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by DaoVeles 2y ago
Yeah, JMG's writings are fascinating but don't take them too seriously. Generally seem to lean a lot more right wing as time progresses. Also on his other blog a lot of anti-vax and occult magic stuff. Never have I come across an
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I agree with your core idea, lower energy requirements are coming. Heck, ICE vehicles turn about 70% of their energy into heat - electrification is going to do a lot to help reduce our energy needs. But the issue is a lot of the slightly mo
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My father is in his mid 70's with bladder cancer and is now going down the immunotherapy path completely aware that this is still essentially a new thing with bugs to be figured out. At this point the best we are hoping for is a few mo
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by DaoVeles 2y ago
>This is why I'm bullish on solar, BTW. It's better to have SOME energy, even if it's only daytime, than none at all if the Middle East decides it wants to veto the US again. Having worked with solar for a long while, I am
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There was a saying in the ruins of the USSR. Marx was completely right about Capitalism and completely wrong about Communism.
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I suspect that as energy per capita goes up, the direct reliance on immediate others goes down. Paradoxically because there is now so many other people you can depend on to provide goods and services. If the supply drops, this trend will go
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While I don't eat meat for various reasons, I always appreciate homesteaders. To ensure that the creatures they shepherd have as few bad moments as possible. To have hogs and to know they will only have one bad day.
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There is a big question with Slavery and Sex trade. UN estimates about 50 million people today but I have seen some figures that put it closer to 280 million. https://www.un.org/en/delegate/50-million-people-modern
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As a complete aside. To be Malthusian, there is the greater question of long term genuine sustainability of this abundance. Are we as a global society just spending big on the credit card of energy surplus disregarding the payback, or is th
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I am more advocating for a middle way. To ease the breaks on societies self obsessive, self help prison, burnout hustle grind culture. To see that we do not have to feed the entire system to the great god of progress. To encourage people to
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Just to add a few things. Hygiene theory has gone a long way to alleviate some of the more problematic disease issues. I have said that if we went full Mad Max (I don't think we are), hygiene theory would survive because of how useful
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> This is not at all obvious for the reasons listed above, after a certain point material abundance does not cause psychological well-being. I have been trying to find a news interview for years. It was on Fox news just before Christmas
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John Michael Greer has a great term for this. Lenocracy. The first part of that word comes from leno, the Latin term for a pimp. https://www.ecosophia.net/beyond-lenocracy/ Like most of Greers writing, it makes you thi
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TO be fair, these are shoot from the hip responses. I'm not as quick thinking as I used to be. I'm sure I could have some better examples if you give me a day or two. I don't really work on the time of internet comment sectio
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To be fair, cleaning the grounds and pruning the trees is not exactly brutal work. Like most koans, look at the broader message here.
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Now these are cherry picked which in my previous comment on this is cheating a little but I will give it a try. At a personal level, tools/equipment that is self serviceable and can be maintained for a long life span. While some of thi
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I wouldn't mind Steven Pinker so much if it wasn't for the blatant cherry picking. Always trying to make today look a good as possible and the past as terrible as possible. It just produces bias on both sides when like usual - it
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Such a declarative statement is very reductionist. Yes, some folks will accumulate wealth but there needs to be some additional limits on it. I am in favor of progressively increasing tax brackets that eventually get up to near 100$. Spend
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Can we just appreciate that the way you keep directional reference is by a rotating crocodile! Looks silly at first but is immediately intuitive.
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I have a spare machine to do some offline work on running Haiku OS, the open source successor to BeOS. Even today it simultaneously feels 20 years ahead and 20 years behind. Good example, the interface is incredibly snappy but no Wifi. I lo
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It is things like this that make me occasionally think we are in the modern version of the library of Alexandria. We have the peak of technology and knowledge and yet the core base of the society is rotting away, alas we know how it ended l
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Being Morrowind, this xbox is only about 2TB away from handling the memory leaks. ;)
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One of the silliest things I have seen them doing is trying to refreeze parts of the tundra to stop oil pipeline issues. Literally trying to solve the issue they have a hand in causing. But so long as it is profitable combined with globaliz
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Oh finally have a name for that. Neat! As an aside, that was something I think that is one idea Ballmer did ok on. The focus on developers as an admittance that Microsoft cannot do everything and that you need to help others work with them.
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Thus the rise of Eco-fascism begins! Last year I wrote a piece on Ted Kacsynski's passing. To summarize 6000 words - some decent ideas, absolute mad man who did more harm than good for his cause, I REALLY hope that folks don't emu
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I said in another comment, it is an endless task of talking down the newbies off the ledge of their doomsday prophecy. "No we are not going to be in a Mad max world in 2 years!"
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Having browsed the prepper communities for years it is actually pretty cool how reasonable a lot of them are. The big thing they have is constantly heading off the newbies with their doomsday prophecies/fantasies. Most long term preppe
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I get it is small percentages of light but it can impact some plants fairly heavily, it is a non-linear feed back. They can handle cloudy days but that is a temporary phenomena and the dimming would be on top that already existing trait. As
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Like a few weeks ago there was an article about eden abhez. Most people would have never heard of him. Always great to heard about those that were two steps ahead of the world.
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Windows XP thru 10, Xbox, Windows Phone and Azure are just a few of the things Ballmer oversaw. I am definitely missing a lot of things. But remember he over saw Microsoft as CEO for 14 years. He may look and sound like a used car salesman

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