One thing people don't talk about is that in the 70s and 80s houses might have been less expensive, but money was way way more expensive. Would you put a house on a credit card? Because for a chunk of the 70s and 80s, your mortgage was at the same levels of interest as credit cards today. You might end up with the same house payment back then as you did today, but the bank got the bulk of the money instead of the buyer.
A common accounting trick is called the "rule of 72". You take 72, divide it by your interest rate (or your rate of return for an investment), and you have how many years it takes to pay the entire purchase price in interest, or for your investment to double. At 18% interest, you'd be paying the entire cost of the home in interest every 4 years. In the 1970s, minimum wage was about a dollar an hour, so that's a lot of money to come up with for later gains.
Let's say I buy the house and pay the bank for seven houses worth of interest, and I have this house that quadrupled in value. And? What do I do with that? If I sell the house I have to go buy another house, so it isn't like I'm rich, I've just got this asset that I can't get rid of without getting another one.
People hate on the boomers, but in reality they were already dealing with the fall of the post-war boom. Wages stagnated through their entire lives, cost of living exploded, and a few got super rich but most were just blue collar schlubs trying to make ends meet. People go "The boomers sent away all the manufacturing jobs", but they don't realize that those jobs were the ones the boomers lost directly -- it isn't that they never had them, it's that they had them and then had to deal with the mass layoffs as industry left the west.
The crazy thing I see now is people saying "Oh, they had it so easy in the 2000s" -- for those of us who lived through the 2000s we know that's a load of crap, but that's what people are saying! In 2050 will they be saying the same about 2025?
A common accounting trick is called the "rule of 72". You take 72, divide it by your interest rate (or your rate of return for an investment), and you have how many years it takes to pay the entire purchase price in interest, or for your investment to double. At 18% interest, you'd be paying the entire cost of the home in interest every 4 years. In the 1970s, minimum wage was about a dollar an hour, so that's a lot of money to come up with for later gains.
Let's say I buy the house and pay the bank for seven houses worth of interest, and I have this house that quadrupled in value. And? What do I do with that? If I sell the house I have to go buy another house, so it isn't like I'm rich, I've just got this asset that I can't get rid of without getting another one.
People hate on the boomers, but in reality they were already dealing with the fall of the post-war boom. Wages stagnated through their entire lives, cost of living exploded, and a few got super rich but most were just blue collar schlubs trying to make ends meet. People go "The boomers sent away all the manufacturing jobs", but they don't realize that those jobs were the ones the boomers lost directly -- it isn't that they never had them, it's that they had them and then had to deal with the mass layoffs as industry left the west.
The crazy thing I see now is people saying "Oh, they had it so easy in the 2000s" -- for those of us who lived through the 2000s we know that's a load of crap, but that's what people are saying! In 2050 will they be saying the same about 2025?
Cesium 137 is commonly used in radioactive measurements such as density or level. Not saying that's where this came from, but it's one place it could come from.
I would expect shrimp to be heavily radiated to meet FDA guidelines for biological safety, but I'd expect an isotope with more energetic particles to be used for that purpose, because food radiation tends to be insanely lethally powerful.
Given that, I think it's more likely that something odd happened with a measurement device than with the sanitation equipment.
I would expect shrimp to be heavily radiated to meet FDA guidelines for biological safety, but I'd expect an isotope with more energetic particles to be used for that purpose, because food radiation tends to be insanely lethally powerful.
Given that, I think it's more likely that something odd happened with a measurement device than with the sanitation equipment.
Anyone who's ever dealt with one of these little shits knows full well that they have the biggest Napoleon complex in the western world.
Typical commie, hoarding all the eyebrows for himself while some children couldn't even have one.
Both Archie and Reggie will be morons with small penises because show runners think that's funny.
Doesn't everyone love seeing already flawed characters made into gibbering idiots so people can make their favorite character evil^H^H^H^H the bestest evar?
Doesn't everyone love seeing already flawed characters made into gibbering idiots so people can make their favorite character evil^H^H^H^H the bestest evar?
Some people believe that Congress in the United States doesn't get anything done. Oh no, lots gets done. I assure you that every single person who contributed to Congress gets their kickback. It's just that none of the stuff that people actually elect congressman to do gets done. Including very basic things such as passing annual budgets which they have failed to do most years for the past quarter century.
You don't think that 32 trillion dollars in debt shows up because the Congress has failed to do absolutely anything since the federal debt was only 4 trillion, do you? No no no no no, that's how people like Elon Musk became multi-billionaires.
But rest assured Congress has a bulletproof plan how about how to deal with the consequences of the federal debt: most of them plan on dying this decade send so many of them are in their 80s and 90s.
Meanwhile, everyone can point and yell at Zaphod Breeblebrox and blame him for everything.
You don't think that 32 trillion dollars in debt shows up because the Congress has failed to do absolutely anything since the federal debt was only 4 trillion, do you? No no no no no, that's how people like Elon Musk became multi-billionaires.
