So I am building a machine that takes the energy from Boomer threads and converts it into electricity and these kind of threads really messed that up.

The sudden increase in power cause the machine to explode and it's taken out about a half a city block.

Anywho could we maybe cut back on these threads for just a little bit while I work out the kinks? Thanks.

Civilization isn't declining or ascending. It's not a straight line up.

We have periodic bouts of civilization improving and growing.

And then periodically we just decide to burn it all to hell because of reasons.

The civilization you are enjoying right now his basically only existed for about give or take 75 to 85 years.

It's basically a post world war II innovation.

If you go back further you quickly run into the industrial revolutions and the workhouses and various forms of de facto slavery and all sorts of other horrifying things. And you do not have to go very far back to get to that, like at best 50 years.

There is absolutely no reason that the things you enjoy about civilization have to endure. Think of it like a car. What happens to your car if you stop doing your oil changes?

We stopped doing the basic maintenance on our civilization. So yeah bad shit's going to happen and best case scenario we are going to get techno feudalism. Worst case scenario we are going to hand a nuclear launch codes to a bunch of theocratic religious lunatics who think they are protected by a golden dome.

Then again the end of the human race might be better than the techno feudal civilization guys like Peter thiel and Elon Musk have planned for us. I definitely do not want to live in that world. It is somehow worse than actual feudalism.

It could be a 3 * delta ~= 0 thing, except they say it's a bigger factor than smoking or obesity, which are known to be significant in absolute terms.

When people get the absolute shit kicked out of them non-stop by life they learn to live in the here and now and the moment.

You can't make any plans because at any moment the entire economy collapses around. You know that anything you have isn't going to last because you don't have a stable society to live in.

I see this with my kid despite my best efforts. It's not too bad because I have shoveled money their way in order to make sure they can succeed in a career by getting a good degree and getting access to good jobs and good places and moving up in their career. But on the other hand they are gunning for grad school and the rug just got pulled out of them by Donald Trump and the Republican party in the form of capping borrowing for a master's degree or higher.

We have decades of research that shows that when you are constantly pulling the rug out from under younger people they have a really hard time making long-term plans and delaying gratification.

When the 2008 market crash hit suddenly I was flat broke and I would make plans I would start to get ahead and something would go wrong and suddenly I was broke and I would have to tell my kid that the thing I promised them wasn't going to happen. So yeah that has an effect on people.

You cannot have a completely non-functional civilization that somehow takes care of you personally. Eventually somebody is going to hand firearms and military training to these kids and point them at you.

Hell even before that your 401k is going to be wiped out by private equity and cryptocurrency scams. And you're going to mortgage your house to afford the medicine and pills and surgeries you need to avoid heart attacks and strokes no matter how healthy you live.

The real problem I see is that older people think that they can have civilization for themselves and maybe their immediate children and grandchildren but that they can fuck over everybody else and get away with it.

That has created a psychopathic society run by a psychopathic government. And it's starting to show up in psychological damage to children.

But who am I kidding. Personal responsibility amiright? It's those little shit's fault. It certainly isn't my fault for setting fire to the planet for the last 45 years. Am I so out of touch? No it's the children who are at fault.

It is fascinating.

Since the summary does say "effective nightmare treatments are currently limited," I will go ahead and point out the correlation != causation thing. I would be very surprised if there weren't any other obvious causes of the nightmare that are known comorbidities, like poverty, or serious illness, or trauma, and so on.

For example, depression is associated with a 1.5x to 2.5x higher risk of early death, even when adjusting for other risk factors. The summary shows no sign of having adjusted for other risk factors, so 3x doesn't seem out of line.

He's making a reference to "Death of a Salesman"

How are some crummy old words and facts going to personally enrich Donald Trump in any way? Can't Intel afford a gold-plated statue of Trump as Rambo or something? Tim Apple sees the writing on the wall.

Sure, but most of them used the 6502 at 1MHz due to the shared RAM and bus.

The Z80 was popular as well. Lots of early consoles and computers used that.

Trump has given quotas to the immigration enforcement and they are completely impossible for anyone let alone someone as incompetently managed as the immigration enforcement to meet.

So they are arresting anyone and anything they can get their hands on to meet those quotas.

Very soon you're going to see that in the general populace. You already are really with DUIs. There are tons of sober people being pulled over for DUI.

The way the laws work you're basically guilty until proven innocent with the DUI so it gets really ugly really fast. Never mind the fact that we constantly teach cops that they are in a war zone and everyone is out to kill them so they are incredibly trigger Happy.

This is what happens when there's too many cops and not enough crime.

I know, I was talking only about high speed rail. There are many, many grade crossings on non high speed lines.

I think it's pretty unarguable that China has lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty and into a fairly Western/modern lifestyle.

Most Western systems suffered from a severe lack of memory bandwidth. Japanese systems tended to have two separate buses, one for the CPU and one for the video. It was necessary early on in order to display the more complex Japanese characters.

By having two buses, the graphics could be a lot better than on systems that shared a single bus between the CPU and graphics. The Famicom managed to have a decent number of colours and sprites on screen at a good resolution, while others had to compromise at least one of those things. It did mean that the cartridge needed two ROM chips, but it was well worth it.

It also meant that the CPU was faster. A 6502 derivative which most Western systems would only operate at a maximum of 1MHz, so that 2MHz RAM and ROM chips could alternate between servicing the CPU and graphics chip. The 6502 was very efficient anyway, so it was actually quite a powerful little system. The later Super Famicom only doubled the speed, but retained the 8 bit CPU with a few minor 16 bit extensions.

Getting tired of the distractions. Vance managed to have his strategy meeting to figure out what to do about distracting the public.

I don't expect the Epstein files are going to change anything. Anyone who voted for Trump has long since figured out they voted for a pedophile and they are going to have a rough time facing that reality so they will probably retreat into comfortable lies.

But I am enjoying the mess. I am also enjoying how it has completely derailed the Republican legislative agenda because anything that stops those psychopaths from doing anything else has got to be a good thing.

And I am really looking forward to Trump releasing the files with nothing but Democrat names in it and with it being painfully obviously missing information about the Republicans in it particularly himself.

Tourism is collapsing. The Evo fighting game tournament saw a 20% drop in entrants and that's pretty much because people don't feel safe coming to America.

From what I can tell the damage done to tourism is going to hit the tourist industry about 30%. And those are big international flights that are high profit.

We haven't really seen the effects yet but they are coming very soon and it's going to be a bloodbath. But hey how about those cheaper eggs right?

I'm talking specifically about the Chuo Shinkansen, the new maglev one. Most of the conventional lines are not tunnel, although they are all grade separated. No crossings anywhere.