@davidad I’m reading the making of the atomic bomb and it really stands out how many scientists thought it wasn’t likely possible until quite late, like the late 30s.
@simonsarris Not saying we shouldn’t do better, but the US is top 10 globally for reading and top 20 for science. (Just don’t ask about math.)
The quality of our schools is often underestimated.
@younghaircut__ @hecubian_devil Why is it an either/or? Isn’t that austerity? One thing I’ve never quite understood is who is supposed to protect the social workers when someone becomes violent? And what if someone doesn’t comply with what the social worker thinks they need to do?
You should be able to trade derivatives of hotel rooms and plane tickets. I want to buy the option to go on various trips and resell them later if I change my mind.
Fuck traveling like a local, I want to travel like an alien having their first day on Earth. I want to travel like a gigantic insect experiencing human civilization for the first time.
@BigMeanInternet Wouldn’t any economic system have *particular* institutions though which would be vulnerable to irrational development?
If anything, wouldn’t a strongly-centralized system be even worse for this, because there wouldn’t even be multiple institutions trying different approaches?
@tracewoodgrains Seems like the major issue is that 60k gbp is an 80th-percentile income in a very expensive country. PPP equivalent is 86k usd.
80th prctile is 165k in the US. I made 80k as a starting salary as an engineer in the us.
@cremieuxrecueil Find it very hard to believe Trump is going to go to bat for porn games on itch and steam. Seems more likely this will be applied selectively to punish enemies/aid friends.
@cremieuxrecueil Your orgasm point is not the same, because it’s a fact that orgasms feel good. But if you said you want more people to feel good, that would be ideology.
@cremieuxrecueil People often frame their desires as non-ideological. A stupid person’s way of saying this is that “it’s just common sense.” Of course these things are ideological.