Yes, 99% of propaganda relies on contextualizing true facts so the audience accepts a favorable narrative and believes they’re informed so they’ll reject any counter-programming.

The skeletons that pop out aren’t related to the function of the machine, the wizards that built them just thought it was funny.

Fewer people have 100 ships so there’s less competition, but here’s the weird part: The market doesn’t grow proportionally, so not only does the spread of this new invention require the capitalist invest more to remain competitive, it decreases the profit they get per dollar invested.

Yeah, its a useful concept, but the writing is kinda dogshit idealism, focusing on social structures instead of their causes.

Social development doesn’t mean the development of social skills in this context lol.

Ruling class: “We already rule the world, that tech is going to fuck up the bag. Guards, stab him.”

Merchant: “I have 100 ships currently hauling <thing> from 10,000 farms, and you’re telling me anyone can make it anywhere? If this catches on, Ill be ruined. Stabbing you is basically self-defense”

Peasent class: “Wait so the lord will only need 1/10th us to do <thing>?? Fuck that shit, you want 90% of us to get drafted into some dumb war? We gotta stab him before the lord finds out.”

Eh, it just changes what your task is; social development is driven by the evolution of the means of production, which is largely influenced by technology; as a rule any progress is going to be opposed by any faction that would see its power decrease, and embraced by the group that stands to gain.

Weavers and kings aren’t going to embrace the automatic loom, but theres certainly some rich, lower nobility/merchants who want power over the peasants and upper nobility who will.

The Qing empire concluded steam engines were “clever, but useless” to actively harmful, and thats after seeing them in the rest of the world. Rome built a steam engine, and didn’t particularly care as they had slaves for productive work. The Ottoman Empire used steam to turn kebab, and that’s it. Spain (and every other empire) actively sabotaged industrial development in the colonies, since that represented competition, and production of higher-value goods means less cheap labor and resources. Today we can feed everyone, but don’t because its not profitable. We could educate 10x more scientists, but choose not to.

The point is the bigger blocker isn’t scientific knowledge, but social development.

Thanks, that page loads, but I’m not going to listen to an entire podcast.

I will never know, apparently they blocked vietnam.

Ok, the money goes to a local college, using companies inability to find candidate to fund producing better candidates seems fitting.

Maybe calculated as 1.5 days labor for the posted salary or median compensation for that job, whichever is greater.

If an American who has never been to Ireland can declare themself Irish, then you, who has never been to America, can be declared American.

Substituting words to mold the way people using them think? Pretty OrwellianINGSOCian.

the stables

I didn’t see any stables, just horses chilling wherever.

If she decides that a plant looks tasty, strength alone won’t help you save her from herself

Yeah, I am kinda confused how the horses eating Styrofoam and hanging out just wherever are alive at all. Some were left to wander, sone were tied up in areas to eat whatever.

Maybe generations of the ones that would be saved by not letting them eat poison culling themselves created a breed that is either immune to poison and the kind of dumb shit that usually kills horses.

I think farm communities here have a different relationship with animals where like they clearly groom them and make some effort for them to not die, there’s not so much effort.

Seems fishy, I expect a breakthrough in SSB mass production would end up with one of the car manufacturers, phone companies, or utilities, whom invest tens of billions into R&D instead of some unknown motorcycle company. The sci-fi aesthetic intersecting with the functionality also is a red flag; I will be shocked if the bearings for the hubless motors is as efficient, reliable, or repairable as a standard chain or even shaft drive. If its not functionally better, that tells us they’re primarily trying to attract investors via a flashy product as opposed to a good product.

But if their claims turn out to be true, this has crazy implications for the entire automotive world.

The traffic engineer explained it was a skill issue.

The traffic engineer interviewed knows the wheelbase of common vehicles. Most people don’t need to drive into traffic, they’re just not turning the wheel enough, early enough.

But the people driving cars with the wheelbase of a semi can still take the turn, you just look for oncoming traffic before you use part of the lane.

100%, the way the hair stands up on your neck when the rear wheel is unexpectedly slippery is the same as walking on unexpectedly slippery steps. Theres sp much you sense within the bike that just isn’t there for cars.

In America??