The USA’s death throes are going to cause a lot of collateral damage across the globe.

The collateral damages have already started a while ago, no?

The microsoft thing worked. It also highlighted a lot of issues that would also exists in space, but way worse.

But “genius billionaire buffoon” can’t read apparently.

We’re not even raiding CP factories down on Earth, no need to go in space for that.

Transferring huge amount of data between space and earth’s surface is costly and a big bottleneck. If you have a lot of data coming from space (satellite watches and listen to a lot of stuff) that needs processing, you can hit that bottleneck. Moving processing power into space removes it. Data transfer, using any kind of wave (even light) can be make way more efficient, so you can process a massive amount of data way faster, and only send back down there the result.

This has two obvious type of applications : useful for humanity, and dreadful for humanity. Think, doing weather forecast vs. using worldwide pinpoint tracking of any electronic device, including ones that don’t necessarily have wireless capabilities. Guess which one will be prevalent.

Well, that, and doing a pump’n’dump with investors money, since for now the technology to do that reliably isn’t really a thing, and spacex whitepaper just goes “yeah, we know this is a problem, we don’t care”.

I wonder if this have anything to do with moving quickly from “we must all limit our energy consumption” to “we must burn as much energy possible for no real purpose”.

I guess we’ll never know /s

Vance criticizing something tells me the thing in question is probably correct one way or another.

Roughly. It’s slightly offset later than that because I start late, though. Official work week here is 35h, which is usually more like 38h (with extra time provided as extra leave days).

But I thought super capitalism would allow markets to self regulate, motivate competition, and weed out low performer. Isn’t that a good thing anymore?

Also, I’m laughing at “unless things change, we will not survive”. That might be the change happening, buddy.

a reporter witnessed a piece of his ear come off

Human parts don’t grow back that quick. Or ever, for most of them.

I generally agree that prohibition doesn’t work, and is bad, but having an absolutist position like this is usually problematic.

Hence the immediate follow-up sentence: “I can see the point for some of these restrictions, to provide a safe basis for other people around”. Basically, the old saying “one person’s freedom ends where another’s begins”.

Laws should be around to protect other people from external nuisance/danger, not for the express purpose of prohibition.

The parts about not being a nuisance for other/imposing onto them is nice. It will take forever to become a new society standard, though. In France, it’s been forbidden to smoke in public places like subway stations and bars for decades, but there’s still a lot of people doing it. But we’re slowly moving there.

However, forbidding people to smoke, period, will not prevent them from smoking, it just makes it illegal. That’s the part I’m not strongly agreeing with. There was the nuance.

And to be clear, my personal opinion on this topic is that smoking is batshit crazy and why would anyone do this to themselves, but I’d rather we go the education route and work toward a better environment for people to live in than going the “NO” route. Unfortunately, that’s not the way we’re going.

I have no idea how that would change thing. I just base myself on previous (and current) attempts at banning things. It never goes well.

Prohibition is never good, removing individual freedom is never good. I can see the point for some of these restrictions, to provide a safe basis for other people around (because we can’t ask people to simply be nice), but more than that… meh.

I will not be up in arms to defend smoking rights, but that’s probably not the way to do it.

sigh

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There was this chapter in an XKCD book talking about where does tire particles goes. From memory, it said “there are many answers to that question and none of them are good”.

It’s already trickling down : from public government money to private business owners.

At this point, it’s a suicide really.

/J

I can’t wait for a moment where he slip, jumping from the last thing to the next, and use the epstein files as a distraction for something else out of sheer stupidity.

This could be good, except that one move is shooting its own country in the everything.

I’m pretty sure most countries have an idea of peace that does not openly include “start frivolous wars”. We’ll be ok without that.

Whack people in the face with big wads of cash for long enough, and they numb out.

…and I’m generously assuming nothing more sinister was in play.