The reality is we could've easily mastered energy, food, and material abundance with 1970s era Technology.
Instead, we loaded up on virtue signaling, stakeholder engagement, and regulatory capture.
I call this general phenomenon "The Blight"
The Blight is what gives you things like billion-dollar a mile railroad tracks in San Francisco, never completed high speed rail in California, the NRC killing nuclear energy, ArianeSpace, a bunch of go-nowhere climate tech bubbles, Don Lemon, affirmative action, etc
The Blight is a disease of wealth.
Any society faced with genuine survival pressure can't afford the Blight, or else they perish
The Blight exists solely as a parasite suckling off the insane wealth generated by industrial capitalism
The Blight is endless bureaucracies, outsourcing, McKinsey consultants, feel good diversity panels, DEI committees, ESG, biofuels, carbon credit marketplaces, NIMBY anti housing socialism, "math is racist", denies biology, natural variance, etc
The Blight is simply a manifestation of petty tribalism and grift in the modern age
Most usually it leverages a feel good narrative of inclusion or else just sells fear to justify centralization of control
The net effect of Blight is inflation and declining birth rates
The Blight is fundamentally antithetical to what is good in the Human Spirit
Perseverance, competition, innovation, decisiveness, execution, imagination, risk-taking, adventurousness, and integrity
The Blight has produced endless millions of do-nothing paper pushing jobs with titles like Analyst, Coordinator, Engagement Officer, Committee Chair.
It is the reason education, healthcare, and government services have all declined in real value per dollar spent
The Blight cannot exist wherever there is free and fair competition.
It can only grow and take root where people let it, when they give in to peer pressure and crowd conformity to do what they know is not truly fair or just.
Fuck the Blight
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Up until Minnesota the largest medicare fraud in history was run by....
A guy who used oxycontin and fentanyl to get patients addicted so they remained in his nursing homes.
Trump pardoned him in 2020.
$1.3 billion in fraud by one person.
Presidential Pardon.
People who think this is 'whataboutism' are too partisan-addled by years of divisive thinking. Fraud is everywhere, supported by all political parties, that you will not get justice for these crimes against the public unless we investigate and expose them ourselves.
*sentence commuted. I don't know why you'd commute this sentence. Seems like a pretty horrible person.
What looks to be a bug in a video game making a person hold the pistol sideways - like a gangster - actually reveals something subtle about the shape of space.
It has implications from CAD design to Black Holes + anti-gravity. Differential geometry + parallel transport 🧵
Differential geometry is the mathematics of curved surfaces. Euclidean geometry is the 'nice' flat space - where moving along a direction doesn't change the absolute orientation of your perspective.
In curved space, however, this changes.
In both CAD design programs and first-person shooters, the view is inscribed on the surface of a sphere. In CAD its looking inwards, for an FPS its looking outwards.
Yet our mouse controls are Euclidean vectors mapped onto the surface