No. That's not the reason. I'm an immigrant living in Spain. The root problem is the outrage of the rent price increase in cities. Spaniards have targeted three "guilty parties":
- Tourism, because it helps drive the value of property up, and most Spaniards are tenants and not owners.
- AirBnB's and what they call "real estate speculators."
- Foreign capital in the form of investment funds buying property left and right (they may have a point with this one TBH).
Whenever I've tried arguing with them, I try telling them how it's normal for cities to grow in land value, that there's limited area and increasing population, and that in most cities in the world normal people move out to the periphery. They just complain about the rich and land speculators and propose rent controls and other state-indebting "solutions" like actually be given free housing by the state. They don't even realize how much economic value comes from tourism.
The real causes of their rent problem is the lack of construction of new housing to bring the prices down and the fact that salaries haven't kept up with inflation at all for many years. But they would rather just point at billionaires and their perception of wealthy tourists instead of agitating to incentivize housing construction.
That is literally the fucking point.
Yes it is. My point is that, when I say "This is just a new technology following the pattern that new technologies go through", I'm saying in 14 words what it took you 813 to say. Technology becoming better, more widespread and cheaper is also obvious. Obvious enough that a post saying it so in so many words as if it was some kind of wisdom being imparted comes off as silly.
His beard looks fake to me, like a LARP, like a costume, rather than an expression of his personality. I looks like he keeps it to brand himself as masculine. Something about it screams insincere. Not genuine.
I just don't like the guy. I'm very biased against him. I don't even know why. It's a gut reaction.
used pretty much exclusively in an academic/corporate/governmental setting.
What other setting is there? Individuals making their own models? They do, at least those with the know-how. There's innumerable open source projects for local neural network models on all sorts of applications.
You're trying to hard to create a theory. This is just a new technology following the pattern that new technologies go through.
something based on White culture
The race angle is superficial and temporary. The real fight is spiritual. They hate LoTR because it was written by a Catholic and has Catholic values, such as notions of divine destiny and objective morality.
Even artificial insemination is immoral. Hijack of the natural procreative act aside, there's necessary natural selection in the sperm's travel up to the ovary. IVF is also guilty of this, with the addition of aborting numerous rejected fertilized embryos.
Sucralose
I really want that allegation not to be true. I drink a lot of sucralose: it's my favorite sweetener. It's existed for like 50 years and has been one of the most tested artificial sweeteners. It's always been concluded as safe and non-toxic.
I'm, not debating them. I'm just saying that the left wasn't benefited by Kirk's murder. On the contrary, the event only served to further the cause of the opposing side. In a similar way, celebrating political assassinations would be bad for the right if they begin doing it.
'productive' with them.
Kirk's assassination wasn't conducive to the left's success, since it only increased resistance against their agenda. That's how political assassinations and their celebration are counterproductive to one's agenda. Counter-productive means detrimental instead of beneficial.
About the AirBnB's, there's a limited amount of licenses for operating them, so the number is already controlled.