Brave Little Hitachi Wand

You overstate your case, several firms are already at various stages. Wright Electric is working on a >500km range passenger craft for easyJet right now. That won’t be able to fill every role, but a worthwhile number of them to be sure.

I get that. It’s a shame that food isn’t treated as a pubic good that simply needs to be provided for free at the point of consumption. I know some people would maybe overeat, but it’s not like making them pay has solved that problem.

Expensive beer is Stalinist

Then it is a waste of money as well, no?

It seems like the kind of market inefficiency capitalism so often touts itself as the answer to. Why not make an agreement with a brewery to take the rice, and share any profits from sake? Just as an example, I don’t know if that exact scenario could work with this sort of rice. Pairing up excess produce with businesses who don’t mind getting free materials shouldn’t be that hard.

Battery electric aeroplanes aren’t as far off as you might think, but you’re technically correct that they don’t currently exist.

The logistics of agriculture are outrageous. I just don’t get why you wouldn’t try to make something out of an unwanted crop. You really can’t find one use for that much plant matter? Ferment and/or distill it, get in touch with food banks, anything.

Lousy pun

It is a dire amount of ink spilled in service of bullshit and, ultimately, murder. If your time has any value at all to you or your loved ones, I will gently suggest one of the podcasts that go over it. Behind the Bastards did a pretty okay job.

I can’t make the claim that “the author started a death cult”, but I will say that they and their followers are closely patterned from the self-help grift template of endless seminars, and their ideology centres on moral absolutes and arguments that are intended to be so compelling that they describe some of their ideas as an “infohazard”.

Using only pop culture and fiction as primary sources, the “rationalism” subculture intended to create a system of ideas that was undeniable, according to its own logic - and then they accidentally spawned subcultures due to differences that were irreconcilable because of (I feel) their own absolutism. And if you follow these things, a subculture within a subculture is, 7 or of 10 times, a cult.

I was shocked too. I was fortunate enough to read it and merely think “Huh… That was amusing. Anyway, back to Doctorow and Stephenson.” Apparently a fair few of EY’s readers were all “this is my life now”

It’s a fuck off massive rabbit hole, but look up “harry potter and the methods of rationality”, and then read about the zizians

HP fanfic has no limit. I know of at least one that actually spawned a cult that has killed people.

Wait, 2011? When did Dresden Codak do this joke?

He couldn’t seem like more of a nazi with a red arm band and a dueling scar.

They do that, it’s nothing

The whole shebang, as it were.

Well hell, that’s what the compartmentalization is for! Being a conservative means not needing a coherent set of beliefs that underpin your choices.

I only said it is necessary - not whether it was present.

Of course, it’s only in jest. I’ve even dated someone from Ohio, and not even one of the nice parts.