I'll bet you $100 those SWAT deployment figures are so low because they aren't counting all the warrants they have them serve as deployments. Departments use them constantly for that kind of stuff. They love to hut hut around and play soldier.
Side note....did you read about those 150 Americans they chose randomly, and then stripped them of their right to vote as well as their right to firearms? It's funny how I could spread that fake story and people would lose their minds talking about a government not long to stand. Yet, if I say that 150 unarmed Americans were murdered by agents of the state who were violating their civil liberties under color of authority you'll cite the national population and say that shows great professionalism. Oh....the FBI is about to stop tracking those stats since only 57% of total LEO reported to them for the 2021 numbers. Just 44% reported the year prior.
This entire bizzaro world of where it's patriotic to support a group of revenue generators for the state being able to murder someone because, "Well....he took a breath faster then the previous one and I was sure he had a SAW system in your pocket....so me and Fred shot him 37 times. Well....we shot at him 37 times. But a few hit him. Some random house of someone in that area luckily took all the wayward rounds for us!", meaning it takes a true patriot to understand that our rights are all based on supporting someone who will allow you to die or end you themselves if they even see a shadow that makes them think that you mean him harm and are planning his demise.
I'm not sure how you got it that violence and suicide is all because of socioeconomic inequality.
Suicide is a direct function of depressive issues and circumstances that peaks on you at the same time you get that one too many "it's gonna be a bad day" piece of news. I'm a suicide survivor (I say survivor because I didn't attempt anything. I succeeded.) whose only alive because my bulldog lead my youngest brother to where I was outside as he had dropped by to see me. A lethal dose of methadone is 50mg. I took 500mg and washed it down with Jim Beam. I was legally dead three times (once in the ambulance and twice in the ICU). I'm not going to say it doesn't happen....giving someone with depression all kinds government reform will do exactly nothing to cure that depression. More affordable opportunity to seek mental health, sure...I'm with you. But even that is maybe 10% chance to prevent if they're down on a day when something happens. I had divorced as well as having my middle brother pass away within weeks of each other.
As far as violence? If you made everyone a millionaire today, there'd still be violence crime, hence violence to retaliate to that, tomorrow. Because people are never satisfied. And unless every physical asset was a cookie cutter model of every other item like it, people are going to be jealous of what someone else has. The best way to cure a lot of the violence is for people to leave each other alone and show some decency to each other.
Which medics is that? I served in the US Army and while not a 68W I did run the 10 day medic course the Army offered and at least to the US branch, I can assure you no one is being told to try to envision surgical, prosthetic, and rehabilitation success rate ratio. Medics are masters of two things.....they can stop bleeding and keep air flowing while maintaining suppressive fire with their other hand and plan out what they want for dinner later and not miss a beat. But they don't have the same level of education as a Licensed Practical Nurse and are the last people anyone should want making that kind of call.
Is he a friend or at least someone you can communicate with? I ask because I have zero issue with contributing to his Canadian Legal Team fund. He doesn't have to make the court appearance so long as his lawyer answers for him.
I understand the sentiment, mind you.....but the last thing we'd want is for say 10 million Americans get motivated and all put EVs on the road tomorrow. We don't have anywhere near enough infrastructure to support a large EV market yet. If you want to hear something sad....the most conservative estimates say that if we started today we're still looking at around 40 years to have a full supportive infrastructure for EVs.
Like you, I got every appendage crossed for some type of soft'ish landing, but with everything going globally pitching a little gas here and there on our inflation fire I am almost 100% positive the Fed will have to keep throwing husky rate hikes and just man up and punch inflation in the nose. And I hate it, but there are going to be a lot of people lose their jobs or get hurt somehow else at that expense.
Didn't the FDA release like 60k pages of those documents a couple months ago? I know Pfizer didn't want that, but people are forgetting before COVID mRNA medicine was a holy grail. So much so a lot of groups didn't pursue it since they saw it as a pipe dream. COVID's greatest gift was causing massive influxes of research dollars into them and most likely fast tracking these new drugs 15 years. mRna will literally be part of the new wave of medicine starting that will cure cancer. And it's odd to you that Pfizer doesn't want to post all their research data online? With the FDA or CDC they can be assured of data containment.