But rest assured Congress has a bulletproof plan how about how to deal with the consequences of the federal debt: most of them plan on dying this decade send so many of them are in their 80s and 90s.
Meanwhile, everyone can point and yell at Zaphod Breeblebrox and blame him for everything.
In The Graysonian Ethic, I warn about the problem on the other side of the Pareto: It's true that 20% of the effort gives 80% of the outcome. But that also means that it'll take 80% of your effort to get to 100%, and if you don't put that work in, then all you've got is another incomplete miracle, one of many.
I saw a video a year or two ago that actually changed my view of the problem entirely.
The thing that's actually difficult about building a house isn't making walls. People built houses out of wood in the forest with nothing but the clothing on their backs and some hand tools, and some of those houses have lasted for centuries. Compare that to a million dollar machine, and a bunch of material that was industrially mined and processed in another million dollar machine.
Meanwhile, the real issue being the engineering, permitting, basement, stuff like insulation, electric, hvac, plumbing, windows, and so on. At the end of the day, creating the walls really isn't a big deal.
Given that, a 3d printed shell doesn't actually fix anything -- and in fact, when people want to live in a storage container, they quickly realize that just because they have four walls and a roof doesn't mean they have a place to live by any stretch of the imagination.
But, I think an angle relating to where you're coming from makes sense -- these are cool technologies with a lot of potential applications, as long as we stop pretending the reason to make cool new building technologies is to magically build cheap houses.
The thing that's actually difficult about building a house isn't making walls. People built houses out of wood in the forest with nothing but the clothing on their backs and some hand tools, and some of those houses have lasted for centuries. Compare that to a million dollar machine, and a bunch of material that was industrially mined and processed in another million dollar machine.
Meanwhile, the real issue being the engineering, permitting, basement, stuff like insulation, electric, hvac, plumbing, windows, and so on. At the end of the day, creating the walls really isn't a big deal.
Given that, a 3d printed shell doesn't actually fix anything -- and in fact, when people want to live in a storage container, they quickly realize that just because they have four walls and a roof doesn't mean they have a place to live by any stretch of the imagination.
But, I think an angle relating to where you're coming from makes sense -- these are cool technologies with a lot of potential applications, as long as we stop pretending the reason to make cool new building technologies is to magically build cheap houses.
Some Japanese guy threw a forest spirit's head at me after I tried this. It was really gross.
I hated Wolf's Rain. It was depressing in a way that didn't feel enjoyable to watch.
A close second would be thousands of 12 episode shows from the 2000s that started off paced like there was going to be all this intrigue and shit, but then it's like "oh shit it's episode 11 ok then the bad guy showed up shit it's episode 12 everyone lived happily ever after the end!"
Apparently some people thought wolfs rain was the best thing ever, but I just don't like permenant death and sadness until deus ex machina.
Unlike today, you really had to take a lot of time downloading a big series like that so whereas a shitty series today you can drop, a long show like that back then you were in for a penny, in for a pound.
A close second would be thousands of 12 episode shows from the 2000s that started off paced like there was going to be all this intrigue and shit, but then it's like "oh shit it's episode 11 ok then the bad guy showed up shit it's episode 12 everyone lived happily ever after the end!"
Apparently some people thought wolfs rain was the best thing ever, but I just don't like permenant death and sadness until deus ex machina.
Unlike today, you really had to take a lot of time downloading a big series like that so whereas a shitty series today you can drop, a long show like that back then you were in for a penny, in for a pound.
You're generally correct which is why one technique for making cement last longer in winter conditions is to add air bubbles to the mixture which gives the ice somewhere to go, but another problem is that the Ice can freeze from the outside in, so it creates its own pipe. The ice covering the thing doesn't want to go anywhere so the water turns to ice in the cracks of the cement, and boom! Like a beer left in the freezer.
Congrats to Pierre poilievre, who won his new seat in Alberta, beating over 200 registered candidates in the riding.
This unusual situation was caused by an electoral reform campaign called the longest ballot, which sought to make a point about first past the post voting systems by messing with the election process. This is a new record for number of candidates, the previous record being set in poilievres Carlton riding in the last federal election at 90 names on the ballot.
Elections Canada chose to use a write-in voting campaign because the resulting ballot would have been 1.5 meters (1.5 yards for Americans) long.
Damien C. Kurek, the Member of Parliament for Battle River—Crowfoot since 2019, stepped down to make his seat available for Pierre Poilievre’s return to the House of Commons. That seemed like a deeply honorable move to me, and we should keep that guy's name in mind.
This unusual situation was caused by an electoral reform campaign called the longest ballot, which sought to make a point about first past the post voting systems by messing with the election process. This is a new record for number of candidates, the previous record being set in poilievres Carlton riding in the last federal election at 90 names on the ballot.
Elections Canada chose to use a write-in voting campaign because the resulting ballot would have been 1.5 meters (1.5 yards for Americans) long.
Damien C. Kurek, the Member of Parliament for Battle River—Crowfoot since 2019, stepped down to make his seat available for Pierre Poilievre’s return to the House of Commons. That seemed like a deeply honorable move to me, and we should keep that guy's name in mind.
