Eric Rice

Space nut, rocket scientist. I am interested in gadgets, scifi/fantasy, and the intersection of technology, culture, and commerce.

[Eric Rice @errice]

@elonmusk Uh,…grok?

[Eric Rice @errice]

@St_Rev THAT'S BANANAS!!!

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

What the Netflix documentary needs you to believe a cow is:

- A methane factory with a vendetta
- Personally melting a glacier right now
- Sinking water like a frat lad
- Bulldozing the Amazon between mouthfuls
- Mugging children for their grain
- A coronary wrapped in leather
- A mastermind that can't open a gate
- Smug, and unforgivably so

What a cow is actually up to out there:

- Chewing grass you physically cannot
- Drinking rain, handing most straight back
- Farming a hillside no tractor survives
- Muck-spreading the field for free
- Breathing out last August's carbon
- Six months of food off one animal
- Leaving the soil richer than it found it
- Unaware it's been cast as the villain

The cow has been framed.

The bloke who made the documentary flew there to do it.

[Eric Rice @errice]

@ClarksonsFarm1 Yes! Right off!!

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@Gustav_Adolf_3 @DailyGondor More like yeeted them out of Mordor (…or maybe “yoinked”?)

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@cashmoneydrunk It was ridiculously fun watching him do that stuff!!

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@sfliberty This all may be true, but he did have rivals so he didn't have a monopoly, and isn't reducing your prices in order to drive rivals out of business a predatory practice?
Also, "enshittification" appears to be a real thing in markets where one company has become dominant.

[Eric Rice @errice]

@pmarca @slatestarcodex Graboids are just one reason for the importance of the 2nd amendment.

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@cocosbrushfire @BGatesIsaPyscho @BEDambold Hey! It could be both - Guinea hens for the daytime, opossums for the night!

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@SciGuySpace What about Sting? What about Michael Jackson?

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@GuzzleGuinness Some things are sacred

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@Babygravy9 It's just viral marketing for the upcoming Green Lantern movie...probably.

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@DJSnM Not to mention fun for the passengers.

[Conjecture Institute @ConjectureInst]

The Battle of Ideas and Error-Correction

The society of the West is not the society that makes the right decisions all the time, it's the society that corrects errors.

There is no limit to the size of error that we can make.

The important thing is how good we are at correcting errors.

Many non-Western societies don't try to correct errors, they want to entrench them.

They don't recognize that there are going to errors in everything they do.

That is their weakness.

It is why we already have the tools to win the battle.

We've got what it takes.

~Conjecture Institute Advisor @DavidDeutschOxf with Advisor @peterboghossian & @ReidN

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@AJamesMcCarthy Shockwaves or are they simply acoustic waves? I know the acoustic loads must be massive for a rocket that powerful.

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@TRHLofficial Me, too! The recipe I had was way harder than that.

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@TheRickWilson Get rid of liability immunity for vaccine manufacturers, and I'll bet the news stories change considerably.

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@JamesMelville Besides all of them?

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@DailyGondor "Axe plows into crowd at local bar"

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@ToKTeacher If I could just get the bulldozer into the basement..😂