GreenEngineer

Resist the urge to return to normal at all costs. It is an illusion. And a dangerous one. 1. There is no living with MAGA. 2. We are now in the Anthropocene. The world we knew is gone. Climate change is here, now. It’s time for America to grow the fuck up.

Also also, the decor is what you'd get from an Egyptian pharaoh who was also a Victorian duke with no limits or restraint.

I don't know that there is a template or a "secret sauce" or a clear-cut lesson to take from this. But if there is one it's the idea of treating social media as the hostile territory that it is, of actually acting like you are a participant in propaganda warfare and not like a consumer.

The mobilization itself was already not something I ever expected to see, but to actually win? Hell, to double the winning margin from the 2022 runoff? Genuinely surreal. Maybe child raping billionaires *don't* have to run the world with a shit-eating grin. Maybe that can stop.

Repeat after me: Hand sanitizer will not stop you from catching an airborne virus.

I really don't think most people appreciate how much damage air pollution does to our bodies & brains. Even in the last 10 years the science has progressed a ton & everything it has discovered is *grim*.

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I mean, that's a little complicated because pressure, etc. But also, you have successfully made a literal bomb in a car. It will explode very aggressively. There's no version that can do that which won't. Maybe don't market a bomb in a car.

Too soon!

No. No. Fuck off. No. You have the freedom to make more money than God you don’t have the freedom of ultimate impunity. You have to pay the price to be protected by cops, the army, the economy. Pay your share for the machine that brought you your wealth. Spend your money and shut the fuck up.

Hello, I’d like to report a murder.

Leveraged buyouts are catabolic collapse on speed.

Translation: If the government turns on him, he's finished.

Love this for them

Is the last one a supporter of the Likud-Hamas alliance?

it really is amazing how accurate the “do you support both Palestine and Ukraine” litmus test has proven to be

I hadn’t thought about the nicotine angle.

I do think that this approach (the “world model”) has some potential. But to realize it we need to move beyond “learning by training” to “learning by play”. That’s how all the other consciousness on the planet boot up. The younglings play.

In theory, one could build a simulation rich enough to train up a consciousness in a purely virtual environment. In reality our very best environments don’t even begin to approach 1% of the depth and richness of inputs that reality can provide. Anyone who tells you otherwise needs to touch grass.

Fun thought loop: Be shocked how expensive an XYZ is Consider the full fabricatory depth of the XYZ in detail. How many people and resources had to touch it? Consider how much people have to pay to live and how much resources cost How the absolute fuck is the XYZ not at least 10x that price?

As a nonbeliever, when I say “they aren’t real Christians” what I mean is “Y’all people who call yourselves Christians really need to do some gatekeeping.”

"When idealism runs out, spite will keep you going until your wellspring of idealism can refill itself" is one of those things people don't appreciate enough, IMO

It’s notable that my entire career has been in California, where we have an energy code and high energy prices . It’s worse elsewhere.

sales, and BDS actions are what international law demands. You don’t see anyone arguing that we should arm Russia, nor did you see anyone saying we should arm Rwanda, or Bosnia. So Abdul El Sayed’s take is the moral/ethical/legal stance, in a world minus political noise.

A thing of beauty.

Low-information investors.

I think this is part of it. I don’t think a woman can ever do something like this without paying a cost for it. But I’m starting to feel more like both I pay a person cost for not doing it. And that the cost for doing it is one I’m more willing and maybe able to pay.

[blameless retrospective voice]: it turns out that the people who design systems for the entire world living in a dysfunctional nimby dystopia that effectively forces them to live in communes perhaps causes dysfunctional nimby dystopia commune assumptions to leak everywhere

Ezra says it’s down.

Yeah I think we can all agree the most likely nightmare scenario is him telling Mike Johnson not to seat the Democrats, Johnson listens, and the Democrats send a SERIES of stern letters, then courts say nobody seems to have the standing to bring a lawsuit as they always do and suddenly it is 2028

In all seriousness: I think there's no real way to differentiate between the two in some cases here, there is absolutely a pipeline where folks circulating in EXACTLY these kind of deranged right-wing spaces develop psychosis by mainlining Insane Unrealities 24/7 until they can't distinguish it