Category Archives: Health
Mandates
“Ve haff vays uff getting you vaxed.”
The Rise And Fall
Adding more money will not fix the problem; it may even make it worse because things have just gone over their heads. The expansion of private activity into outer space will create a still bigger challenge for the 20th-century state. Latencies in communication imposed by the limited speed of light mean that real-time control from the center will become impossible in principle. Even the Mars copter is largely autonomous.
Taken together, these developments suggest that the collapse we may be feeling — if one is in fact occurring — is not the fall of a hegemon but the crumbling of hegemony itself. It is probably driven by the drastic increase of complexity in the 21st century, represented by an ever-lengthening flood of bits which, if not understood, is psychologically indistinguishable from entropy. The world, like a team of wild horses, may have gotten away from the UN, Xi, Vladimir, and Joe because it’s gotten too dang complicated to control. Going back to historical metaphors, humanity may be reliving, not the fall of Rome but the fall of Babel.
Vernor Vinge, Neil Stephenson, and others saw this coming.
Losing The Pillars Of Civilization
Depressing thoughts on the apparent Marxist takeover of America.
Plant-Based “Meat”
The protein quality is inferior (as I would have guessed). The best way, in terms of nutrition, to process plants into meat is to run them through an animal’s digestive system.
The Left’s Bungled Revolution
I hope this is right. We’ll find out next November, but there’s a lot of damage that can be done to the nation between now and then.
Longevity News
Via Peter Diamandis, I just discovered this daily newsletter, that anyone can sign up for.
Pron
Is it causing a lot of this trans nonsense?
It seems plausible to me. A lot of porn is terrible, and creates unrealistic expectations of what normal sex should be like. It’s generally a really bad way to learn about it, and it’s particularly brutal on the girls.
It’s A Bad Day For Democrats
…which means it’s a great day for America.
[Update mid-afternoon]
Without Trump, there’s no horse in the hospital.
De Santis appears to me to be trying to capture the best features of Trump, while avoiding the terrible ones.
“Transphobic” Lesbians
This is getting ridiculous. If I don’t want to sleep with a guy who thinks he’s a woman, it’s not because I’m “transphobic.” It’s because I am extremely heterosexual, and have not only zero, but negative interest in physically interacting with, or even looking at male genitals. Now if it’s an attractive woman who thinks she’s a man, that’s a different story, but it doesn’t seem like a good idea to engage in sexual relations with people who are funny in the head.