Funny how they weren't screaming fascist when he was using a combination of state and corporate power to impose a certain vision on the common man (regarding electric cars), but when he uses his own money to buy their combination of state and corporate power and kicks out the government lackies then he's a fascist.
Based Wyoming
Even if I think people should be allowed to buy them if they want, but without major government help almost nobody would want one because they're expensive and impractical.
Even if I think people should be allowed to buy them if they want, but without major government help almost nobody would want one because they're expensive and impractical.
In openttd I'm being really sneaky. I chose a really remote city and set up a massive airport with attached trains and bus station and lory station, and I'm just continuously funding the city's growth so the entire city grows up around this intercontinental airport. It's presently the largest city on the continent and growing. Meanwhile I'm funding the growth from the massive profits I'm making carting entire planeloads of people from this massive city in the middle of nowhere to other massive cities in the middle of nowhere.
I've been looking into the Sumerian city of UR, and no one knows for sure what happened to it, but there was one hypothesis that it was invaded leading to the common saying "I'm in UR base killing UR dudes"
Communism are associated with totalitarianism and authoritarianism for the same reason fire is associated with hot: pretty much every time that it's tried the same thing happens.
When the blueprint for achieving a stateless society includes creating an all-powerful dictatorship, and the next step is that that all powerful dictatorship is supposed to just magically disappear, that's just to be expected.
The problem isn't the social or the commune, it's the ism. There are lots of people who are perfectly happy with the current system which while flawed has led to the greatest improvement in material quality of life in human history for more people than ever before in history, despite the many and obvious flaws of that system. Therefore, to switch to a different system that insists it'll change everything you're going to need to use force to get universal adoption.
In my view, an ideal system is one under which people are free to choose how they want to live. If you want a commune you can do so without oppressing those who don't. If you want to create a workers cooperative you're free to do so without oppressing those who don't, and I'd you want to engage in free trade you're free to do so without oppressing those who don't. There have been eras when US had a similar system to this, but it's sort of unstable and eventually someone wants to make everyone else do their ism.
When the blueprint for achieving a stateless society includes creating an all-powerful dictatorship, and the next step is that that all powerful dictatorship is supposed to just magically disappear, that's just to be expected.
The problem isn't the social or the commune, it's the ism. There are lots of people who are perfectly happy with the current system which while flawed has led to the greatest improvement in material quality of life in human history for more people than ever before in history, despite the many and obvious flaws of that system. Therefore, to switch to a different system that insists it'll change everything you're going to need to use force to get universal adoption.
In my view, an ideal system is one under which people are free to choose how they want to live. If you want a commune you can do so without oppressing those who don't. If you want to create a workers cooperative you're free to do so without oppressing those who don't, and I'd you want to engage in free trade you're free to do so without oppressing those who don't. There have been eras when US had a similar system to this, but it's sort of unstable and eventually someone wants to make everyone else do their ism.
Considering how much the state is orchestrating the media now, of course she's a villain in a hollywood movie.
OBEY.
OBEY.
Could you imagine being someone who breaks the law because they think those laws are morally wrong?
They have to make Rosa Parks a white man -- They always make the villains white men in these new movies.
They have to make Rosa Parks a white man -- They always make the villains white men in these new movies.
If a Mexican makes it to Canada, they're probably a member of the professional class.
We gotta build a wall to keep gangs from New York out. It we won't because our leaders are weak.
We gotta build a wall to keep gangs from New York out. It we won't because our leaders are weak.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-studies-warn-of-cataclysmic-solar-superstorms/
Here's an article about the study. I watched an extended video from the author on youtube, and the methodology makes sense.
I mean, the Carrington event caused operators to get shocked, the 1921 event caused telegraph stations to burn to the ground. Is that a lower level of effects?
Here's an article about the study. I watched an extended video from the author on youtube, and the methodology makes sense.
I mean, the Carrington event caused operators to get shocked, the 1921 event caused telegraph stations to burn to the ground. Is that a lower level of effects?
According to contemporary measurements it was as large as or potentially larger than the carrington event. Telegraph lines did in fact get damaged in the later event, which is why it was called the railroad storm. Despite that, it didn't have any effect on the electric lighting systems installed in the same regions.
It'll be highly dependent on the region. How they get their power, the geology of the region, and how much mitigating technology is in place.
It'll be highly dependent on the region. How they get their power, the geology of the region, and how much mitigating technology is in place.
Huh, go figure. Watched the whole documentary, guess we'll just have to deal with it if a sort of 12000 year cataclysm happens.
I'm sure a Carrington sized flare would cause a lot of damage, but it wouldn't get rid of all electricity for the rest of our lives. A lot of stuff could break really badly, but in particular systems that don't rely on long distance transmission could be back up and running as soon as the event ended, as well as systems that were brought offline in expectation of the arrival of an event.
It's likely that the 1921 solar storm was similar in strength to the 1859 Carrington event according to recent research, and at that time we already had radio systems and electricity was used for lighting in some regions. The one saving grace for the world's technology in 1921 was we didn't rely on long distance electrical transmission lines. The risk of ground current would be different from place to place. If you're in the east or the upper midwest, then there's a very high risk, but down in Florida it's a much lower risk, mostly due to the geology of the different places.
The 1989 event that knocked out the power in Quebec seemed to be largely affecting power regulation that relied on ground for voltage references, and that damaged static var systems that regulate voltages by injecting inductive vars onto the electrical system. After that event they took mitigating measures, but I've heard that before and then the same exact problem occurs again so the proof would be in the pudding...
I'm sure a Carrington sized flare would cause a lot of damage, but it wouldn't get rid of all electricity for the rest of our lives. A lot of stuff could break really badly, but in particular systems that don't rely on long distance transmission could be back up and running as soon as the event ended, as well as systems that were brought offline in expectation of the arrival of an event.
It's likely that the 1921 solar storm was similar in strength to the 1859 Carrington event according to recent research, and at that time we already had radio systems and electricity was used for lighting in some regions. The one saving grace for the world's technology in 1921 was we didn't rely on long distance electrical transmission lines. The risk of ground current would be different from place to place. If you're in the east or the upper midwest, then there's a very high risk, but down in Florida it's a much lower risk, mostly due to the geology of the different places.
The 1989 event that knocked out the power in Quebec seemed to be largely affecting power regulation that relied on ground for voltage references, and that damaged static var systems that regulate voltages by injecting inductive vars onto the electrical system. After that event they took mitigating measures, but I've heard that before and then the same exact problem occurs again so the proof would be in the pudding...