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If you are defining evil as greed than I'd say it has won. Money and power is nearly as consolidated in the hands of the few as it could be. over 3 billion people around the world live on less than 2 euros a day. There are over 45 million people living in slavery today, 170 million child ages 5-14 work in labor, 800 million people do not have access, and on and on and on. There are enough resources in the world and knowledge in human societies that no one should have to die of starvation yet millions do. Every bad thing I can list has a practical solution which is ignore in favor of keeping the wealthy wealthy.

If civilization were to fall people would still need to eat or they would die. Without agriculture humans would be force to be nomadic, constantly on the move relocating for food. Such a life style would come with far greater risks than anything related to vitamin d deficiency. To set roots down anywhere, northern or southern, agriculture would by a must. Agriculture was developed with the aid of tractors, companies, money, and etc. Right, but you are implying skin tone would drive migration. That isn't how it worked. People migrated and then over time in different environments there skin tones changed. That plus mixing with Neanderthal and Denisovan humans. "For example, the Neanderthal version of the skin gene POU2F3 is found in around 66 percent of East Asians, while the Neanderthal version of BNC2, which affects skin color, among other traits, is found in 70 percent of Europeans." https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/01/140129-neanderthal-genes-genetics-migration-africa-eurasian-science/ As I previously linked Half the world population, over 3.5 billion people, have a vitamin D deficiency. It isn't driving any sort of migration. If civilization fell vitamin D would be what determines where people live. Human created those part and are the ones building those parts today. To Sensei point, why do you think the knowledge for how to do such things would be lost?

This is contradictory. Agriculture is a product of and requires the continued use of technology. Define modern. Agriculture was developed 10,000 years before electricity and indoor plumbing. Humans spread out of Africa across the whole globe into every environment the Earth has to offer (minus Antarctica) hundreds of thousands of years ago. Your notion that we (humans) would be limited to some garden of eden-esque placed based on ethnicity is disproved by history.

The overwhelming majority of opioid users are white and the overwhelming majority of of Republican voters are white. I suspect the differences between how Romney and Trump did with those groups has to do with the growth of opioid use between 2012 and 2016 more than anything else.

Is Mexican a race? Spain is in Europe and most people in Mexico are of Spanish ancestry. Also you are ignoring all the various darker skinned groups (darker than Caucasian) who live in northern areas like Inuits, Kazakhs, Mongolians, and the native Alaskan populations. When humans initial left warmer climates language either didn't exist or if it did wasn't nearly as established as it is now. Additionally agriculture hadn't been developed yet. Even if major govts fell Language and agriculture would still be know and those would enable people to continue live in a large variety of environments. This is true but as it applies to the OP overstated. Half the worlds population is Vitamin D deficient. It impact all ethnic groups. Moreover if civilization fell I seriously doubt vitamin D would make the list of top one thousand concerns those humans left would have for survival.

I am not denying this. Rather I am just pointing out that what Amazon has is far more extensive.

Brick and mortar stores do not get an individuals info from cash purchases. Also even if one uses a card they do not capture the same amount of information that Amazon does. For example the address one might bank with isn't always the one a person has items delivered to. Plus Amazon sells everything where as Brick and Mortar stores general specialize in a specific market. A grocery store has insight into what cereal and vegetables you like but not a whole lot else. Amazon knows everything you like food, furniture, clothes, electronics, who your friends are, where you travel, and etc. As StringJunky eluded to Amazon even has devices listening to you in your home. Provided this information is purely used to tailor ads for products I might be interested in I don't see a problem with it. However just as Cambridge Analytica mined social media to magnify propaganda so to could Amazon's data.

Something which occurred to me this morning while reading an article about the former Cambridge Analytica CEO's testimony before parliament in the UK was that Amazon potentially could do far worse than those who mine social media. Amazon is able to collect data on what you buy, eat, own, watch, read, and etc. Amazon's potential to manipulate the general people grow exponentially by the day. All companies do this of course. Netflix has algorithms which attempt to predict what I might like to watch. For the most part its convenient. However when a company is as diversified as Amazon they aren't just influencing which movie you watch.

