i know poop knife but not knifey spooney

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You were told she doesn’t actually find it hot, that’s why you said that.

land of the free

at this point that’s a compliment

god is a set of mathematical statements or at least that’s how to interpret it in a modern sense, 2000 years ago these views didn’t exist so they just called it “the metaphysical realm” but it’s not made of atoms, no.

This would be a good way to censor or ban anyone. Then when asked for a justification, retroactively, dig through all that and find buried somewhere some small applicable clause.

this is what the cops were accused of doing in the US in 1980 (and probably before that). stop a car with a black driver, then find any bullshit excuse to fine them. it’s racism. it’s called selective enforcement of law, i.e. the law is only sometimes enforced, and only when it suits the cops.

LOL

yeah i’m actually a big fan of state-run companies, such as schools and medical facilities and transport companies (they are companies too, think about it. just not for-profit companies, but public-benefit companies). i’m even thinking it maybe could be extended a little further to make maybe 30% of the apartments in a city city-owned.

there’s multiple ways to deal with that. i just want to name a few:

• in the past, many countries in europe did it like that that companies are still privately owned, but the companies have to fulfill government-dictated regulation, such as restricting environmental pollution, making sure working conditions for humans are safe, making sure human workers have enough holidays and time off, and such
• a possible alternative that’s often discussed is repossessing the companies entirely, such that the companies become the possession of either the state or the people. i want to comment that there is essentially a mechanism to do this, which is taxation. taxation today is already a mechanism to move wealth from a person or organization to the state. it just has to actually be used properly.
• i’m too lazy to list more options rn

yeah i’ve done two summers of fieldwork and while it might sound boring, it was actually pretty cool :D we were working in the field all day long and it’s not boring because you keep moving, chatting, adapting to each specific fruit, it’s fun. you should try it.

Oh yes i know the W3 model and the Club Of Rome (i think they made that diagram?) in the context of the paper Limits to Growth.

The thing is, it’s outdated. That study was done when renewable energy was inconceivable. Things have changed since then. The study was literally done in i think 1970 (first version) and then updates every couple years (significant update was done in 2004).

In fact, until very recently, people couldn’t imagine that renewable energy would actually become a big thing. Solar energy somehow became the cheapest source of (technically useful) energy (!) in human history (says the IEA), and they’re gonna know it since they’re literally an oil and gas analysis organization so if even they admit it, it’s not “green propaganda” but solid facts.

This changes the picture dramatically, because under capitalism companies continue to seek the cheapest power possible, and that’s simply solar energy today. This leads to an exponential increase in solar power production ever since 2020.

And that changes the picture. The end of the fucking world is off, we’re all saved, we have enough energy to sustain our way of life and there’s no “heavy culling” when the fossil fuels run out.

just out of curiosity: have you considered applying in agriculture?

better grow roots and learn photosynthesis, then

surprisingly sane words

Entry level positions require 3 years experience, in every field now.

I think that is because they know they can’t actually hire everyone, so instead of making older people unemployed and risking them raising their voice about it, they’re making the younger people unemployed because they figure they can get away with it more easily.

younger people never know how it was like 20 years in the past. so they don’t have anything to compare and they can’t say “well, suddenly i’m out of a job” because they never had one in the first place, so it’s easier to sell the changing reality to them.

Where’s the leisure society? We have all the resources we need, all the energy we need, and simply put, there just isn’t all that much that needs doing that can keep everyone busy.

You’re right about everything; But you’re forgetting that in the U.S., suffering is the point. You have “suffering builds character” christians and an oligarchy that actively wants to keep the peasants away from power, or having enough free time to think about things.

tbf going back to school sounds nice. struggling with financial instability, not so much …

He’s also very smart.

[…], we’re on the cusp of a new digital nervous system for the 21st century.

I like that way of painting things.

He is right about a lot of good points.

I’d like to add: We need general purpose computing devices. These are devices where you can run your own software on.

The necessary pre-requisite is that the bootloader of the device is unlockable and relockable. That is very important both in the context of desktop and mobile devices.

any type of long form writing

basically i abhor long form writing too

ok, let me clear up definitions. “long form writing” is when you write a text with the expectation that it’s at least, say, 500 words long. intentional verbosity. like they did require us in school. “write at least 500 words about your opinion on laceless shoes”

that’s mostly because i have experienced that that kind of requirement leads to bloat, but not to content. I.e. people don’t say more simply because they use more words. It is in fact, i believe, the talent of a great writer to express much with little words.

Basically my ideal piece of text looks like this:

3-5 paragraphs, 1-3 lines each, and 1-2 images strewn into it.