Comment by like_any_other
2 hours ago
> Hollywood, do you realise I'm British?
Oh you've never seen an American movie, have you? And the Unknown Warriors book I cited was interviews with British veterans.
> Cos its bullshit
If you're going to dismiss a population expert without even bothering to give an argument why, then I won't bother with you.
> Oh you've never seen an American movie, have you?
The idea that I got my account of the war from Hollywood as a Brit is absurd. I grew up with a first-hand account of the war living in the same house as me.
> If you're going to dismiss a population expert without even bothering to give an argument why, then I won't bother with you.
I've run the numbers myself a few times and 2066 is the domain of charlatans, not "population experts". I imagine this is one of those "white british" ones that don't count Irish people and also consider the loss of majority into plurality the same thing as "being a minority". Its all designed to generate fear, its so transparent and you should be embarrassed that you're falling for it. We're on hacker news. Make a github, make a model, run the numbers, ask gipity why your model is wrong, make it better, work out the numbers, learn the range, ask what you do about halfies, how to model birthrates that normalise after just two or even one generation. Its not 2066 unless you _really_ want it to be. That's the thing, its victim thirst. Everyone wants to be a victim in order to make their complaints feel justified. It ain't about what ACTUALLY happens in 2066, its about feeling angry in 2026.