Richard Proenneke left his job as a heavy equipment operator, flew to the remote Twin Lakes wilderness in Alaska, built a log cabin entirely by hand, and lived there mostly alone for nearly 30 years-surviving through self-reliance, craftsmanship, and a deep respect for nature.
Incredible scenes in Belfast: Shankill Protestants and Ardoyne Catholic residents stood together last tonight , something that doesn't happen in war torn Belfast
@DangrMous@iowahawkblog@davidclowery Thank you for the history lesson. I remember my Grandfather telling me he would see German POWs in Georgia while visiting family. He eventually enlisted in the Navy and was deployed to the Pacific on the Battleship New Jersey. I wonder how these men died. That is a sizable number
Rhodesia remains a reminder that there is nothing you can do to make yourself acceptable to those who worship the false god of equality other than destroy yourself and spill your own blood on its altar
Rhodesia was prosperous. It was free. It had no apartheid. It had law and order. Its blacks had the highest literacy rate on the continent.
None of that mattered. What mattered was that its non-racial voting system screened out those who had not yet shown themselves to be competent, and in so doing was an effective declaration that all men are not equal and only those who are competent ought have the franchise
This conflicted most strongly with the egalitarian mindset of the post-war West, which desired the destruction of all hierarchy in the name of equality
And so Rhodesia was destroyed, and handed over to those who made it equally poor, oppressed, and miserable. Such was deemed justice compared to unequal prosperity and non-egalitarian rule
@jayschulz1@ErikLambert1 Thank you for the clarification. Is that IL state law? I'm asking because IN has plenty of private entities that own lakefront property (US Steel, BP, etc.).
Elon Musk used a joke to perform an autopsy on the American economy.
Two economists go for a hike. They find a pile of shit. One pays the other $100 to eat it.
They keep walking. Find another pile. The second economist pays $100 back to eat that one.
They stop. Neither man gained a dollar. Both ate shit for nothing.
But on paper they just generated $200 in GDP.
Musk: “That basically would count as a job. This is to illustrate the absurdity of economics.”
That is not a punchline. That is the operating system of the federal government.
Every time a politician celebrates “record job creation” this is what they are describing. Not output. Not value. Not progress. Motion.
The entire bureaucratic machine exists to manufacture friction and then invoice for it.
Compliance layers built to justify the next compliance layer. Oversight committees that produce nothing but the need for more oversight. Consulting firms hired to audit the work of other consulting firms.
Trillions circulating through systems that have never produced a single thing you can hold in your hands. But the GDP number ticks up. So everyone applauds.
The shit gets eaten. The scoreboard moves. Nobody asks what actually got built.
This is why Washington treats AI like a five alarm fire.
AI does not play the friction game. It does not form a committee. It does not schedule a review. It does not file 400 pages of paperwork no one will ever read.
It just solves the problem.
And that is the one thing the machine cannot survive.
The government does not tax results. It taxes the process. The longer the process, the deeper the cut.
AI compresses a ten day workflow into seconds. There is nothing left to bill. Nothing left to tax. Nothing left to skim.
So they will spend the next decade warning you that AI threatens the economy.
What they will never say is what it actually threatens.
The illusion that activity equals progress.
The $200 economy where both men ate shit and called it a job.
The machines are not coming for your purpose.
They are coming to prove that half the economy never had one.
@Notwokenow Let the killer rot in prison till the age of 65. Then let him figure it out with nothing upon release. That's better than the death penalty.