It doesn't really matter whether climate change is real or not when the solutions being presented seems so suspect.
It's shocking how every single solution for climate change just happens to make the rich richer, the poor poorer, and also hollows out the middle class.
All the richest and most powerful people on Earth go to a city characterized by extreme wealth and extreme poverty built by Middle Eastern oil barons to discuss how they are going to screw over the little guy next year, and yet it's either idiot yokels or right wing megamagnates to blame when people who have been watching their quality of life evaporate for the last 20 years are skeptical.
It's shocking how every single solution for climate change just happens to make the rich richer, the poor poorer, and also hollows out the middle class.
All the richest and most powerful people on Earth go to a city characterized by extreme wealth and extreme poverty built by Middle Eastern oil barons to discuss how they are going to screw over the little guy next year, and yet it's either idiot yokels or right wing megamagnates to blame when people who have been watching their quality of life evaporate for the last 20 years are skeptical.
"my name is Stephen Hawking and I am a stallion in bed. A stud put out to pasture, I got these bitches giving me head. Hawking understands nature, I'll fill your man with Dread. I won't bother with a debater, I'll just fill his ass with lead"
What people don't realize is you don't need to win voting third party to change things. You just need to get a large enough stack of votes that the parties start to say "I want that" and start pandering to you.
We're in a once in a lifetime moment where anyone having a boy can name them chad.
The generation being born right now is called Generation Alpha, so it'll be an Alpha Chad no matter how much soy they drink.
(yeah, it's a cringe joke, I don't care I stand by it)
The generation being born right now is called Generation Alpha, so it'll be an Alpha Chad no matter how much soy they drink.
(yeah, it's a cringe joke, I don't care I stand by it)
I think there's something to be said about the idea that when you get really sick with anything it can have long-term effects. I had a bad chest cold, and it made it into my lungs and months after I "recovered" I was still so messed up I passed out during a spirometry test and was using puffers multiple times a day.
When women call men they don't like incels, I feel like it's always important to remember that all the greatest monsters in history were universally able to get plenty of pussy while Issac Newton died a virgin, which seems to prove that having sex doesn't predict anything about your value as a human being.
For people wondering what "sigmoidal" means, it refers to a trend that takes an S-curve.
Once I understood that detail, it seems self-evidently true. When you build one factory, your output goes up maybe 100 times, but your second factory only doubles your production. Eventually you run out of factories to build and there's no more growth to be had.
Klaus Schwab is a scary guy for many reasons, but his concept of there being multiple industrial revolutions makes a lot of sense, and each one has a similar profile to this. If the computer revolution is one such industrial revolution, consider this: Look at computers 10 years ago, then 20 years ago, then 30 years ago, then 40 years ago, then 50 years ago. The leaps and bounds for the first 30 years are incomparable to the slow dribs and drabs of progress today.
Even industrial revolutions themselves are following the same profile. the initial industrial revolutions were truly revolutionary, but as new revolutions followed they too had increasingly incremental improvements to society. The Internet is nice and all, but in the grand scheme of things the sawmill and mechanical loom affect us all far more.
Once I understood that detail, it seems self-evidently true. When you build one factory, your output goes up maybe 100 times, but your second factory only doubles your production. Eventually you run out of factories to build and there's no more growth to be had.
Klaus Schwab is a scary guy for many reasons, but his concept of there being multiple industrial revolutions makes a lot of sense, and each one has a similar profile to this. If the computer revolution is one such industrial revolution, consider this: Look at computers 10 years ago, then 20 years ago, then 30 years ago, then 40 years ago, then 50 years ago. The leaps and bounds for the first 30 years are incomparable to the slow dribs and drabs of progress today.
Even industrial revolutions themselves are following the same profile. the initial industrial revolutions were truly revolutionary, but as new revolutions followed they too had increasingly incremental improvements to society. The Internet is nice and all, but in the grand scheme of things the sawmill and mechanical loom affect us all far more.
A deregulated EV market could actually be a game changer.
A friend of mine grew up in China. He told me about going to high school, and there were these little three-wheeled electric vehicles that were only a couple thousand dollars each, and they were not fully fledged automobiles but they were weatherproof transportation. Not only did it mean that students could have transportation of their own, it also meant that many of those students could go off and sell their services after school as a low rent taxi service. Eventually, the Chinese government got really embarrassed by these little three-wheel things and it didn't project the image of power that they wanted, so they banned them.
I really believe that a deregulated EV market that put this sort of vehicle front and center would change a lot.
A friend of mine grew up in China. He told me about going to high school, and there were these little three-wheeled electric vehicles that were only a couple thousand dollars each, and they were not fully fledged automobiles but they were weatherproof transportation. Not only did it mean that students could have transportation of their own, it also meant that many of those students could go off and sell their services after school as a low rent taxi service. Eventually, the Chinese government got really embarrassed by these little three-wheel things and it didn't project the image of power that they wanted, so they banned them.
I really believe that a deregulated EV market that put this sort of vehicle front and center would change a lot.
On the topic, I think future generations are going to be rejecting technology as a social institution. Not entirely, but definitely to the degree that the first generation embraced it.
You can live in a situation today where you can convince a million people to press a button to say that you are their friend, and not have anyone to help you move a couch. People are slowly beginning to realize the absurdity of this.
