tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6482127507835282032.post457570364618790675..comments2023-10-28T06:59:59.028-07:00Comments on Squeezing the Hourglass: Efficiency Is The Opposite, or, A Walk In The WoodsDDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12936013880621794157noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6482127507835282032.post-69345231714383862332020-02-24T07:14:10.612-08:002020-02-24T07:14:10.612-08:00OK that's fair. Must be a little of my own mus...OK that's fair. Must be a little of my own musty brain worms then.<br /><br />I think Bernie will win. I hope he wins. I'm going to keep donating and preaching it. I have been cynical my entire adult (professional operative)political life. But I'm genuinely excited for Bernie. Will be my first time voting D (or R) for President in over twenty years.<br /><br />-DDAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6482127507835282032.post-73287020290475764832020-02-22T09:41:40.400-08:002020-02-22T09:41:40.400-08:00"distasteful", "irrational", s..."distasteful", "irrational", sheeiiiiiittt.........,<br /><br />How I'ma vote for Bernie or Donald J. Kushner if I dislike the chosen?<br /><br />I'm laser-focused on particular elites, and I don't brook the tried and true practice of those selfsame elites playing the raceligionist card and try'na pull an ethnic figleaf over their serial perpetrations and crimes against humanity. CNuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14152640304402402884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6482127507835282032.post-17360032239936424262020-02-21T12:58:44.058-08:002020-02-21T12:58:44.058-08:00Biggest tribe wins. You've got your own distas...Biggest tribe wins. You've got your own distasteful prejudices that amuse me,what with your irrational dislike of the chosen.<br /><br />It's class that's the only hope. As things break down, so do the groups. Racial and social division is inevitable, but it can be mitigated by class unity. Going forward, the leaders of the Race Units will be exactly what they are now, opportunistic hucksters. I feel like you leaned into this as a younger man and eventually recoiled. Why go there again when the stakes are higher?<br /><br /> The rich will 100% have solidarity across races, the rest of us would be wise to stick together.;)https://www.blogger.com/profile/18269204048805491152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6482127507835282032.post-59886421315067275062020-02-01T09:12:08.322-08:002020-02-01T09:12:08.322-08:00Status seeking is in there, control of commerce is...Status seeking is in there, control of commerce is in there, identitarianism is in there..., isht is complicated. http://subrealism.blogspot.com/2020/02/globalization-make-it-plain.html<br /><br />http://thesaker.is/globalization-a-sneaky-overview/CNuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14152640304402402884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6482127507835282032.post-58056817512281111192020-02-01T09:03:31.062-08:002020-02-01T09:03:31.062-08:00In the past year I became a big Eric Weinstein fan...In the past year I became a big Eric Weinstein fan. (thanks Joe Rogan) Weinstein has some amazing things to say about the stasis in hard materials science and deep scientific theory. Unsurprisingly, he has equally provocative insights about the living memory history of how this stagnation came to be, and, the specific policies aimed at squeezing out additional efficiencies (or squeezing out potential competitor humans - as the case may be) in the STEM and knowledge-intensive domains.<br /><br />Because of the strenuous network monitoring conditions at the new day job, I'm excessively constrained against blogospheric indulgence most hours of the day. I do manange, however, to slip in a wee bit of trolling on linkedin. Here is one such example of the same. Dunno if you'll recall Ed Hopkins.<br /><br />https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6627531455423672320/?commentUrn=urn%3Ali%3Acomment%3A(activity%3A6627531455423672320%2C6627740278319038464)&replyUrn=urn%3Ali%3Acomment%3A(activity%3A6627531455423672320%2C6628006414424035328)<br /><br />It bothers me A LOT that cats who DO know better than the trajectory we're on, actively accept and engage the terms and conditions of that trajectory as a means toward whatever end they've set their sights on. Going against that grain has cost me materially, but lord knows I sleep good with a perfectly clear conscience. <br /><br />Right now, probably the single greatest issue I'm wrestling with personally and politically is whether or not to intensify my tribal urges in the direction of american descendents of slaves, or, in the direction of global nerditry - the two leanings seem highly incompatible at this juncture. <br /><br />The former leaning has me going hard Bernie/Tulsi from here through November, the latter, something more republi-kochian and potentially in sync with some of the people who run the world though with a slight rebellious twist. CNuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14152640304402402884noreply@blogger.com