With the surveillance nightmares phones and computers are now, we’d be better off not having them at all. It pains me to say that as I’ve been such a tech-head my whole life but it is nonetheless true.
We’ve created the panopticon and most people believe there was no choice in the matter. But there was always a choice. We just chose poorly.
Absolute mad lad https://t.co/NIEgPrB7ut
— Faine Greenwood (@faineg) August 21, 2022
Not possible. That plane has a range of less than 800 miles.
I wonder how many FtM folks transition back to female because they quickly realize how much it fucking sucks dating as a man? Probably a pretty large percentage.
Who would want to date as a man? It’s unbelievably and vastly terrible.
The first ten on today’s playlist:
Information Hygiene: The ability to tell the difference between spin and propaganda, between unknowns and fiction, to make probabilistic assessments when confronted with confusing contradictory ideas instead of falling into conspiracy theories or cults. pic.twitter.com/dphAcB3XEB
— Barry Ritholtz (@ritholtz) August 21, 2022
The problem: most people (I’d say 95%) are utterly incapable of this. This brings up thorny questions about censorship and who gets to control information.
there's an interesting phenomenon where most of the degrowth movement comes from wealthy western countries that have by and large greatly benefitted from increases in production and believing this shouldn't be extended to developing countries https://t.co/H25TawG3Gs
— S.H. (@upzone_CA) August 20, 2022
A 30% decline in world GDP would kill 1-2 billion. Not hundreds of thousands.
Degrowth nonsense gotta go.