An exciting year ahead for human space exploration
For reasons beyond my comprehension, some people didn’t pay close attention to our rise to stardom. Of course, that’s just the most important thing in the world. Here’s what’s coming this year:
starship It will be ready for test flights in February or March – “Elon time” admittedly, but at least this year.
Dragon 2 Flight abort testing is planned for January. If all goes well, a crew will head to the International Space Station later this year.
From a cost perspective, this is a huge deal, as the current system of flying astronauts to the International Space Station is to provide Mr. Putin with a completely unreasonable price per seat for 1960s technology, which he subsequently used to destabilize Donbass, run troll farms, and spray chemical weapons in Salisbury.
Meanwhile, famed welfare queen Boeing Not sent to the right track last month, and Lex Luthor Jeff Bezos, who you probably know as the man who single-handedly destroyed three-quarters of the retail industry (and for good measure), continues to make headway with his dubious maker of mediocre products so far. phallic Rocket Blue Origin.
While the various projects underway deserve varying degrees of sympathy and support, it’s great that something so big is happening on so many fronts. The new commercial space race is great for humanity.
Everyone should know how to cook
Cooking is underrated as a skill. Most self-improvement content online is too focused on narcissistic bullshit and ignores the powerful fundamentals. Benefits of cooking:
- You save money (a lot)
- It’s healthier (obviously depends on you)
- Skill upgrades, interesting hobbies
- Make your romantic interests instantly more attractive
If enough sane people started cooking, maybe we’d even change the culture of online cookbooks that are the meandering 200-page autobiographies of self-absorbed Anglo-Saxon wine aunties, with three lines of actual recipes at the end, or hidden somewhere in the middle.
trump ad
You may have heard that CBS deleted Trump’s cameo scene from Home Alone 2. His supporters called it deplorable censorship, his opponents called it justified. So far, everything is predictable.
What you may not know is that CBS removed that scene in 2014, along with eight minutes of extraneous content from the story, to make more room for advertising.
So everyone is wrong.
Holographic preferences and the cheerleading effect
It is possible to like something without liking any part of it.
I love Star Wars and Star Wars, but I don’t really like any one movie, episode, or character in the entire series. (Okay, The Mandalorian is good, come to think of it, Khan Noonian Singh is a rare positive role model).
StarCraft: The Original Series is a timeless classic that can be watched endlessly. Except every second of every episode is ridiculous to the point of being nearly unwatchable.
it’s a bit like The cheerleader effect.
So obviously there are good things that are mostly or entirely made up of bad parts (French cuisine, capitalism, philosophy), and bad things that are made up of good parts (people).
The emerging phenomenon is real, yo.
Can you give more examples from these two categories? Comments are open.
TIE fighter on the street
For safety reasons, Teslas (and inferior electric cars) will start making noise to warn pedestrians.
Sounds will be customizable – from a basic hum to a herd of goats, Monty Python Coconut ETC.
If you’re reading this, Elon, please listen carefully, I’m only going to say this once:
I wanted this car to make the noise of a TIE Fighter from Star Wars.
…mmmrRRROOOOOARRRRRhhhh! (pew pew pew optional but welcome)
Tie fighter on sheets
Speaking of tie warriors, I wholeheartedly fight for the abolition of ties as part of civilized male attire. (Word chosen with caution, as we men really only see civilization as clothing, our nature craves forest-dwelling nudity, beer notwithstanding)
Look, this is not a coping strategy. In the course of my work I put on civilized masculine clothing, and very expensive silks and tailoring, for you have not yet taken mine patreon A PayPal account provides an endless source of arctic refuge, vintage French wine, and passionate courtesans.
So, from a weary experience: Is there anything more useless in the entire modern world than a tie? Billions of dollars are spent around the world on tiny pieces of fabric “designed” by coked, spray-tanned, botoxed, parasitic trash artist pedophiles whose sources and products are all made with slave labor – and in the case of trail ties, sold almost exclusively to people in Russia, China, Davos and St. Tropez, whose moral trails are equally exploitative and raga-y, despite my liberal, antipodalist, raga-in.
An expensive tie is the epitome of global negative externalities, layered with crime, tears and shady dealings, culminating in a short lozenge stamped with silkworm butt glue.
People said the suit – including the tie – was sexy. Fair enough, but there are two layers to this:
First, sexiness is acquired through long-term connections with power and wealth. If in the past hundred years big men had been wearing feathered headdresses, women would have gone weak in the knees. It is external to things and easily reprogrammed.
Second, and the problem is more difficult to solve: menswear is filled with visual sexual symbolism. Ties are phallic. The jacket lapels are the labia minora. The head sticks out like a giant clitoris, or maybe a baby. This is also the subconscious reason why “suit” became a slur among sex-negative hippies.
