growlist

53 ms·

541.
by growlist 7y ago
> It seems like people are more about bringing the other side down instead of bringing everyone up. There are groups of people that see it as being in their interests to sow division.
542.
by growlist 7y ago
A white master/black slave dichotomy is poorly supported by history: it's thought that enslavement goes back before recorded history, and apparently appeared almost everywhere at one time or another, and as such involved a rainbow
543.
by growlist 7y ago
There are theories that say black men suffer higher rates of schizophrenia (and associated deaths) due to them occupying a lower level in society.
544.
by growlist 7y ago
Adverts. But I'm a white supremacist for noticing, apparently...
545.
by growlist 7y ago
One theory goes that the left has no genuine interest in improving its voters' circumstances, because a more empowered individual has less need of the state to look after them, and thus would be less likely to vote for the left. The co
546.
by growlist 7y ago
Left? Right? Sadly these days I think that the vast majority of politicians are merely playing a role when it comes to political persuasion, and would be quite happy to do a complete 180 in standpoint if it meant a sufficiently large pay of
547.
by growlist 7y ago
Even raising the topic attracts hostility.
548.
by growlist 7y ago
> deserving demonization really?
549.
by growlist 7y ago
Thing is though, whenever they do do something - like say, organising a group to discuss their problems - they get attacked, ridiculed etc. in a way that no other group ever does today.
550.
by growlist 7y ago
One just needs to be on island far enough away from the rest of humanity.
551.
by growlist 7y ago
Thing is there were plenty of programmes on TV when I was younger that would have had a tiny viewership even back then, and were shown as they fulfilled the required 'boring but worthy' percentage of the BBC's output - these
552.
by growlist 7y ago
For some reason some people are incredibly hostile to this suggestion, but I think the BBC has dumbed down pretty drastically over the years - and this can be pretty easily verified by comparing their output from decades past with today&#x2
553.
by growlist 7y ago
I'm talking about internal repos.
554.
by growlist 7y ago
You're doing a bit of a disservice to Newton and Maxwell there, surely. And lots of Einstein's work was derivative of others.
555.
by growlist 7y ago
Definitely. I find SVN so much easier. But we must all use Git because cargo cultism is cool, or something.
556.
by growlist 7y ago
What about a ground effect Starship :)
557.
by growlist 7y ago
We've found a good use for old open-cast mines!
558.
by growlist 7y ago
Or, plant some trees.
559.
by growlist 7y ago
> I think the Starship will become obsolete yes, SpaceX will make it obsolete with Starship Ultra-Heavy, just as they are attempting to make Falcon 9/Heavy obsolete with Starship...
560.
by growlist 7y ago
I wouldn't worry: SpaceX are talking about lobbing up >30k Starlink satellites.
561.
by growlist 7y ago
It's almost like there's an insanely talented genius at the top making consistently great decisions!
562.
by growlist 7y ago
Not sure I get the logic here. A spun-off AWS and Amazon's interests would naturally diverge over time. What's to stop a situation where AWS become another Oracle that Amazon seek to replace with their own self-built alternative?
563.
by growlist 7y ago
Money is the only thing behind the media's coverage? I think that's a touch naive.
564.
by growlist 7y ago
Exactly, there is talk of it having significant impact even if it never flies a mile.
565.
by growlist 7y ago
You speak as if the design has not changed over time. To be precise, the history dates back to American studies in the 50s and 60s which were not taken forward but that were picked up by Alan Bond in the UK and evolved, then later developed
566.
by growlist 7y ago
> The spoils of innovation seldom accrue with the inventors. We are British, why change the habit of a lifetime ;) That said, critical aspects of the design are protected and the private investors (big scary defense contractors etc) woul
567.
by growlist 7y ago
The size of that (giga)factory. My god!
568.
by growlist 7y ago
Agreed, I'm speculating. I'm just coming more and more to the conclusion that very few phenomena that disbenefit the rich are allowed to persist for very long.
569.
by growlist 7y ago
Precisely. And (I know the average map makes it look even bigger than it is but still) just look at Siberia. It's hard not to be cynical and conclude that the land owning class deliberately seek to keep the population corralled.
570.
by growlist 7y ago
Something I'm sceptical about: the idea that introducing people that look different magically automatically leads to better performing teams. Questioning this verges on heresy in this day and age, yet there seem to be plenty of compani

More ›