John smith

[John smith @Johnsmithgee6]

@BobCrauford @BlissfulTango @Blue_Mage @goescarlos You wanted to act like you’re talking math though, not ideology. It’s objectively true that, theoretically, a single actor has a higher efficiency potential than multiple, competing actors

[John smith @Johnsmithgee6]

@BobCrauford @BlissfulTango @Blue_Mage @goescarlos The claim that growth is maximized at lower tax rates than revenue is not arithmetic, it’s also ideological. A well organized gov can spend money more efficiently than competing private actors, thus making max revenue and max growth the same point

[John smith @Johnsmithgee6]

@adamaoc @SwipeWright Yes, calories are the main factor for fat people. 20g of clarified butter will fatten you exactly as much as 20g of canola. Different diets have different long term health outcomes, but the same ratio of calories in:calories out has more or less the same weight outcome

[John smith @Johnsmithgee6]

@lotoshealth @TMer25 @SwipeWright You claim not all calories are equal, then go on to explain that you’re consuming fewer calories. Not all foods are equal, but all calories basically are

[John smith @Johnsmithgee6]

@lewis02958 @VoonAtNoon @jd_pressman I’m not, I’m saying a human level intelligence without easy access to high levels of energy via trees or some equivalent would never reach our tech levels. Our exceptional intelligence is in no small part thanks to fire massively increasing calories we can spend on thinking

[John smith @Johnsmithgee6]

@Jericho1545653 @jx @PotatoMcWhiskey Which would require major societal restructuring, and even then it doesn’t solve non-work travel, which would certainly increase in a remote work world. Bikes, buses and trains can do a lot, but again, major restructuring would be required, beef is easy, even on a personal level

[John smith @Johnsmithgee6]

@lewis02958 @VoonAtNoon @jd_pressman Aquatic intelligence would never discover metallurgy like us, which is essential for every step of tech dev, at least as we understand it. To develop down a different path would require intelligence way higher than ours, and we are already exceptional, at least by our standards

[John smith @Johnsmithgee6]

@lewis02958 @VoonAtNoon @jd_pressman Trees are an just an example of energy sources accesible with extremely low tech, cetaceans are quite smart, so are wolves, other apes, octopuses, etc. Not on our level, but our intelligence exploded in recent times, largely from calories unlocked by easy energy(fire) via trees

[John smith @Johnsmithgee6]

@Byrmaxson @normal_jake_ Almost certainly, and the royal navy would destroy their rented fishing boats crewed by hired sailors and stuffed with horses and guys afraid of water. And their horses would only be able to graze in the southlands, where all the big kingdoms are that would destroy them instantly

[John smith @Johnsmithgee6]

@Jericho1545653 @jx @PotatoMcWhiskey Fast fashion is definitely an issue, but I’ve not looked into it at all really, but my gut says it has to be at least a bit less impactful than global beef consumption

[John smith @Johnsmithgee6]

@Jericho1545653 @jx @PotatoMcWhiskey Beef is easily replaced by cheaper and more resource efficient meats like chicken, cars are already a work in progress and require major societal restructuring for best changes, no promising alts to current air travel yet (mayyybe hydrogen?)

[John smith @Johnsmithgee6]

@lewis02958 @VoonAtNoon @jd_pressman I’m not sure I agree. Intelligence is probably an inevitability with complex life, we have several quite intelligent species here, but fire supercharged us, unlocked tons of calories and is the only way we got the tech to leave the Stone Age, we’d never have radio without trees

[John smith @Johnsmithgee6]

@Jericho1545653 @jx @PotatoMcWhiskey Let the water actually flow until it reaches the sea or allow it to create wetlands, rewild the land and allow it to grow into forests or grasslands or what-have-you which are all carbon sinks

[John smith @Johnsmithgee6]

@lewis02958 @VoonAtNoon @jd_pressman Not necessarily coal, but we are really lucky to have such massive, easily accessible energy stores like trees, fire was essential for modern human evolution, without fossil fuels we probably would have eventually figured something out, but maybe not if we didn’t have trees

[John smith @Johnsmithgee6]

@bbgo91 @iosif_lazaridis If there were a people group that traveled the entire world 12,000 years ago, we would see evidence of their DNA all around the world and molecular clock calculations would show they started diverging 12,000 years ago. There are 0 globe spanning lineages until the modern day

[John smith @Johnsmithgee6]

@EricRStPierre @SwipeWright Animal fats were also engine lubricants. Literally anything and everything that reduced friction between surfaces was used as lubricant

[John smith @Johnsmithgee6]

@Jack_Ham79 @MarkTully20 @Garrett_Archer Is it worth it to suppress 1000 citizens from voting to stop 1 noncitizen from voting?

[John smith @Johnsmithgee6]

@davec260 @Garrett_Archer Same as stopping big businesses from buying up single family homes, a practically non-existent problem. “Solving” it is at best a waste of time and an unnecessary increase in cost/inconvenience/bureaucracy, with this certainly stopping more citizens from voting than “illegals”

[John smith @Johnsmithgee6]

@Btrxvelaryon @_oldvalyria The wiki says it had been in the family for over 400 years, so before the Targs arrived. The books also say the Others can be killed by dragonsteel, and since the Others disappeared 8000 years ago, that means a form of Valyrian steel existed then, even before Valyria was founded