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uCantCauseUCant··on Visualizing observed deaths using polar coordinates
The problem is, that some countries do not report covid properly, because its "defeated" and thus no longer allowed to appear in propaganda. Covid still exists, but is written down as pneumonia - or another "wasting" disease.

This creates the illusion, if one takes those countries media for real, that in other countries the disease is not as ravaging or non-existant. One should trust democratic countries data more and signal distrust on data/ positions / declarations from authoritarian regimes.

This however is not happening much on online plattforms, were one dictators "cheerful" lies are equally loud represented next to a loyal servant of a democratic state giving "grim" news.

The platforms thus help to creates the impression, that authoritarian regimes are dealing "better" with the situation and those wishing for a return to the "before" times, seeing those before times seemingly alive, thus steer towards totalitarian propaganda.

Lies for money subvert the system allowing to sell lies for money as a business model.

This problem solves itself.

If a government is caught lying, its previous statements to a fact should be auto-corrected and future statements be overwritten with a extrapolated truth, given by someone proofen to be trust worthy.

uCantCauseUCant··on The Clickbaitification of Netflix
Traditional american breakfast..
uCantCauseUCant··on Why America keeps building corrupt client states
Ah empires primary tool is its army. And a army can be ordered around comfortable, without any resistance but those of supply physics.

Is it really that miraculous, that politicians and secret services expect the same behaviour and control interfaces from the puppets they install? They go for what they know and what they know results into always the same outcome. If they do not obey there masters, they crackt he financial whip.

Imagine, if the afghans voted for swiss style direct-democracy, with every Kanton a small country. No control interface, but - oh sweet irony, a government model proofen to work in a mountainous region, famous for its mercenaries throughout Europe.

PS: Swiss had the last county to ratify womans voting rights in the 1990s, what is it with mountains that makes some men go macho.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_suffrage_in_Switzerl...

uCantCauseUCant··on The quest to recreate a lost and ‘terrifying’ medieval mead
Not mentioned but the taste of fruit changes over time, as new breeds are bred and the original, wild aroma is softened ever further.
uCantCauseUCant··on The quest to recreate a lost and ‘terrifying’ medieval mead
You misunderstood the concept caramelizing as boiling for a hygienic purpose. Meanwhile its done to create taste.
uCantCauseUCant··on Scientists have detected warning signs of the collapse of the Gulf Stream
"There is no proof of global pandemic ever have happened in our lifetimes, no need to prepare for them."

If you get bad news, look at the proportionality of cost preparing for the event compared to the cost of the event. A pandemic preparation and proper pre-warn system (as South korea and taiwan had it) would have cost absolutly nothing compared to the pandemic cost.

Same goes for gulf stream collapse. Cost of the for-warning system, cost of agricultural switch of europe to the canadian model, against the cost of not doing so..

uCantCauseUCant··on How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Tech Debt
I noticed the warning sign for such accumulated crust and culture, is usually a exponential dev team growth curve. We just need 4 new devs this year and 8 new devs next year. All that while the actual product is at linear growth. Yes, it works, but its foreseeable that it will end working in n-years were dev-team size and cost is bigger then the whole money the product earned.
uCantCauseUCant··on Wealthy people are renouncing American citizenship
Also, lots of us taxes are hiding in plain sight as "mandatory services". "Gated Community" is basically a different version of social transfer tax. Health system is another huge "mandatory tax". Enormous debts to complete education, whos equivalent you can get for free in europe. If you sum it all honestly up, the us is a pretty bad deal.
uCantCauseUCant··on Where are the robotic bricklayers?
There are foam bricks which meet the insulation codes in europe - in one wall with no additions. Will all be special waste though one day.
uCantCauseUCant··on After Neurodiversity
Imagine a fly bumping against a glass roof. That is what humanity was for most of its time in the past. Ressources oversupply, exponential growth, bump, war and then dump back into the valley of exaustion. Rince and repeat. Those who could repeat faster and without distraction, and add more genetic lottery tickets to the cycle, got rewarded by being more numerous.

Try to envision humanity, not as a carbon copy of the same template, neuralwise, but as a adaptable to circumstances by shifting neuro-sub-group-proportions as a FFT curve mapped to the cycle.

Those that were able to drag the society towards the part of the cycle that is most adapted to their lifestyle, got rewarded. These adaptions to the various stages of the cycle, is what we call mental sickness now - or neuro diversity.

Now riddle me this. The cycle produces a creature, that is optimized for war. No compassion, no obsession but the one for the fight, no love, but for abstract concepts like the group, the country.

How to integrate such a element into a society? If a facist, is just a mental-adaption to a world were the roof comes down every generation, were does it have a place in that city on the hill?

Neuro-diversity is just a placeholder for a problem that is slowly recognized, but in the end, we will have to rewrite ourselves.. its the only way to get rid of lots of baggage.

The schizophrenic living in the cardboard box outside of your office, is optimized for dangerous times, hostile environments, wandering great distances and improvisation. It could be useful if retrained and forced to contribute, but then again, is neuro-diversity a idea, that has a willingness to invest behind it.

uCantCauseUCant··on The House That Vanished
Usually its a story of continued decline. House has rain water damage (roof caves in), village teenager break into house, one of them sets it on fire. Ruin ruins next door neighbours view, nobody willing to clean it up, so he does the work for free.
uCantCauseUCant··on Violent, lively and brash, taverns were everywhere in early colonial America
Cant treat them like the irish, if the island is to far away..
uCantCauseUCant··on U.S. court: Mass surveillance program exposed by Snowden was illegal
Illegal Memory access at 0xDEADBEEF

Watching_the_watchmen_recursive has detected a stackoverflow and was aborted.

A core dump has been created and can be viewed at constituion.hex.