anon_
2hr ago
The consequences of anger are graver than their causes.
In particular, I think the only viable long term strategy is to create a dependable and trustworthy media ecosystem. That can't be done purely out of anger or spite for the existing media. Otherwise they'll just continue lying.
Even today, the partial emergence of a real press is forcing legacy media into admitting more of the truth.
anon_
5hr ago
Solar+storage+nuclear are all complementary technologies.
As I understand, grid-scale storage allows nuclear to operate at a high load factor by soaking up extra overnight production when demand is super low.
anon_
5hr ago
I think the fundamental logic is also that we (broadly we, humans) get better at the things we do more of. So looking at nuclear in the US right now is not really looking at its potential had we stayed the course in 1970 rather than taking a left turn towards fossil fuels.
We can also look at France and their experience scaling expertise. They are one of the few countries actually lowering their CO2 footprint despite continuing to export energy to Germany.
anon_
5hr ago
So how does this square with the general feminist sex-positive ideology? Are you saying we should restrict all sex at the workplace and in any relationship where power dynamics could be employed?
Yes. This is bog-standard just about everywhere. You can consensually fuck/date anyone you want at the workplace except those that you have a supervisory or evaluative relationship. The same is true of police, they can consensually fuck/date everyone except those they are investigating or arresting.
That's the motte, I think it's probably good not to sweep away this particular motte with the bathwater here, and of course I agree with the broad stroke that some are trying to claim an entire bailey of "it's not consensual if later on one party believes it wasn't".
anon_
5hr ago
Do you think feminism will actually be rolled back in a meaningful way?
The motte part -- surely not. Various absurd baileys that have emerged, for sure. They are already in retreat in some places.
anon_
5hr ago
Maybe it's misguided hope, but it seems they want to take the time to pardon the ones who deserve it and not the ones who don't.
Indeed. I don't know if fire extinguisher guy was a plant or not, but either way he deserves jail more than the mass of people there.
anon_
5hr ago
these people are immune from prosecution, for whatever, because fuck you that's why.
This is not a charitable framing. The President is empowered to pardon people unilaterally and we elected Joe Biden to that office. It's not because "fuck you", it's by the power we chose to vest in him.
I wish I was in a position to extract shame or embarrassment from them for this, because I feel like the world would be a better place if more journalists paid a heavier price for pretending to be "neutral" when they are actually functioning as shills.
I think the urge to revenge or shame is understandable, but unproductive.
What's more, compared to 2016 there are now scores more independent journalists that have far more integrity. Building is harder than tearing down, but it's also more durable.
anon_
5hr ago
I think the question is, what will be the synthesis to the thesis/anti-thesis you have pointed at. People will eventually realize they can speak up but someone needs to do the work to fill in what comes next.
I don't think we will go forward to the world that the woke want. Neither do I think we're going back to the 80s. The only way forward is through.
anon_
1d ago
Grant was more of a spend nine months teetotal and then go on a three day bender kind of drinker.
In a nuclear world, this seems ... worse?
anon_
1d ago
I'm sure the Secret Service is tied into knots right now. But what this atmosphere of siege will mean politically, if anything, I don't know.
I'm willing to predict "not much". Maybe public events will be smaller or more selective, but that doesn't matter much until 2026 anyway.
anon_
1d ago
Yup. I heard someone railing against moderate candidates in CA because "look we sent a SF moderate to run for President and it didn't work".
I think this is probably where Yarvin and Confucianism part ways a bit. Yarvin is very much power for functional sake: his monarch does things. Confucius was more symbolic -- the emperor sits on the throne just to sit on it, he's not meant to actively do things.
anon_
1d ago
Very Confucian -- the emperor exists to have all the political power not to actually exercise it but to permanently put to rest all power disputes.
anon_
6d ago
Well, the tech industry runs on autists and a good fraction of them are MtF now.
There are certainly true believers, but there are also fair weather friends and ideologies of convenience.
anon_
6d ago
The minority support of trump upends this entire argument, making it clear that wokeness was not supporting the preferences of the inevitable majority.
Unfortunately, my view from the ground here in blue country is that people are extremely resistant to absorbing this particular truth, no matter how many numbers are thrown at them.
anon_
6d ago
But pretty soon it gained adherents who did it for practical reasons – they put their pronouns in their bios because their jobs literally depended on it. It seems like a self-reinforcing cycle. Once woke people get more power, they make demands which include hiring even more woke people, giving them more power, etc... Anyone who speaks out is banished from the organization.
There's no limiting principle here. Other social movements, like Christianity, grew and grew until they took over essentially all institutions. Why couldn't wokeness do the same?
There is another limiting principle -- once everyone puts pronouns in their bios then it's no longer a signal. Despite the true believers trying to up the ante with ever-more-Stalins, they eventually get outnumbered by folks that are just backing the winning team. The slogans remain at the surface level only, it's hollowed from within.
Then the wind blows the other way and they're just as willing to follow something else. That's why these things don't change at all until they change all of a sudden -- it's a common knowledge problem.
Elaborate theories about institutions and cancers have far less explanatory power than the fact that once it gets known that you can be hired by appearing woke, those that appear woke aren't necessarily so. And once hired (and once they hire someone that hires someone) there is no longer much leverage against them.
anon_
8d ago
Huh really? It seems designed to ensure that no individual candidate would ever be disadvantaged.
anon_
9d ago
This is unfair because it prices out the working class people who drive into Manhattan.
Of all the complaints, this is the stupidest. Someone that is engaged in productive economic activity would easily pay $9 to get there faster. A plumber in Manhattan charges $120-150/hr.
I think there are other valid complaints. The fact that Uber & Lyft pitched in to support it certainly means they feel they will benefit from substituting ride shares for driving.
anon_
9d ago
One man's Divide and Conquer is another man's Join and Prosper.
That's the very nature of political coalition formation.
anon_
11d ago
The Forest Service tried to get what's called a Categorical Exclusion from NEPA for controlled burns and other brush removal. The Sierra Club sured (Sierra Club v Bosworth, 2007).
Of course, the court case never actually turned on (or even entertained) the object-level question of whether those actions were a good idea. It was all procedural -- whether the Forest Service performed the administratively-appropriate reviews and so forth.
The result of all that is that the Forest Service needs to perform an EIS with lamentably predictable results.
anon_
11d ago
It's not irrelevant -- if you take a standard one-way function F then even knowing all the identities for X and Y, you can't load software version Y and back out what the key would have been had the diversification been done with X.
Jeez at least give him some fireworks.
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