The problem isn’t that nationalism is so great, it’s that the suggested alternatives are so much worse and not useful that nationalism seems good in comparison.
(No, I am not talking about white nationalism. Despite what corporatists in their quest for ever-cheaper labor would have you believe, there is a difference!)
Joanna Jinton kulning.
Note that is not edited-in reverb. That’s the real world. Those calls can be heard for miles.
This song is almost uncoverable but she does a good job with it.
I love about Ex Machina so much that Caleb is a stupid person’s version of what a smart person sounds and acts like, and that that is the monkeyshines that the movie is up to from the go. And I equally love how it just absolutely skewers the whole idea of someone like Caleb and their intelligence and leaves it in a smoking heap in a pit, and that it perfectly preys on the identically-deficient people who watch the film in the very same way that Caleb is portrayed. (Joachim Budde below is a Caleb.)
Such a perfect movie.
The first ten on today’s playlist:
Great thinking here by someone who understands how systems work.
However, this person does not.
I wonder how much impact we would have on the eco collapse if we put our efforts into preventing it instead of conquering other planets.
— Joachim Budde (@buddepiept) April 4, 2019
This exhibits a fundamental miscomprehension of many facets and aspects of social and physical reality. Economics has led many to believe that all of everything is a zero sum game. This could not be further from the truth. Sure, at base, resources are limited — how we use them is not.
Generally, I hate these sorts of inspirational quotes. However, roughly this is accurate.
A bar of iron costs $5, made into horseshoes its worth is $12, made into needles its worth is $3500, made into balance springs for watches, its worth is $300,000.
(I omitted the inspirational part.)
By researching what it takes to live in other planets or in space habitats, we better understand our own environment and ecosystems. And apart from any technological development, the social aspect of our aspirations, our dreams, our hopes matter; in fact, as Fiona points out these matter more than the technology itself.
I wish people would read some books, do some thinking, before spouting off. Just anything, anything to be a little smarter, to have some sort of grasp of the complex interrelations of the world. I know it’s hard. Anything worth doing is hard. I am so tired of hearing that goddamn excuse.
The meatless Whopper is just the beginning — get ready for vegetarian tuna, steak and eggs.
And the corporate propaganda push continues, just as I said it would. Watching people fall for this shit is sickening (as is the food).
Main takeaway from those "Shot on iPhone" ads is that I am a shitty photographer
— Devon (@devonzuegel) April 3, 2019
Nah. Just because it’s “shot on an iPhone” doesn’t mean much, because all that stuff is lit with professional-level lighting rigs ($10,000+), in multiple takes, color-graded on professional-level gear that’s been properly color-calibrated by some more really expensive equipment, and then edited again by people who’ve spent thousands of hours doing just that.
The camera and even the individual photographer recedes in relative importance under those conditions because there is so much hidden equipment, process and expertise that any camera would do just fine given all the other necessary, concealed inputs.
Saw in person another reason not to be be fat and out of shape today — one I’d never considered.
There was a kid, maybe three years old, sprinting down the side of the road, out of control. His mother, who maybe weighed three hundred pounds, was “running” to catch him before he veered only the few short feet into the road. The kid was fast, but any capable adult could’ve caught him. I stopped my car altogether because I didn’t want any risk of hitting the little Usain.
I use “running” in quotes because the mother was so slow due to her weight that she took almost a full minute to reach the kid. That was a distance of only a few hundred feet. It would’ve only taken one inattentive driver and that kid moving a few feet into the a road that he would’ve been dead.
Note that this would still be true of mass transit because he could’ve just as easily sprinted away onto train tracks, or a bus route, etc.
I’d never thought of this but you can’t creditably watch your kid correctly if you’re fat, and many kids love to run away with no understanding of the risk. Again, any reasonably fit adult could’ve caught this kid within 10-20 feet.
But HAES, right? No, fuck all that noise.
Short of Workers, U.S. Builders and Farmers Crave More Immigrants.
Translation: US builders and farmers hope for a flood of illegal immigrants who will work for low wages, no benefits, and who will never complain and who will work until they literally keel over dead.
Open borders is a corporate ploy.