gandalf_der_12te @ gandalf_der_12te @discuss.tchncs.de

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oh they enjoy suffering! suffering builds character or something

america is truly an exceptional place, just not the kind of exception that i'd like to ever encounter

i can literally imagine an american sitting at the kitchen table and thinking "hmm, what do we need in our lives? more spice"

well, here's the bill.

Just for comparison: NASA got $25 billion per year for the last 10 years or so. source

the same goes for me for all makeup & decorations

it's good that you think this way, after all, happier slaves are more productive.

where your children are gonna grow up depends a lot on your choices on whether you support Mars settlement or not. if you do, and you go there, i think your children will have a high chance of having to do a lot of work. construction, farming, construction again, taking care of new immigrants and children, construction again, expanding the city ... seems like a lot of work to me.

i dunno. I mean, the same could be said about the medieval ages. Everything had been figured out. How to grow wheat, how to feed chickens, the people knew everything. It was all just daily routine.

Yet i don't see these people living dull lives. I smell the air and it smells good.

damn that image bangs

it's worthy repeating :)

i think it's not even explicit ill will, just absence of a sense of understanding that humans shouldn't be killed for profit. some kind of not-recognizing the value in life.

hey, don't insult insects like that :D

and there i was standing on the crossroads of destiny, choosing to keep either my enterpreneurial spirit, or my humanity ...

interestingly, i get the sentiment that the economy has stalled since the 1970s from a surprising number of people, and i figured out that it's probably because blue-collar jobs have stagnated since the 1970s, and that's what most people feel. That sentiment coming from Thiel, who invests in software, is very weird though.

well yeah, it seems to be a karmic thing. the pattern repeats life after life, age after age, until it splits off the main-stream and becomes its own thing, independent, permanent.

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I can guarantee you, they turn into a lizard person way before a billion. I'd set it at $20 million even.

Reagan and Thatcher were politically successful, remaking even their center-left opponents such as Bill Clinton and Tony Blair into celebrants of streamlined government. But this political success has not in fact solved the problem of stagnation, which remains as severe, by Thiel’s account, as it has ever been. Thiel and his cohorts have gotten everything they want politically, but that has still failed to solve the key problem of our time. The fact that he still advocates a failed economic program suggests the deeper stagnation is in his own mind.

Since politics has failed, Thiel and the other plutocrats are also toying with another solution: secession from society and the human species. Thiel has long been an advocate of various post-human technological solutions that will allow him and his fellow plutocrats to free themselves from the stagnant mass of humanity: cryonics (to overcome death), sea-steading (to create sea-board libertarian utopias), colonizing Mars, and artificial intelligence.

I'm all for it. Send them to Mars and make sure they don't come back!

by "bad" he means anybody who doesn't agree with him

In other words, trump intends to throw US citizens who disagree with trump in these camps as well.

That's gonna mean politically motivated disappearances, abductions, a.k.a. state sponsored terrorism.

The question is, can the states protect their own people against the Federal Government?

I did some research and found that:

• the Army branch of the military has 500K active troops and 300K reservists. The national guard has 200K troops. Both can be commanded by the president, hypothetically.
• Additionally, the US has 200K federal police officers (FBI, ...) and 900K state / local police officers. I guess this means approximately 1 Million officers are under state control across the whole US?

Just to give you an idea of troop strengths, in case a civil war does break out.