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This. It feels like USA just lost the Cold War. > Tens of millions of people are going to wake up [this morning] to find that they don’t live in the country they thought they did. …

Yes, that's my point. I'm complaining about the one idiot pointing to the other idiot crapping on science and boasting about eating toxins being top comment on this fractally appal…

> If the technology really advances to that point it will be very cheap to live. Yes. But the flipside of that is that it's hard to earn money. The cheaper it is to live, the harde…

Stupidity has always bothered me. Strident pseudo-intellectual stupidity bothers me almost more than cruel ignorant stupidity. At least now I'm angry in a constructive way.

On movie sets the candles and whatnot are props not lighting, there are other lights in use to illuminate the set and actors.

(SF is 150 years old and 7x7 miles in size, we do not compare to London on any dimension. My whole city could be a borough of London!) (This one time I was at a party (it was a lon…

> In Gavin Newsom’s book Citizenville he talked about how, after becoming [San Francisco] mayor, he discovered that fare collection cost as much as the revenue generated from fares…

Just a head's up for those of us on the West Coast of N. America, every so often it rains for forty days and forty nights and the whole place floods. > The Great Flood of 1862 was …

USA is an early adopter?

> Untouched and eighty years old, it was supposed to have been built by men with carts and horses during the Roosevelt years in the 1930s. > The soil was springy and spongy when yo…

I thought this was a good idea too but then a scientist pointed out that those areas radiate heat into space at night and the last thing we want right now is less of that. It's a l…

The primary "pressure" at the moment is to develop species-level self awareness to stabilize the planetary life support system before we crash civilization.

Cf. https://dynamicland.org/ > Dynamicland is a nonprofit research lab creating a humane dynamic medium. > What that means is a way for real people in the real world to explore ide…

The latter. ;) Sounds good.

Breath of sanity here. I wish I could upvote you twice.

Cheating at getting educated is a symptom of deep dysfunction in the system itself. Clearly, something other than education is going on. AI isn't going to help if you ask it the wr…

Are you talking to me or OP?

I sure am glad that, when I was twelve and learning Pascal at middle school, my teacher took pains to point out that OOP is just a way of arranging code, it doesn't change the code…

> the greater good (Hot Fuzz reference. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQzrR6nOkYg )

In re: your point #1, I wonder how much might Shinto figures into this?

Thoughts are idols (except for math, those thoughts are themselves.)

A narrative about the inadequacy of narratives. Choice!

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