By some metrics your “pansy men” would include the likes of Achilles, Alexander the Great, Caesar, Hadrian, Richard the Lionhearted and Friedrich the Great…all of whom were to some degree same-sexers. Today’s strait soyboys usually do not meet the military physical testing regimen.
Posted by: aristodemos | Mar 21 2025 14:49 utc | 95
No, I meant pansy/sissy in the full pansyness of the word. (maybe soy-boy is a better name, maybe)
What soldiers do with their asses in their spare time is not an issue, you mentioned a few warriors but missed out on the Band of Thebes (just top of mind)
Wouldn’t like to clash swords with those warriors.
Posted by: Newbie | Mar 21 2025 15:27 utc | 100
Not to mention the spartans (when reading your answer thought you had)

Posted by: Newbie | Mar 21 2025 15:29 utc | 104

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 21 2025 14:53 utc | 97
” dissonance” An American specialty, it goes nicely with the hypocrisy, another main course American specialty. Of course the side dish is lying, cheating and stealing.

Posted by: CeaClearly | Mar 21 2025 15:32 utc | 106

Formerly Miss Lacy @37: “Are you really comfortable with a President who shouts out that if the legal lawful residents of Gaza don’t do what he says “They will be dead.””
Abso-fraggin-lutely! I love how it robs the tragic TDS victims of their fake and hypocritical self-image of virtue. Oh, how the poor TDS people would love to signal their fake virtue by wringing their hands over the fate of the Palestinians, but then walk away with a cleared conscience after having done nothing of substance for the Palestinians, assuring themselves the slaughter with American bombs has nothing to do with them. I love how Trump makes it very clear that the US is responsible for the slaughter.
If America is ever to recover from being the global cop psycho killer, it will need to lose the delusions. Trump laying bare what America really is outside of the delusional self-image Americans maintain is therapy.

…having your personal social security data? Are you really sure that you trust a South African whose closest partner is Peter Thiel, who has multiple connexions and contracts with Izzyhell Unit 8200 spy spinoffs to safe guard your family’s privacy?

Only a fool and an idiot would think they had some sort of privacy from the ruling class before Musk came along. You’re not that stupid, are you?
Again, what Trump and Musk are doing is out in the open. The only real problem you have with it is that now you cannot pretend it isn’t so.

…ranting against judges who don’t roll over for the baying hounds…”

Don’t you mean ranting against judges who did roll over for the baying =>TDS<= hounds and prosecuted frivolous lawfare attacks against the Presidential front-runner? Those judges?
Damn, but the stench from the loaded diapers on the poor, infantile TDS victims in this bar is just too much. I’m going out to get some air.

Posted by: William Gruff | Mar 21 2025 15:42 utc | 108

@ aristodemos | Mar 21 2025 14:49 utc | 95
While we’re at it, how about Gilgamesh and Enkidu?

Posted by: malenkov | Mar 21 2025 15:58 utc | 110

@Posted by: denk | Mar 21 2025 5:17 utc | 64
“Viruses” are a mythology.
https://drsambailey.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/A-FAREWELL-TO-VIROLOGY-Expert-Edition-V1.2.pdf
https://www.amazon.ca/Can-You-Catch-Cold-Experiments/dp/1763504409
https://denisrancourt.substack.com/p/breaking-our-largest-study-of-its
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Virology is pseudoscience. Contagion is superstition. Vaccines = Eugenics.

Posted by: KOB | Mar 21 2025 16:10 utc | 112

@ aristodemos | Mar 21 2025 14:49 utc | 95
While we’re at it, how about Gilgamesh and Enkidu?
Posted by: malenkov | Mar 21 2025 15:58 utc | 109
Not to mention that the glorious royal navy that ruled the waves, in churchill’s own words “Don’t talk to me about naval tradition. It’s nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash.”

Posted by: Newbie | Mar 21 2025 16:12 utc | 114

While we’re at it, how about Gilgamesh and Enkidu?

I’ll give you Jesus and Lazarus. omfg!

Posted by: persiflo | Mar 21 2025 16:20 utc | 116

Jesus don’t fight!

Damn, you got me. An error! argh.

