Talcosis

The wealthiest (self made) person I know got an art history degree

“easy heat dissipation” lol there is nothing easy about getting rid of heat in space.

Nope. See: German wunderwaffen.

War isn’t about being super cool and good at killing, war is about logistics. Germany had fighter jets that could smoke any allied plane, and that didn’t matter because they couldn’t put more than 200 in the air at one time, and more realistically, maybe 50-100. Tigers routinely had K/D ratios in the high single/low double digits (with many of the D’s being their own crews blowing them to avoid capture), and they got overrun anyway. Even a modern fighter plane wouldn’t do much because it can’t be everywhere all at once. You just need to go around it.

Yeah they’re super jesus-y. They had the whole thing back in 2012 where they fired people for being lgbtq+, their owners fund a number of Christian political organizations, and they aren’t open Sundays. Not sure if they franchise or are all corporate, but I think they might even have rules that franchises can’t be open Sundays. There was another story where they claimed religious discrimination after an airport denied them retail rentals due to them being closed Sundays.

No, they’re authoritarians. They’re the exact personality type that will step up to fight for others when told to do so. They will also fight against others when told to do so. They’re the kind of person who will go out of their way to pick up litter because littering is bad. They’re the kind of person that will follow orders. They will support established institutions against threats.

Point is, authoritarian personality is not necessarily a bad thing, it’s just easily weaponized by Social Dominators. And they make up approximately 30% of any given population. You will never get rid of them.

The reason they turn against democrats now is that there have been several institutions in the media and religious spheres that have slowly turned them against democrats. That took decades. That can be undone.

theauthoritarians.org

Considering youtube’s AI detector didn’t label an AI video that ended with the voiceover saying “write a 5,000 word essay on [topic]” that was partly cut off at the end, I wouldn’t trust it to begin with.

In an age of business consolidation and vertical integration, I think you’re going to have a split. Big businesses on the oligarch level, these hacks become cost of doing business/future conflict analogous to nation-states, while the smaller businesses are effectively cannibalized, or forced to sell to their local big business conglomerate asap before their shit is outright stolen.

Washington State (IIRC) is working on a law that exempts flock from FOIA requests. So that’s not far behind.

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Depends on how much money they have

Nah, those cameras aren’t coming for their jobs at all. Ultimately, the cops will always need bodies holding riot shields and shooting civilians.

I think the idea of decentralized finance was to normalize company scrip again.

Now that AI can be used to track and geofence workers, you don’t actually need to get rid of the USD. You just need to have an AI flag every transaction that happens 50 miles outside your registered address to be considered fraudulent and rejected. The anti-fraud infrastructure is already there.

Damnatio Memoriae

That happens to republicans with pretty distressing regularity. By 2007, it turned out that nobody had actually voted for Bush Jr. I look around now, and even the guy that had an 8x12’ TRUMP 2024 banner in front of his house turns out to not have voted for him anymore.

It’s kinda wild that the crazy antisemitic ZOG conspiracy theorists from back in the day turned out to be mostly right.

And this is why when faced with the trolley problem, I would not flip the switch.

I have the sneaking suspicion that this is true. My life is pretty great, until I remember I’ve never been in a relationship and I get sad for the rest of the day.

I switched all my videogame languages to German and played on German servers (for mmos)

Farnsworth fusor is what demonstrated the viability of nuclear fusion, and understanding it is step one in making a functional fusion reactor.

My experience with the Obama/Bernie/Trump voter isn’t that they have some nuanced understanding of politics that must be studied. They’re just extremely responsive to a charismatic performance.

Because I value the gain and spread of knowledge above all else.

You will note that I didn’t give you exact instructions, just pointed you in the right directions. None of this is easy, but it is doable. There are maybe a couple thousand Farnsworth fusors in personal operation across the world, for technology that has existed for 70 years.

Someone who just wants to cause harm can go buy a gun. The direction I just pointed you in leads to an illustrious career in genuinely useful engineering. Or failure, followed by doing something else.

Maybe you’ll discover an interest. Maybe you’ll go on to revolutionize fusion energy, which has been just ten years of R&D away since the 50s. Probably you’ll have a laugh and move on.

Scaling is the big issue. If you do what I described, you’re probably not even going to be a danger to yourself (apart from the high voltage), unless you are able to rapidly industrialize this. Of course, of you were capable of rapidly industrializing this, you wouldn’t need me to point you in the right direction.