thesmokingman

Your last sentence is somewhat naive. It can often place the onus on the wrong group. People don’t want to engage with the XLibre dude with open minds and empathy any more because back when they did, he didn’t engage with an open mind or empathy. You can only do that for so long before you have to isolate and protect. Quarantine, deplatforming, and isolation works when someone refuses to engage. At some point you have to be intolerant of intolerance if you want to get anything done.

Scope some literature on deradicalization. There is only so much empathy you can give someone who thinks an entire group of people don’t deserve to be human and, more importantly, there has to be a cutoff when you’re not getting empathy back. You’re right, empathy and an attempt to understand is important. Don’t forget many people in marginalized or attacked groups have to defend their existence every single fucking day so sometimes their empathy is pretty drained.

What part of “disposable” isn’t dehumanizing to begin with?

Not yet, not for some time, and certainly not at single local GPU running at minimal use. Both you and the commenter I was responding to seem to forget how massive the @home projects were.

Blockchain mining, completely open source and run on local GPUs, is no worse for the environment than gaming via this logic. I think that’s easily disprovable.

Don’t tell me you think Roko's basilisk is real

I must be pulling a red herring then

A point I haven’t seen yet is just general eugenics. I know OP says “no appearance or mind” but genetic diseases directly affect those. Take deafness, for example. It can be genetic and therefore could be “fixed.” The deaf community would be fucking furious (cochlear implants can be incredibly controversial). Blindness can also be genetic. Cleft lips and club feet can be genetic (or influenced by) and they can be really gnarly so why wouldn’t we fix those? And since we’re fixing things, why not fix autism and Down’s syndrome (I know we said no mind but those are truly game changers!) and oh shit now we’re in Gattaca. Eugenics is bad. I won’t fully commit to a slippery slope because that’s a fallacy; I will say very convincing science fiction has been written about this and I have seen nothing under capitalism (or communism!) that convinces me that wouldn’t happen.

Maybe you should read the article.

Assuming you read the article, which part wasn’t clear?

Kinda strange that the SCMP won’t say which analysts say this. Granted, broken clock and all that. Or this.

Let me pull that quote for you.

The number of people living with dementia is still increasing due to our ageing population, but this study adds to the good news that more recent generations have a decreased risk compared to past generations

Now let me help you understand percentages. See, when you have more people alive, the number goes up. What does the quote say? The number is going up because the population is ageing. Notice it doesn’t say frequency. That’s when the percentage increases. Percentage is the ratio of the number to the whole. See, in your conspiracy, you forgot to bring something that talks about percentage. In the article we’re talking about, “frequency” and “percent” are never mentioned.

Had you actually read the article, you might have pulled this quote

it should not be assumed that the trend would continue, given some of the biggest health changes to reduce dementia risk may already have been made

Which, unsurprisingly, doesn’t match your conspiracy theory. More importantly, you might have pulled this one, which can directly be linked to your conspiracy.

evidence suggested nearly half of dementia cases could be prevented or delayed by addressing 14 key risk factors – from smoking to air quality – although he noted not all were within individuals’ control

But you don’t really have supporting facts, which is really annoying. There are great points to be made about meat and mental health. Maybe come with those next time! Good sources, too, covering meta studies perhaps?

Fascinating how the numbers decreased a hundred years before your range, isn’t it! Maybe you should take the time to read the article and offer real criticism instead of conspiracy theory.