So, gray overalls with a cutout crotch will do the job just as well.
Viewed objectively, a suit – with or without a tie – is a ridiculous, unnecessarily complicated and expensive thing that supports an entire parasitic industry.
When I was in power, Gabanna, Gucci, Armani and Hermés would only be remembered as famous court cases in the Great Economic Reorganization (pun not intended).
Well, let’s say ties are out. How to deal with shirt collar? The open-collar shirt looks out of place, like Queen Elizabeth peeing behind a bush.
You take off the collar. Its original function—making the most exposed and worn parts of a garment removable and washable separately—is now obsolete. Atavism. We have a washing machine.
Yes, it’s “cosmetic,” but that’s just another way of saying unnecessary complication. It is actually a decoration in the Baroque style, and the Baroque style is undoubtedly the ugliest style that destroys civilization.
In science fiction, futuristic suits and shirts are usually simple, utilitarian Bond villain/plain collars without any silly, atavistic frills. This is a reasonable prediction.
I feel so strongly about this aesthetic point of view that I’m willing to adopt a false social justice argument—not that there are any non-false social justice arguments—and call the classic suit Eurocentric and a form of imperialism, while the sleeker stand-up collar style—historically popular in China and India—is more inclusive and universal. If anyone else made such an argument I would bite their throats out, but the future is at stake – and in love, war and sartorial soteriology, anything is allowed.
Circus Weird Economics
Ever take a hard look at why every left-wing street protest looks like the cantina scene from Star Wars?
national socialist liberals of the german empire
This passage from 1915 will blow every fuse on the American political compass. Read every word carefully:
“Recently, there is evidence even among the liberal groups closest to socialists in Germany, the ‘National Socialists’, that there is a tendency to believe that “it is never a bad thing to impose obstacles on the influence of the volatile and incalculable popular will expressed in the Reichstag in political affairs, since the National Socialists believe that it is best if there is also an element of will, independent of popular suffrage, always with the right of popular suffrage, always with the right of will.” The veto power, so as to constitute a permanent regulating factor. “
news program
People report walking around with an inexplicable sense of unease, worry, and even anxiety.
This isn’t all that super baffling. Because of the negative bias in the news, the first thing you do in the morning is probably read about some of the worst things that happened in the world in the past 24 hours.
This might lead you to conclude that the world is a sad and dangerous place, but that’s a sampling problem.
While this is nothing new – “If it bleeds, it dies” is a saying as old as newspapers – the semi-constant exposure has brought something new. Instead of reading the morning paper and/or watching the news in the evening, many people now compulsively check every five minutes to see what new atrocities are happening, or have articles forwarded by helpful friends, which in turn fuels the endless torrent of emotional and mental toxicity concocted by the horrific clickbait media.
Taken together, the minor flaws and operational inefficiencies of miraculous modern civilization are described as existential catastrophes and structural tyrannies, while the relatively (relatively!) minor inconveniences of 21st-century life are described as tribulations coupled with slavery, the Holocaust, and the Holodomor.
As a result, some of the most privileged and secure people who have ever lived have been conditioned to think of themselves as perpetually threatened victims, engaged in desperate trench warfare against oppressive regimes, and literally fearing for their lives while walking the mean streets that were, by any sane historical standards, almost utopian.
It’s also a fun LARP for bored idiots.
Wisdom covers negative media bias and free-falling integrity and standards time and again.
As Scott Adams said:
“If you think the fear you feel from the news is legitimate and appropriate, you may not understand how the business model of news has changed.”
It’s hard for a newspaper to say “there’s still a little room for optimization, but all things considered, it’s great.” They need you to click.
But as clickbait wears off and hopefully no longer works, newspapers that resist the temptation may inherit the market. This means that, soon, we may be left with only right-wing newspapers.
Those angry rags are in trouble. The Guardian, the Huffington Post, Buzzfeed, Vice, and even increasingly the New York Times and the BBC, and all those other media outlets that have made themselves the hobby of politically radical, boring upper-class heiresses, are insolvent, partly because they write specifically for an audience that believes in paying for any human rights violations, and partly because they keep everyone from hating their own people.
Clickbait is a low-hanging fruit that will alienate the audience you actually want in the long run. It’s like wearing leopard print stockings to a club. Will get you laid, but never marry the Prince of Liechtenstein.
Instead, you end up getting chlamydia. Or Guardian readers.
This means you never get paid and your comment section is a North Korean mental hospital.
In contrast, relatively well-respected newspapers such as The Times (London) and The Wall Street Journal have never gone brutalismand written for relatively emotionally mature adults who are interested and willing pay to obtain high-quality reports. This means they will survive.
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