I always come back to hydroelectric in this regard. We have dams that have existed since the beginning of industrialized electricity, we have used water wheels for millennia. It's a known, proven answer.
Those dams have provided virtually unlimited energy compared to the upfront energy costs, and they produce more than enough energy to recreate themselves.
But it isn't pretty, and it's entirely too practical. It's effective and boring. It doesn't let you rewrite society from the ground up. So they hate it.
Those dams have provided virtually unlimited energy compared to the upfront energy costs, and they produce more than enough energy to recreate themselves.
But it isn't pretty, and it's entirely too practical. It's effective and boring. It doesn't let you rewrite society from the ground up. So they hate it.
A whole lot of very powerful people want you to think that career is all it takes to live a feeling life, but eventually you're making enough money to get anything that you want and if you don't have something that helps connect you to something greater there kind of stops being a point to it all.
Thankfully I was young enough when I realized this to change the course of my life. Because I was on track for this, being surrounded by things that were really cool and expensive when I was young, but are just a burden on someone else to get rid of the moment that I die.
Thankfully I was young enough when I realized this to change the course of my life. Because I was on track for this, being surrounded by things that were really cool and expensive when I was young, but are just a burden on someone else to get rid of the moment that I die.
It seems to me that The core theme of the work is the overwhelming forces trying to manipulate individuals into doing what is best for greater powers that be often to the harm of the individual and society. I don't see how else you end up getting the mega storylines, the vaccine story lines, The riot story lines, there's an awful lot of stuff there that isn't explainable through any other lens.
Tatsuyo Ishida is I believe on spinster. I read the last couple years of backlog on sinfest when I found their account on fediverse and it's been pretty interesting. Not where you'd expect the comic to go based on where it was 10 years ago.
"Nailpolish Remover is really good ABS plastic glue" is a great piece of information, and it's come up several times this week for me. We have a lot of plastic crap we'd like to keep in one piece, and with this piece of information we can do it.
One commentator I generally trust pointed this out a few weeks ago: China didn't do anything after Mao's great leap backwards that killed tens of millions of people. Why exactly would they be collapsing because the fastest growing economy didn't grow for one year?
Money is a hygiene factor. It won't make you happy, but a lack of it will make you unhappy.
That being said, if you want to experience deep existential dread, try to scientifically determine how to live. Math and science can describe and predict how things are, not how things ought to be. That's a basic truth of philosophy.
That being said, if you want to experience deep existential dread, try to scientifically determine how to live. Math and science can describe and predict how things are, not how things ought to be. That's a basic truth of philosophy.
I sort of think newproject2 getting shut down sort of cements you as relevant as long as people keep trying to do the same thing. Even if you went completely dark at this point, that's something that can't be undone.
A lot of things people think they want are terrible. Everyone would want the wages of a fortune 500 CEO, but having to live that life of having your life regimented to the second for decades on end and having to watch every single syllable you speak would be nightmarish. A lot of people would sudoku.
Pressing X to doubt on that one. You live in California. In LA. You've seen an awful lot of people who are ridiculously desperate for validation.
The chef had an opportunity to pursue his dreams and become a mechanical engineer, but he wasn't sure he could do it so he became a chef instead. Everyday he wakes up looking back and realizing that he betrayed his dreams to cowardice.
A chicken fried this steak.
A chicken fried this steak.