Posted by: persiflo | Mar 21 2025 16:33 utc | 118

Posted by: too scents | Mar 21 2025 15:59 utc | 110
Why in the world would a small business want to make a harmonic drive system??? Small businesses are things like bakeries and such.
Because the small business sees an opportunity to outcompete the big one on price, quality, time, or even some qualitative preference like supporting local business. Big businesses cannot compete with small ones unless they get government help to protect their monopolies, principally with regulation, state-sponsored “corporateness”, and IP protections. If we can break up that fascist partnership, sky’s the limit for us proles.
The internet impact on entertainment/news is a great example of how technology reduces barriers to entry and economy of scale advantages. But the oligarchs fought it hard, and it took about 20 years for this transformation to really start rolling. If the oligarchs allow (big IF) the obviously coming advances in cheap energy, non-monopolized AI (e.g., the Chinese model vs. USA), manufacturing (think 3D printing advances), etc., local customization and small business will crush big business.
Another great example is the big business of restaurants and fast food. Many go to McDonald’s because it is a known, consistent experience vs. the unknown local eatery. But in the information age, you ought to be able to find that local eatery that outperforms McDonalds on quality, cost, or time.
I expect that local, customized production will gain over mass production over the coming decades and with improved technology lowering barriers to entry/economies of scale advantages. I also think that it would be very difficult to become a billionaire in a competitive free market w/o the government running interference – hopefully, with the “rich” gaining a lot more market share vs. the “ultra rich”.

Posted by: HB Brian | Mar 21 2025 16:51 utc | 120

Because the small business sees an opportunity to outcompete the big one …
Posted by: HB Brian | Mar 21 2025 16:51 utc | 119
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Economies of scale will always make small businesses production more expensive. Small businesses typical niche is luxury, where they don’t have to compete on price.

Posted by: too scents | Mar 21 2025 17:01 utc | 122

Posted by: Newbie | Mar 21 2025 13:41 utc | 87 It is not clear how removing backup generators helps anybody meet net-zero? I can imagine that claiming the removal of older generators with higher emission standards purports to lower emissions—except that backup generators by definition do not operate long-term! Counting this as an actual reduction seems like a standard form of deceit, corruption of the legal kind. Plus there is always the possibility this is a falsified scare mongering fable.
Also, net-zero simply doesn’t mean no energy, nor does restricting pollution mean no minerals, though it does mean less profit. Similarly just-in-time doesn’t mean no spares nor does global-supply-chains mean no no production, it just means higher profits for the businesses that use these practices, especially when inevitable shortages permit price gouging, er, surge pricing. If you have a problem with capitalism, well, so do I…but to be fair throwing in nonsense about pansy men suggests you just have a problem.
Posted by: CeaClearly | Mar 21 2025 15:46 utc | 108 Experience keeps a harsh school but a fool will learn in no other. But the wise learn from other people’s experience. And other people’s experience is that big businesses usually got that way because they are overall more profitable than small businesses, usually because of economies of scale. That includes having collateral to borrow cheaper, buy newer equipment, market more widely, on and on. Back in the nineteenth century you seem to imagine as a paradise, small businesses were being gobbled up, to the point that the major form of small business, the family farm, was failing. It wasn’t because of government, which was not big. In fact, the small farmers usually wanted more government, particularly to regulate railroads, a form of big business no small business could compete with by building their own small railroad. The notion that it is government that distorts the economy into monopoly is BS: It is an economy distorted with highly concentrated production that produces the rich who corrupt government, just as they always have. Average people are not overtaxed, they are underpaid. Average people are not overregulated, they are underserved. The so-called theory that it’s government that prevents the market from working its magic is self-serving BS peddled by the ruling class. Wealth is the man behind the curtain, the boogeyman of government is the giant disembodied head of the Wizard of OZ.
Posted by: William Gruff | Mar 21 2025 15:42 utc | 107 And all we need to do is cure the evil liberals of their delusions about virtue and that will bring about the millennium? That the problem is some mental phenomenon usually called wokeness but never defined? And as soon as the evil see that true virtue is believing in Trump all will be well, all will be well, all manner of things will be well? I’m a materialist, I don’t think ideas create reality. It’s reality that gives people ideas as they carry on with their lives, as they pursue their interests and passions. This is just another version of Trump the Chaos Agent of Accelerationism, except this version is a cultural apocalypse, that ignores such mundane things as what Trump actually does. It’s just more deranged Trump cultism. I firmly believe accelerationism of every kind is wrong, wrong, wrong. (And for those who’ve noticed this commenter sometimes spouts some Marxist sounding rhetoric, it is also profoundly anti-Marxist.)

