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> Tens of millions of people are going to wake up [this morning] to find that they don’t live in the country they thought they did. Liberals, classical and otherwise, will discover overnight that they’re now outnumbered by a coalition of earnest fascists, partisan Republicans who’ll rationalize literally anything, and millions upon millions of less tribal voters who don’t care how corrupt Trump is or which laws he breaks or whether he overturns elections or not so long as they get the results on their pet issues that they’re hoping for.
> That’s an identity crisis. A big one. And a lot of people are going to be having it at the same time.
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Yes. But the flipside of that is that it's hard to earn money. The cheaper it is to live, the harder it is to make money.
The problem UBI solves is when most humans can no longer compete with machines in the economic system. Once that happens there are only a few options, and the least unpleasant is simply to give them (us) money tokens.
At least now I'm angry in a constructive way.
(This one time I was at a party (it was a long time ago) and these Italian dudes were there, and when I mentioned that I was from SF one of them said, "Nice town." ... I was a little miffed, but they were from Rome, so... *shrug* )
> The Great Flood of 1862 was the largest flood in the recorded history of California, Oregon, and Nevada, inundating the western United States and portions of British Columbia and Mexico. It was preceded by weeks of continuous rains and snows ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Flood_of_1862
> An ARkStorm (for Atmospheric River 1,000) is a "megastorm" proposed scenario based on repeated historical occurrences of atmospheric rivers and other major rain events ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARkStorm
The Central Valley (of California) becomes the Central Sea. Sacramento would be washed away, as would most of the communities in the lower-lying areas.
The time to deal with this is now. (E.g. if you live in these places move away!)
> The soil was springy and spongy when you walked on it. Like an uncompacted garden bed it was full of mulch captured by rain water. Eighty years of humus was deposited here during flash floods, without any help from mankind.
> The trees were all self seeded.
> Geoff plunged his hands into the soil and went down 8 inches of moist, black, rich, composted soil. It was still damp.
https://www.permaculturenews.org/2014/10/11/discovering-oasi...
It's a little like a bald person putting on a wool hat: great if you're cold, but counter-productive if you're already too hot.
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In the next twenty years we will build as much city as we have so far. In other words in the next twenty years the amount of urban area will double. We've gotta design and build these new cities to be in harmony with the global ecosystem that maintains life support for everybody.
"Building cities with ecological harmony" | Dror Benshetrit | TEDxAmazônia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OrRCGY_lkk
> Dynamicland is a nonprofit research lab creating a humane dynamic medium.
> What that means is a way for real people in the real world to explore ideas together, not just with words and pictures, but with computation.
They're doing stuff like that.
Sounds good.
Clearly, something other than education is going on.
AI isn't going to help if you ask it the wrong questions.
It's especially odd to compare and contrast OOP style with Functional Programming paradigm because these things are orthogonal.
(Hot Fuzz reference. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQzrR6nOkYg )
user: jerf
created: October 13, 2008
karma: 85530So that means that it's more likely that this is just backbiting on an old, sick man. E.g.: The People's Front of Judea vs. Judean People's Front
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WboggjN_G-4
Let the old nerd die in peace with his friends.
(I'm done with this thread and this subject. Have a better one.)
The uncharitable take is that the people who wrote this incredibly uncharitable and obsessive character assassination of an old dying guy are working for Microsoft et. al.
The Free Software movement has been completely routed. MS owns GitHub. The farmers fighting for the "right to repair" their tractors are the "front" of the "battle" for user empowerment. But sure let's beat the shit out of the dead horse that's actually a real live old man with cancer who wrote fucking Emacs, see if that helps?
E.g. "What Bodies Think About: Bioelectric Computation Outside the Nervous System"
"The Real Reason Jaywalking Is A Crime" (Adam Ruins Everything) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxopfjXkArM
"Street Rivals: Jaywalking and the Invention of the Motor Age Street", Peter D. Norton https://www.jstor.org/stable/40061474
If we can convince people that it's their own fault for getting hit by cars, we can do anything.