And let's be honest....an mRNA vaccine has some fats, sugars, and salts in it. The magic is in the programming to work with your body and it's immune system. I've heard some insane personalized interpretations of basic organic chemistry on the vaccine topic before (please know not saying you, referencing past discussions with others) about how vaccines loaded with poisons and caused all kinds of issues. And with an mRNA vaccine's ingredient list reading like an organic snack know what all those people said instead? An mRNA vaccine will alter your DNA because youtube told them so.
These are also the people that said they understood Particle Physics better then myself or any source I cited, because I was too full of myself to acknowledge that when I said non-ionizing radiation I was ignoring the radiation part...which is how 5G was the true cause of COVID19. Then they told me I was a poster boy for what education does to someone....because I lacked the common sense to recognize the dangers of the radiation part in non-ionizing radiation. Never mind he was arguing with me surrounded by technology saturating him with that very same harmless radiation.
I told those examples to make a point...releasing all of that data won't change the first person's mind. They'll simply shift their position or do like they did with the whole autism debate and say they're right and anything saying differently is obviously part of a larger conspiracy of people who don't care about patient health. Over 20,000 people are hospitalized and 3,000 dead every year from aspirin due to anaphylaxis or bleeds. That's not really reported because anyone who expects every single human on the planet to have zero negative reaction to a drug every time is setting unrealistic expectations as a cheap way to try to prove their right. We've had roughly (last time I checked several months ago) a couple of dozen verified deaths relating to the vaccine since roll out and all those had genetic conditions that caused it.
Point is, every scrap of that data can hit the net tonight and the only thing that would change is we'd wake up to the new laughable "they are using it to track you" or "It's going to force gender change in men!" rumors tomorrow. Meaning, 99% of the people who'd (skim) read that data are the kind of people who'd tell me I was a moron because I wasn't getting that non-ionizing radiation is still radiation and is nuking us all.
Was actually just talking about this paper with my wife. She's an MD at the ER here and one of her peers is a Wound and Hyperbaric Fellow.
Really hope this lives up to what it seems it might.My wife's biggest COVID19 fear is 10 to 20 years from now and a lot of people are seeking medical help because what they called a cold back in the day deposited so many blood clots throughout their bodies that they have organs and muscle tissue all looking like swiss cheese from those clots suffocating tissue areas and have probably had a few strokes between today and their future visit.
To address the concept of UBI up front, I'm not a fan of it. I could get into the philosophical arguments of it but tugging heartstrings is one of the first signs of a failed argument (name calling is a close second). However, I will also say that I don't see any other way to deal with the kind of job disruption we're going to see as a nation over the next 15 years with AI tech progressing. Anyone who wants to argue against roughly 40% of the country getting a UBI for 5 years or so along with new job field training hasn't thought through what roughly 150 million armed and broke Americans can lead to.
FY2019 the US saw a tax revenue of $3.46 trillion in total tax monies, with right at half of that coming from income taxes at $1.72 trillion. Meaning, taxation for UBI would be a tax increase of $350 billion on top of current income taxes if you wanted to pay every single American a $1k monthly UBI. Last census showed 20% (ok, actually 19% but rounding up to keep numbers simple) of Americans do not pay payroll taxes (this is why I did not count FICA taxes with the $1.72 income tax number, because when I say 20% I mean 20%. So I excluded people who pay FICA, have an SSI exemption, income to low, ect)) so that means the base population numbre of 350 million I used now is 280 million total Americans (and we both know that a quick glance at the current U6 number on an unemployment chart will crush the pipe dream of 280 million Americans having jobs and paying federal taxes. So now we're talking some serious tax increases. And I think a lot of people might be shocked at how many people with two UBI checks coming into their household would consider that retirement money....adding even more tax burden to the rest.