Posted by: steven t johnson | Mar 21 2025 17:13 utc | 124

Economies of scale will always make small businesses production more expensive. Small businesses typical niche is luxury, where they don’t have to compete on price.
Posted by: too scents | Mar 21 2025 17:01 utc | 122
Not meaningfully true. Yes, economies of scale, by definition, always lead to lower marginal costs. But the real question is whether economies of scale can arise/persist within a given industry. I can already name one industry where it doesn’t appear: media. Independent media outperforms legacy media on quality/cost/time.
Lower energy costs, less fascist regulations, less fascist IP protections, and the advance of technology will continue to whittle away economy of scale advantages. Another great example would be healthcare (another info-based economy), how easily could a good local doctor “compete” (i.e., earn a good living) outside of the fascist-structured, highly regulated/protected top-to-bottom industry? If it were legal, a good local doctor would thrive and so would his patients.

Posted by: HB Brian | Mar 21 2025 17:25 utc | 126

Posted by: steven t johnson | Mar 21 2025 17:13 utc | 124
‘big businesses usually got that way because they are overall more profitable than small businesses’
Not sure where you are from, but I am pretty sure big business (you know the one’s who can afford to lobby/donate to political campaigns)get .gov bennies. It’s called “you have to pay to play” in my local .gov. You don’t have any “pay to play” in your .gov? Lucky you. We are ate up with it. Small business loses because they can’t pony up like the big guys.

Posted by: CeaClearly | Mar 21 2025 17:30 utc | 128

He wants to destroy America by collapsing the Constitutional order.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 21 2025 17:29 utc | 127
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Beware! What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.

Was mich nicht umbringt, macht mich stärker
– Nietzsche

Posted by: too scents | Mar 21 2025 17:36 utc | 130

Posted by: too scents | Mar 21 2025 17:31 utc | 129
“Have you seen Ne Zha 2? The budget was $80 billions.
More than 4,000 people across 138 animation companies participated in the creation of the film”
Please, good sir, tell me what their profit/earnings were for the film? Disney been losing money big time in their cinematic efforts…..

Posted by: CeaClearly | Mar 21 2025 17:42 utc | 132

Posted by: HB Brian | Mar 21 2025 16:51 utc | 120 This is just more mythology. Big business arose before big government, refuting this ignorant twaddle. Patents, copyrights, trademarks and logos arose for sound reason. My belief, against orthodox economists, is a general principle of sound economics requires all monopolies—including land!—should be regulated. But that means more government, not less. The idea that we so-called proles will all become small businessmen because marketing costs are lower due to new information technology is preposterous. Sure, there will always be the rise of small businesses along, just as there are pilot fish/remoras swimming along side the shark. The main premise, that the profits in concentrated spheres of production, have nothing to do with economies of scale but are due solely to the boogeyman government is more BS. One of the ways the wealthy really do get a break is in taxation…but this is omitted! Deliberately, so far as I can tell.
And by the way, @126 advocates for bad local doctors being able to kill enough patients to get a bad reputation! I can think of a lot of reforms to health care, but giving physicians free reign to murder by malpractice isn’t the way.
Last and least, this is a preposterous misuse of fascism, the kind that helps superficial thinkers pretend there isn’t even such a thing!

Posted by: steven t johnson | Mar 21 2025 17:48 utc | 134

In anticipation of watching Ne Zha 2, I watched the original Ne Zha. Enjoyed it.
I have always liked Chinese cinema.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 21 2025 17:54 utc | 136

One of the ways the wealthy really do get a break is in taxation…but this is omitted! Deliberately, so far as I can tell.
Posted by: steven t johnson | Mar 21 2025 17:48 utc | 134
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Vigorous taxation would go a long way toward reducing regulation.

Posted by: too scents | Mar 21 2025 17:58 utc | 138

Posted by: too scents | Mar 21 2025 17:36 utc | 130
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Ordinarily, I would agree.
America may be the patient who does not survive the clinical trials.
Society on the verge of civil war, decadent like the Weimar Republic, casino economy. Astronomical debt burden in the age of de-dollarization.
It’s like America has cancer.
And AIDs.
And a gunshot wound in the stomach.
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And Type 2 Diabetes.
😂😂😂

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 21 2025 17:59 utc | 140

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 21 2025 17:29 utc | 127 This is the plan: 1)Destroy the so-called Constitutional Order 2)A miracle occurs 3)Paradise on Earth, or socialism if you talk secular. I say, step 1 means attacking the mass of the people, depriving them of the gains hard won by the people’s share in the bourgeois democratic revolutions. Then, step 2 never happens. So all we really have is, attack the people. Yes, this is a reactionary Trump fluffer. I say, replace bourgeois democracy with something better, till then hang on to what shreds we have, because losing now is not the way to win. As I said, I’m against the BS of accelerationism.
Posted by: CeaClearly | Mar 21 2025 17:30 utc | 128 Local politics is quite corrupt here. But the problem for so-called small business is that the automation of coal mines has lowered the population and overall income. Your right-wing nutjob nostrums are perfectly irrelevant to my community. And the most corrupt are the ones who spout your idiotic rhetoric.
Posted by: CeaClearly | Mar 21 2025 17:58 utc | 139 In this exchange I already said patents should be regulated, requiring more government, not less. Your version is, patronize your local herbalist! I’m tempted to urge you to do so, but I will be polite.
Posted by: Newbie | Mar 21 2025 17:48 utc | 133 Whoever is the single buyer of this enormous monopsony in labor? Does this mean a plethora of places where a single big employer is the overwhelmingly largest employer? The obvious reform there is labor unions but the people who are fighting big government also fight the National Labor Relations Board, because they aren’t really confused about whose side they’re on.