On the topic of 3d printed houses: In my home country of soviet canukistan, concrete walls with lots of little gaps would be destroyed by freeze-melt cycles.
Another major issue with concrete in climates like mine is that the concrete will shrink and expand with weather -- going from +40 to -40 and back a bunch of times has a real chance of just cracking because there's nowhere else for the material to go but apart.
I've seen videos talking about how strong concrete is, and one video even showed someone trying to break the concrete wall with a sledgehammer. Thing is, the same strength becomes a weakness when it's brittle strength. Same reason we temper metal.
Someone who has been to Canada might go "But I've seen concrete used in building!" and you'd be right -- but that's because of building techniques that aren't available when 3d printing, such as pre-stressed concrete, bubble entrainment, or specially designed spots that are designed to break to protect the rest of the structure.
Another major issue with concrete in climates like mine is that the concrete will shrink and expand with weather -- going from +40 to -40 and back a bunch of times has a real chance of just cracking because there's nowhere else for the material to go but apart.
I've seen videos talking about how strong concrete is, and one video even showed someone trying to break the concrete wall with a sledgehammer. Thing is, the same strength becomes a weakness when it's brittle strength. Same reason we temper metal.
Someone who has been to Canada might go "But I've seen concrete used in building!" and you'd be right -- but that's because of building techniques that aren't available when 3d printing, such as pre-stressed concrete, bubble entrainment, or specially designed spots that are designed to break to protect the rest of the structure.
Thanks for this, I'll spend some time looking deeper into it.
I never claim to be anything but a retard, but I like to try to be less retarded by learning more.
I never claim to be anything but a retard, but I like to try to be less retarded by learning more.
The reason it matters is the common genetics of all modernist ideologies have something in common that they think they're rational, logical, and empirical. Socialism, national socialism, and fascism all share that they think that they are scientifically the obvious way to run the world.
If you think that your method of running the world is rationally, logically, empirically, and scientifically the obvious and correct way to run the world, then there's going to be an ideological coherence and unity among people, and a willingness to do whatever it takes to promote that ideology. It becomes a moral good to push your ideology. In that sense, if National Socialism came to pass without Bolshevik soviets to the east, it's probable that they would have been the aggressive hornet just the same.
Even liberalism (which is more enlightenment immediately before the modern period) has this problem, and so after it "won", it turned into neoconservatism which wanted to take over the world and install itself as the single correct ideology for planet Earth.
So you're not wrong, but modernism was always fated to die the way it did by ramming totalitarian ideologies against each other until they break, because that sort of epistemological arrogance and stupidity is built in. That will eventually result in totalitarianism and expansionist ideas because when you're convinced you've found the mathematically perfect way to live you have a duty to spread your mathematical truth.
If you think that your method of running the world is rationally, logically, empirically, and scientifically the obvious and correct way to run the world, then there's going to be an ideological coherence and unity among people, and a willingness to do whatever it takes to promote that ideology. It becomes a moral good to push your ideology. In that sense, if National Socialism came to pass without Bolshevik soviets to the east, it's probable that they would have been the aggressive hornet just the same.
Even liberalism (which is more enlightenment immediately before the modern period) has this problem, and so after it "won", it turned into neoconservatism which wanted to take over the world and install itself as the single correct ideology for planet Earth.
So you're not wrong, but modernism was always fated to die the way it did by ramming totalitarian ideologies against each other until they break, because that sort of epistemological arrogance and stupidity is built in. That will eventually result in totalitarianism and expansionist ideas because when you're convinced you've found the mathematically perfect way to live you have a duty to spread your mathematical truth.
[Admin mode] Might have to screw around with my topology soon. Somehow, updating my (basically idle) nodes running on weak hardware was enough to rip down most of my Internet connection. Compared to my actual Internet connection, there's no reason that should have done anything.
[Admin mode] A few minutes of downtime due to a back-end upgrade. One of the attached USB storage drives chose this moment to be totally dead, which is great -- exactly the moment I want my USB storage to choose to die is in the middle of a system-wide upgrade.
The video game industry is something where if you have kids you need to go "Look, I know you like video games, but everyone does -- and everyone wants to make them. So if you're going to get into them, you're going to have to be willing and able to be more insane than the next guy to get in. If you succeed and it's a huge company, then congratulations you're probably spending 4 years on swarm simulations for the ravens on different levels. If you succeed and it's a tiny company, then congratulations you're probably working a normal job on the side anyway."
Every teenage boy thinks he wants to be a game developer or a porn star, but those are monkey's paw wishes right there.
Every teenage boy thinks he wants to be a game developer or a porn star, but those are monkey's paw wishes right there.
If you are ever faced with a real life trolley car problem, be advised that it is in fact unlawful to manipulate a real car control apparatus in an unauthorized manner. Therefore, the correct answer to any trolley car problem is to do nothing. Even if there are zero people on the other track and 15 people on the track that you are about to pull the lever for, don't pull that lever. If you do, you will then be guilty of a legal offense.
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