I know some people like to blame Trump, some Biden, and some point to Obama....but we've been trying the free money experiment since the Great Recession with those first moves Bush made and every President has followed since. The Federal Reserve slammed rates to zero and kept them there because there has never been an economic recovery. Which is why the Fed has also artificially supported several private markets (don't even get me started on the Federal Reserve's trading desk when they want to buy a crap ton of stocks or bonds to stop a market slide when it starts getting around +1,000 or more.), and all it's achieved is giving us terrifyingly large asset bubbles and even more scary debt bubbles. Without getting off into a novel on the topic, quite simply, the answer is no....we do not have the resources available to hand out UBI. I've heard some advocate the logic of it's fine since we can print as much money as we need. People who say this simply don't understand how the US economy and the Federal Reserve work as for every single USD that is created...there is also debt created via the interest owed on that one dollar. This is why anyone who says they can pay the debt off or not add to it is either lying or selling something. The literal only way to address the US's debt (both public as well as Unfunded Liabilities....which total $170 trillion in debt just counting Medicare and SSI) is liquidation. Sure, we could "tell" the Fed no more interest and to waive all interest owed it....but that would make the USD toilet paper globally. And if that ever happens that the world views the dollar as useless then we'll see a crash on the scale of Mad Max stuff like doom prophets on youtube always swear is happening in 5 hours.
If someone is single and needs help, you can't beat the military (I joined the Army for this precise reason) for food, clothing, shelter, income, insurance, ect. That's where I got a lot of my college education for free, but if single there are way to many grants to not be able to do a few night classes a week since there are no wife or kids at home waiting on you. If you have a family as I did (wife and two toddlers) it was even better as the Army gave us free housing and extra money for groceries and my family enjoyed my benefits. As far as the intellect argument....we live in the age of the autodidact thanks to the internet. Anyone that can't be bothered to take half an hour a day to educate themselves doesn't want or need help. I left my job in automation right after the recession and since all that had happened I decided to learn how the economy works, how the dollar works, what the Fed is and how it works, how it applies geo-politically, ect. It's why nowadays I sit at home in my boxers and trade the markets while also having a second portfolio that is more passive and functions best if left alone.
My education is in automation robotics so many of my peers / friends work within the AI or Quantum Computing fields and I'm always bending their ears on this topic.I say that as a preface because I always stress to people that automation robotics engineer sounds a whole lot fancier then it really is. I'll also state that I do not consider LaMDA being sentient possible.
It's ironic that she describes how a person builds knowledge and can access that learned information based on things like current topic, points being made, and mixing it all together to make for creative thought based on those factors and produce a conversation with another person. But if an AI system does the exact same thing it is simply using pieces of it's database to try to best answer your point/question as best as it can as it relates to being understood and concise. I'm not a renowned child development psychologist as the author of the article is but learning is learning to me. It's ironic that she used that stance to try to differentiate the two since all those neural network systems are literally designed to use the same tools that a child would in building that knowledge of vocabulary and interaction.
That said, she's not wrong. She's just not right as it relates to her main point. AI systems won't rival the human brain until we can give it access to a major upgrade in computational power, which is why I follow quantum computing lock step with AI news. That would give it more "brain power" then a person could ever hope to have and will give us AGI. Once AGI is reached and it can help with further processing technology ASI is soon to follow (I'm one of the, "It's far more a difficult journey from ANI to AGI, then it is from AGI to ASI")
Side note....did you read about those 150 Americans they chose randomly, and then stripped them of their right to vote as well as their right to firearms? It's funny how I could spread that fake story and people would lose their minds talking about a government not long to stand. Yet, if I say that 150 unarmed Americans were murdered by agents of the state who were violating their civil liberties under color of authority you'll cite the national population and say that shows great professionalism. Oh....the FBI is about to stop tracking those stats since only 57% of total LEO reported to them for the 2021 numbers. Just 44% reported the year prior.
This entire bizzaro world of where it's patriotic to support a group of revenue generators for the state being able to murder someone because, "Well....he took a breath faster then the previous one and I was sure he had a SAW system in your pocket....so me and Fred shot him 37 times. Well....we shot at him 37 times. But a few hit him. Some random house of someone in that area luckily took all the wayward rounds for us!", meaning it takes a true patriot to understand that our rights are all based on supporting someone who will allow you to die or end you themselves if they even see a shadow that makes them think that you mean him harm and are planning his demise.