Posted by: steven t johnson | Mar 21 2025 18:22 utc | 142

143 horseguards… thanks, also 10% lower power, now that would be interesting… but would they produce ASIC miner chips?!

Posted by: E | Mar 21 2025 18:44 utc | 144

Posted by: Roger Boyd | Mar 20 2025 22:22 utc | 42
I agree. Unless one has magnificent recall, even the best content is transitory. Of course, there is the Show Transcript feature but this is lacking.

Posted by: horseguards | Mar 21 2025 18:49 utc | 146

Last and least, this is a preposterous misuse of fascism, the kind that helps superficial thinkers pretend there isn’t even such a thing!
Posted by: steven t johnson | Mar 21 2025 17:48 utc | 134
Amazing how seemingly intelligent people can live in the world today, and their solution is always, “we should give even more power to our rulers!”
Whatever, comrade. As an atheist, I wish idiots like you would revert back to faith in religion instead of faith in your rulers. Grow up.
“The idea that we so-called proles will all become small businessmen because marketing costs are lower due to new information technology is preposterous.” I never argued this, liar.
“Patents, copyrights, trademarks and logos arose for sound reason.” What sound reason is that? If I “invented” fire, should I have the right to kill others who try to use it without my permission?
You’re just a stockholm-syndrome suffering bootlicker.

Posted by: HB Brian | Mar 21 2025 18:52 utc | 148

“What you need is an actual activist state implementing anti-trust (including against monopsonies like Walmart), including against corrupt price and product collusion. Then also removing extensive state-business corruption and acting in the best interests of the general population. That’s called the Communist Party of China, which very much makes the market function as economists would like it to while still making the public investments needed to drive technology upgrading and development.”
Ive worked in union shops and non union shops. I much prefer non union. The union is generally just another parasite. Thats not the main problem. Guy is under equipment asks for a 12mm wrench. You give it to him. Your fired because thats not your job description. The whole beuty of a workplace where you can give your bst for sucess is destroyed. Not my job man.
Same for the activist state. It becomes a entity whose purpose is adversary not cooperation. The people who receive compensation are elites who never have gotten their hands dirty. Nothing is more useless than a union shop steward aa mini boss hog on dukes of hazard. A activist state is a army of boss hogs.
I however worked in a era where their where still owners who believed in creating teams and compensating for performance. CEOs that believed in creating teams and compensating for performance. They still regarded success as better smarter production not that the stock price went up. All those CEOs were fired,
I came out of school and became a paid intern for a corp. I proved my mettle and was hired in 6 months. Nowadays interns are not paid and they are just used. Many times i saw super bright unpaid interns come into a corp at demonstrate incredible effectiveness. Quickly they were a very good employee only not paid. Never hired even though their mettle many times over. Corp regarded them as a free asset not something of value o be sustained. After all corp was generously providing “work experience”.
Ive seen things you wouldnt believe. Vans of foreigners bussed in every day. Employees of a corp in another land. No taxes paid just a labor resource to be sold under contract. The most contrary thing to a team possible. Need some work from them just write up a contract. Oh didnt fix the issue just write up another contract. THe intern who could have fixed the problem and took pride in doing so is not hired. Time spent writing contracts for foreign worker that doesnt get the job done hates you, the company and the USA. BUT! Overhead was cut and stock price went up.
All this is the detachment of stock prices as a function of productivity of a business. Stock is a financial instrument first and foremost and what is valued in a CEO is whatever tricks make the stock price go up. They lie cheat and do whatever to do so. Honest CEOs focussed on productivity are fired by the board (stockholders). If somehow they get caught they already got their bonuses that are 1000x cEO compensation of the past. This is the norm now, What I am describing is not isolated incidents.
The reality of what I am describing is once again a function of the deleterious and progressive nature of infinite debt. Good productivity takes hard work and innovation. Much easy to just play the financial instrument game and cheat. Get that photo of posing in linked in just right. A army of woke boss hogs does not solve this in fact just creates more inefficiency. Infinite debt corrupts everything, every aspect of society. Business is most imaginary now. In fact if they can get away with it a CEO gets rid of all productivity and cultivates stock price on image. Productivity is just needless overhead. Secondary effect is there is nothing to buy with the dollar manufactured domestically only imported. The reasons why infinite debt and reserve currency destroys domestic productivity are well known. Russia and China would rather drown in a cesspool than accept reserve currency status and why they are OK with US retaining it. Along with productivity what is destroyed is the ability for individuals to participate in a team and do their best. This creates a emptiness in society that results in many social problems. Trying to solve these issues with more infinite debt dollars is like trying to cure addiction with a extra daily shot of fentanyl.

