Anonymous asked:
Really confusing approach to the meat industry: vatmeat, but grown by tiling ranches with solar panels for the process energy.
mitigatedchaos answered:
We will ensure optimal solar panel distribution by building semi-autonomous, four-legged solar collectors in the 900 kilogram range,
Vat mean but the controlling software has to be complex enough that it’s conscious/sentient.
we will uplift kale to consciousness
broke: growing vatmeat in a big sterile factory where all workers wear cleansuits, carefully controlling conditions to create a 1m long cut of the perfect steak
woke: genetically engineering a snake crossed with three different kinds of regenerative lizard, chopping it in half each year and waiting for it to grow back, then lobbying the FDA to get your mechanically processed snake meat classified as legally chicken
Sometimes it strikes me as really really immoral that schools exist. They seem like an almost universally terrible experience, though I suppose that might be biased by who I discuss things with.
I don’t really see why more people haven’t tried something different, especially considering how painful the entire thing is. You’d think that the Elite would at least realize that school sucked.
Maybe it’s a way for them to control their children, though.
it’s free childcare
I don’t think so, though- there are easier ways to get free childcare. It’s probably aimed at edifying the children and preparing them for adulthood.
It is often not-great at that. This is quite possibly an organizational problem, in that it’s very hard to control and also educate a large number of people who often have a bad grasp of their own preferences and long-term needs.
What it probably comes down to is that a standardized set of Stuff to Learn and ways to judge that is far easier and more coherent to measure and encourage. In general people want to make sure that schools are Actually Working to educate children, and standardization gives them a good measure.
(To be clear, it is perfectly reasonable to want schools to Actually Work and I myself would like, in theory, to ensure that schools Actually Work. It is just the implementation that is often botched.)
It is way harder, less reliable, and probably leads to more upset or worried parents to set up a non-railroady, truly open-ended experience. It might also have not-that-many appreciable benefits, except to a few students.
School is probably also in some sense a competition for positional goods and status. If your kid doesn’t go to school, then they’ll lose out! If they don’t get into this school they will be a loser forever. I suppose that part of this is also tradition/family based.
(I’ll address other responses later today.)
Please keep in mind that the supply of high-IQ individuals to run both our nation’s institutions and industries is very limited.
The tombstone of Western Civilization is going to say “At least we weren’t racist”
I will be pissing on the tombstone, 40oz in hand
i’ll welcome the birth of a global civilization, where we can all live in peace, with open arms
Don’t tell me there are people who seriously believe that’s what’s going to happen once the lights go out in the west
yeah, because western society is shit
“The beatings and murders of homosexuals in Chechnya,” he said, “are nothing more than further evidence of the vile influence of Western Imperialism. Yes, it is claimed that the West loves the homosexuals, so much that they have parades of openly gay men in the cities- but this is staged by their Capitalist Hollywood studios! It is only in tolerant and culturally diverse countries such as Iraq, Iran, and Saudi Arabia that homosexuals can achieve true freedom from Western hegemony.”
“When the Revolution comes, we will finally put to rest the legacies of vile white men such as Ghengis Khan.”