trans people exist. So: Some women were treated by law as "once men, and could have been voted into a war themselves

Footnote: But not necessarily felt to be correctly labeled men, ever in life.

Body dysmorphia is a mental illness.

And yet the vast majority of combat veterarans are very anti-war.

My grandpa (ww2) was one of them. He helped my father dodge the draft, when he was supposed to go to military service.

Why don’t presidents fight the war; why do they always send the poor?

"Fuck you got mine" is the attitude of the boomers expecting young people to die for a country that the boomers left economically and demographically ruined. Young Germans have the worst life prospects of any generation in the past fifty years.

But if you look at serious polls then not many young people will actually fight for this. I remember reading a number of around 15%... And those probably don't have a high IQ.

That's a generation of people who had to never suffer the prospect of invasion and occupation of German soil by hostile armed forces. Even so, this number of willing recruits would already be much more than the Bundeswehr can possibly arm, and are unneeded as long as there is no military altercation actively involving Germany.

You're discussing boomers in the context of an awful lot of history.

Nation state is just another word for state, no? What state is not a nation state?

The states of the United States of America are not nation states.

That's not true. When France surrendered in WW2 most French men didn't have to fight or die (unless they were Jewish).

That was also true of much of the feudal or monarchist European wars in the centuries before WWI. In the near term before the "democratic" era around WWI wars war largely seen as wars of the aristocracy and armed forces. Merchants could usually ~freely come and go between countries at war and you could generally pass to a country you were at war with without common people seeing you as an enemy. Wars also tended to be less "all or nothing" where the other side was evil and had to be destroyed and were seen more as property and rights disputes of the elite where armed force was a negotiating tactic or strategic use to assert some particular right.

It wasn't until the scam of 'democracy' fooled people into thinking war was against the actual people of the other country that they not only scammed everyone into having such buy-in and stakes for the war but also to view the other countrymen themselves as the enemy. People started viewing the nation of themselves because their laughable miniscule influence of their vote somehow means the government is of them. (Note this was a resurface of course, there were times in history where war was seen as against a peoples rather than of the elite).

99% of males in the U.K. avoided dying in ww2 - 380k military casualties vs a population of 47 million (and presumably 23.5 million male)

I’m assuming non military casualties were evenly spread between male and female.

Figures I’ve seen say over 700,000 casualties in the British Army alone.

3.7 million served in the Army, which is a fairly high proportion when compared to the age range suitable for military service. Add in the Navy and RAF and you get to nearly six million. Those that didn’t serve were generally needed at home - roles like doctors, miners, police, or were too young or too old to fight.

The British, unlike many European countries, had time to mobilise those forces. Had they lost the Battle of Britain and had Germany commenced a land invasion of Britain then it’s likely the numbers would have been a lot lower.

> unless they were Jewish

Cold comfort. Just decide to not be of Jewish descent then. Who would have known it's so easy to escape the attention of the Gestapo! /s