You immediately go to the concept of a massive welfare system that has to collapse.

The implication is that you can't sustain any other system but raw unfettered capitalism. That's because when you are in the critical age demographic of 4 to 14 that's what you were taught so it's programmed into your brain from a time when you were physically incapable of critical thought or analyzing. That's not your fault that's just how human brains work and it's why children are targeted.

This is why I think we are doomed. People cannot conceive of any other solution besides unfettered capitalism and that simply is not going to solve for a work shortage.

It's just that the oligarchy gets veto power so that the working class needs the 60% majority to override.

It's basically like how the UK does it with their House of Lords but less formalized

You can't beat a modern standing army. Hell you can't be a modern police force. The ruling class will have drones and they will blow you to Kingdom come.

The only way out of this would be democracy but that's crumbling and nobody seems interested in saving it, the left wing is too obsessed with revolution and with the exciting idea that a bunch of 18 to 24 year olds are going to save us.

There is a growing push to discredit science and I would not be surprised if this was part of it.

I don't have the journalistic chops or time to dig into the study but I do know for sure that human beings are fundamentally wasteful creatures and that's okay.

Science is not going to be destroyed by a bunch of bad papers. What's Going to destroy science are the billionaires like Peter thiel spending tens of millions if not hundreds of millions of dollars discrediting it so that they can maintain their power and prestige.

Techno feudalism is going to destroy science.

Of course unfortunate situations can occur. It happens all the time.

You don't neglect to plan because an unfortunate situation might happen.

Seriously dude - your saying that I criticize some poor guy because his wife died is just an example of your need to dehumanize me with arguments with me in your head. You always win those arguments. Is there some deep seated need in your headspace to make me a cruel monster, happy to blame some guy for his unfortunate experience.

So while you do so love to put words in my mouth, if you've followed my posts, I'm very clear that "shit happens" Nothing in life is a sure thing. The best laid plans are not 100 percent, not ever.

Individuals can decide if they want to skip planning because something bad might happen that gets in the way. I saw that mindset in relatives and others I knew in my youth. It always seemed like a victim narrative to me. I just decided I wanted to do things differently. It appears to have worked. I meet people with that mindset in adult life. It really doesn't work out that well for them.

And it has nothing to do with family tragedy. Interesting that you went there though.

No. The *correct* way to fix this is to resolve the root cause:

How funding is awarded.

Currently, the paradigm is 'publish or perish', because science funding is only handed out to 'rockstars' by politicians who dont understand the fundamental value of boring replication work.

It is the toxic combination of 'I can only do work if I publish first and publish often!', and 'There is nobody checking my work anyway; nobody has the funding to do verification! that leads to this perverse outcome.

Further restriction to 'vip rockstars only!' Is a gross misunderstanding of the root problem, and would be heaping jetfuel on top of the dumpsterfire.

Turns out, you actually need non-rockstars--Lots of them.

And to have them, you have to fund them and their laboratories.

Oh, how awful! You cant have 'only cream'. /s

The sooner this is realized in policy, the better.

I had to chuckle at that. You choose the word foolish. I've been accused of being a perfectionist, obsessive compulsive, and asshole. I'll wear the names. But foolish? A new one. I'm not certain that anyone can plan for everything, I'm not even sure where I said that - "planning for everything" - if you could point it out, I'd appreciate it. I'm a science type who won't ever claim 100 percent for anything.

We live in a funny world, where at present, being a perfectionist is a personality flaw. Where "sweating the details" is bad. Where running a checklist is a character flaw - people who think that way don't want to see the process for taking off in a 747 or an A380.

Out of curiosity - since I'm foolish in your estimation, who would you prefer to be in charge of keeping you safe and sound. A fool such as myself, or a person who doesn't plan well and might not plan for contingencies?

I agree. There is something clearly and undeniably wrong when a person, clearly losing an election, like Trump in 2016, yet winning the election. There are much better ways than gerrymandering to achieve representation. Proportional, population based districting, not party based.

In a story about EVs it may seem like this. But for the past few weeks I have read nothing but problems with Stellantis and their Stop Drive recall in Europe which is just as fucked up as the Hyundai issue.

The reality is these are both very big issues and deserve to be shouted from the roof tops. When you can't drive your car for weeks at a time it's an issue.

Yes and no. The problem here isn't one of Hyundai doesn't seem to fixing the problem, the story is that they are slow producing the fixes due to the large number of failures while also supporting in parallel the production of new cars. It's a core component of limited production for a car that is largely currently under supply limitations.

This could happen to any company. It's not a quality issue with Hyundai that should scare you from buying a car, it is however an example of a poor handling of a public relations crisis - but really every company sucks at this. Just look at how Stellantis are currently handling the Stop Drive recall in Europe over the airbag issue. They still make great cars, but they are equally incompetent at dealing with a wide spread quality issue.

Hyundai is perfectly fine when they aren't running in an outright panic mode.

Except ironically for your point, that industry isn't destroyed. The cheap pocket cameras are gone from the market, the expensive ones are doing just fine. Who pays for that? People who realise that a shitty phone sensor + AI can't reproduce what these cameras do. Probably not you, if you don't understand why someone would buy it then your hobby / work doesn't require the performance you get in the package it is shipped in.

On the flip side I have 3 friends with X100 of varying vintages. I was close to buying the X100s one myself like 10+ years ago due to what it offered. The only thing that stopped me was a work redundancy that suddenly cratered my finances.

This is a major contractor working for many councils and the highways agency

They're not letting lightly trained roughnecks have at it with a spade. They will know beforehand whether or not the hole needs reinforcement, and ship out the piles and digger to place them. There's health and safety rules up the wazoo and the bloke resting on the shovel all day with a cup of tea isn't the one making that decision.

These people aren't artisans in the game way IKEA factory workers aren't artisans.

No one is hell bent on supporting it. Not being a discriminating arsehole banning things doesn't mean you're hell bent on supporting something.

Just like you. I think you're quite an arse and disagree with virtually everything you say, but I support your right to say it because we should live in an open society where opinions can be expressed. But fuck anyone who thinks I support your view or you in particular.

Is it? Or just the "real news" instead of the "fake news"? If it was all controlled by republicans why are republicans labelling it as fake? Maybe you need to look at what news you surround yourself with.

Instead? How about nothing? There are many situations where plastic packaging just doesn't need to exist. Think of a music festival. I remember the single use plastic law coming in and the music industry saying it would be the end of music festivals. Just a few months later the festivals operated perfectly fine with reusable cups and no waste.

How about plastic packaging around oranges? Our local supermarket did that. They recently abolished it. Nothing happened. Turns out Oranges come with a protective skin on them so we don't need another protective skin.

There's many cases where we can simply eliminate plastic completely without any replacement. Many more work just fine with alternatives.