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  • LustyArgonian@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Used Tesla prices tumble as embarrassed owners look to sellEnglish
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    9 days ago

    Eh, I don’t buy this. There were always dissenters and weirdos and people knew differently. There were trans pioneers. There were vegans. There were abolitionists. Not everyone was like that.

    Tesla wasn’t a biologist, let’s leave it at that. Humanity’s greatest biological strength is their adaptability, which requires variety. Eugenicism is inherently disadvantageous to humanity because it reduces their ability to adapt and respond to environmental threats. A counter to that would be E.O. Wilson, see Half Earth, a short read that emphasizes biodiversity.

    Eugenics only makes sense to cowardly people who are afraid of being treated how they would treat others. It’s a bad idea to Cavendish Banana Hapsberg people (oh and btw eugenics is deeply tied to incest kinks, see Elon and Trump).

    Again, this is thinking that is pretty intuitive if you aren’t bloodthirsty and pathetic

  • LustyArgonian@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Used Tesla prices tumble as embarrassed owners look to sellEnglish
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    17 days ago

    People say that because they support it and they don’t think it’s a big deal. There were always anti-eugenicist movements (and always people opposed to fucking children, and having slaves, and even eating meat or going to war, and other morally shitty things justified with this excuse). That’s literally how the movements against these things came about - people throughout time have been against them. You just discount them because you align yourself with the other side, for some reason.

    Tesla was not mentally well. But he had the power to make weapons, including a so called “Death Beam” https://www.pbs.org/tesla/ll/ll_mispapers.html

    And look, Trump connection:

    After a three-day investigation, Trump’s report concluded that there was nothing which would constitute a hazard in unfriendly hands, stating:

    “His [Tesla’s] thoughts and efforts during at least the past 15 years were primarily of a speculative, philosophical, and somewhat promotional character often concerned with the production and wireless transmission of power; but did not include new, sound, workable principles or methods for realizing such results.[233]”

    In a box purported to contain a part of Tesla’s “death ray”, Trump found a 45-year-old multidecade resistance box.

    https://www.pbs.org/tesla/ll/ll_mispapers.html

    An operation code-named “Project Nick” was heavily funded and placed under the command of Brigadier General L. C. Craigie to test the feasibility of Tesla’s concept. Details of the experiments were never published, and the project was apparently discontinued. But something peculiar happened. The copies of Tesla’s papers disappeared and nobody knows what happened to them.

    The morning after the inventor’s death, his nephew Sava Kosanovic´ hurried to his uncle’s room at the Hotel New Yorker. He was an up-and-coming Yugoslav official with suspected connections to the communist party in his country. By the time he arrived, Tesla’s body had already been removed, and Kosanovic´ suspected that someone had already gone through his uncle’s effects. Technical papers were missing as well as a black notebook he knew Tesla kept—a notebook with several hundred pages, some of which were marked “Government.”

    P. E. Foxworth, assistant director of the New York FBI office, was called in to investigate. According to Foxworth, the government was “vitally interested” in preserving Tesla’s papers. Two days after Tesla’s death, representatives of the Office of Alien Property went to his room at the New Yorker Hotel and seized all his possessions.

    Dr. John G. Trump, an electrical engineer with the National Defense Research Committee of the Office of Scientific Research and Development, was called in to analyze the Tesla papers in OAP custody.

  • LustyArgonian@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Used Tesla prices tumble as embarrassed owners look to sellEnglish
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    17 days ago

    https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/nikola-tesla-the-eugenicist-eliminating-undesirables-by-2100-130299355/

    The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man’s new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit. The only method compatible with our notions of civilization and the race is to prevent the breeding of the unfit by sterilization and the deliberate guidance of the mating instinct. Several European countries and a number of states of the American Union sterilize the criminal and the insane. This is not sufficient. The trend of opinion among eugenists is that we must make marriage more difficult. Certainly no one who is not a desirable parent should be permitted to produce progeny. A century from now it will no more occur to a normal person to mate with a person eugenically unfit than to marry a habitual criminal.

    Oof, that’s a tough read.

  • LustyArgonian@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Hackers breach Andrew Tate's online university, leak data on 800,000 usersEnglish
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    4 months ago

    I have been on Lemmy for over 8 months as a woman. In that time, I have been abused so badly by both the community and mods, including several death threats, I had to remove all info about me from my profile. Men here are misogynists.

    They weren’t bots. And you are a woman hater too, trying to run defense for them. Thanks for making the world 1600s again. I’m literally having to defend food safety practices and handwashing to people because people like you hmcant pick up the mental weight of empathy towards a woman. You’re in a cult groomed to automatically disrespect and dismiss women. Gender narcissist.