Companies target individuals with fake news. Cambridge Analytica for example collected data on at least 87 million people in the U.S. during the 2016 election and target them with fake news. It isn't even clear if such marketing is illegal.

We claim to be the freest country in the world yet have the highest prison population. We have millions who have lost the right vote. The UN says 6 million people but that is just felons and ex-felons. Add in the people prevented from voting because they are on probation and what not the number is probably closer to 10 million. People are are still allowed to do everything else in society (work, marry, have kids, go to Disneyland, etc) they just can't vote. They still pay taxes at the local, state, and federal level but can't vote. Of course that is just the tip of the iceberg. Tens of millions more are disenfranchised a variety of other ways. I focused on those banned from voting by law because it is one of the easier issues to fix.

It is why I roll my eyes so strongly at those who use mid ground and work between the aisle platitudes. There simply is no middle ground to be had. The current system is not designed for compromised solutions. It is a take everything you can get and F%$# everyone else system. We need a national standard for national election which ensures the right to vote for every citizen who pays taxes. Ones IRS filing should double as their voter registration.

Many Conservatives are up in arms over Sarah Huckabee Sanders being refused service at a Restaurant in Northern VA. It seems hypocritical on their part considering the numerous arguments launched defending a businesses right to refuse service to members of the LGBTQ community.

The thread asks if can can "control" it. Not whether it exists.

Ironic on a couple levels. Without an external observer I wouldn't have noticed the error.

While this makes sense to the faithful it is actual just a mechanism to get around not have any evidence (any tangle reason for believing in what they believe in).

"Animals", "Bad Hombres", "MS 13", "criminals", and etc all mean the same thing; not white. On Fox and Friends they came real close to just saying as much flat out. Idaho is one of the least populated states in the Country. It is also one of most white and conservative in the country.

Tell that to a schizophrenic. This is one of the big flaws associated with faith. The faithful understand that if they searched for evidence they would find none and would undermine their own beliefs. so instead they attempt to create a standard where searching for evidence in itself either can't be done or is somehow disrespectful. .

Sadly oneself isn't a source which one can trust.

It isn't nasty. It is merely typical. Just an egocentric view more interested in satisfying self than learning anything.

You are talking about your own limitations to understand existence and are creating work arounds for what you don't know. You seek accurate answers to question you lack the ability to answer. Hoping you can look inward and miraculously manifest knowledge through faith is a natural egocentric trick the human mind has played for hundreds of thousands of years. Humans have made stuff up to fill in their knowledge gaps throughout history. It is why all ancient cultures have myths about where the sun goes at night and what the dream world really is. What you are observing within yourself as profound is no more significant than a teenagers initial arousal as hormones begin to mature their bodies. It feels unique but is actually standard. You are grappling with the same questions billions of other humans have as well. Faith has failed to provide accurate answers over and over again for millennia.

Ones "inner world" can be researched via its interaction, influence, and response to the outside world. For example your parents and culture exist in the outside world yet helped shape your "inner world". A great many things can be predicted about your "inner world" based on the environment of the outside world you were raised in.

The truth can't be reached without attempting to reach it through research.

Wrong answers are still answers.

From the U.N.'s Human Rights Council report on poverty in the U.S. One argument I often hear in defense of Trump is that he was elected. That per the democratic process he was made president so now we all have some sort of civic duties to work through these trying times with him (Trump) as our leader and continue respecting the office. However 5 members of his campaign have already plead guilty to crimes during the election and we know that Republicans have cultivated a system of disenfranchisement, particularly in Southern States, for decades. Trump lost the popular vote by 3 million, 6 million predominately black (and Southern) weren't allowed to vote at all, and the U.S. has the lowest voting participation percentage in the developed world. This isn't what Democracy looks like!

If I believe there are 11 parallel Universes and a 12th universe which in a simulation. That my conscious thought is the higher power which created and controls all in 11 parallel universes. That one of my creations from the first parallel Universe invented a computer using dense matter from the center of a black hole. A computer so powerful that the 12th simulated universe exists inside of it. It is that simulated universe which you and everyone else you have ever known exist with in. That too would answer such questions as "why does everything around me exist?". The wrong answer to a question is still an answer. Do you want answers or do you want the truth?