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I've never seen a place throw away more plastics than in Japan.
If the current oil situation forces a reworking of this system, I'd say all in all, that's an upside.
But I've always used SSH port forwarding to access everything except pages intended for public viewing...
> Look at this horrible s—t. Look at it!
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6EBMG8OEBI
No, I'm not going to look at it, and neither should you...
The joke, of course, being that every increase in productivity has ALWAYS gone straight to ownership.
Economists have been predicting a boom in human leisure time since the dawn of economics. It has NEVER happened...
Hey, handing over millions of $$s to local warlords is a business expense...
npm and pip are curses on the planet.
One point right from the beginning of the article: Why would you EVER leave a public port open straight to phpMyAdmin?
This is what SSH tunneling is for...
> It is important to point out though, that the last opportunity to establish single-payer healthcare in the US was prevented by the democratic party.
There is some ambiguity in that sentence: by "last", I don't mean that it was the final opportunity, I mean it was the most recent previous opportunity.
Also, to your last point:
> Hillary was simply observing the practical reality that they would not have been able to get the necessary votes to pass single payer. Conservative Democratic and "centrist" (codeword for conservative) senators like Joe Lieberman, Ben Nelson, Max Baucus and others would not have supported single payer. They didn't even support a much milder public option.
We're totally in agreement on that, and that was my intended point: the DEMs, and specifically the Clinton's were representing the right-wing perspective on the issue.
The DNC has become even more right-wing since then, following the RNC right, as it went off the cliff into MAGA fantasy land...
I totally agree with it, and upvoted it.
One thing I would add: TV was certainly a major contributor to loss of reality for many people, but the internet was far far worse.
Especially with the advent of the mobile, always networked, hand-held computer.
The interactive nature of the internet vs TV, and especially the constant availability of a hand-held mobile computer vs a fixed location TV.
Data also supports your statement that this phenomenon predates the plague (covid), and measurable educational decline started around 2013.
Due to this I've started saying, and this may be a little extreme, but I think still correct:
Apple caused the collapse of US educational outcomes, with the release of the iPhone.
Goggle, seeing what a giant increase this was yielding in the zombie horde of consumers, jumped on board to participate a few years later.
M$, to prevent the only corporate offering that could empower the user's ability to control the means of computation, bought the only well funded linux phone project, and promptly shut it down.
Now, 1 short decade later, we see the consequences of the prescient foresight of these major market monopolies: generations of children, some in their 30s and 40s, suffering constant neurotic mental health disorders, mostly centered around their "phones".
To come back to my first line above, I'm sure this comment will receive even more downvotes because, mostly people don't want to face reality.
My point is that the democratic party blocked public health care for the US.
This is neither ignorant nor deceptive.
The author's frustration is palpable in the article. People being misled by some twitverse influenza, while ignoring a long history of clinical trial data.
To me the solution seems simple: let people do whatever stupid-ass thing they want to do.
Calmly inform them of the proven risks, then let them make their own choices.
If they suffer chronic heart disease, and/or die younger, that was their choice and they suffered the consequences.
As the old hippie chicks used to say: Beans and Greens are all you need.
Like most writing along these lines, it conflates physical reality, with the human conscious perception of physical reality.
This has always been a problem of human psychology, but it seems to be getting worse.
Typographical note: Grey text on a black background is really bad for reading.
The worst aspect being the closure of healthcare providers in rural areas, since they don't provide enough profit.
See this later post:
It is important to point out though, that the last opportunity to establish single-payer healthcare in the US was prevented by the democratic party.
The famous Hillary quote: "Single payer is off the table"
This is why the RNC has hated on the Clintons so much, and especially Hillary: they were muscling in on republican turf.
It's also important to separate "commercial availability" into "commercially available in the US" and "commercially available for everyone else"
The US petroleum and automotive industries are spending many multiple millions of $$s to make sure the latest battery and electric car technology is not available inside the US.
This is a good example:
BYD Seal 08 debuts with Blade Battery 2.0: 1,000 km range, 5-min charging, 684 hp
https://electrek.co/2026/04/27/byd-seal-08-blade-battery-2-1...
This is a car in production in China now, which has 640 miles of range on one charge (not many gas cars have that range) and charges 10-70% in 5 minutes. Of course, the chargers that perform that high speed charge are also not available in the US.
With regard to quantum: let's just not drag that into a discussion of batteries.
It calls for a couple of specific responses:
- A battery doesn't have to be set on fire to get the energy out of it!
- Energy can be put back into a battery, allowing them to be used over and over again!
- Electricity for putting into batteries can come from many different sources of generation. Gasoline only comes from one place: petroleum, the extraction and burning of which is a very dirty process.
- Battery chemistry is not one thing, there are very many, and the energy densities of different chemistries are increasing rapidly. This leaves a LOT of room for battery energy density to be increased via technical innovation.
- Gasoline has a fixed chemical structure that contains a fixed amount of energy. Unlike batteries, there isn't much innovation that can occur to change that energy density.
It has utility because it's a store of value, and it's a store of value because it has utility because it's a store of value, and it has utility because it's a store of value because it has utility because it's a store of value...
That explains it perfectly...
Here are some sources that don't require js:
https://ocasio-cortez.house.gov/media/press-releases/ocasio-...
I surprised however, that it didn't describe phase 2 of the disaster, where in the models no longer have fresh www content to train on.
It's hard to understand the long term vision of this strategy...
“[Gold] gets dug out of the ground in Africa, or someplace. Then we melt it down, dig another hole, bury it again and pay people to stand around guarding it. It has no utility. Anyone watching from Mars would be scratching their head.”
The principle point being: "It has no utility".
Like crypto, it's primary function in the modern economy is financial crime...
This should read: The Global Fertility Windfall Is Better Than You Probably Think
What you need to know™:
- What kind of fantasy thinking could possibly conclude that a reduction in global population is a bad thing?
- How much more of a poster child do we need, to demonstrate that modern capitalism is a ponzi scheme?
- Just another example that what trends in "journalism" is just the perspective of ownership.
- If this is a true theory, why isn't africa booming economically? (this dismissal and lack of concern for Africa should really be reason #1, but the truth is, most white people couldn't give a shit less what happens to Africans)
I've been thinking since the 1970s that we'd decrease the 2nd biggest use of petroleum, plastic, using genetic engineering.
Many biological substances could replace plastic, such as chitin and cellulose.
But "lab grown meat", like "full self driving" and "artificial intelligence", is a name that's a giant leap of faith beyond the actual technology.
Lab grown meat is still only the flesh protean cells grown in a mold to look like a fish fillet. None of the structural components of the real thing are reproduced.
To use this tech as a structural plastic replacement, we'll have to reach the point of controlling the shape of the material as the cells proliferate.
Of course, before that, we'll have to overthrow the petro mafia's control of the US.
This is really just a tax on leaving the stone age.
Especially given that my nissan leaf weights a little more than 1/2 of what an escalade weighs. It's purely just another disincentive to electrify, brought to you by the burn baby burn lobby.
The US has become the seed state of global idiocracy.