Posted by: Ralpheaterofcheese | Mar 21 2025 18:57 utc | 150

The Europeans are galvanized by their “success” in Syria. They’ve let Erdo betray the Russians again in fixing the deal, got their zombies straight where they wanted them to destabilize the ME even further, and especially Iran.
Now they think ‘why the hell should be move to the next phase and have all the mess about the NS2 explosion discovered etc, let’s escalate’.
They have no b plan except holding to power from the dark alleys of the European Commission in Brussels and Davos. The Deep State in control, plain and simple.

Posted by: Tom | Mar 21 2025 19:00 utc | 152

Posted by: Roger Boyd | Mar 21 2025 16:57 utc | 121
Indeed. Contrast the US (and Western) government run for the benefit of the MIC with the system of Russia and China.

Posted by: horseguards | Mar 21 2025 19:14 utc | 154

Posted by: HB Brian | Mar 21 2025 16:51 utc | 120

Big businesses cannot compete with small ones unless they get government help to protect their monopolies, principally with regulation, state-sponsored “corporateness”, and IP protections. If we can break up that fascist partnership, sky’s the limit for us proles.

Reading those sentences consecutively says “we proles” can all become small businessmen once the obstacles from government are out of the way. Again, the fact that the proles were not all becoming small businessmen before big government even existed ruined everything refutes these lame apologetics. Post hoc ergo propter hoc can be fallacious reasoning, but putting the effect before the cause always is!
Posted by: HB Brian | Mar 21 2025 18:52 utc | 148

I never argued this, liar.

Yes you did: See your own words above. Reading in context is a necessary life skill. And, fascism in not just a swear word, it’s set of real-world phenomena.
Posted by: Newbie | Mar 21 2025 18:53 utc | 149 Thank you for the clarification. Most of the commentariat here are Trumpers, whose tin God is anti-labor and anti-union and most definitely anti-minimum wage. (Idle chatter about raising that is very much a Democratic Party charade.) I will note that these examples tend to refer to highly skilled labor, particularly those with certified skills like software engineering, the kind who actually negotiate individual contracts with their employers. Given the prominence of those certifications (particularly in the eyes of headhunters) and the possibility of stock options aka property, we are talking about groups that—in a rational discourse at least—that would blend into the so-called PMC.

Posted by: steven t johnson | Mar 21 2025 19:23 utc | 156

Pretty much everyone on this forum would be lined up against the wall by the CCP. And maybe the same by the contrary/identical regime forming. If one duality enity gets rid of opposition of one flavor and the other another flavor switching every four years their efforts might well bear fruit.

Posted by: Ralpheaterofcheese | Mar 21 2025 19:25 utc | 158

Posted by: KOB | Mar 21 2025 16:10 utc | 112
Which is the same as you posted a week ago:
Posted by: KOB | Mar 14 2025 23:26 utc | 145
“viruses” are a belief system, not science. They have never been proven to exist.
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We have electron microscope pictures of viruses. Some viruses are quite physically large. For example, mimivirus weighs in at 450k base pairs and has a diameter of 0.4 microns. Try looking at the picture. Duh.
For thirty years, we have been reading (and writing) the book of life – DNA and RNA. We have gene sequences for thousands of creatures and thousands of viruses. Viruses exist. You can trace their evolutionary development by their sequences. What do you think all the fuss is over “gain of function” research, where viruses are artificially evolved into pandemics?
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Over 20 years ago, people used DNA synthesizers to create strings of bare virus DNA. They inserted those strings into animal cells. Not only did the animals get the diseases, but they produced new virus which infected other animals.
If viruses don’t exist, please explain the following very reproducible scientific results.
Poliovirus Baked From Scratch

