smelter

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by smelter 5y ago
We could have had Mars colonies and flying cars in the 1980s. But we have chosen instead to Dull Our Senses With Valium. Oversaturate the "intellectual" labor market via some hastily approved dissertations that told us things we a
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by smelter 5y ago
When an upper class mind is a derivative of "old money", they will naturally be less creative than their forefathers. This idea affected Ludwig Wittgenstein, and is the reason the richest man that ever lived (Rockefeller) would no
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by smelter 5y ago
It is what happens when an entire society keeps to themselves for ~17 years and makes it acceptable to binge watch television and eat junk food. The Brood X Cicada comes out of the ground ~1y after human "induced" disaster: 1987 A
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by smelter 6y ago
Back in the day when we were running around the Savannah foraging, fat and grease would have evolved taste buds to prefer these inputs since they are such concentrated energy sources. Fast food takes advantage of this, and it would not be
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by smelter 6y ago
Downvoted without a counter. Point proven. To be fair, I have only listed available assets - not a plan. This is the source of the 7 furrowed brows. World of Warcraft "gold" is worth more than the Venezuelan Bolivar.
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by smelter 6y ago
Excellent, yet another stream of text that must occupy my information grapevine to define a virtual value system utilized by people who are not creative enough to park their economic gains as deployed assets. One BTC is currently a post-tax
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by smelter 6y ago
Agreed - we do not even possess the instruments to define the nature of dark matter, and it is only by inference that we can suppose it exists. It is amazing that Fermi, Einstein, et al were able to predict what they did without readily ava
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by smelter 6y ago
To an ant, I am a mountain/ thunderstorm/earthquake/quasar.
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by smelter 6y ago
Classical territory signaling, rather than example for the working class. The small territorial footprint of Japanese economic/military prowess nearly conquered the known world and still remains the only productive society contained by