Comment Re: Meanwhile... (Score 1) 56
Are you expressing a mood? What if we tested your mood and it turned out to be just your own projection?
Are you expressing a mood? What if we tested your mood and it turned out to be just your own projection?
When will they use AI to figure out how to recirculate the water and even get energy from the heat generated?
What if we the people demanded Cost Of Living Adjustments because we reject Paul Volcker's irrational hate for them?
Can we completely detach asset markets from the real economy so the greedy rich have a sandbox to play in while the rest of us live in the real world unaffected by their panics?
For "occasionally", do you mean "most of the time"? Who's regulating derivative markets, and do they create well-intentioned unintended consequences because regulators don't really understand what's happening?
If Zoltan Poszar is right that "shadow banking begins where M2 ends", by how much does privately-created money dwarf public money?
Can I recommend Perry Mehrling's "Economics of Money and Banking" to explain how banks create money out of thin air ("the alchemy of banking") and the Fed easily has the power to backstop all that private money creation in a panic?
See what eating meat does to you?
If you look at a Sankey diagram of US energy production and consumption, will you too see that residential electricity usage is less than 15% of total electricity demand? So does data center usage only represent a 5% increase in demand, which given the 10% electricity generation surplus shown on eia.gov's energy facts explained page, is totally doable given current production?
https://flowcharts.llnl.gov/si...
https://www.eia.gov/energyexpl...
So is this panic over electricity supply wildly overblown, a pure hallucination meant to push emotional scarcity buttons in you so utility commissions can administer higher rates and the public will go along meekly?
Do the bottom 90% even have enough money that the rich want it, or can they make ten times tbat amount just by investing in the fictitious goods of stock markets, while we get a basic income to satisfy our basic physical needs?
When the Fed prints money to buy sinking assets, does any taxpayer get debited? In 2020 when the Fed increased base, high-powered money by 40%, and inflation only briefly touched 9%, does that show printing money is a net gain?
Are you aware that Jains walked this path many millennia since, and counsel death by self-starvation to scrub the karma associated with eating anything?
What if scientists started with the ethical principle "First, do no harm"?
If polluters are dumping toxins, can we engineer a financial solution to pay them not to?
What if scientists studied finance to fund compensated conservation rather than torturing animals to get cherry-picked data they can then use to punish other humans?
Has ChatGPT disproved your premise that only humans can use language?
Did you just say two wrongs make a right? What about setting a good example by simply leaving sea (and land) creatures alone except maybe to engage them voluntarily by learning their languages? Why does science so often excuse violent interference in animal lives? Where are the ethics?
Do their funders demand blood sacrifice? How many will be violently assaulted, killed, given diseases then killed, implanted with tracking devices, experimented upon, eaten, bred to be eaten?
Our policy is, when in doubt, do the right thing. -- Roy L. Ash, ex-president, Litton Industries