Posts by lithiumflower_@mastodon.social
 (DIR) Post #AXkdzSrPrfCS7hqQtM by lithiumflower_@mastodon.social
       2023-07-16T12:06:50Z
       
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       @Rasp I would say less than 5% of the population think equality of outcome should be enforced, much less enforced by violence. So you are the weird one here dude, your working class concept is just an illusion, you wish you would be part of a very big and powerful group but you aren't.
       
 (DIR) Post #Aafzyn5490SyY9AeQK by lithiumflower_@mastodon.social
       2023-10-11T23:31:25Z
       
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       @yogthos @cygnathreadbare I have serious doubts about this paywalled article and about words like "half" and "in some eastern european countries" which ones?. I have been looking inside the world bank gender dataset and I don't see any country with "half" of STEM graduates being women. There seems to be a small 4% gap (declining) between the eastern and western blocs but there are also some countries in the west that reach 40% percentages https://databank.worldbank.org/source/gender-statistics
       
 (DIR) Post #Aafzyo6AMOwNhqh2mG by lithiumflower_@mastodon.social
       2023-10-11T23:35:41Z
       
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       @yogthos @cygnathreadbare On the other hand we have the gender-equality paradox, more egalitarian countries should have higher percentages of women in STEM but they don't https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender-equality_paradox which suggest all of their affirmative action policies don't work at all. Only central planning and coercion seem to work, and it seems eastern bloc countries are losing that small difference as time passes and women are no longer coerced. But in any case, they are small differences overall.
       
 (DIR) Post #Aafzyph4Qg3Seay1wG by lithiumflower_@mastodon.social
       2023-10-11T23:42:04Z
       
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       @yogthos @cygnathreadbare It would be more interesting to compare careers that are known to be very skewed towards males vs females. Science, STEM, etc already have many women, at least in the last 20 years. It would also be interesting to have older data. But I haven't found much after the 2000s
       
 (DIR) Post #Ada626evCy2kw85VnE by lithiumflower_@mastodon.social
       2024-01-04T21:46:07Z
       
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       @skruffl please.. stop pretending you are talking about technology when you are talking about politics, It would be less boring if you were honest and just said that you want to force socialized transport on everyone. In terms of pure numbers, politics aside, self driving vehicles will be the cheapest, cleanest, most flexible and with more throughput form of transport ever, it's just an algorithms theory question but I'm sure you aren't interested in researching or understanding the numbers
       
 (DIR) Post #Ada628qL5UMfi7Rero by lithiumflower_@mastodon.social
       2024-01-04T22:41:37Z
       
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       @skruffl I won't go into details but it's easy to understand this by visualizing self driving vehicle fleets as "fluid" trains. you won't just have self driving cars, you'll have many forms of self driving, in fact many vehicle forms that aren't currently very popular will become so, like intermediate size transports, for 6-10 persons etc. Right now they aren't popular because you have to either go for throughput with big transports (trains, buses) or for flexibility with small ones