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That is one of the problems I have with talking with people about the stuff they buy. A man who told me that he "Loved Cars" didn't know a cam shaft from a crank shaft. I don't call that materialistic. At IBM I wrote my own benchmarks to test two machines. I never saw the word 'benchmark' in IBM documentation. The old machine was almost twice as fast as the new machine that it was being replaced by. The new machine has floppy disks instead of a tape drive so it could win at a random access storage test. But evaluating technology presents challenges to materialism. We can bet that the corporations are going to exploit ignorance. .

The term Capitalism became the dominant term because of Karl Marx as far as I know. How much planned obsolescence was occurring when he was alive? I am more inclined to think in terms of Power Games. We have the: Economic Power Game Political Power Game Military Power Game But Marx said that technology changes the means of production. What did he say about technology becoming so advanced and powerful that it was possible to Saturate any Real Market? What happened after WWII? To a degree that war showed everyone what America's productive capacity was. And everyone was afraid of a return to the Depression. In 1948 less than 1% of American households had televisions. By 1962 it was about 90%. So we got Planned Obsolescence Consumerism when we could have had a 3-day workweek instead. What is there about CAPITALISM that precludes mandatory accounting in high schools? The problem is most people believing bullshit. Lots of Marxists block me on BlueSky since I brought up the business of Marx and Depreciation. They have already decided on the proper Marxist narrative. 🤣😂🤣 .

The oath says: "defend the Constitution" the issue is: "enemies, foreign and DOMESTIC". Is violation: "Dereliction of Duty"? So how does a military having taken that oath decide what to do? I can form my own opinion but I am not the General on the spot. (illi)

The Waste Makers (1960) by Vance Packard There are 3 types of Planned Obsolescence & may all occur simultaneously. 1. True technological advance is planned obsolescence. Intel designing the 8086 CPU while selling 8085s. 2. Styling changes, making products look different every year 3. Cheap construction causing product to fail soon & consumer to buy a new one I lost interest in cars before I graduated from high school but the same concepts apply to stereo equipment. Companies were and are developing true technological improvements to products which will make the old product obsolete. So in the "Totally Literal" sense that is Planned Obsolescence but I doubt too many people object to that. Then there are styling changes that most people like but are mostly useless but they can create maintenance problems, increase prices to accomplish next to nothing. In stereo equipment knobs get rearranged and colors changed, silver, gold, black, back to gold etc. Then there is cheaper construction. Types of metal get changed. The metal gets thinner. Metal is replaced with plastic. In hi-fi equipment all 3 things could happen from one year to the next from a particular manufacturer. Suppose there are 10 changes, 3 of them would be technological improvements, 5 of them would be useless styling changes and 2 would be cheaper construction. But this has been going on for Decades. Notice the Million$ of Dollar$ on the Left. That is $1,357,339,000,000 $1.36 TRILLION Dollar$ When/where are economists talking about this on television?

I don't give a shit about passion. This is cold calculated economic warfare. Emotional bullshit is the problem. 🖖 🤣

He can talk all of that intergenerational bullshit but 700 year old double entry accounting could have been mandatory in high schools in Western countries since 1950. What would the effect of that be by now? So why weren't Malcolm X and MLK talking about it?

Curses, blocked again. I didn't try to track him down until after he blocked me. I just asked him if college graduates should recognize Planned Obsolescence in automobiles half-a-century after the Moon Landing. And I found a graph by the Federal Reserve for consumer depreciation. Would you believe $1.3 Trillion for 2021? I knew it had to be hundreds of billions per year. So why isn't there a variable for it in the Net Domestic Product equation?

Charlie Kirk dead is more interesting than Charlie Kirk alive. I did not pay enough attention to him when he was alive to know how much I would have disliked him. 🤣

The maximum theoretical range of a .30-06 Springfield bullet is around 3,450 yards, but its practical effective range is much shorter, typically around 1,000 yards for target shooting or for a highly competent marksman. For hunting, the ethical effective range is often considered to be around 300 to 650 yards, as the bullet's energy and velocity decrease with distance, impacting its ability to ethically harvest game. The game may be an elk. Tougher than a human. Then they keep giving us different range. I have heard 130, 142, 150 and 200. This is more ridiculous than the JFK assassination. .

What about the Charlie Kirk Conspiracy Theories unfolding in front of our eyes? Could a 30-06 bullet be stopped by the super human neck of Charlie Kirk? Was there a second shooter? Was a 30-06 bullet ever fired? This is only interesting for watching the Right-Wingers freaking out. I didn't care about him when he was alive. I do not see why he was important enough to kill. But I have fired rifles and pistols. A 30-06 should have just about taken his head off. .

The Trump administration runs on thin air and Tylenol. .

I have acquired a fan on another message board. He is an economist. I have been blocked by a number of economists on BlueSky. [quote]Originally Posted by EDS_ 1. Disregard that guy's one string banjo song about NDP. The .gov has tracked, logged and published NDP since 1921. A. It's not a secret B. Every OECD member and other successful countries, no exceptions, prefers to focus on GDP. C. His lunacy that economists don't understand NDP is just that lunacy and nothing more.[/quote] How do you quote blocks of text on this forum?

Happy Birthday!

What color was it before it was green? Possibly NASA or some astronomically inclined organization. I presume any aliens would not be telling us. The benighted hoomans must be kept in the dark. .

Hasn't it's path, until it leaves the solar system, already been computed?

Probably both!

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No!

qi /CHē/ noun noun: ki the circulating life force whose existence and properties are the basis of much Chinese philosophy and medicine. "acupuncture is thought to work by balancing the body's flow of qi" Who is there to be objective about it?

A search did not turn up the word 'paradigm' in this thread. As far as I am concerned there is Only One reality. But every individual has a paradigm of reality in their heads. They are all WRONG! At least in that they are incomplete because no one knows all there is of reality and most likely some of what they think they know is wrong. I ran across General Semantics in high school because of Robert Heinlein. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_semantics https://www.interzoneeditions.net/IntrosgENG.pdf https://www.afirstlook.com/docs/gensem.pdf .

I confess that I have not finished watching this but I have watched LOTS of his videos. He usually does interesting stuff with some degree of intellectual depth. I kind of liked the title. 😆 .

🤣 I just now got a link to the song. I had not scrolled to the bottom. .

He's Chinese, he must know what he is talking about. No comment on Depreciation due to Planned Obsolescence though. Analysis incomplete!

Why does "intellectual" segregation require land? .

I do not have a problem with all White towns. I think Black Americans should have concentrated on intellectual segregation from Haoles long ago. I trained myself to not think the N-word before I graduated from grammar school. Part of why I left college was not wanting to pay and waste time on a "well rounded" education. Science and Technology matter, Shakespeare can stuff it. We have Black people in North and South America and and continent to work with but BS is more important. Then the Haoles take out Gaddafi. When Africa Awakes (1920) by Hubert Harrison https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/69712 Black Man's Burden (1961) by Mack Reynolds https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/32390 Border, Breed Nor Birth by Mack Reynolds https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/30639 .