This, except the entirely of robotless America will soon realize it lacks industrial capacity and the human capital willing and able to create and operate it. All of the west's money will be meaningless when the next bottleneck becomes industrial capacity and the one country that doesn't care about abstract international money owns half of it or more.

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women submit to men while men submit to an abstract concept they created for themselves and which casually justifies their full possession over women

I met people in high school who were good at math but absolutely abhorrent at critical thinking, grammar, abstract thinking, breaking down concepts, or just about anything else. Math is a stupid correlation to make with intellect.

For almost four months, the single most important door in the global economy was slammed shut. Today it's reopening. The door is the Strait of Hormuz, a narrow strip of water between Iran and Oman that roughly a fifth of the world's oil has to squeeze through every day. When the US-Iran war kicked off in February, Iran shut it and the US dropped a naval blockade on top. Oil got expensive, ships got stuck, and everyone who buys energy, so everyone, felt it. Then today Trump posted that the deal is "now complete" and basically told the world's tankers to start their engines. Pakistan brokered it, Iran confirmed it, the UN applauded. On paper, the war is over. The terms in plain language: stop shooting for 60 days, spend those 60 days arguing about Iran's nuclear program, lift the blockade, reopen the strait, and talk later about sanctions and Iran's frozen money. The actual signing is Friday, June 19, in Switzerland. Now the part the celebration posts skip. It isn't signed yet, it's signed Friday. Israel isn't in the deal and is openly unhappy about it, and they bombed Beirut a week ago, which is exactly the kind of thing that can un-end a war. And nobody's quite sure how many mines Iran left in the water, so "reopen" is a lot easier to announce than to actually do. For Korea this one is personal, not abstract. The country runs on oil and gas that mostly comes through that exact door. A closed Hormuz means pricier energy, a jumpier won, and higher costs on everything that ships in. An open one means the opposite, and fast. This is the kind of headline that shows up at the gas pump. So enjoy the good news, just keep the champagne on ice until Friday. The door is open. Whether it stays open rides on a signature that hasn't happened yet and a neighbor who never signed.

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Been musing about this for a while, but when you understand “gaming” as an abstract identity and not an activity people enjoy taking part in, video game discourse starts to make a lot more sense.

I would like to introduce you to Algebraic Analysis, à la Sato. it forces the category theorists to look at actual differential equations, and forces the analysts to learn homological algebra. Mikio Sato’s weaponizing of abstract nonsense to solve PDEs is excellent.

Vibes is not part of igloo, orange cap games produces it and licenses holders directly i wonder if abstract is one of the band aids to be removed, was not one of the 3 listed priorities

“If an AI cannot apply an abstract lesson to a new situation, it is not truly reasoning or learning”, new study with further evidence backing up what I have been saying for 25 years. cc @dwarkesh_sp

The American people will go to war if they are attacked. They are not interested in going to war for abstract principles on the other side of the world. Especially when they feel manipulated. This is so easy. No foreign wars almost ever. We can do things ok here!

