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Post WW1, the US was a world hegemon, lent money and set low interest rates and for the past 100 years the countries of the Western EU, fattened from their ancient trade and slaver…

We did, and we have our public spaces (public in the non-physical sense here) to show for it.

Our public offline lives are also miserable. If you live in a westernish society, you know exactly what are the problems, and if you are 40 something you can see that for your whol…

We've already defunded the police, and you can see the ramifications all over the world.

I can give you a couple just in regards to my programming career: - Got my first dev job after several bootcamps and then just decided to YOLO and move to a different country (??),…

HR is modern priesthood, and their function is to prevent the "unwashed" from ascending up the higher ranks. Now there I've made it much worse (or better!) than the actual reality,…

Agree for stuff like alphafold, for the likes of education, imho, it's been solved for at least a couple of centuries. Textbook and blackboard > ipad.

This has started to feel a bit like the beginning of railroads and then the steampunk fiction of "let's just build railroads to everywhere". We don't need it and there's no use for…

Is this electron?

Very common around my mom's house.

Pieces of Belgian cities?

+ with nation states becoming poorly run cesspools, we're going to see what happens to that.

Do you believe," said Martin, "that hawks have always eaten pigeons when they have found them?" "Yes, without doubt," said Candide. "Well, then," said Martin, "if hawks have always…

Humanity is a bit of a stretch, and to be seen over time, not that I'm saying it won't happen; let's get some hubris here.

The problems you have are solutions to the problems you don't want to admit to yourself are actually having.

Would it? Tongue in cheek.

Interlinked.

Proobably the later.

Also just the general timezone stuff, genetics ~ I've moved from the right end of a timezone to the left end, it's been killing me.

Yeah, what did I say?

Post-money people with side interests are what built the current western civilization.

On X.com on my Chrome browser I am unable to correct digits if I entered a wrong number. Very nice blog layout btw.

Best thing you can do for your professional life, if you're in that sort of arena, is to get extremely jacked.

This seems like it caters mostly to Ukrainians no?