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hello_computeron Which countries would benefit most from an American brain drain?

"are" not "were"

hello_computeron Which countries would benefit most from an American brain drain?

raiding old ladies' pensions and listening in on everybody's conversations does not put you in the same game as the guy who discovered penicillin.

hello_computeron Which countries would benefit most from an American brain drain?

present tense, mercenary. present tense. contrary to what your ego says, you are not isaac newton. make your drones. kill us all with them. as you gloat, your masters point them at you.

hello_computeron Which countries would benefit most from an American brain drain?

Most of our “brains” are mercenaries, who are actually a net loss to the country if you judge by anything other than the stock market. Look at what happened to SoCal! You are all welcome to our fintech/biotech/adtech/surveillance “geniuses”.

hello_computeron Leaked data reveals Israeli govt campaign to remove pro-Palestine posts on Meta

The college deportations are the government, but I would guess that the Meta compliance has more to do with the fact that Cheryl Sandberg is a politically-connected turbo-Zionist.

I wish we were neutral on this issue. As an American, it is not my business. I am in no position to justly arbitrate between them. But our politicians are whores, our Zionists have deep pockets, and they're not afraid to empty them out for the cause, so it looks like America's taxpayers are all on Team Zionist, whether we like it or not.

hello_computeron $70M in 60 Seconds: How Insider Info Helped Someone 28x Their Money

Technology of all sorts. Engineering, finance, management, etc. I am leaning more on the Steiner interpretation than the strict Zoroastrian one. One could also say "The Devil", but that will really get you people squealing. One could refer to the apocryphal "Book of Enoch" for the details on that one.

hello_computeron $70M in 60 Seconds: How Insider Info Helped Someone 28x Their Money

The brilliant thing is that they have woven it deep into the retirement ponzi-schemes, so nothing short of a cataclysm will unwind it.

There is also the Machiavellian consideration of external threats. We need these corporations to make the tools of Ahriman. Without them, another country's corporations will make them first, and use them to subjugate us. People who believe in God (not just the Abrahamic one, but any good creator) prefer not to play this game, but most people are strict materialists, so they are locked into this equation.

hello_computeron $70M in 60 Seconds: How Insider Info Helped Someone 28x Their Money

You can have a market economy without immortal corporations. This is something Quigley pointed out a long time ago. The varieties of persona ficta we have created is unlike anything in history. Even the old British charters were limited in terms of either duration, operations, or both. Modern corporations can do whatever they want for as long as they want. They are mostly insulated from criminal law. An individual poisons the town, he gets the lynch mob. A team of executives poisons the town (after days/weeks of cool deliberation), they get bonuses.

hello_computeron Crime is down, way down

The very wealthy and the very poor two sides of the same coin. Where there is one, the other is sure to be found. My personal experience has been that the wealthy horde more property than they can lease or employ. Hobos find and fill these empty nooks and crevices like water.

hello_computeron Crime is down, way down

that's what happens when the people leave

https://wolfstreet.com/2023/03/30/population-drops-even-more...

hello_computeron Trump temporarily drops tariffs to 10% for most countries

Seems kinda crazy that so much power was ever vested in the president.

https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R48435

hello_computeron Trump temporarily drops tariffs to 10% for most countries

It's Elon's dogecoin pump & dump all over again. I should have kept an eye on twitter!

hello_computeron An Overwhelmingly Negative and Demoralizing Force

It's common sense. That is why it has endured. You people are like mob hitmen standing in moral judgment of your Godfathers. Without your muscle, your Godfather is just an old guy with pasta and a cigar. The "difference" is something you hallucinate so you can feel good about yourselves.

   how much more shall they call them of his household?

hello_computeron An Overwhelmingly Negative and Demoralizing Force

   24 The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his lord.

   25 It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more shall they call them of his household?

hello_computeron An Overwhelmingly Negative and Demoralizing Force

repeated for thread continuity:

The West is not The World. There are over a billion Chinese, Indians, Africans…

Words mean things. Who said tree hugger? If you are an apex predator living in an increasingly cloudy tank, there is an obvious solution to the cloudyness.

hello_computeron An Overwhelmingly Negative and Demoralizing Force

Stating it in patronizing fact-checker tone does not make it true. The tech nerds started it (they love cheap labor pools). Then the politicians joined their masters’ bandwagon. It was a PR blitz. Who has the money for those? Dorseys, Grahams, & Zuckerbergs, or petty-millionaire mayors & congressmen? Politicians are just the house slaves—servants of money.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learn_to_Code#Codecademy_and_C...

hello_computeron An Overwhelmingly Negative and Demoralizing Force

there has been far more degradation to the natural environment than mere air pollution. general sherman decimated the plains indians with a memorandum. do you think that you are sufficiently better and sufficiently more indispensable than a plains indian?

hello_computeron An Overwhelmingly Negative and Demoralizing Force

The Davos class was highly concerned about ecology before Davos was even a thing. In America, their minions (the “coastie” class) are coming to see the liquidation of the kulaks as perhaps not such a bad thing. If it devolves into a “let them eat cake” scenario, one has to wonder how things will play out in “proles vs robot pinkertons”. Watch what the sonic crowd control trucks did in Serbia last week.

