NEVER skipped breakfast. Not even once.
You know, that could be either a really good life or a really bad one depending on how it goes...
You know, that could be either a really good life or a really bad one depending on how it goes...
This is Ramblin' Rudy. He's a hobo who lives in a culvert down by the railroad tracks.
He loves the name because he thinks it's because he's lived his life ramblin' from town to town, but in reality it's because if you give him the slightest excuse, he'll start rambling about politics for hours on end.
The thing is, Ramblin' Rudy hasn't seen a newspaper or listened to the radio in 30 years, so all the people he's rambling about are either retired or long dead.
It's ok, he's harmless enough.
He gets pretty passionate about the collapse of the Soviet Union, he's sure they've got a long future ahead of them of freedom and liberty and prosperity now that the government that was keeping them down has fallen!
He loves the name because he thinks it's because he's lived his life ramblin' from town to town, but in reality it's because if you give him the slightest excuse, he'll start rambling about politics for hours on end.
The thing is, Ramblin' Rudy hasn't seen a newspaper or listened to the radio in 30 years, so all the people he's rambling about are either retired or long dead.
It's ok, he's harmless enough.
He gets pretty passionate about the collapse of the Soviet Union, he's sure they've got a long future ahead of them of freedom and liberty and prosperity now that the government that was keeping them down has fallen!
tbf, I think new regulations took effect in the 2000s that banned the most extreme breeding practices
For real.
"How to be Bill Gates. Chapter 1: Have rich and influential parents."
God damnit how am I supposed to do that?
"How to be Bill Gates. Chapter 1: Have rich and influential parents."
God damnit how am I supposed to do that?
"It was a gambit for them – They didn’t have a new BASIC for the Altair, they were just gauging interest. This would be the one and only dodgy thing Bill Gates would ever do."
Doing some research for a joke, I looked up "famous people who died in 1996". After realizing I didn't know who anyone on the list was, I added "famous AMERICAN people who died in 1996"
And you know what? I knew who like half the list was. I don't know what that says about me....
And you know what? I knew who like half the list was. I don't know what that says about me....
Biden's got some really reliable voters. Rapper Tupac Shakur came out to vote for him, as well as Comedian George Burns, Singer Ella Fitzgerald, even [redacted] JanBenet Ramsey came out to vote for him! In a show of bipartisan support, both Justice Ginsberg and Justice Scalia came out to vote for Biden! That's some serious reliability! I need people that reliable in my life.
I remember asif mandvi doing a bit with Jon Stewart sometime like 2008 laughing about how the whites wouldn't be the majority in America anymore but Havent been able to find a clip. If I ever find that clip it'll be my only response to "right wing conspiracy theory"
I probably won't be getting anything this year, but I really enjoyed the terminal velocity update. Finished the whole thing in a weekend, it's a lot more playable with high resolutions and Xbox pad support.
Utilitarianism is one of those things that sounds really good right up until you apply it and realize the horrific moral calculus it enables.
Impressive words vs. impressive ideas
Sometimes people need their impressive words because once people understand the ideas they'd disagree.
Sometimes people need their impressive words because once people understand the ideas they'd disagree.
The fact that more men are virgins and more women are childless in their 30s than ever before definitely shows that natural selection is a thing, but evolution isn't an intelligent force, just an unavoidable one. During the great oxygenation event most life on earth died out because evolution selected for photosynthesis but not for oxygen resistance because there wasn't enough oxygen for that to matter right up until it mattered a lot. In a lot of ways I'm surprised the great oxygenation event isn't the most discussed geological event on the planet Earth since it's so relevant in so many ways.
This is one paper, and after a global outcry the authors printed a letter saying "ya got it all wrong!!!", but it is one example of someone advocating for such a position:
https://jme.bmj.com/content/39/5/261
https://jme.bmj.com/content/39/5/261
I keep two different ideas in mind in this regard.
I did a paper back in 2009 where I calculated the energy required to move just a few industries to green energy or nuclear, and just managing 3 industries without any of the surrounding required industries would require all the electricity production on earth produced using green or nuclear. My conclusion was that there needs to be way fewer people if we intend to use green energy to sustain our quality of life because there just isn't enough capability to produce energy without the fossil fuels subsidy for 9 billion people. We need fewer people to maintain this quality of life without quickly using up the fossil fuel energy subsidy we'll never get back.
On the other hand, we're facing cataclysmic population declines in the west and much of Asia because many forces are preventing people from having kids and that has many capacities to make things worse because of several dynamic systems in play.
If we let the major civilizations just collapse in population, populations that don't collapse will eventually be capable of just coming over and falling on top of the dying civilizations, resulting in population growth (just not of the civilizations that cared about overpopulation)
If we just import people from high growth areas to low growth areas then that's basically the same as not limiting growth, you still need to service all these people and in the process high growth civilizations could become the new dominant culture in the area this ending any drive to depopulate.
A fully unmanaged population collapse would result in entire generations without kids and so without anyone to care for them, whether in terms of their own kids caring for them, or in terms of people to be paid to care for them, and there may not be the economic output to do so anyway.
A fully unmanaged population collapse would also be a skills collapse. We're seeing that now with the boomers retiring and few people trained to replace them.
Entire family lines will fully disappear. The consequences I think will be felt in a couple decades as people start to realize their names will die with them. Mass social instability as that realization spreads through the culture.
So with all that, what's coming is equally as bad in the short term and may just result in new people who don't care about any of this becoming dominant, so as with many ultimately good things it must be implemented with care and wisdom, accounting for all the different factors that will be problems along the way.
I did a paper back in 2009 where I calculated the energy required to move just a few industries to green energy or nuclear, and just managing 3 industries without any of the surrounding required industries would require all the electricity production on earth produced using green or nuclear. My conclusion was that there needs to be way fewer people if we intend to use green energy to sustain our quality of life because there just isn't enough capability to produce energy without the fossil fuels subsidy for 9 billion people. We need fewer people to maintain this quality of life without quickly using up the fossil fuel energy subsidy we'll never get back.
On the other hand, we're facing cataclysmic population declines in the west and much of Asia because many forces are preventing people from having kids and that has many capacities to make things worse because of several dynamic systems in play.
If we let the major civilizations just collapse in population, populations that don't collapse will eventually be capable of just coming over and falling on top of the dying civilizations, resulting in population growth (just not of the civilizations that cared about overpopulation)
If we just import people from high growth areas to low growth areas then that's basically the same as not limiting growth, you still need to service all these people and in the process high growth civilizations could become the new dominant culture in the area this ending any drive to depopulate.
A fully unmanaged population collapse would result in entire generations without kids and so without anyone to care for them, whether in terms of their own kids caring for them, or in terms of people to be paid to care for them, and there may not be the economic output to do so anyway.
A fully unmanaged population collapse would also be a skills collapse. We're seeing that now with the boomers retiring and few people trained to replace them.
Entire family lines will fully disappear. The consequences I think will be felt in a couple decades as people start to realize their names will die with them. Mass social instability as that realization spreads through the culture.
So with all that, what's coming is equally as bad in the short term and may just result in new people who don't care about any of this becoming dominant, so as with many ultimately good things it must be implemented with care and wisdom, accounting for all the different factors that will be problems along the way.