thenewthotness

So throw the baby out with the bath water? Great plan.

So the best argument you have here is that Musk is good at hiring competent people? Sounds to me like this makes him an excellent CEO.

Don’t worry, there’s an unlimited supply of younger, less jaded devs willing to do the work.

The climate wasn’t stable to begin with.

The current crop of über wealth are supporters of the Democratic party. Radical environmentalists are probably the most anti modern people out there at the moment. I wouldn’t bring “keeping blacks down” into this considering the track record of Democrat policies and their impact on the black community.

How anyone in this day can still support such blatantly despotic nations is a mystery to me. Even if you believe capitalist nations are equally authoritarian, which they clearly aren’t, then you’d still have to admit that they at least have the decency to conceal it by not having concentration camps, political and religious persecution, dictators for life or just straight up starving their populace.

I think the implication is a bit more literal. When you conspire with someone you communicate secretly with them in order to plot and coordinate your actions. You do this by being in very close proximity to them and whispering, so close that you are sharing breath i.e. breathing together.

The entire structure of the US government is meant to guard against rule by a “national majority” amongst other things.

Fasted by default, heat and cold exposure every day, carnivore diet if he only ate rotten meat.

Paper manufacturing and recycling isn’t carbon neutral either

The argument for is based on being able to receive 144% of the maximum insolation 99% of the time vs ground based which has <100% for 40% of the time and 0% for the rest. Clever engineering could potentially balance those numbers.

I did a back of the napkin calculation a while ago regarding how many car lengths you’d need to put in LEO to have an unbroken traffic jam in orbit and the result was surprisingly comparable to the number of cars we’re currently producing. If you were “simply” launching wire instead I’m sure you could get enough material up there in much fewer launches. I’m curious as to how you would construct such a loop since you’d need to station keep it somehow while it’s inoperable.

That may be true for the feeling of nausea but smart phones almost certainly give rise to all kinds of maladaptive behaviours and subtle mental illnesses.