Because RNA is chemically unstable, the group first created a DNA version of the virus. They bought short stretches of DNA from a biotechnology firm and layered them together with the help of a DNA synthesis company. The team inserted 19 markers to distinguish the synthetic virus from natural strains, then used enzymes to convert the construct back to RNA. Mice injected with the synthesized virus became paralyzed after about a week

You can read the scientific paper here
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In 2017 someone reconstituted an extinct poxvirus.
How Canadian researchers reconstituted an extinct poxvirus for $100,000 using mail-order DNA

A study that brought horsepox back to life is triggering a new debate about the risks and power of synthetic biology

A HREF=”https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0188453&type=printable”>Here is is a link to the scientific paper.
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You are a flat-earther. Your Gish Gallop of baloney is used by the folks pushing the not safe, not effective “vaccines” to discredit any legitimate pushback to the WHO agenda by pointing to crackpots like you
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2025/03/open-neither-ukraine-nor-palestine-thread-2025-050/comments/page/2/#comments

Posted by: j | Mar 21 2025 19:32 utc | 160

Pretty much everyone on this forum would be lined up against the wall by the CCP. And maybe the same by the contrary/identical regime forming.
Posted by: Ralpheaterofcheese | Mar 21 2025 19:25 utc | 158
Possibly, likely that few would make it big in any system because the main trait you find in MoA is that nobody here is a true blue team player. (some might prosper if someone smart enough sees enough to see the big picture and is not a control freak)
Nobody (well there are some but won’t name them) says amen , alleluia to EVERYTHING any side says.
No sacrifice of intelligence for the team, it’s a shitty plan? Prove me otherwise or, for the good of the team even if the team doesn’t like it, we’ll complain and ask for a better one.
Some often discuss left vs right, the issue is not what you are, circumstances might make a right/right guy prefer left policies before things get destroyed by excess. Dasein is not a swearword or a betrayal of sein.

Posted by: Newbie | Mar 21 2025 19:53 utc | 162

Newbie et al 161… why does so much global poverty remain after almost two centuries of industrial age capacity? Is it not by financial design? Must we replay the major wars of the 20th century?
Satoshis’ machine exists yet is still widely ignored, misunderstood and misrepresented by east and west, left and right… tick tock, next block… a potential soft-landing for over-production, under-production, rent-seeking (in the widest sense) and bloody misallocation (at so many levels)

Posted by: E | Mar 21 2025 20:12 utc | 164

in regards to the Heathrow sub station fire.
was a very warm day yesterday in the uk.
.”In one substation, the maximum MVA – including a safety buffer is 76MVA. However, peak capacity on that section was measured as 80.7MVA – Heathrow fire in case you are wondering. electric cars being plugged in ,slowly increasing the draw load. BUT lets blame Putin.
uk energy failing /over loaded.
https://www.netzerowatch.com/all-news/the-coming-capacity-crunch?ss_source=sscampaigns&ss_campaign_id=67af569c9d9e9f159e2f319e&ss_campaign_name=NZW+Samizdat%3A+Declaring+war+on+renewables&ss_campaign_sent_date=2025-02-14T16%3A10%3A59Z

Posted by: slippery | Mar 21 2025 20:16 utc | 166

HB Brian, for the accountant among us, did u know satoshis’ machine is the first triple entry accounting system… uptime 99%+ for 15 years … living on the World Wild Web

Posted by: E | Mar 21 2025 20:21 utc | 168

@j | Mar 21 2025 19:32 utc | 160
Some say viruses dont exist and some say viruses have never been isolated.
Various biomolecules appear in connection with illhealth.
But the actual mechanism behind diseases where those biomolecules are said to cause the problem has not been proven even though several nobel prices have been issued related to that official narrative. A serious theory suggests that the biomolecules play a different role in connection with illhealth. A logical role like a message to the cells environment. But not the cause of the illhealth. Illhealth may be caused by toxins like arsenic lead DDT or other neurotoxin and are believed to have been the real reason for the illhealth known as polio. Fortunes would have been lost by the chemical industry making pesticides and the prestige of the US establishment was at stake in the 1950s so although there were people who knew the truth an official narrative about illhealth caused by a certain biomolecule won acceptance. Far too much was at stake and still is if the establishment retract and have to pay compensation and other consequences. So false science won and is still defended. Compare with the men in the moon. The whole scientific world maintains that lie even though they are enemies struggling with the imperial geopolitical manoeuvers.
They still stick together about some hoaxes so dont be surprised about there being lies built in to medical science.
No matter what electron microscope picture they produce for various biomolecules – normally prepared such that it wouldnt function in the way it does in vivo. So it doesnt prove its real function.
From that point of view it isnt obvious that viruses exist in the sense of the official story.

