umbrarchist

I pay more attention to books than movies and many are "just entertainment". But movies can be more than entertainment also. I do not consider "The Matrix" to be Just Entertainment. I have thought "Should I watch Black Panther just so I can talk to other people about it and probably disagree?" Black Americans lack of interest in understanding technology bugs me. Just watching clips of the movie demonstrates that, for that society to work a lot of Black people not in the forefront would Have to Know Technology. But that does not seem to matter to the audience. .

I still haven't seen Black Panther. I have avoided what I call Comic Book Movies for decades. And I like technological realism in my science fiction.

I just found this: "Curiouser & Curiouser", said Alice So this thread is from Trump's first term and he had not been allowed to go totally crazy. Now we got a whole nother level of crazy and the Racism is Off the Leash. It is difficult to for me to understand why I find this shit so funny. Planned Obsolescence with economists ignoring depreciation is just high technology slavery to me and the slave masters are too dumb to figure it out.

As opposed to Pope Paul! .

I guess we have different concepts of "innovative".

Apparently we have been observing different things. https://rubryka.com/en/article/war-tech-in-ukraine/ The problem is that science/technology creates a positive feedback loop. Technology made it possible for Whites to steal vast amounts of land. That land contained resources that might have been useless at the time but could be extremely useful decades later when some unknown technology was developed. In 1960 the LASER was called "a solution looking for a problem". The technology does not care!

Pope Ball It's the End of the World!!! .

I just discovered a YouTube channel that I have never seen before. It is one year old, so not brand new but relatively new. I noticed this because I remember the first time I encountered mention of VANADIUM. I was in my twenties in a store specializing in tools and I was buying a set of tools for my first car. I thought it was a cool sounding name. The first mass commercial use for Vanadium was the Ford Model-T. This fits into my fixation on technology. It is not White people who matter in history. It is the people who had relatively advanced technology when everybody else didn't. On this planet they happened to be White. Look at what Ukrainians are doing to Russians with technology. With some outside assistance but they seem to be doing some innovating. But Vanadium, 1905! .

Poor Baby! How can anybody be so egotistically moronic? Then the Repugnacans go along with so much of his crap. I am in the country and it is still laughable.

Anonymous emailers and on what charge? Asking the military a question? And they could be sent to all US military bases.

A strong protest! Curioser & Curiouser but not Surprising! Minnesota Assassination MAGA Trump MAGA All of these No King protests everywhere and no word about violence yet. One guy in Minnesota & Two Deaths! Is ICE on the case? Maybe it was an immigrant. Must be, Only immigrants do that. Any MAGA Immigrants loose in Minnesota? .

Happy Obama Appreciation Day! DJT is an insanely stupid liar saying things that no one with two working brain cells would believe. I wonder what would happen if we bombarded the Pentagon with e-mails asking a question: At what point does the US military doing nothing about a "Domestic Enemy" constitute: "Dereliction of Duty"? .

Daemon & Freedom by Daniel Suarez https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_(novel) Forgot to mention that. Different from Two Faces of Tomorrow in that rather than being an emergent AI it is a deliberate creation with a specific objective in mind. Somewhat reminiscent of Ready Player One but more serious with deep social implications. I consider it to be a single story across two books rather than the second book being a sequel.

RIJ: Reincarnate In Joy

Me too! I just did a search. Apparently Michael Cohen started the term before Oct of 2023. I just read it yesterday.

People on BlueSky started saying "Marjorie Toilet Greene" so being totally without good taste and high ethical standards I cheerfully stooped to the obvious. .

I asked ChatGPT to make a picture of Marjorie Taylor Greene's head coming out of a toilet. It told me that it could not make derogatory pictures of celebrities. I asked it to make a picture of the head of a blonde woman coming out of a toilet and got this: How "Intelligent" are these AIs? Looks like Marjorie Toilet Greene to me. .

What is upward mobility? Having more money to buy consumer trash that impresses people that you compete with? Damn I forgot, I need a Rolex watch. How much of the economy is status games? As far as I am concerned as long as people are not talking about planned obsolescence they are not talking about how the economy works. We are supposed to pay to live on Stolen Land Forever!?

Even the people who use Doppler RADAR get wet to some degree. It is nearly impossible to go outside and get in your car and stay perfectly dry even in a medium rain. The trouble with the way these palefaces teach mathematics is that they go off into abstract Never Neverland totally out of touch with reality. Economics without Depreciation! .

The average person doesn't use Doppler RADAR to track rain clouds. They just get wet!

Lots of stuff in the rabbit holes.

Someone asked this question on Quora.com: Is the USA experiencing end stage Capitalism? What comes next? ========================= Is Consumerism really Capitalism? When have you heard an economist discuss Planned Obsolescence? We hear GDP, GDP, GDP all of the damn time. What is the NDP? NET Domestic Product If there is a Gross there should be a NET! There were 200,000,000 motor vehicles in the United States in 1995. Where are they? Machines wear out! Machines DEPRECIATE!!! Karl Marx used the word 'depreciation' 100+ times in Das Kapital. But there were no automobiles when Marx wrote Das Kapital. Where has the economics profession been hiding all of the Depreciation Data on things that did not exist when Marx was alive? Automobiles, Jet Planes, Microwave Ovens, Washing Machines, Computers, Snow Mobiles, Snow Blowers, Hi-Fi stereos, Nuclear Submarines. All that crap was added to GDP! All that crap should be subtracted to compute NDP! But economists do not talk about the Net Domestic Product equation. Economists cannot do Algebra. Talking about the End Stage of Capitalism makes no sense when you have not acknowledged the last phase change. John Maynard Keynes never saw a television commercial for an automobile. Less than 1% of American households had televisions in 1948. It was 90% by 1962. See the USA in your Chevrolet Economists are telling you to play With junk designed to Depreciate. ========================== Of course I had to answer. I keep seeing this "Late Stage Capitalism" rubbish everywhere but uselessly vague generalizations about what that is supposed to mean. .

An expert fascist would certainly recognize it. General Milley could recognize a fascist when he observed one. This man cannot see stupid when he looks in a mirror. Calling Newsome by Newscum is more like 3rd grade. This would be funny if these assholes were not screwing up the country and the planet. Hollywood would not make something this stupid and expect people to pay to watch it.

THEY? Who designed and built the Blue Box? I just saw a picture of one in a glass case in some museum a couple of days ago.

"Jobs was born in San Francisco in 1955 and adopted shortly afterwards. He attended Reed College in 1972 before withdrawing that same year. In 1974, he traveled through India, seeking enlightenment before later studying Zen Buddhism. He and Wozniak co-founded Apple in 1976 to further develop and sell Wozniak's Apple I personal computer."