whatihear
8d ago
Well maybe the spaceships don’t represent an advanced vehicle for them. There is no objective point on the tech continuum at which a vehicle becomes advanced.
whatihear
8d ago
Not monkeys who found spaceships, just members of a larger society who are less advanced than the ones who supplied their tools, like we see with different human communities all the time.
I was using implies in the sense of logical implication, which does mean the same thing as requires.
whatihear
8d ago
It’s quite possible for operators of technology to be much less competent / impressive than the people who built that technology. In fact, that seems to be the typical pattern. Perhaps our aliens are the equivalent of a bunch of yahoos driving around Toyota technicals in the Sahel. The fact that their trucks have advanced microchips in them does not mean they are capable of building such microchips. When you consider the possibility of deep time where civilizations exist on the scale of hundreds of thousands or millions of years this seems even more possible.
I do agree with you that aliens seem pretty unlikely, I’m just pushing back on the idea that advanced technology implies advanced other things.
whatihear
9d ago
Nails are the best example of female fashion that really isn’t for the male gaze. Women love to say they are wearing miniskirts for themselves or whatever, and it always makes me roll my eyes, but when they say that about vile half inch claws I believe them. Idk maybe some men like it, but I don’t think it’s many.
whatihear
11d ago
If you read the captive mind, it talks about how the Soviets used exactly the kind of wokescolding behaviors we are all so familiar with to bring the Polish literary establishment to heel. The government wokescolds were called “dialectitions” and they would lead discussion assuming the role of a facilitator in exactly the same pose anyone who has done a DEI training would instantly recognize only with slightly more iron behind the velvet glove.
whatihear
24d ago
A renewables only grid is obviously possible, it just involves using a lot of batteries to create synthetic inertia and last through the night, which is just power engineering. It’s not some magic future technology, it’s just a question of execution. There are tons of privately funded solar projects just waiting for utility hookup. Also, there are renewables without the base load problem. Hydro is the biggest one in use right now, but next gen geothermal seems pretty promising (thanks Texas!), and as you pointed out nuclear is great though technically not renewable.
I do agree that Germany did some very silly stuff, and you shouldn't prematurely kill fossil fuels, but we are getting to a point where solar can compete on its own merits and at that point we should let it win.
When two bull moose square off, they’re just locking horns for the fun of it and have no eye towards the female moose off to the side right? They grow those horns for pure intersex competition.
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