I'm with you. People are so focused on the destination that they completely ignore the journey people used to get there.
The rich are also the powerful because money is power, so let's say that you establish a 100% inheritance tax. No problem if you're rich, you just spend your money while you're alive to powermonger your kids into enviable positions where they get a bunch of the money everyone ends up having to give to the government because they're sooooo careful with everyone's money.
"Excuse me, one of the core tenets of our cult is that it is not a cult. We reject all religion, and so to claim we're a religion is sacrilegious."
My portfolio is up 12% in the past 12 months which is insane.
At this rate I'll be a millionaire. Shame a typical shipping trip will cost $500,000
At this rate I'll be a millionaire. Shame a typical shipping trip will cost $500,000
Dostoyevsky's notes from the underground Part 2 Chapter 1 has a story about a long "vendetta" between the underground man and an officer. It was a comedy in how he was so intent on things and cared so much about an imagined slight and prepared and saved and got an advance on his salary and all this preparation... to nudge this guy slightly while walking down the street instead of completely moving aside.
It felt like a comedy to me, where someone uptight got themselves all worked up against someone who didn't hardly even know they existed, become obsessed, and the impression I got is that the officer didn't even know the other guy existed.
The way the Underground Man talks and acts is starting to make me realize he's a nerd, and almost shockingly similar to repressed nerds in the current age.
He is also highly vain about his intelligence, and how well-read he is, and he really feels like that makes him a better person than others. His imaginary feud started up in part because he didn't get into a dramatic fight that would be appropriate for a work of literature, and he blamed not just starting a fight in the bar because it wouldn't be fantastical like his stories.
I'll say I can see why it's considered a masterwork, because while it's investigating a lot of themes, it's also fairly entertaining. The first part of the book could be seen as reasonable within itself, but then you see his actual behavior it's almost cartoonish the way he is.
It felt like a comedy to me, where someone uptight got themselves all worked up against someone who didn't hardly even know they existed, become obsessed, and the impression I got is that the officer didn't even know the other guy existed.
The way the Underground Man talks and acts is starting to make me realize he's a nerd, and almost shockingly similar to repressed nerds in the current age.
He is also highly vain about his intelligence, and how well-read he is, and he really feels like that makes him a better person than others. His imaginary feud started up in part because he didn't get into a dramatic fight that would be appropriate for a work of literature, and he blamed not just starting a fight in the bar because it wouldn't be fantastical like his stories.
I'll say I can see why it's considered a masterwork, because while it's investigating a lot of themes, it's also fairly entertaining. The first part of the book could be seen as reasonable within itself, but then you see his actual behavior it's almost cartoonish the way he is.
I wonder, if you're afraid of heights does that concept even kick in at that point? Or is it just like TILT
"we have women and children begging for mercy and then we refuse to show them any. Are you sure we're the good guys?"
I said it a lot -- it takes 9 months to make a baby and it takes a long term to do long term testing.
You know, Superstore/Extra Foods used to make the best greek salad. Then they changed it and it's never been the same ever since which is really sad.
lol it'd be a short trial.
"You are hereby accused of gluing yourself to the road. How do you plea?"
"Not guilty"
"The road is literally still attached to your hand from where they had to cut you off of it."
"You are hereby accused of gluing yourself to the road. How do you plea?"
"Not guilty"
"The road is literally still attached to your hand from where they had to cut you off of it."
Just leave 'em there. After a few days they'll appreciate the benefits of fossil fuels.
Unfortunately it's as you say, it's all about trade-offs. The thing is, the amount of environmental damage that will be caused by enough solar infrastructure to provide a gigawatt of electricity at night in the middle of winter would dwarf the impact of one river being dammed.
In many provinces in canada, the entire population is having their electrical energy provided almost exclusively by hydroelectricity.
The effect of using hydroelectricity is that electricity rates become so low many people can use electric heat in winter, which as I've said many times is a core problem that would need to be solved if solar was to be used at scale.
By contrast, Ontario invested heavily in wind and solar (among other missteps), and rates skyrocketed so many people moved to fossil fuels for heat because if you don't then your electricity bill starts to look like a mortgage payment in January. You might imagine that such consequences disproportionately hurt the poor who can't just install a new oil or natural gas furnace.
In many provinces in canada, the entire population is having their electrical energy provided almost exclusively by hydroelectricity.
The effect of using hydroelectricity is that electricity rates become so low many people can use electric heat in winter, which as I've said many times is a core problem that would need to be solved if solar was to be used at scale.
By contrast, Ontario invested heavily in wind and solar (among other missteps), and rates skyrocketed so many people moved to fossil fuels for heat because if you don't then your electricity bill starts to look like a mortgage payment in January. You might imagine that such consequences disproportionately hurt the poor who can't just install a new oil or natural gas furnace.
I'm a strong proponent of hydro anywhere it's available because it's a known good technology that bypasses many of the problems with other green tech.
Greenland's benefit is resources. Lots of metals and probably oil and gas that would all be exploited a lot more as an American holding than it is as a danish holding.
If I'm remembering right...
If I'm remembering right...