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I’ll have me some of that nothing, then
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The Dems seem locked into this belief that they can just wait out the demands for real change and keep things stable until the next economic boom rolls in. They treat the issues Sanders raised—healthcare, living wages, housing—as if they’re optional add-ons that will resolve themselves when the market “bounces back,” rather than structural problems demanding real action. They appear convinced that another bubble will come along, lift the economy, and make the need for actual reforms go away, Still waiting
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Sad sorry ass operation leaving us with Trump redux, which feels surreal
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Banana peel twice over moment for the dems with their last ditch attempt to defeat Bernie coming home to roost
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Now if you want solutions just ask the billionaires. Imagine, if you will, the Hyper-Sink: an architectural marvel that would funnel every drop of water right through the earth to the other side of the world—completely self-sustaining, fully solar-powered, and, naturally, a triumph of private enterprise. It would’ve been the most beautiful sink, a masterpiece of human ingenuity, a monument to the pioneering spirit of those daring enough to bypass the government’s limp hand. But alas, the red tape strangled our vision! The bureaucrats couldn’t possibly grasp the brilliance of draining Valencia’s floods to, oh, let’s say, Australia. No, the permits were delayed, the environmental impact studies became “essential,” and the whole glorious concept sank before it ever even saw a drop of water.
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Well, yes, if the government must meddle, let it be in the form of good, solid tax breaks! Imagine the incentives: tax deductions on personal raft purchases, rebates for inflatable duckies, and perhaps a subsidy or two for the luxury yacht life preservers, fitted with GPS and faux-leather cupholders. They could set up a grant for entrepreneurial sorts to market high-end flood accessories—like waterproof Bluetooth speakers so people could float around in style, listening to Les Misérables as they drift through their very own barricades. Maybe even a small business loan for anyone wishing to open a boutique selling “Flood Essentials”—designer sandbags, artisanal buckets, and bespoke water wings in the latest hues of despair. That’s the kind of “support” the government should be offering! Anything else would simply distort the natural, self-correcting power of the market!
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https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna178555 Oh, but it’s positively incredible how the people of Valencia clutch at the government’s skirts like lost children in a rainstorm! They actually expect warnings when a flood is on the way, as if nature itself should ring their doorbells. They imagine protocols will spring up to save them—protocols! Why, they could’ve simply popped to the market, where every manner of inflatable contraption was on sale: floating armchairs, luxury life vests bedazzled with faux diamonds, and even portable flood dams (although one wonders why they hadn’t bought two or three already). The market provides, after all! For just a month’s wages, one could’ve had a raft shaped like a giant swan or, better still, a Venetian gondola look-alike for that authentic submerged experience. Alas, they simply refuse to fend for themselves—how terribly misguided! The government is no life jacket, no matter how one puffs it up.
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Civil rights and the New Deal
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I'm putting all my money in the Pacific Garbage Patch. So long, suckers.
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Stallone: Ha! And I gotta toughen him up for the showdown with the cartel. Think… me, in a ten-gallon hat, throwin’ haymakers in a cattle pen, just to show him what it means to be a man. Like a father-son Cobra moment, y’know? Sheridan: Yeah, yeah. And the cartel? Real desperados. We’re talking outlaws who roll up to town in trucks with bull horns on the hoods and play mariachi songs at full blast. But they’ve got high-tech weapons. Oklahoma arms race. A spaghetti Western arms race. Stallone: Now you’re talkin’! And I gotta take ‘em out, one by one, John Wick-style. Only with lassos and cowboy punches. I end up facing the kingpin on top of an oil rig, the sun settin’, Sheridan: Perfect! You’re drenched in oil, fists raised — and Dusty, your estranged son, shows up to save you at the last second with a rodeo rope trick he learned from a wandering drifter. Stallone: Yeah, we can call him “Whiskey Pete.” Real mysterious.
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Scene: A smoky, dimly lit Oklahoma bar. Sylvester Stallone and Taylor Sheridan, cowboy hat and all, sit across from each other, kicking around ideas for Tulsa King Stallone: Alright, picture this: I’m a retired mobster, right? Everyone’s scared. I walk into a bar, bam, punches start flyin’. Next thing you know, I’m running the joint. Think Rocky but with a… Western flair. Sheridan: Tulsa’s a slow-cookin’ kind of town. What if your character’s tough as nails, sure, but he’s also a softie for wild mustangs and campfires? We go for Rocky IV training montage but with lasso practice at sunrise. Stallone: Oh, I’m feelin’ it! And when the local drug cartel moves in, I’m kickin’ down doors like in First Blood — cowboy boots and all. And I’ve got a long-lost son I don’t know about. We call him “Dusty.” Sheridan: What if Dusty’s the exact opposite of you, like some sensitive poet with a six-shooter?
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I know there’s a lot of intuition involved but it’s not rocket science. It’s a process others have mapped out for themselves so you can’t really fail too far by taking this and that
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I think you should be able to play at many speeds as necessary at all times. Learning baroque piano is totally useless for you songwriting today but it will be foundational when you’re adapting it to Be-Bob and composing in 4 years
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Other ideas that plague engineers Commodification -> Marx Component level thinking -> Descartes Conformity -> Durkheim Paperclip Maximization -> Bentham, Stuart Mill, Max Weber Risk aversion -> Sartre Technology driven paradigm -> McLuhan
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Example: The philosophical idea driving engineers is to convince future marks about the infinite significance of reproducibility and the need to appreciate copies of copies of copiea, even in a world flooded with originals @july
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Philosophy is the original technology, yet most engineers give up halfway and are content to cling to the MCU—crutches both the Microcontroller Unit and the Marvel Cinematic Universe, both a bland rehash of formulaic plots and manageable modules
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https://x.com/brianstelter/status/1850264431827005810?s=46&t=uxFF0u_0ecJVW04Kh-xZdg So the headline is: Tech; How to make old problems much harder to fix.
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“Good news, everyone! Decades of compound awfulness have finally brought us to the point where a simple law could have saved millions of people a lot of grief, but we’ve chosen instead to rely on backpedaling, lip-service, and a generous helping of risk-aversion. Yes, a true blunder-bundle of policy-pileups, disaster-stews, and missed-opportunities have created this fine fumble-factory. And now, we can bask in the glory of our failure-pile!”
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