- indubioprorubikAnd the us became a oil net exporter, which makes you more interested in a constricted supply. The whole story just never checked out, if you move it around just a little bit.
- ? The arab spring came from the islamic world regularly building population powder kegs, without having a modern industrial society to keep these populations educated, fed and with a perspective beyond fanatic death-cultist movements.
The arab spring exploded, because obama rerouted us-surplus food from subsidizing allied regimes (egypt) into bio-fuels, causing wild price spikes to the bread prices in egypt and the arab world. These situations are not really comparable - like at all. Not even on the surface level.
- I find it hilarious, that a land-empire, trying to undo the rule of law internationally, so the rule of the strongest returns, benefits from one side upholding the rule of law- and even gets to cry about it (venezuella) and mimicry mock the international order by presenting papers with signatures (as if they mean anything to somebody who would invade another nation at whim).
This self-hypnosis of walking on water while going to Takatuka, is falling apart faster then it can repair itself.
- No, each pushed alternative is just worser. The euro could take over, but europe just revealed itself as a "lawful" player with no plan and no pants (security-wise) - so the euro is just defacto tied to the dollar value wise. For without the us guarding europe, the euro is just loaded with invisible gigantic security and pension debts.
BRICs is dealing in store credits and raw-materials. Every other empire and kingdom is not to be trusted or only to be trusted as long as the town power-drunk world-police-man does his job. He may be the towns drunk, mumbling "Screw you guys, im going home!" but he is also the only one so far doing a decent job as sheriff.
You can grasp how unreliable the other actors are, by how one of the hostile actors (russia) recently complained about the (world-police) doing what its proxies in yemen and ukraine are constantly doing (piracy) to venezuella. They complained about the break-down of maritime safety- to the us. Yep, its that bad.
- Can you shadowprofile the redactions by length of the black box and heuristic occurance bundling?
- Well, the purpose of the whole thing is to harden humanity against downfalls, distribute it all away from the people (who might become religous fanatics and analphabets) and away from the governments these people produce (insane clerics and tyrannical military dictators). The idea is to get infrastructure and software that can keep humanity going regardless. If you get research done beneath a bhurka under the taliban after a regional nuclear exchange then we reached the mile-stone of "civilizational" root hardening this whole affair aims towards.
- Should have a "You keep what you kill"- clause in academia. If you destroy somebodys hypothesis- you get to keep the grants they gained from that, deducted from their current grants. Make it viable to go headhunting and make p-hacking and other games + paper spam a risky endavour.
- Microsoft making advertisements for https://store.steampowered.com/steamos ?
- Makes you wonder, how much the AI madness will be able to cannibalize other buisness sectors before it encounters the limits of growth there, leaving behind hollowed out eco-systems - similar to how adds ruined everything.
- The green revolution was vitally dependent on oil-gas based fertilizer trade - which means, doing away with manchester-style centralized trade empires who used cutting off trade as a tool of suffocating opponents. The past never went away, it caught up to the present. All poverty is energy poverty - and exponential humanity, always fills that "gap" to the ressource roof with people.
The old, pre-harber-bosch world was a grim dark all against all where empires (themselves devices to keep civilization afloat in a few centralized places, while extracing at great missery elsewhere) fought wars of fertilizer and used one sided trading and food-exports to starve colonies out like vampires.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chincha_Islands_War
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Bengal_famine_of_1770
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herero_and_Nama_genocide
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maji_Maji_Rebellion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congo_Free_State
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_of_Mount_Lebanon
the whole all against all, no free-trade madness culminated in the two new comer empires copy-pasting the concept dialed up to eleven in their "new colonies". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebensraum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_of_Japan
- There can only be one. Or two. Maybe three. Four shoots espresso a day.
- It was a new race- and they where so comfortable having won the IC-race and customer base! Now everyone and his dog got a new chance to compete- and they just didn't want to do that. And now every advance in battery and solar, will drive them faster out of those markets.
These are not detached technologies- one completes the other.
- Way to miss a buisness opportunity here: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/29/climate-...
is the real market for this type of technology. Inject clay - or sand- and create basins, channels and quanats - made from different types of soil that is basically 3d printed into the underground.
Printing foundations for housing in flood prone areas, seems to be a trivial side hussle compared to keeping the foundations of society going.