Posted by: petergrfstrm | Mar 21 2025 20:25 utc | 170

Always a good question to ask is why.
Why did the USA and the EU take the risk of the Maidan cou?
Some would suggest boldness or istupidity as a function of exceptionalism and I dont discount that as a possibility.
None the less the degree of risk was understood. Selecting a mentally ill comander in chief was neccesary. IMO no sane individual regardles of delusion would have taken that risk. It was a terrible risk as shown by current circumstances. Machiavelli would have been shocked as well as Sun. A horrible bet. Incompetence? Hatred of Russia? I say no. Sure there were various grudges chief amongst them Russia totally changing what the Bolsheviks had planned.
Russia was trading its energy for the EUs infinite debt. Why was there a problem. Some would suggest that it was neccesary to fully control Russias resources via the usual corporations. True but that is only a symptom.
Russia didnt create infinite debt. They were not part of the club. Without that they were untrustworthy.
Taking that IMF loan says you join. Its your initiation rite. Sure its a control mechanism but its more. Its that first shot of fentanyl in a room of junkies. If you say no thanks but hey feel free you are not going to be popular. They might say hey its cool dude but you are prey then.
But even that does not explain it. IMO the reality is the present “financial systen” is doomed with the infinite debt. its pretty much open knowledge as shown by the “great reset” discussions. It can only be postponed so long. hey want it buttoned up where the world goes then. They want their authority as created by their pretend markers to change but remain. Because they are so special of course.
Russia represented a non addict. All the other addicts will go fentanyl smack oxy whatever the great reset which will only estabish the infinity debt in a new fashion. Russia will of course go no thanks. You know I dont touch the stuff. That was not ok. Everyone had to be on board.
Trump thinks the USA can come out ok running solo. The DOGE stuff is fundamentally a admission that infinite debt is not sustainable. In that the DOGE actions are great news. What is terrible news is Trump is not seeking alternatives where all nations are valued. He is still pursuing war as a primary economic activity. Not a good way to go into the great reset which is infinite debts inherent flaws coming forth.
Trump thinks he can dump EUs infinite debt but keep he USAs in some form. So Europe has to go cold turkey but not the USA. THe great reset s regarded as just another of Trumps six bankruptcies. Was he cut off from funding after any of those? No. He manipulated the system as was back in business. He is applying his personal paradigm to the situation but its inapplicable. Credit is going away. The dollar is going to zero. Trump of course will wage war fully backed by the people of the USA of all persuasions as their ability to consume goes to zero. The great reset will occur not as a transition to slavery but a collapse. Trump thinks he can navigate it and the USA will retain some sort of exceptional status. If not he will blow up the world. In the meantime he is doing things at least as insane as Biden. Delusional things. Intelligence to Ukraine. Strikes on Yemen. War with Iran?
The DOGE could be a signal that the USA is trying to get clean. Compromises could be sought with ChIRU. First humbleness would be required. We screwed up. We want to change. The military actions communicate the opposite. USA is going to go into the crisis with Trump thinking he has cards. He does. The cards are blowing up the world. He same cards held by every country with nuclear weapons.
Part of he trouble with the crisis for humanity posed by nuclear weapons is they may start out as what is considered a legitimate self defense. Dont mess with us we have nukes. The trouble is it works. Does anyone want a piece of that? Hell no. Then human nature gets to thinking. How about I get this consideration? After all I have nukes. Exceptionalism is reinforced. Humbleness is abandoned. Why? Because. Ill blow up the world.
It has to be real. Bluffing can be sensed. So willingness to do it is cultivated, This is the model that is presented for strength not humbleness.
I had hopes that Trump would represent some aspect of humbleness. Yet another example of the human capacity for self delusion. Grape or Cherry exceptionalism? Your choice.

Posted by: Ralpheaterofcheese | Mar 21 2025 21:29 utc | 172

Welp. Boeing has been bailed out. With an picture of a plan.

Posted by: too scents | Mar 21 2025 21:48 utc | 174

Posted by: too scents | Mar 21 2025 21:48 utc | 174
Next generation fighter to be based on the 737 Max airframe. Fuselage plugs to be mfg’d in Thailand.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Mar 21 2025 22:06 utc | 176

William Gruff. You must be pals with Canuck. Competing for the most offensive remarks prize. You are quick to lump me into whatever group happens to pump you up from day to day. Shall I do the same? You strike me as a nasty misogynist moron. I hope you get exactly what you want from the Trumpstein/Musty floor show.

