Posts by brentg@mastodon.social
 (DIR) Post #APpcb3l8DN1wXc0hKy by brentg@mastodon.social
       2022-11-21T14:45:54Z
       
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       @web3isgreat Our celebrity-worshipping culture is deeply unwell.
       
 (DIR) Post #APvtIU4L2GUoo4TwES by brentg@mastodon.social
       2022-11-24T15:23:17Z
       
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       @stux Culture is a very weird complex dynamic system. When you replace social stabilizers (like, ugh, religion) with single-variable maximization challenges (i.e. net worth), the pathologies go non-linear.Nihilism is the default.
       
 (DIR) Post #AQ2GJ93O7RvHoR55vM by brentg@mastodon.social
       2022-11-27T17:09:25Z
       
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       @stux Don't suppose there's one for dachshunds?
       
 (DIR) Post #ARZQvQEcft8yzq5iK0 by brentg@mastodon.social
       2023-01-12T15:05:24Z
       
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       @trom Human psychology is not equipped for the artificial environment it created for itself. The idolatry of hucksters selling utopia is just one resultant pathology.We have no idea how to live. We will try anything, offered by anyone, with the flimsiest hope to distract us from our existential terror.
       
 (DIR) Post #ARZRGZjoXO4EYDldS4 by brentg@mastodon.social
       2023-01-12T15:09:22Z
       
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       @trom How did they not even mention Adam Neumann? Too many BS artists, too little space?
       
 (DIR) Post #ARhhXAYyXj1nvWJNZY by brentg@mastodon.social
       2023-01-16T14:49:49Z
       
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       @stux My experience is that running in VM means that you get around 10% of the graphics performance. But I use VMWare, on an i9 MBPro. Maybe Parallels has better DirectX support?
       
 (DIR) Post #ARjftDSGf1UNfrTkTw by brentg@mastodon.social
       2023-01-17T13:40:48Z
       
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       @stux some want peace. Others want power. The latter have the advantage.
       
 (DIR) Post #ARwJpuJZh99bVSuPqa by brentg@mastodon.social
       2023-01-23T16:04:59Z
       
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       @lowqualityfacts Because clarity is bad, right?
       
 (DIR) Post #AS4BXQ1ELnrZxqgHSa by brentg@mastodon.social
       2023-01-24T15:59:02Z
       
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       @hankgreen Material growth is necessary, but not sufficient. Averages are misleading. A powerful minority has shown itself to be insatiable, and profoundly lacking in ideas beyond higher investment returns.Technology serves human intention. I know that is part of what you mean. We are failing to restrain destructive intentions. We lack spiritual/moral consensus. We have over-fitted for material success and competition. We can’t seem to get along. Thus predictions of increasing conflict.
       
 (DIR) Post #AS4BXR0Ch6dV0xCyUy by brentg@mastodon.social
       2023-01-25T13:38:00Z
       
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       @jautero @hankgreen It is necessary if we want to expand human reach into space. I don't actually know whether we could simply redistribute the production capacity, including energy, to adequately meet all the reasonable needs of all people, and also restore the biosphere.It seems like we could, right now. But that relies on fossil fuels. The future demands a new energy regime. Either nuclear power, or a return to muscle power, since "renewables" aren't renewable (they use rare minerals).