It’s how all those Russian oligarchs feel so comfortable in London,

You know, when they sell apartments for $150m, i’ve always suspected it’s a kind of money laundering.

I.e. person A gives drugs to person B, and person B in return purchases an apartment from person A for $150m, thus creating the impression of a legit money transfer.

more like colonized, i.e. fucked in the ass

colonized, analyzed, rectified.

England has nothing else to do. England is the ruins of an once great empire. It can’t go back to its own glorious past, and it has therefore no way forward. If england does not adhere to the USA, it is nobody, it has nothing, and it can do nothing. At least that’s what they’re thinking.

All power comes from the people. All constructs of law and money are effectively paperwork, just inventions by humans because they were considered useful at the time of implementation.

Just like paper has no real power and depends only on the one who interprets it, the same is true for the law and even for money. It’s all based on our collective will to recognize and acknowledge these concepts.

Any way, the paperwork we’ve done (including the books we’ve written) is the actual American dream. The american dream isn’t to buy a house or sth, but to do so in a certain state of mind. I.e. you want to adhere to a great system that makes sense somehow, and be a part of it. That’s why we need to develop new systems, new paperwork, that inspires the people, like a dream, they want to be part of it. That is the key to making a system last.

I don’t mean kill the person or assassinate them

Killing them won’t do any good, if you kill one, another one takes their place. You gotta tax them, because that affects them all equally, so it’s not just “pop one, another appears” game.

The UK is a dumpster fire. The UK is literally mini-US, it’s all neoliberals hard-working “pull yourself up by the bootstraps” guys. (And by “guys” i don’t just mean biological men, this is not a gender issue.)

Not much, as the computer would be limited to something like 1000 transistors in total or something, if you build the computer flat on the landscape, because only around like 30K blocks of surface area are loaded at each moment (and therefore can contribute to calculations), and it takes around 30 blocks to build one transistor gate.

No, i don’t think you get what i meant, let me explain again:

If the democratic areas want taxes to be at 50% for the rich and the republicans want them to be at 0%, then a middle way would be to set them at 25%. But this way, everyone is discontent.

A better system would be to set them to 50% in the democrat areas and to 0% in the republican areas. For which you would have to have two distinct legal regions.

edit: tax rate was a bad example. i should have chosen something else.

Just give us the tools to get real, fair representation

that won’t solve the problem. people just have very different views of how the path should continue forwards. you’re not going to unite that. if you represent fairly, you might end up with a federal government that is 50% democrat and 50% republican, but that just means that everybody only gets half of what they want.

smaller countries have an easier time getting better government because in smaller countries, things are closer by, and it’s easier to just walk up to your prime minister’s house and set it on fire if he misbehaves. in the US, which is a thousand kilometers across, you can’t just walk there.

I’m actually in favor of bringing political responsibility back to the local level. That means, communities largely organize themselves, with only few interactions with the federal government.

but … it would be very un-American to fight corruption and listen to the demands of the people.

just look at this. this is such a fascinating image. it’s so surreal. how did we get here?

I still have this tab open from 5 days ago: Wife of Ex-Nepali PM Burned Alive, Gen Z Revolt Engulfs Country: Live Updates

I go back to it every day to check whether it’s still there because it feels so surreal that i think it’s somehow just a dream and i’m going to wake up every moment now and the news story will have disappeared.

understandable. I would celebrate with them if i was in brazil.

i don’t know about tiny cold fusion reactors but we definitely already have a big hot fusion reactor in the sky and we’re already using it; in fact, this article talks about exactly that.

the thing is that what really drives manufacturing is mostly two things: a growing market and cheap supply of energy.

If energy was free, approximately every country on earth would dramatically increase the amount of goods it produces. And that’s what’s happening right now: As solar power becomes cheaper and cheaper, more and more companies will have an incentive to produce more goods, simply because the costs for resources (energy) are dropping. That, in turn, stimulates consumerism.

they build coal power capacity, i.e. power plants that can turn coal into electricity.

the twist is, they’re not actually using that capacity. They produced just as much electricity from coal this year than last, even though the capacity for production increased. In other words, as they’re building more capacity, they’re utilizing it to smaller degrees, sothat the total production stays the same.

you talk about the innovations a lot, but that’s not everything there is to it.

China massively subsidized its solar panel production for 20 years, at a loss. The reason they did that is because they ideologically believed that it would eventually pay off. Without these massive investments, solar might not have grown so much and might still be more expensive than fossil fuels due to a lack of economies of scale.

If you take china out of the game, you end up with solar panels that are not the cheapest source of energy, and that massively changes the outcome. It is only because solar panels are so cheap today that we see so many of them being installed. China was simply brave enough to invest billions and billions of dollars into them, instead of leaving it to the free market. That is what china did well.

That is the long term future of humans

I agree with some of this,

once we shed the idiotic shackles of mythology and inbred conservatism.

but it should be noted that spaceflight is becoming kind of a modern mythology that describes the “fate” of humans.

I think you got some nice ideas but you really gotta work on your messaging. As it is, it’s one big blob of text, and that’s hard to read and parse through. It would be better if you can summarize your points in maybe 1-3 short bullet points, something like:

• Asteroids provide lots of rare earth minerals, and by exploiting this, the economy can continue to grow.
• We need to master technology to be the first in space and provide settlements in outer space.

This will make it much easier for other people to parse your points and comprehend them quickly.

Also you gotta be realistic and realize what’s at stake. If spaceflight takes up pace slower than you think, i.e. it takes 10 years longer for humans to set foot on another planet, that is already an economic crisis for the people alive today and needs to be tackled. Reducing the number of workers in a country is a way to reduce unemployment rate and it is simply important to realize how serious the situation is and how urgent it is to get this right. We can still do spaceflight by the way.

I think you need to take a serious look at the economics of the future and broaden your scope of intelligence.

The economy will no longer be work-bound in 20 years. More humans will not mean more productivity. If machines do all the work, humans become unemployed, and unemployment can lead to mental stress and depression in many individuals. Which in turn can cause social unrests. That is what this is about.