UnterSeeBootRespecter
7mo ago
I don't believe for a second that giving weapons to Ukraine is saving Ukrainian lives. Especially now that it's apparently devolved into a static almost trench warfare situation. Every weapon given to them prolongs the conflict by X amount, and certainly results in some amount of casualties during that interval.
UnterSeeBootRespecter
8mo ago
If everyone can simply choose to live by taking the red pill, how is that morally incorrect?
UnterSeeBootRespecter
8mo ago
I don't let my 3 year old run into the street, I'm not going to let him choose the poison blue pill either.
UnterSeeBootRespecter
5mo ago
Hatred for evil is appropriate. Pedophilia is evil. Controversial, I know.
UnterSeeBootRespecter
11mo ago
My only real question with the Holocaust is why did it go from an over-arching term for Nazi genocide killing 11 million to a Jewish specific genocide term covering 6 million. All my childhood I remember hearing 11 million, 11 million.
UnterSeeBootRespecter
8mo ago
I think the clear answer is simply to convert every single government position from civil service to political appointee. This gives presidents and victorious politicians at all levels a clear way to reward their supporters, and ensures the alignment of everyone from dog-catcher through park ranger through under-sub-secretary's assistant for automotive regulation are on board with the agenda.
UnterSeeBootRespecter
10mo ago
It seems like the "move fast and break things" ethos could still have a proper place in physical engineering. I look at SpaceX, for example. They move quickly and break things... until they have a reliable product they can safely put humans on. Falcon 9 is arguably the most reliable rocket in the world, because they were willing to move fast and break things.
What would that look like with a deep submersible? Maybe an autonomous version that gets extensive testing and use before you put people on it? I don't know.
UnterSeeBootRespecter
7mo ago
Reagan was ridiculous and he totally failed in the long run. Granted the other options were likely worse.
UnterSeeBootRespecter
8mo ago
Why not? I reject this premise entirely.
There's no scenario where we don't make major decisions (as this would be) for our children. Whether as a parent or as a society.
UnterSeeBootRespecter
8mo ago
The premise nowhere claims that small children make their own choices. You are modifying the premise and arguing in bad faith based on your modified premise.
UnterSeeBootRespecter
10mo ago
Seems pretty unlikely at this point. They already have (arguably) the most reliable rocket in the world.
UnterSeeBootRespecter
11mo ago
Do you want a beer that you can drink all day or a few strong beers?
UnterSeeBootRespecter
9mo ago
Well… to establish my bonafides I’m a Linux user personally and professionally, but there are some very obvious reasons to use iPhone over Android. One is quality. There’s simply no comparison in build quality from basically any android phone to an iPhone. Second is updates. My iPhone will get quick software updates years and years past the end of (slow and unpredictable) support for most android phones. Third is usability. iPhones are much more usable than any Android I’ve had out of the box. Apple Pay is great. iMessage is great, the camera is great.
I understand the desire to tinker on your devices, I truly do, but the iPhone is superior on basically every metric except tinkering, which means it’s better for almost everyone.
UnterSeeBootRespecter
11mo ago
This is amusing given Israel’s demographic future is economically catastrophic (shrinking populations are bad, but producing vastly more welfare recipients is perhaps even worse),
Perhaps, but what happens when you can't afford to provide for those welfare recipients? They cease to be welfare recipients. And in that case they are again a national resource, whereas a future where they instead don't exist that resource is not there to be tapped.
UnterSeeBootRespecter
8mo ago
It's also a guaranteed way to make the functioning of government much shittier than the already shitty state it's in.
That accepts the premise that the civil service is actually meritocratic and competent. It is not.
It would also destroy state governments because to ensure people who knew what they were doing (and who were aligned with the president) were in the civil service during a rotation every 4 or 8 years, victorious presidents would have to raid ideologically-aligned statehouses across the country for anyone who knew what they were doing.
That would be a problem the first time, and not at all the second time.
I don't believe for a second that the quality of governance would get measurably worse... what WOULD happen, though, is that the academic-PMC complex would rapidly start churning out social science "studies" showing that it had gotten measurably worse.
UnterSeeBootRespecter
8mo ago
So how much money would you put down that Starship/Super Heavy will never work?
I really don't see any reason it can't work, it's a matter of particularly difficult engineering, but there's no reason that can't be overcome.
UnterSeeBootRespecter
8mo ago
I've taken away the concepts that we shouldn't cast moral judgements on people.
This is a phrase always and everywhere used to disguise the casting of moral judgement.
UnterSeeBootRespecter
10mo ago
I don't know why you're so skeptical of Starship? They've clearly been making tons of progress on it. Hell, they even launched a failed test.
I can see why you might call Elon a bit of a hype machine, but really, he has delivered on quite a lot of his hype.
Electric cars? Yep
Electric trucks? Yeah
Self driving? Eh, no
Charging network? Yeah
Tons of battery manufacturing? Yeah
Orbital Rocket? Yeah
Reusable Orbital Rocket? Yeah
Reusable Heavy Orbital Rocket? Yeah
LEO satellite internet? Yeah.
Tunnels under every city? No.
UnterSeeBootRespecter
10mo ago
I think the actual answer is to keep the role of government to its proper place. My right to my property must be much greater than the local council's right to interfere with my enjoyment of that property.
UnterSeeBootRespecter
10mo ago
don't express affection in public, don't "shove it in my face", don't say gay acknowledge homosexuality
Correct. Homosexuality is fundamentally anti-social and anti-civilizational in a lot of ways. Merely being allowed to not be killed over it is a huge ask.
When you inevitable complain that homosexuality isn't anti-civilizational, consider that a civilization of homosexuals isn't possible. It will be gone within a human lifetime. Only a civilization that encourages self-reproduction is possible over timelines longer than a few decades.
UnterSeeBootRespecter
6mo ago
The government not doing things is not the same as nothing getting done.
UnterSeeBootRespecter
7mo ago
That’s far from clear
UnterSeeBootRespecter
11mo ago
Economy: Turkey got solidly caught in the middle income trap after a period of solid neo-liberal growth. Inflation is rampant, current is in shambles, and inequality is going through the roof as the government practices wage suppression to a keep trade balance discipline, and low interest rates are sky-rocketing the real estate prices. The opposition parties focused much of their effort convincing the people that they can salvage the situation.
The good news is that pretty decent quality Turkish made pistols have never been more affordable. Seriously, I picked up a forged frame 1911a1 clone for $300. And you can get reliable polymer framed guns for about the same. There's even some HiPower clones for $500-600. I've also heard that there will be a 2011 for less than $1k soon.
UnterSeeBootRespecter
11mo ago
or shooting for sport in the U.S.
Can you tell me what you think shooting for sport looks like?
Because substantially all of the restrictions proposed would impact it.
The reason theft is wrong is because you are depriving someone of their property, the use of said property, and indirectly the time and effort put into creating/obtaining that piece of property.
This is why the matter replicator thought experiment is salient. If someone came up to me and said, can I have your car for free, I'd say no. However, if instead they wanted to merely duplicate it perfectly at no cost to me, I would instead agree.
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