Of course there is always the issue of “demand”—of keeping the factories humming, but when you are worth billions, your immediate subordinates are worth hundreds of millions, and all of their subordinates are worth a few million, maybe you come to a point where “lebensraum” becomes more valuable to you than another zero at the end of your balance?

When AI replaces the nerds (in progress), they become excess biomass. Not talking about a retarded hollywood-style apocalypse. Economic uncertainty is more than enough to suppress breeding in many populations. “not with a bang, but a whimper”

If you know any of “them”, you will know that “they” went to the same elite prep schools, live in the same cities, intermarry, etc. The “equality” nonsense is just a lie to numb the proles. In 2025 we have a full-blown hereditary nobility.

edit: answer to ianfeust6:

The West is not The World. There are over a billion Chinese, Indians, Africans…

Words mean things. Who said tree hugger? If you are an apex predator living in an increasingly cloudy tank, there is an obvious solution to the cloudyness.

hello_computeron What's in that bright red fire retardant? No one will say, so we had it tested

So many types of mining have loads of fluoride or heavy metals to discard. Since we’re dealing with minerals, in some cases visual inspection & sorting is sufficient. In other cases where high purity is required, may need to dissolve/melt them and process a series of precipitates & evaporates (i.e. expensive).

Here’s a fertilizer example: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21681395/

You can find similar articles just about everywhere there’s an NPK plant.

I know gypsum, aluminum, uranium are faced with similar obstacles. Google if you want details. (I do control systems if that helps.)

hello_computeron An Overwhelmingly Negative and Demoralizing Force

“learn to code” was from the media. whether they deserve to be classified as “creatives” i will leave to the philosophers.

hello_computeron An Overwhelmingly Negative and Demoralizing Force

But why will that happen? If they have robots and AI and all the money, what’s stopping the powers that be from disposing of the excess biomass?

hello_computeron An Overwhelmingly Negative and Demoralizing Force

It’s karma. The creatives weren’t terribly concerned when the factory guys lost their jobs. “Lern to code!” Now it’s our turn to “Learn to OnlyFans” or “Learn to Homeless”

hello_computeron What's in that bright red fire retardant? No one will say, so we had it tested

The devil is in the details. Even though all minerals contain impurities, NPK fertilizer is processed to reduce them to acceptable levels for agriculture. If they did not do this, places dosed with large quantities of it (year after year after…) would become superfund sites. It is the same reason coal is so nasty: the CO2 is nothing compared to the ash—which is loaded with heavy metals. If the ash retaining ponds around a coal plant ever broke, the land would be uninhabitable for centuries, so the the ppms and ppbs are crucial information here.

hello_computeron Rich Text, Poor Text (2013)

I think anyone who has done the work quickly realizes all of that (i.e. no point kicking Ted while he’s down). Just thought it odd that the article is citing Ted to endorse the anti-Ted.

hello_computeron Rich Text, Poor Text (2013)

This person is confused. He's citing a Ted Nelson paper about separating these things into layers (content, structure, & special effects), while personally advocating that we mash it all into unicode.

https://www.xml.com/pub/a/w3j/s3.nelson.html

hello_computeron Trump's Tariff Formula Makes No Economic Sense. It's Also Based on an Error

That is a very long way to say, "That's why I keep a picture to remember her by."

hello_computeron Trump's Tariff Formula Makes No Economic Sense. It's Also Based on an Error

The global economy is a complex system. Far more complex than software. All of the nerds will adjust their pocket protectors and spew their dubious word-salad (for or against), but the fact of the matter is that nobody truly knows what the nth-order effects will be until they happen.

AEI is just another church of Austrian economics--still burning incense for the ghost of Milton Friedman. If you told any of them, "Tariffs, or your mother dies in her sleep tonight.", they would reply in chorus, "Oh well, that's why I keep a picture to remember her by." If any of these people actually knew what they were talking about, they would be fabulously wealthy hedgies like Dalio or Simons, rather than "think-tank" shills.

hello_computeron 'Chemtrails,' cloud seeding would be banned under bill passed by Florida Senate

I’d worry more about the leaded avgas they still use in prop planes—thousands of bored doctors, lawyers, & execs spew it into the atmosphere every weekend.

hello_computeron A university president makes a case against cowardice

Norm is a hero.

hello_computeron Utah becomes first US state to ban fluoride in its water

Taking compounds of the most electronegative element, and treating people with them systemically—drink it, bathe in it, cook with it—when local administration directly to the teeth is cheap, easy, & effective makes no sense at all.

Meanwhile, mining industries produce—and must dispose of—a steady stream of fluoride compounds that would otherwise have to be dealt with as toxic waste (i.e. very expensive) if they ever lost the green light to dump them into the water supply.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Hodge

or per Google:

Three chemicals are used to fluoridate drinking water in the U.S: sodium fluoride (NaF); sodium fluorosilicate (Na2SiF6); and fluorosilicic acid (H2SiF6). Fluorosilicic acid is a byproduct of the manufacture of phosphate fertilizer.