Obsidian
4mo ago
As an independentist, what you're saying is true but irrelevant. People are fully economically illiterate, there is nothing close to a popular consciousness that we'd hurt from missing those transfers. We expect short-term economic injury from the turmoil, but that's pretty much it.
Obsidian
4mo ago
I don't think technocracy is once-in-a-generation hard, I just think our democracies are optimizing for something entirely incompatible
Obsidian
5mo ago
@FCfromSSC origin story is iconic. I relate to the terror and depression of cancellation, but I could never put it down like you did. I'd say "go on The Bailey" but that'd be missing the point.
Obsidian
5mo ago
The effect is so strong that at some point pictures of single young white urban men in advertising have become gay-coded. Usually if I see such an ad on my commute it's trying to sell me PrEP.
Obsidian
6mo ago
Started the Bible (TOB translation). Integral Notes version.
It's a very busy text. I slightly regret not going with the Essential Notes version.
I tried starting Thomas Cook's 1728 translation of Hesiod's Theogony, picked at random. I'm having the opposite problem here; I'm failing to contextualize anything.
Obsidian
7mo ago
If this is done at anything less than world-ending scale, technological society will hormetically adapt to prevent future instances. It is all but hopeless.
Obsidian
11mo ago
It is paternalistic and egalitarian.
Historically the rent and lifestyle would have been good enough that we'd have been immediately flooded with Americans, destroying the local culture.
As it is, Rest-of-Canadians have been doing this all by themselves.
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