

cyberpunk distopia


cyberpunk distopia
[It’s all inside of me, it’s all inside of me
It’s all inside of me, it’s all inside of my head](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gmmi2SvMMk)


Rosen misses what he considers to be a bygone era of elite dominance. Lamenting the current state of democratized influence, Rosen says “the old gatekeepers were political professionals who could count cards; small dollar donors today are amateurs yanking the handles of ActBlue slot machines.”
Abundance adherents often bristle at the suggestion that the project is orchestrated by Silicon Valley elites. But as the leaked documents demonstrate, Rosen and his colleagues clearly view it as such, and even frequently use the word “elite” by choice.
ROSEN OPERATES AT THE NEXUS of tech titans’ “hostile takeover” of San Francisco politics through a “grey money” network, documented in reporting from The Guardian and Mission Local. The Phoenix Project has dubbed this overlapping set of organizations and campaigns the “Astroturf Network” and detailed its operations in a set of reports and a pair of influence maps.
These people are villains.


anything “back in the day” just means before tech
Define “tech”.
Fire is technology. Written language is technology. The magnetic compass is technology. Sailing ships are technology.


Even if there is some legitimacy to this motivation, it is very myopic and selfish.


It’s not about “blame”. Such thinking is unnecessarily adversarial.
The point is that the question as it was asked is not really answerable in this format, because it is too broad and the answer is complicated.





It’s about fucking time someone did.
Kristen Welker has more balls than half the rest of the media put together.


Yeah… how exactly do you ventilate 40km of tunnel under the ocean?
The pump to drive air through 25km of duct would be an impressive piece of engineering all by itself.
The duct would be a real piece of work. The pressure in the middle of that pipe would be kind of nuts.


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Huh… so…

There is not a tectonic plate boundary there… drilling a permanent tunnel could actually work… at least, it wouldn’t be especially vulnerable to earthquake issues…
That doesn’t mean it’s a good idea, of course… 85km is a very long distance to travel through a tunnel. A train would make a lot more sense than trucks for cargo movement.


Um… but you said:
“There is nothing broad about their questions”


Oh yeah, that’s a good reason to aid the expansion of global surveillance. Let’s all be complicit with the police state because we can’t acknowledge our social anxieties with a bit of honesty.


Er, not really… for instance:
“…back in the day?”
Which ‘day’? Before digital mapping? Before cartography as a formal practice? Before the invention of the compass? Before the standardization of the meter? Before the printing press? Before Galileo? Before Eratosthenes?
The time period of the question is potentially the entirety of human history. That’s quite broad.
What methods were used to scale down in world, to paper distances?
In which part of the world? In which culture? For what purpose? (e.g. navigation? coastal, inland, international? crop planting? city planning? determining property lines? etc)
This is not a straightforward question in any way. A complete answer would be an undergraduate degree with a double major in history and geography.


Pee is stored in expelled from the balls.


Here we go again…



Hmm, OK could be interesting…

O… K…

Um…

Yeah… that makes sense…
That’s intended behavior, right? Let me guess, you used the project to vibe code the web page?
Good show mate, off to a brilliant start.
Cold turkey.
Read a fucking book.
Retrain yourself to be patient and not require immediate, bad answers in favor of good, but slower answers (by reading books, and not skipping to the end).
Understand that anything worth doing takes time.
Recognize that the effort you make to solve problems for yourself is itself valuable for the experience that you gain. Also recognize that if you do not understand the tools that you are using, your capabilities will always be limited by those tools.
Realize that the journey is just as important as the destination (if not more important).