Supposedly, over the next few decades there will be RFID chips and devices installed in everything. Hundreds of trillions. Given that a typical RFID chip requires 1/1000th oz of silver, lasts a couple years, and is almost never recycled, this means at the very least 200,000 tons of silver will be needed per year. There are less than 2 million tons of silver resources.
Once this stupidity gets going around 2020 or 2030 the world will run out of silver immediately. Silver is irreplaceable in electronics, and given the very short lifecycles of electronics products its only a few years tops before the "renewable energy infrastructure" totally collapses. If this "everyware" yielded some productive benefit and allowed us to access new resources, that would be fine, but western civilization will literally be destroyed by people buying a chip to find out where their dildo went.
This concept, "ubiquitous computing", is the peak of societal liberalism. I claim.
alwayscombatinglib posted:
Once this stupidity gets going around 2020 or 2030 the world will run out of silver immediately. Silver is irreplaceable in electronics, and given the very short lifecycles of electronics products its only a few years tops before the "renewable energy infrastructure" totally collapses. If this "everyware" yielded some productive benefit and allowed us to access new resources, that would be fine, but western civilization will literally be destroyed by people buying a chip to find out where their dildo went.
This concept, "ubiquitous computing", is the peak of societal liberalism. I claim.
I'm glad your autism is mixed with resolve. Welcome back!
Besides myself, Roseweird is actually the closest thing there is to a role model for the rest of you. Xe is actually saddened by the passing of industrial civilization and tries to think of ways to preserve it. That's because Xe is an actual oppressed person who still has hope for humanity, not some self destructive white male liberal.
Anyway I left out the "how you can profit" part, I can't really see a way other than the ones I've already mentioned like brushing up on your jousting skills. Although I guess jousting requires iron so you might want to find a less technologically advanced hobby.
alwayscombatinglib posted:I love how "marxists" are all about this stuff, because the joke is really on them. Liberalism depends on the human progress and modernity made possible under capitalism.
Besides myself, Roseweird is actually the closest thing there is to a role model for the rest of you. Xe is actually saddened by the passing of industrial civilization and tries to think of ways to preserve it. That's because Xe is an actual oppressed person who still has hope for humanity, not some self destructive white male liberal.
Anyway I left out the "how you can profit" part, I can't really see a way other than the ones I've already mentioned like brushing up on your jousting skills. Although I guess jousting requires iron so you might want to find a less technologically advanced hobby.
im a spenskyist
http://www.rhizzone.net/article/2012/12/05/library-congress-and-primitivist-tract-i-found-the/
alwayscombatinglib posted:http://www.righthook.com/shirtimages/womengoats_white_plac.jpg
the look in that girls eyes just screams consent, as shes forcefully abducted and carried away from her goatherding father by a US Troop
Chthonic_Goat_666 posted:
Grave Upheaval owns
Of course none of this is certain. Maybe someone will get graphene conductors to work or whatever. But it's a significant risk. We're at the point where it only takes one new technology to create a dissipative use of an important material and wipe out everything.
I'm not really expecting governments to do anything. Most people don't care about politics unless it affects their immediate interests. If you're trying to convince people you're probably better off arguing for the immediate benefits of reducing mine pollution, carbon emissions or whatever than trying to get them to care about the long term.
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They just forced him off the stage, the faggots. IRL Ars Technica banned.
I thoroughly enjoyed that video pan.
stegosaurus posted:libcombater58
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Panopticon posted:The repeated phrase "it's gonna be alright" in "Revolution" came directly from Lennon's Transcendental Meditation experiences in India, conveying the idea that God would take care of the human race no matter what happened politically.
Matthew 6:25-26
25 “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? 26 Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?
aerdil posted:Atwill asserts that Christianity did not really begin as a religion, but a sophisticated government project, a kind of propaganda exercise used to pacify the subjects of the Roman Empire. "Jewish sects in Palestine at the time, who were waiting for a prophesied warrior Messiah, were a constant source of violent insurrection during the first century," he explains. "When the Romans had exhausted conventional means of quashing rebellion, they switched to psychological warfare. They surmised that the way to stop the spread of zealous Jewish missionary activity was to create a competing belief system. That's when the 'peaceful' Messiah story was invented. Instead of inspiring warfare, this Messiah urged turn-the-other-cheek pacifism and encouraged Jews to 'give onto Caesar' and pay their taxes to Rome."
Rome could easily crush Judea if they rebelled, and they did. Perhaps Jesus taught peace because he wanted to avoid the destruction of his people.
"Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me; weep instead for yourselves and for your children."
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