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@michaelemann.bsky.social has blocked you for the following post on BlueSky. LOL It is approaching 24 years since 9/11. Why are we supposed to respect scientists if they won't ask about & discuss the distribution of steel down the Twin Towers? Even a microbiologist should be able to figure out that skyscrapers must have more steel toward the bottom. Eiffel 🗼 Tower !?!?! 🤣😂🤣 🧐

Actually I have encountered it quite often. People with nothing of substance to say but trying to be insulting with what l regard as trivia. 😅

What percentage of the population is THAT? I am not inclined to engage about trivia. .

I have acquired a critic on another site. [Quote] For there to be perceivable factual errors, it must actually contain some coherent communicated point. It nowhere near amounts to being wrong considering it is illegible nonsense. I can emulate it to give you some insight if you're this lacking in self-awareness? Or I can give you some more general critiques until you can get your shit together and say something meaningful? Tonal discrepancies: your post reads like a somewhat disjointed spoken commentary rather than a written argument. It jumps between historical figures, terms, and events with minimal transitions and for no apparent reason - like you're name-dropping without really knowing much about the people. Similarly, despite apparently trying to write in an authoritative and definitive manner, the sum of the clutter is that it's speculative and suggestive, rather than being a structured argument or a thesis that can be disputed. Lack of coherence and structure: Each paragraph jumps freely around between topics, like free-association rather than cogent point. Many things that are referred to such as Marx’s terminology, the Depression, GNP, Keynes, FDR are just tossed into the mix without clear transitions or connective logic. It's more like a collage of ideas you pinned to the same board by chance, rather than with any intent. Unclear thesis: It's not just not clear what you're trying to argue or conclude; it's completely absent any salient point. Is it about the evolution of economic definitions? The shortcomings of classical economics? The emergence of planned obsolescence? I doubt you know, frankly, or else you wouldn't have considered it worthy not just to write, but then to cite yourself as if you were some kind of expert. Unsubstantiated claims: There certainly are some questionable details you have presented as fact such as FDR's dismissal of Keynes or the timing of fiscal stimulus. Outdated or useless language: Phrases like “many things which consumers buy today that depreciate did not exist when Marx was alive” are vague. What things? Why on Earth is it relevant? Non-sequiturs: "Karl Marx used the word 'depreciation' 35 times in the first two volumes of Das Kapital. But Marx died in 1883." If you slap words on a piece of paper at random, the world will similarly be unable to point out any false claims you made - being unintelligible is a kind of proof against being shown wrong, I guess... but you still remain incoherent and thus fail to get any message across. [/Quote]

There is really no such thing as Freedom, there is only POWER and the lack thereof. If we have electrical devices in our homes don't we have to consume electrical power from whoever is supplying it? Water, food, who "owns"/controls the land? We don't seem to cooperate enough to have much power.

How much economic freedom do Black Americans have? Consumerism is going into debt for junk designed to become obsolete.

https://www.quora.com/Can-you-get-a-solid-understanding-of-economics-by-only-using-free-PDF-versions-of-textbooks-or-should-you-invest-in-physical-copies/answer/Karl-Smithe-1

Wake, Watch, Wonder trilogy by Robert J Sawyer 2009 The trilogy follows Caitlin Decter, a brilliant young blind teenager whose disability is more of a benefit when surfing the Internet. A Japanese researcher offers Caitlin the ability to gain her sight via a revolutionary new implant, an offer she eagerly accepts. However, she's surprised when rather than showing her the ordinary world, Caitlin is now able to see the Internet and all it has to offer her. She comes across Webmind, a self-aware consciousness that is growing and evolving through the Internet. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWW_Trilogy 30 years after Two Faces. Just noticed that. .

Anybody ordered the book, Two Faces of Tomorrow, yet?

Blocked by another economist on BlueSky. Should I try a different deodorant? He's got way more followers than me. I haven't even reached 1000. It must be that degree thing. I never should have dropped out. .

At what point does political theater change politics. Lincoln was a Republican not a Repugnacan!

You expect her to remove them from power? And if she doesn't do that it is just theater?

Really? A better source? Did the events in the previous vid links not happen?

The zingers are surely flying!

Quote from the book when the system began to get out of control. ========================= “You don’t think we could catch up with it if we put everything into an all-out Haystack effort?” Krantz asked. “Our prediction is that tomorrow morning we’d be twice as far behind as we were this morning,” Dyer answered. “And after that it would go on getting worse exponentially.” “Our estimates about this part were way out. There’s no point in denying it,” Frank Wescott said. A long silence ensued. Eventually General Linsay spoke. “Why are we acting as if it’s all bad news? Our objective was to find out if we could guarantee that an Earth-sized system like TITAN could never get out of control permanently. The plan said that if we could stop it by deactivating its drones then we’d still be okay in the end. ========================== James P Hogan worked for Digital Equipment Corporation. He knew about computers. A lot of UNIX development before Linux happened there.

This new term has popped up on YouTube. Sometimes it is Black people tired of BLACK People and other times it is White people tired of Black People. Of course I contributed my 2¢ ======================== This is So Funny! I was suffering from Black fatigue in the 60s. I was swapping science fiction books with White boys in high school while my mother was calling them "Something CRAZY!" When I was with IBM in the 80s a White man asked me why I wanted a computer at home. Around 1999 I was on Black Voices talking about Black people standardizing on Linux. Of course we can't talk about planned obsolescence in Cars! 😅 Have Economists heard of Depreciation? Physics & Technology do Not Care about AnyBody!!! *Black Man's Burden* (1961) by Mack Reynolds That is Free on the Internet! *Daemon & Freedom* (2009) by Daniel Suarez Oh shit! I forgot, reading is "Acting White!" Definitely Verboten!

How much of this is White Men assuming that they are intelligent and Projecting how they think on the AI. Any true AI will be ALIEN How long will it take to understand what IT IS? It's context in relation to humans? Why would it care enough to wipe us out?

Could a true intelligence exist without CURIOSITY? How would a curious alien intelligence function? How would it decide on GOALS? I am still not sure Artificial Intelligence is possible. I prefer Simulated Intelligence. A 64-bit CPU with 64 registers would mean 8 bytes or characters per register. 512 characters total in the BRAIN of the computer. The program and data may be huge in number of bytes but they can only be manipulated/changed via the CPU. Where is there any Comprehension? How would it even understand human beings? How would you explain Pain to a computer? The Two Faces of Tomorrow (1979) by James P Hogan http://www.sfreviews.net/2faces.html - - - - Free Chapters - - - - https://www.baen.com/Chapters/0671878484/0671878484.htm War on a space station with military drones fighting an Artificial Intelligence that does not understand what human beings actually are. .

I have gotten different answers to the same question at different times. I usually use the information to determine where to look or nonAI sources.

Trump did not have 3 years and 9 months to go and numerous Constitutional violations on record.

I do not assume that EVERYBODY Aways thinks inside the box. It is possible that SOME high ranking officers do not. Milley told everyone that Trump was a Fascist 4 years ago.