NaibofTabr

I use ai when I use search engines. This makes the search engines better.

go on mate, pull the other one!

Elon Musk is not an idiot. He was hired by other rich people like the Saudis to destroy Twitter, to prevent further incidents of public protest organization like what happened in Egypt and the Occupy movement. The degradation of the platform is intentional, and the amplification of right-wing voices helps to chase left-leaning social activists off of the platform. There is no equivalent platform for in-the-moment organization of protests.

Hope and Despair

The torturers, slept; no mortal pain or fear

Marred his repose; the influxes of sense

And his own being, unalloyed by pain

Yet feebler and more feeble, calmly fed

The stream of thought, till he lay breathing there

At peace, and faintly smiling.

from Alastor; or, The Spirit of Solitude by Percy Bysshe Shelley

It doesn't work in anything beyond a small agrarian community with simple needs. It's as much a fantasy as the idealized small American town of the 1950s. There are no closed-loop economies.

Which farmer is going to provide me with eggs every week in exchange for my work as a web server admin? Will the farmer be obligated to provide the carpenter with food for the rest of his life after building a house? A one-time trade isn't going to keep the carpenter from starving to death. What exactly would an astronaut, or a philosopher, or a quality assurance engineer or a geologist offer in trade for basic sustenance or medical services?

Complex work requires a complex economy. A complex economy requires an abstraction for value (e.g. not barter) to allow for compensation for abstract and long-term tasks.

In the future, you swab the inside of your cheek and then insert the swab into a port on your computer, which squeezes the swab to recover the cheek cells and then processes them. Congratulations, you have added 10TB of storage to your computer.

Further thought: downside - your data can be directly linked to you because it is encoded on your own DNA.

I feel like the vibration is going to induce microfractures in the photovoltaic crystals, no matter how well the panel is protected from debris.

Yeah they can't fight Chrome, they are Chrome.

Ah yes, the evil government system that gets in the way of good people trying to run digital Ponzi schemes and collect ransomware payments.

Bad gubmint.

Sort of... but saying that the government can issue as much new currency as they want is disingenuous and this is addressed later in the video, but it literally says that the tax money is "destroyed"... this is not really correct.

The value of a government currency like the dollar comes ultimately from confidence in the US economy. If the economy produces value, then the dollar represents a piece of that value. If the economy is unproductive (less value is produced) then tax revenue is lower, and less new money can be issued.

So to close the circle, your taxes do pay for something... the government's capacity to issue new money, which it then uses to pay for government services &etc. Saying that "your taxes pay for nothing" is kind of a pointless argument over semantics, because without the tax collection the government would not be able to pay for anything.

Thank you for sharing, I had not seen that. Fucking hell. Nature is scary.

The cruelty is the point.