You can live in a situation today where you can convince a million people to press a button to say that you are their friend, and not have anyone to help you move a couch. People are slowly beginning to realize the absurdity of this.
Problem is that government dwarfs most capital at this point. The entire fortune 500 is only 97 trillion dollars, and much of those assets aren't American, so even if you sieze every US asset you might be able to balance things out......once..... But the beast is still hungry and having gutted the wealth production centers it'd just be the beginning of the end...
lol irrelevant people attending an irrelevant awards show for an irrelevant industry.
Honestly, you're right that the people ended up being totally wrong in their assessment, but the media was powerful and was able to paint him that way.
Man, Obama was a huge bait and switch in almost every way. It's amazing, and people still deify the guy.
Man, Obama was a huge bait and switch in almost every way. It's amazing, and people still deify the guy.
I see it in certain corners of the Internet. It's shocking how much vicious hatred you see, and really very little understanding of the people they hate so much because the teevee told them to.
One of the things a lot of people lost in the tribalism of US politics is the fact that Donald Trump was voted in for the same reason Barack Obama was voted in -- they hoped that he would come in as a relative outsider and change things while an entrenched elite appeared to be taking more and more from the common man.
I think the fact that Trump spoke to the working and middle class and said "I see you're hurting and I want to help" compared to the establishment that said "You're better off than you've ever been sit down shut up and be happy" and was increasingly turning darker -- to "you working class and middle class idiots are all a bunch of monsters and we hate you, you should strive to become someone we like more"
The establishment has been mask off for a few years, and is openly hateful and disdainful of anyone who isn't exactly, specifically, and exclusively whatever they demand people be in the moment, including aligning on race, sexuality, gender identity and more. If the commoners aren't marching in lockstep with whatever the current demands are then they're not just wrong or in disagreement but evil and stupid, at least in the rhetoric of the establishment.
Many people who voted for Trump had Bernie Sanders as their #2, and vice versa which doesn't make sense from a tribal standpoint, but makes perfect sense from the sense of a working and middle class seeing their lives fading away and looking for someone to come in and break the elite's power.
That's also why it's looking like Trump could win another term despite being the categorical target of a twenty four hour hate campaign for 7 years and the full might and fury of the US government and a good number of states -- The establishment has been pissing on the common man and telling them it's raining for years and seeing them do the same to him only establishes him as more like the common man than the elites despite his obvious status as a capitalist elite.
I think the fact that Trump spoke to the working and middle class and said "I see you're hurting and I want to help" compared to the establishment that said "You're better off than you've ever been sit down shut up and be happy" and was increasingly turning darker -- to "you working class and middle class idiots are all a bunch of monsters and we hate you, you should strive to become someone we like more"
The establishment has been mask off for a few years, and is openly hateful and disdainful of anyone who isn't exactly, specifically, and exclusively whatever they demand people be in the moment, including aligning on race, sexuality, gender identity and more. If the commoners aren't marching in lockstep with whatever the current demands are then they're not just wrong or in disagreement but evil and stupid, at least in the rhetoric of the establishment.
Many people who voted for Trump had Bernie Sanders as their #2, and vice versa which doesn't make sense from a tribal standpoint, but makes perfect sense from the sense of a working and middle class seeing their lives fading away and looking for someone to come in and break the elite's power.
That's also why it's looking like Trump could win another term despite being the categorical target of a twenty four hour hate campaign for 7 years and the full might and fury of the US government and a good number of states -- The establishment has been pissing on the common man and telling them it's raining for years and seeing them do the same to him only establishes him as more like the common man than the elites despite his obvious status as a capitalist elite.
Obviously you can judge kids and parents in extreme cases, but one fact about someone really doesn't make much sense to judge, especially when the fact is that a kid is the very best on the planet earth at something which is pretty amazing.
Kids are funny. They end up really intensely interested in a thing, and their life can revolve around it for quite a while. What do you do? Just shut down their interests because it doesn't match with your conception of what a kid ought to be interested in?
Sometimes, if it's affecting the rest of their lives. If this kid isn't making friends, or isn't doing well in school, or other negative factors maybe it's time to hang up the controller for a bit, but on the other hand, we have a society that's trying to hard to teach kids to be self-confident. There's no healthier way to find self-confidence than to do really hard things and succeed at them. Imagine being the best on the planet earth and being the first person to play the game so hard you broke it!
I think if my son did this, I wouldn't mock him, I'd congratulate him while making sure he's still staying somewhat well-rounded in the rest of his life.
Kids are funny. They end up really intensely interested in a thing, and their life can revolve around it for quite a while. What do you do? Just shut down their interests because it doesn't match with your conception of what a kid ought to be interested in?
Sometimes, if it's affecting the rest of their lives. If this kid isn't making friends, or isn't doing well in school, or other negative factors maybe it's time to hang up the controller for a bit, but on the other hand, we have a society that's trying to hard to teach kids to be self-confident. There's no healthier way to find self-confidence than to do really hard things and succeed at them. Imagine being the best on the planet earth and being the first person to play the game so hard you broke it!
I think if my son did this, I wouldn't mock him, I'd congratulate him while making sure he's still staying somewhat well-rounded in the rest of his life.