Nuke

everyone has their own propaganda and that propaganda is usually hyperbole that says if we dont do x america is doomed. this comes from all sides that have a side. its always the same except x changes. i cant help but notice how ham dramatic the weather report is. or how people on opposing sides can claim victory over the same political interaction (im pointing at youtube pundits here). we know the psychology of being bombarded with constant doom and gloom messaging, and go figure you see it everywhere. if america does fall its a self fulfilling prophecy and it would deserve to do so for failing to notice in time. what happens to the world is that some other country claims alpha predator status, and they take our place. as we fall into a position of less relevance. the people in all continue their lives until the next churn. the best thing we can do to stop that from happening is to use our eyes and ears more than our screens and speakers and take notice when we start acting like the despots and tyrants were supposed to despise rather than envy.

hunting is a sport. also a way to avoid paying astronomical prices for meat at the store.

america is fine regardless of what the rhetoric says. what nixon once called a silent majority has simply been replaced with a loud minority.

russian gatling guns (eg the gsh-6-23, pay close attention to the rate of fire spec) are a rapid unplanned disassembly waiting to happen.

coffee is still a thing that confounds me. people say thats a good cup of coffee, or that its a bad cup of coffee, an i couldn't tell the difference, they both taste bad. and there is that other subset of coffee drinkers who go in for coffee and come out with dessert. my mom loads here coffee with enough flavored creme and sugar to make it almost drinkable, almost. its like downing a cup of syrup.

i played terror from the deep for like the first couple missions, then i put it into permanent storage for infuriating me. i may still have the disc. never touched an XCom game ever again.

every generation has its nerds. though for every kid who knows how to program a phone, there are probibly 30 that dont even know they are using a computer.

its not space news unless something goes to space or explodes trying. everything else is just bureaucratic noise.

its probibly just the expansion of the metal, or rather the contraction of the metal after heat is removed. the siding on my apartment does the same thing every time a cloud passes by.

zardoz was a warning. if you want to live forever you have to give up something. the movie spelled it out in a rather vulgar way, it was the '70s after all. but you cant have immortality without creating a population crisis, so its either for the few or you have to stop reproducing, perhaps as a condition of having the procedure done. whatever method is used, it probibly wont protect you in case of rapid unplanned disassembly of the biological sort, unless its a mind upload. but even that will come with an energy cost, and thanks to entropy, a source of potential conflict resulting in violence or some kind of emp attack on the datacenter (this would actually make a good sci-if scenario where a lot of digital minds are scrambled in such an attack, but some survive and are still conscious, and whatever container structure they are stored in break down so you end up with what is essentially a mad hive mind intelligence hellbent on destruction). i like to think of life as an iterative process. new people are new perspectives and death cleanses the way. but without that you all become "old man yelling at cloud" even though you look no older than 20. the thinking becomes so inflexible and life loses its meaning. you just exist to spite the universe, god, or what have you. kosh was right, we are not ready for immortality.

is that what it takes to have an actual job in 2025? no wonder there are so many homeless people.

if you can get one. there are plenty of horror stories about people who brought generators to sell in disaster areas only to have them confiscated by authorities for profiteering. then they sit in an evidence locker when people will pay 3x the going rate to charge their phone. whatever supply will not be sufficient. same goes with wood stoves. companies sell them, but the demand inst universal, so the available stock cant cover everyone.

its funny, because i dont use a phone people see me as a tech luddite. even though i grew up at a time when practically nobody had computer knowledge. we pretty much prototyped all the phone features on computers when brick phones were a thing. texting, file sharing, video conferencing. except all on an appliance that was for all intents and purposes tied to a wall. so you left it home when you went out and it didn't interfere as much with ones social development. there was a clear division between tech time and any other time. now its all mushed together and they cant even socialize without a device in the middle. anyway senior care is such a mess, thats why i take care of my mom, because they would just take her money and shove her into a small room. she is also kind of hard to deal with so they will probibly file her away in a facility that can handle mental disorders, and they would shove her into an even smaller room and give her nothing. how is that different than prison? i dont have anyone to take care of me when im that age, and the soilent green solution to this problem sounds a lot more viable. except instead of flowers i want war footage and instead of light classical i want death metal. in before someone mentions logans run. zardoz may also be relevant as we get closer to breaking the mortality problem.

honestly im not sure what it was about, the tangent into dystopian fiction then that fiction becoming reality was kind of disorienting.

i will never get tired of seeing dirty rockets.

you are better off buying old hardware and playing ksp1. just look at the current boondoggle wrt 12vhpwr connectors and the lack of load balancing circuitry on the 50xx series gpus.

point is there are locations that would be considered uninhabitable without the infrastructure. for example they converted us all from a centralized fuel oil furnace to heat pumps for the efficiency, but if the electricity fails for any long period of time there is no backup. the pipes will freeze and the apartment owners will be hit with massive repair bills. now our power has backups, the diesel generator for example, were also tied into wrangell for reduncancy. without that infrastructure we would be 100% dependant on fossil fuel. we could always chop wood i suppose, but not everyone has wood stoves and an urban population would consume wood like crazy. if the electricity just disappeared tomorrow and never came back, people would die.

then i would have to go outside.

regulation is always a buzzkill. how else is a misanthrope shut-in to make a living?

you do realize what happens when an alaskan home goes unheated for even a couple of days in winter? pipes burst, water gets everywhere, it freezes, and then you got a big mess and expensive plumbing repairs to deal with. you need to at least keep the heat tapes powered and you might only maintain 50 degrees in the home when its unoccupied. good thing we are on hydro. arctic solutions get more inventive (the term poopsicle comes to mind, since traditional septic systems dont work). i dont think the city of phoenix would be there without air conditioning either. before ac the city may have been a wild west town, after ac its a sprawling metropolis. meanwhile the homeless population frequently contracts heat stroke. the notion that you could live without in these locations all come from a place that hovers around 80f degrees year round. whatever methods indigenous populations use to cope with harsh climates do not scale well to urban size.

i had kind of hoped crypto would stay. but we cant have peasants making money with little or no effort, can we? current gen gpus just ended up power hogging to sell performance, but the real objective was to make hashing cost more than electricity. we need an algorithm that resists hoarding of infrastructure by single entities. otherwise the biggest holders of hash power just end up becoming the new banks. it should also function with ubiquitous hardware so you dont manufacture e-waste that's only good at hashing for a couple years before it too no longer pays for itself. only then can you truely democratize banking.

well one is some chemistry legwork and the other is "maybe physics will let us do this thing".

all mine will do is cover the food with cat hair. i mostly only use the convection oven anymore.

only way hydrogen works is when we have reliable solid state hydrogen storage. im not sure where thats at on the trl scale.

were presently afraid they will hit the ground harder and so we dont build them as much as we should. my sister had a house like that when she was still married. had its own well, its own septic tank. the only power it got was through a deisel generator which only ran for a few hours every day. main house power was through a pair of forklift batteries. heat was provided by a wood stove. she did do rain water collection sometimes, but they also had access to spring water, which is what they used for drinking.