Scott Adams Thread (Garfield Cartoonist)

[redpoint5]

Yeah, he disliked that question today.

I think it was yesterday he had some super interesting perspectives, but it slipped my mind before I could comment. I might revisit.

EDIT-

Listening now.

Need a baseline amount of stupid investment to get money to flow to the corners of the world.

I had a similar conversation with my economist friend the other night where I said the only people able to consistently outperform the stock market either have insider information, a technological advantage like a faster connection to the market, or are so large already they can move the market. That means 100% of people without those advantages would be better off with an index fund and not a stock broker. The entire concept of stock value would collapse if 100% of people invested in index funds because the value of the individual stocks only moves when people value them differently.

[freebeard]

...it slipped my mind before I could comment.

I have the same problem!

Chat GPT 4 -- The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters

Begun the AI Wars have. Stock markets and banks are relics of an earlier age.

[j-c-c]

Originally Posted by freebeard

As I understand it, it was a Polish count or Prince playing both sides that precipitated WWII.

Baby steps, could you explain that, or was that just the premise, because all my readings teaching lean towards Hitler starting ww2, if for other reason than he was bored and wanted a war to flex his new military machine. It mattered little who it was against.

[redpoint5]

Originally Posted by j-c-c

Baby steps, could you explain that, or was that just the premise, because all my readings teaching lean towards Hitler starting ww2, if for other reason than he was bored and wanted a war to flex his new military machine. It mattered little who it was against.

WWI was the impetus for WWII, ergo one guy being assassinated set in motion all that followed. All the alliances formed between nations were the impetus for drawing the world into war... every event prior contributing to what occurred, and every event in the future being constructed of what is happening now.

[freebeard]

I wasn't there so it is all conjecture.

But the way I get it, Soviets were amassing on the border on one side and Germany on the other. The Pole (I forget his title) was a saber-rattler.*

https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Anglo-Polish_alliance
Anglo-Polish alliance - Wikipedia
The military alliance between the United Kingdom and Poland was formalised by the Anglo-Polish Agreement in 1939, with subsequent addenda of 1940 and 1944, [1] for mutual assistance in case of a military invasion from Nazi Germany, as specified in a secret protocol. [2] [3] [4] Background [ edit]

https://www.britannica.com › event › Invasion-of-Poland
Invasion of Poland | Description & Facts | Britannica
Invasion of Poland, attack on Poland by Nazi Germany that marked the start of World War II. The invasion lasted from September 1 to October 5, 1939. As dawn broke on September 1, 1939, German forces launched a surprise attack on Poland.

The German offensive forced the Soviets back behind the Ural Mountains. But then they stalled out. At the end of the war there was a considerable concern that they would roll all the way to the Atlantic.

Patton said we backed the wrong side, but he paid a price for that.

Edit: *Reported as Neville Chamberlin's 'Peace in our time'.

[redpoint5]

Peace, in Churchill's time.

[Piotrsko]

before Ww1 Poland was huge, like maybe the entire size of the now ex russian countries and due to internal issues that still exist today was fractious. It also included part of todays Eastern Germany. I can see some smart a**ed arrogant Polish nobleman doing stupid things. You can tell a polish person things, but they don't necessarily listen. Look at my forum name.

[freebeard]

Today the cartoonist really steps in it at 24:49.

Climate change is racist because it denies brown countries the 200 years of coal that the first world benefited from. Sounds like a reverse-Wakanda situation. That will never happen.

My favorite current exanple is Zipline drone deliveries.

[redpoint5]

It's the point Alex Epstein is always making about poor countries needing a better fuel than cow dung to escape privation.

The climate racists (and I'm not referring to all climate alarmists) don't care about actual poverty stricken people. They just want less of "them", and more of "me". They might even whitewash that a bit by graciously allowing those poor countries to be exempt from certain climate policies. How nice they allow dung-burning folks an exemption from fossil fuel restriction.

As an anecdote, my father-in-law spent 2 years in The Gambia on his own dime and time to install a solar powered well and develop farmland for a community. I'll be curious to see how things are going 5 years out.

[freebeard]

Solar in Gambia is what I was suggesting. Leapfrogging from one local maxima to the next.

He went on and on about 'average' being useless. I'd look to a comparison of average mean and mode to see what falls out of the data.

I'm starting to think I should start a Bucky Fuller thread. From the R. A. Wilson interview in 1981

I reasoned that most of what we think is caused by conditioned reflexes and I wanted to start over fresh. I assumed that if Universe had any purpose in putting me here I could discover it by breaking the lines of misinformation that had been poured into me since I was born in 1895.

I resolved on certain disciplines that I have continued ever since. I sought to do my own thinking, confining it only to experientially gained information instead of following everyone else’s opinions, credos, theories and beliefs. I pledged myself to reduce every idea to a physical working model before asking anybody to credit what I said about it. I resolved never to talk about anything until it could thus be physically proven or demonstrated. I was using myself as a guinea pig to discover what Universe needed mankind for; what one typical human of normal intelligence could accomplish when working always and only to advantage all humanity without disadvantaging any.

But in places he sounds like G.Thunberg. :

High Times: When will humanity as a whole realize it?

Fuller: They will either realize it in the next eight years or they will not survive. I am not speaking idealistically but with total realism. It’s all touch and go for the next eight years. Either we all make it, and humanity achieves total success in Universe, or we all go down together. All hundred and fifty nations will have to be abolished.