The other thing to be careful of is getting sucked into the idea that there's such thing as a "post-scarcity world".
It's just not possible.
There's always scarcity, even in a world that has a lot.
There's going to be land, where there are more attractive and less attractive places to live. There's people, where only so many people can ask of certain individual's time. There's skill, where many people don't want an automatically produced thing, they want something created just for them by a human being with skill.
There's also the fact that human desire is unlimited. Aluminum was once the world's most valuable precious metal. The top of the washington monument was made with aluminium. One of the kings of france had a set of aluminum plates they only brought out for important state guests. Once more became available, we started making everything from vehicles to drink cans out of the stuff. The same would likely prove true if unlimited gold was available, but the likelihood of building matter subatomic particle by subatomic particle and successfully doing that at scale cheaply is near zero.
Even stuff that's effectively unlimited is limited by time, location, and package. Earth is essentially a water world, but we want water on land where we live when we need it that's clean and desalinated and often packaged up for us.
Of course, the fact that material desires are unlimited doesn't mean we need to indulge those desires -- there is a moral virtue in humility and thriftiness -- but societies don't typically ignore fundamental physical laws or human nature for long and remain a going concern. It also doesn't mean that there won't be things that are abundant -- Most people can buy more salt than they have anything to do with, for example -- but the fact that you can have enough salt doesn't mean other forms of scarcity won't exist.
It's just not possible.
There's always scarcity, even in a world that has a lot.
There's going to be land, where there are more attractive and less attractive places to live. There's people, where only so many people can ask of certain individual's time. There's skill, where many people don't want an automatically produced thing, they want something created just for them by a human being with skill.
There's also the fact that human desire is unlimited. Aluminum was once the world's most valuable precious metal. The top of the washington monument was made with aluminium. One of the kings of france had a set of aluminum plates they only brought out for important state guests. Once more became available, we started making everything from vehicles to drink cans out of the stuff. The same would likely prove true if unlimited gold was available, but the likelihood of building matter subatomic particle by subatomic particle and successfully doing that at scale cheaply is near zero.
Even stuff that's effectively unlimited is limited by time, location, and package. Earth is essentially a water world, but we want water on land where we live when we need it that's clean and desalinated and often packaged up for us.
Of course, the fact that material desires are unlimited doesn't mean we need to indulge those desires -- there is a moral virtue in humility and thriftiness -- but societies don't typically ignore fundamental physical laws or human nature for long and remain a going concern. It also doesn't mean that there won't be things that are abundant -- Most people can buy more salt than they have anything to do with, for example -- but the fact that you can have enough salt doesn't mean other forms of scarcity won't exist.
[admin mode] bit of downtime last night, just growing pains. looks like I was trying to run npm and nodejs on my reverse proxy and it caused some issues, maxxing out swap. I increased the contained memory and swap, then removed npm and nodejs, if I need them I'll run that application on another container.
Believe it or not, drinking hydrogen peroxide is a thing some people do for health.
I don't believe it does anything remotely positive, but people drink all kinds of crazy shit thinking it's health food. People used to drink radium infused water ffs.
I don't believe it does anything remotely positive, but people drink all kinds of crazy shit thinking it's health food. People used to drink radium infused water ffs.
I don't recommend it, but I think it'd actually be surprisingly easy.
That's one of the worst parts about lobotomies, they were so easy any dumbdumb could do them with a pointy stick.
That's one of the worst parts about lobotomies, they were so easy any dumbdumb could do them with a pointy stick.
To think, if only he'd decided to firebomb the russians instead.
But I guess the nice thing is tesla chargers don't shoot back, and nobody important would be nearby.
But I guess the nice thing is tesla chargers don't shoot back, and nobody important would be nearby.
Honestly, I think he's just playing realpolitik and knows the only thing Canadians hate more than Justin Trudeau is Americans.
Of course he's going to endorse the liberals. He'd be stupid not to.
Besides, if I were Trump I'd want to deal with the liberals too -- they're like bulls with brain damage. You wave a flag and they run towards you in a straight line, so you just jump out of the way at the last minute and they happily hit a wall.
Of course he's going to endorse the liberals. He'd be stupid not to.
Besides, if I were Trump I'd want to deal with the liberals too -- they're like bulls with brain damage. You wave a flag and they run towards you in a straight line, so you just jump out of the way at the last minute and they happily hit a wall.
If they believe their firing was illegal and thus invalid, then shouldn't they be acting as ftc commissioners and thus open to Hatch act violations?
I mean, they were trapped insofar as they couldn't go home. It was months and months after the mission was supposed to be over.
(Is that from a real game?)
I commented today that Daggerfall is 28 years old. 28 years before Daggerfall was released, there was no home console market and no home computers at all.
People will never understand in the future why we thought computer technology was like magic. They'll never understand going from an atari to a nintendo or from a nintendo to a super nintendo or from a super nintendo to a -- well let's be honest to a playstation, or from a playstation to a playstation 2. They'll never know what it's like to not have each step exist and feel obvious, and for the future to feel unlimited.
I commented today that Daggerfall is 28 years old. 28 years before Daggerfall was released, there was no home console market and no home computers at all.
People will never understand in the future why we thought computer technology was like magic. They'll never understand going from an atari to a nintendo or from a nintendo to a super nintendo or from a super nintendo to a -- well let's be honest to a playstation, or from a playstation to a playstation 2. They'll never know what it's like to not have each step exist and feel obvious, and for the future to feel unlimited.