Posted by: Formerly Miss Lacy | Mar 21 2025 23:04 utc | 178

“Trump has not got a single actual clue about this plane. Watch him read every word.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpsmhY39ylQ
That was just pathetic. These are actual clowns.
Posted by: saner | Mar 21 2025 22:26 utc | 177″
Named after himself 47th president. Spend that infinite debt $. Go Go Go. It will Launch (drop) state of the art gravity bombs. Top gun Rools! USA USA USA. Yemen commemorative edition. Comes with a Trump bobble head on the joystick. No DOGE in the MIC. Is this the start of cutting military spending by half Trump?

Posted by: Ralpheaterofcheese | Mar 21 2025 23:24 utc | 180

Chinese AI update
LMAO 😂
Sam Altman is probably not sleeping well.
Kai-Fu Lee (Taiwanese businessman and computer scientist)
short video
https://x.com/ai_for_success/status/1902719472185852144
——
This is why the US is falling behind in every industry. Monopoly and protectionism are bad for development. The Chinese don’t have tech oligarchs.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 21 2025 23:59 utc | 182

Posted by: HB Brian | Mar 21 2025 16:51 utc | 120

The internet impact on entertainment/news is a great example of how technology reduces barriers to entry and economy of scale advantages…Another great example is the big business of restaurants and fast food. Many go to McDonald’s because it is a known, consistent experience vs. the unknown local eatery. But in the information age, you ought to be able to find that local eatery that outperforms McDonalds on quality, cost, or time.

There is a little SF about cheap energy and AI added, which should be ignored.
Posted by: HB Brian | Mar 21 2025 20:00 utc | 163

I didn’t say anything about “marketing costs”. You’re building a straw man. AKA, lying.

The ease of finding that local eatery is lower marketing costs for the local eatery. Yes, you did talk about marketing costs. If I had used quotation marks around marketing costs, you might have a complaint. But as it is, this is your sophistry.
Posted by: too scents | Mar 21 2025 18:50 utc | 147 [link to wikipedia article on synergy] I am not too scents (most of whose comments are more useful anyhow.)
I realize now I forgot to explain why copyrights, patents, trademarks and logos arose for sound reasons. Someone with accounting and finance should understand that trademarks and logos are tools to prevent fraud on the consumer, where inferior goods are passed off as something with a better reputation via false trademarks and logos. It is somehow unsurprising that this commenter approves fraud. Copyrights and patents arose as a way to encourage original work by offering the creator’s reward for publicizing their work. Without patents, there is a tendency to keep information and invention secret, at cost to the national economy (indeed the world at large.) Again, I still insist that all monopolies should be regulated. The man who patents fire should not be able to charge the price he wants, much less forbid the use of fire to those who pay. Admittedly this is unorthodox thinking for accounting and finance people. And copyrights? too scents didn’t copyright their comment on how libertarians don’t understand, so is it any wonder I stole the credit?*
*Yes, this is sarcasm. I didn’t do that.

Posted by: steven t johnson | Mar 22 2025 0:29 utc | 184

@HB Brian | Mar 21 2025 16:51 utc
Keep posting, HB Brian. I don’t recall seeing your postings here @ MoA .. maybe I missed them.
I agree with your posit that the entry-barrier costs of manufacturing and generally standing up a new commercial enterprise – of innovation in general – are likely to continue to fall. It’ll be progressively more difficult to “build a moat around it” as the years pass.
I hope you’ll turn your attention to “what are the tools needed to accelerate these trends?” and “how to educate, involve, and motivate more people to participate”.
Are the little people:
a. Collaborating and communicating effectively?
b. Building a commons of technical know-how, directed expressly towards establishing new small enterprises?
c. Building a bottom-up concept of what tomorrow’s economy looks like, behaves like, required skills and capacities at the individual level?
The trends do favor the small, but the small are not currently doing that great a job leveraging their strengths, IMO.
You’ll note, possibly, that I have repetitively called on the Bar to set out their own Economic, or Industrial policy for the U.S. going-forward. No Takers … so far.
What you’re alluding to – this “lowering of entry barriers” – the reduction of cost to be a player – that’s a cornerstone of (some few, highly effective nation’s) industrial policy. That’s what China did, it’s what Russia is doing, India is trying … anyone that has an interest in explosive economic development realizes this … unless you’re in the Moat business, e.g. the wealth-extraction, wealth-concentration business. Which most of us aren’t.
IMO this is one core reason the West has fallen behind economically: too little bottom-up economic and innovation involvement. Too few people involved, simple as that.
There are several regular MoA posters that have opined on this subject in the past, and will be delighted to discuss and debate it with you.
Stir the pot. This is a highly worthwhile topic to discuss.

Posted by: Tom Pfotzer | