Tim Curry Cultivation Program

If we had to make every single senator a billionaire to get good public heathcare options and cost controlling into effect you would take that deal in an instant. Doing the right thing harder isn't an answer to a problem it's just a hope and a prayer.

That's also why we saw the highest volume of good progressive policy when you could also grift off that policy. Its just that now it's harder for progressive leaders to grift and help others grift off of good policy so we just do cohort level grifts which aren't as effective.

I don't think we can just educate our way out of this alone since that requires people to be willing and able to accept the teachings. We need new ways to make people accept mental black boxes that encompass the world. New propoganda, new information control, new societal pressures, new mechanisms.

If we've learned anything its foolishness to expect motivated smart people to hold enough knowledge and have a good enough mental model of the world to deal with all its complexities, so how the fuck do we get apathetic bottom quartile dipshits to do so? Especially when cognitohazards are rampant

Allowing the miasma of dixie to spread and infect the entirity of rural america has to be as the last great victory of the southern aristocracy. Car urbanism of the south allowed the cancer to heal and expand across the highways of America.

9/11 will go down as the single most destructive act since Ferdinand got capped. The sequence of events where Tony Blair is able to control the government for a decade is leagues better than the one where he got tossed due to iraq.

The covid hiring bubble and ai mania is gonna play hell with the job market. The jobs exist at the moment, its just getting new grads into them and making sure the new grads don't suck is hard. Especially with resume based hiring just utterly breaking down.

I do understand why so many thinkers went insane in their attempts to reason with the "weakness" they saw in people. Seeing so many people get easily led astray by the lying linear algebra machine has been like learning what you thought was a robust oak tree was instead an inflatable plastic fake.

Even the push of AI won't get me to pretend Luddites are just marvel movie hero misunderstood wholesome chungus bois. They were assmad rentierists who wanted the gravy train to continue irregardless of anyone else. I doubt anyone will shed a tear when the petro states eventually go belly up.

Is this from that debunked NYT piece that was basically trump admin FUD?

I feel like it'd be eaiser to trust labor as a partner going forward if its leaders didn't always try to sell everyone down the river at nearly every opportunity it would benefit themselves solely.

Until you can break the baseline cultural association that "chemicals" are dangerous pollutants and not marvels/wonders of science. Imo one reason so many people seem just primed to accept anti-vax rhetoric is they've been culturally primed to see chemicals as bad from media and all the dupont shit

If anything bringing up ww2 proves the point more, the wars allowed states to build huge administrative organs to funnel manpower, material, and brainpower into state run militaries and war economies. State capacity was at its very strongest in the post war era. Thats why it was so easy for them!

A geniune shovel to the face as I just got into the office.

Yeah but like I want a real movie not one from the twist master himself. Who wants that shit

We could probably fix a good portion of the internet by just making companies liable for whatever content a personalized algorithm serves. The liability cutouts only really made sense when the serving platform didn't play an active role in curating what's presented.

Which inevitably leads to more humans dieing to each others hands versus the invaders. Just go full 1800s on this shit.

I just want someone to have the balls to do a war of the worlds movie where the ayyliens roll up with Orson Wells Tripods versus modern day forces and just get fucking dumpstered. Turns out the war against the aliens is a fake out and the real conflict is how the great powers of earth divide up mars

More dead civilians as the states would have turned towards a less developed by still dangerous level of strategic bombing. Plus with all the combatants having much more time to stock up artillery and material.. shit would have been grim.

To some extent europe is probably lucky ww1 happened sooner rather than later. Simply due to the fact that if ww1 had broken out in the 20s or 30s, the level of overall devastation would be magnitudes worse than probably ww2. Empires with the ww1 resiliency and capacity plus ww2 makes for a lot 1/?

Nearly all the pre ww1 empires sans AustriaHungary were leagues more resilient than any of the ww2 incarnations besides the US. The level of state capacity needed for the Russians and Germans to slam the million plus armiea into each other at Tanneberg puts Barbarossa to shame.

Nazi germany is so fucking lucky they got to aura farm post ww1 france and post great purge red army. Nearly every other fucking adventure turned into a debacle that they were only able to push through due to greater mass. Its still hard to keep in mind how big a fucking hole ww1 blew in their demos

Iirc when the 50 bajillion mile convoy got stuck it was partly due to elite infantey guys with javelins and some drones doing a bunch of hit and run raid. What turned away the russians was massed artillery, but I do think drones slowed them down to some extent. Idk, this is still drone fuud

Nothing will top my greatest work of getting my PM to start using the Tojo quote "The fruits of victory are tumbling into our mouths too quickly" next I need to see if I can get it into a big presentation.

My highs are very high but my lows are very low. So it all balances out to above average mediocrity. Truly the blessed spot to be. I can geniunely approach every problem as if it'll be a genius moment and sometimes it is.

Its not the stupidest idea, its just one where the specifics matter and this admin makes one skeptical. But, getting nuclear power to work in space is something we should work out eventually and the moon is a place where mistakes won't be too messy.

Its that good its worth it, so give it a pass lol.

Listen I know everyone's having a grand Ole time feeling really smug about how dumb everyone else is and how smart they are, but this is a decent idea. It'll depend on specifics, but testing the first space capable reactor on the moon makes sense.