Yearning is Lust. Fantasy is Rape. -------------------- First fantasy: Rape, in essence, is seizing control of something and doing what you want with it. Rape as we know it is the forcing of sex upon another, the violation of one's autonomy by brute force and physical violence. Literally "having your way with her" (it doesn't have to be a 'her,' but let's be charitable here). "The Raped" online are those who have been violated mentally against their will. The essence of rape is seizing control and violating autonomy. Fantasy - in this I mean fantasizing about reality - takes aspects of reality and plays with them in one's mind. When you fantasize about another person, you take what you know of them, construct a doll in their image, and puppet them around to do your bidding. When you fantasize about a possible life you could have, you strip the elements you want out of the context of reality and play with them as you please. No matter how close to reality you fantasize, it will never be reality. You strip reality of its function and violate it. Fantasy is Rape. First objection: So no dreams/goals/wants/desires/hope? These things are not Fantasy. To dream of something is to want to strive TOWARDS it, not dwell IN it in imagination. Fantasy is stationary, these things are active. You move towards a dream or goal to make it real. Fantasy supplants, or even subverts, reality. One harms, the other helps. Second Objection: But Fantasy is imagination, if the Fantasy isn't sin it's not bad! Are you sure? Look at the young men on this website who fantasize about marriage, they are consumed by it, their Fantasy does not help make it reality it only helps to stoke the passions of lust and obsession. Look at my life, I fantasized in that way for so long every woman looked like my future wife. I could not treat my sisters in Christ as people because the Fantasy had been so thoroughly indulged. Are you sure Fantasy is harmless? Are you absolutely sure? --- Second, yearning: By yearning I mean the strong emotional craving for a significant other. This is not the dictionary definition, but the online one, and that's fine. Keep this in mind. I want to preface this by saying you can want to be married, you can desire to be a husband or wife, these are good things to want to be. I'm talking about Yearning, the strong desire for a woman or man that is almost insatiable. All strong desires should be carefully considered, lest they become sin. Desire to be with community is good and Biblical, but step it too far and it becomes unhealthy dependency on others. To desire a spouse as a means of following scripture and turning the lust within you into something good by God's grace is good. To yearn... Marriage is not something you should step into lightly. As Christians, we are called to something higher. Yearning, that intense feeling, threatens to blind us to that. Are you seeking a spouse because of your lust (a good and biblical thing to do), or have you placed the fulfillment of your life on a person you have not met? I say this as a former yearner. I know the emotions, the desires, how good it feels to express love for her (the abstract Wife, as it were). But these feelings grew and festered, and the emptiness I felt I placed on the hope of one day marrying a woman. And so I ignored the community of believers God had given me, my friends. If you look at the early church in scripture, the close friendships between believers are so unbelievably close it borders squeemishness. Kissing, holding, communing, confessing, connecting. These things I placed upon an abstract Wife, not on the people I was supposed to be close to now. If you remove the lust, what do you have in yearning? A desire for friendship. Which we can have right now. Yearning is Lust. -- I have raped and lusted. I am warning you of what you might become, of what your actions and feelings and thoughts might be. We have a higher calling in this world. Remember that.

You "cut through" this by targetting a simplified abstract form of the thing. A generalisation bereft of exact detail is always simpler to model for/against (and thus easier to post about).

Socialism through time: Millions of words have been written about socialism. Worse yet, millions of lives have been sacrificed to the delusions of socialism and Marxism. “Socialism means slavery.” Lord Acton “The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.” Aristotle “When the law is used to take from some and give to others, it ceases to protect liberty and becomes an instrument of plunder. That is not justice, it is legal plunder.” Frédéric Bastiat “Consider the following progression: 1. On a dark street, a man draws a knife and demands my money for drugs. 2. Instead of demanding my money for drugs, he demands it for the Church. 3. Instead of being alone, he is with a bishop of the Church who act as bagman. 4. Instead of drawing a knife, he produces a policeman who says I must do as he says. 5. Instead of meeting me on the street, he mails me his demand as an official agent of the government. If the first is theft, it is difficult to see why the other four are not also theft. Expropriation is wrong not because its causes are wrong, but because it is a violation of the Eighth Commandment: Thou shalt not steal.” J. Budziszewski “Those of us who study the papers and the parliamentary speeches with proper attention must have by this time a fairly precise idea of the nature of the evil of Socialism. It is a remote Utopian dream impossible of fulfilment and also an overwhelming practical danger that threatens us at every moment.” G. K. Chesterton “What’s worthwhile to point out, first and last, is that Socialism is a tyranny; that it is inevitably, even avowedly and almost justifiably, a tyranny. It’s the pretence that government can prevent all injustice by being directly responsible for practically anything that happens.” G. K. Chesterton “The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.” Winston Churchill “Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.” Winston Churchill “Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word: equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.” Alexis de Tocqueville “There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.” Will Durant “The best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.” Benjamin Franklin “If socialists understood economics they wouldn’t be socialists.” Friedrich Hayek “I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations; capitalism by its works and socialism by its literature.” Sidney Hook “In practice, socialism didn’t work. But socialism could never have worked because it is based on false premises about human psychology and society, and gross ignorance of human economy.” David Horowitz “People start to yawn when you warn them about a move toward socialism. It seems abstract. But if you discuss the issues that arise from high taxes, oppressive regulation, seizure of private property, and dictating of individual behaviour, people understand them, and they reject them.” Charlie Kirk “Socialism is the religion people get when they lose their religion.” Richard John Neuhaus “The reason this country continues its drift toward socialism and big nanny government is because too many people vote in the expectation of getting something for nothing, not because they have a concern for what is good for the country.” Lyn Nofziger “Socialism is simply Communism for people without the testosterone to man the barricades.” Gary North Don't be fooled into thinking socialism or Marxism works, it doesn't. Both are ideologically broken, both are a fools errand and a true sign those who support it are in cognitive decline.

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