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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna

Anonymous asked:

Thoughts on Toronto developing with Google? Or on the way cities are courting Amazon HQ 2?

I don’t have enough information about these to give a solid answer.

However,

While Singapore developed by inviting in big, multinational corporations, when one company controls a large enough stake in the local economy, you are politically at its mercy, which it can leverage to redirect resources from your citizens to itself.

While the city itself should be built or, more accurately, grown for efficiency and competitiveness, I’m still a bit pissed off that these corporations are city-shopping for lowest tax rates in a race for the bottom.  (Yes, I know, that’s what they’re supposed to do, but as far as I’m concerned, corporations only have instrumental value.  As they can only exist due to limited liability laws enacted by the state, which are a HUGE concession on the part of society, society has standing to rein them in.)

If a single corporation is going to control most of the trade output of a city, there is one way to ensure that its interests and those of the city are more closely aligned - if the city itself owns a controlling stake in the company, then the limit is based on the competitiveness of your city and the quality of the company’s leadership, rather than extractive tax rate chasing that offloads the costs of running society onto others.

Of course, no American city is actually competent enough to run a state-owned enterprise, nor disciplined enough not to immediately loot it.

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gcu-sovereign
w-r-o-u-g-h-t

the fact hillary clinton has a children’s book is super creepy honestly

that’s political propaganda

it’s for children

how have i not seen anyone else freaking out about this

moontouched-moogle

Probably because everyone’s too busy laughing and memeing about how awful and blatant it is

mutant-aesthetic

Don’t all political leaders in the US get children’s books? Like, I thought that shit was normal. Hillary’s is only noteworthy because it’s fucking awful.

mitigatedchaos

I’ll be publishing my first children’s book soon.  It’s mostly about Singapore.

gcu-sovereign

You joke, but I think that you could work with Tyler Cowen to actually get that children’s book praising Singapore made.

mitigatedchaos

I joke, because there’s no real reason to actually make it unless I’m going to get paid off by the PAP.  I want to find out what’s really going on at the top in Singapore before I attempt to propagandize about it in America.  There’s no point if their national pension system is three steps away from bankruptcy.

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Anonymous asked:

Unless there's an international incident (NK/Russia level, maybe not even a sandpit war) or breakdown of social order, I suspect disaffection. I vividly remember being a child and witnessing the Bush elections & the Coming of Obama, and the hysterical rhetoric wrt both (Dem bubble) has deadened me. With some new Trump gaffe in the news every week, minority-hating, election-rigging, whatever, it's like... didn't we do this in 2000? Which is ironic, because Trump's worse, but they/we blew it.

Right, Trump is emotionally exhausting.

And that’s part of why I’m still forecasting even chances of his reelection.  There is such overwhelming outrage in this country, it became possible to gain or hold power by being the most outraged (esp. WRT SJ internal politics).  It was ripe for disruption or devaluation.

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Anonymous asked:

Your shitpost about turbine-powered police interceptors led me to finding a Hot Rod Magazine article about a 882 hp turboshaft-powered Corvette, so thank you.

Oh yeah, that’s been around for a while.

You want it, don’t you?  The feeling of immense power from an engine that could tear the very car apart if pushed hard enough.  A feeling of speed unlike anything in the ancestral environment.

Support my Presidential campaign when the time comes.

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Anonymous asked:

Consider: Turbine-electric AWD car with ultracapacitors for better acceleration response while the turbine spools. All the instant acceleration of an electric, all the ridiculous horsepower and noise of a turboshaft, and it's a 1 MW backup generator to boot.

Very interesting, but can it be adequately shielded against electromagnetic hazards in the Great Wastes?

Anyhow, you may be a good candidate for the Mobile Judge Project.  Contact my office at the Metropolitan Planning Authority.

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the-grey-tribe

I have just seen another “Nerd stereotypes are sexist against women because they scare women away from STEM while at the same time implying femininity in men is bad.“ article.

The hypocrisy is always this blatant: Men being too un-masculine is toxic masculinity. Ugh.

mitigatedchaos

To be honest, I’ve downrated the value of ALL social justice critiques whatsoever because the takes are usually that bad outside of places like rattumb.

…to the point that it was a shock to encounter that Chinese art gallery of Africans side-by-side with non-human apes, since “but how could anyone be that clueless?” should be an SJ critique there.

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mitigatedchaos

Everyone likes fast cars, but why is it that when I propose a new class of police “super interceptors” powered by retired attack helicopter turbines as the new primary response to illegal street racing, in order to boost advancement in the automotive industry, I’m the bad guy??

rocketverliden

Will those engines even fit in a car?

argumate

the Tucker 48 had a piston engine intended for a Bell helicopter, weirdly enough, along with its cyclops central headlight.

mitigatedchaos

More seriously yes, @rocketverliden, it wouldn’t be the first time a helicopter turbine was used in a vehicle.  I recall some more recent ones being retrofitted.  

A number of popular helicopters are actually twin turbine, so you can take whatever size you thought it was and cut it in half.  (If you look up photos of helicopter turbines, you’ll see that they don’t generally fill most of the body of the aircraft.  I’m not as sure about attack helicopters, but I don’t think they’re going to be that much bigger.)

A dedicated fast interceptor ground vehicle, assuming it has only a two-seat or one-seat cockpit, then, should have enough room for an attack helicopter turbine as its primary engine.

This is, of course, a ludicrous proposition.  If a run of 100 or more is to be produced, the turbine engine should be chosen for its desired engineering characteristics rather than purely for symbolism by refurbishing ones from attack helicopters.

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severalowls

If you successfully reanimate somebody with their mind and body intact then don’t ever call yourself a necromancer. You’re a fucking cleric and don’t belong in our community.

zetadar

this is lich-exclusionist and i will not have it, just cause i managed to keep my mind through the process of lichdom it doesn’t make me any less a necromancer, not only that the creation of a cadaver allows me to keep the minds of whoever i reanimate intact but still under my control, reapeat after me 👏IF 👏YOU 👏 REANIMATE👏WITH👏 CONSCIOUSNESS👏YOU 👏 ARE 👏 VALID👏

severalowls

I am sick of liches derailing my post and making it all about them.

This is a post for necromancers and if you have cast off the shackles of mortality then you can’t still call yourself a necromancer. Undead and necromancer are mutually exclusive identities and if you are a lich you need to make your own community with vampires lords etc. and leave us the hell alone.

Oh and living thralls are NEVER valid. That is enchantment. Read a grimoire, idiot.

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