the purpose of becoming rich and important was to work less. Short hours, short year. Work 10:30AM to 3PM, four days a week, ten months a year. Those were the marks of status, the proof that you had arrived.
Modern Insatiables insist on working all the time, or at least staying busy 25/8. (24/7 is for losers.) They can't resist starting up dozens of new enterprises and NGOs, most of which have no purpose.
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One of Elon's latest purposeless ideas is a fake-news detector. He wanted to call it Pravda but ran into RUSSIAN_INTERFERENCE in the form of trademarks, because he apparently didn't know that the real Pravda was still running. So he called it Prav-Duh instead. Cute.
He should have called it Peepuls Dayley.
Here's a typical Chinese news article from the Great Leap Forward, 1958:
"We have mastered the running of such a complicated modern enterprise. Production is well co-ordinated and strictly according to schedule. Output is steadily on the increase, while production costs have been cut 33%."
In reality: The plan called for 13000 vehicles, but only 7000 were produced. Mass production was never fully reached; each unit was essentially hand-built.
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Tech sidenote: Why four columns instead of the familiar single hydraulic column with platform? It's a clever use of self-adjusting soft power. The battery pack needs to be pushed into place evenly, with equal force against the chassis at all corners, so the release latches can be opened and closed properly. A single platform can't do that unless the chassis is always exactly level. Each of the four columns was pressurized from city water, giving an upward push of 60 pounds. Each column would move as far as it could go until its 60 pounds was matched by an equal pressure from above.
De leg bone connected to de nest bone?
Following on previous item about community senses and entertainment.
Even though chimps are physically identical to humans, we don't share a lot of PURPOSES.
Humans are more like birds than chimps in PURPOSES. Singing, dancing, talking, using tools, building nests.
Chimps can be trained to do those things but don't do them voluntarily in nature.
Birds and humans want to sing, dance, talk and build.
Is the gene for bipedal walking connected to those PURPOSES?
Pogrom succeeding magnificently!ZH has a genuinely shocking GIF of suicide rates from 2005 to 2015. Up everywhere except NYC, and dramatically up in the sparsely populated West. The worst areas correspond closely with Injun territory.
The speed of increase is surprising, but not the pattern.
NYC has been pogromming Deplorables for 400 years, and in 2008 decided to implement the Final Solution. Exterminate all humans. No more humans anywhere on earth. The universe must consist of NYC. Nothing but pure abstraction, infinite wealth, infinite power, for the abstract Tribe.
Results are excellent so far, but only a tiny baby step toward victory. Millions of Muslim Deplorables killed by bombs, a million** Christian Deplorables killed by drugs and suicide!
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Incidentally, ZH fails to see the pattern. They think it's a 'tsunami' that will inevitably move toward the East Coast. Nope. It's not a tsunami, it's a state of siege. The East Coast is CONSUMING the human parts of the country. As the humans die, the East gets richer and happier.
** Does a million sound high? Current suicides are 50k per year, and drug overdose deaths also 50k per year. Both are rising quickly. Since 2008, total of both is around a million.
Rights to duties, sentiment edition
Somebody posted a Memorial Day sentiment:
It was soldiers, not reporters, who gave us freedom of the press.
First, there's no such thing as "freedom of the press". Never has been. Utterly meaningless pseudoconcept. Every country has a vast list of taboo subjects and opinions. The specific taboos vary with time and place, but the number of taboos is pretty much constant.
Second, neither soldiers nor reporters gave us the functions of the press. God gave us the functions. Every living thing, and every organized colony of living things, has 'media'.
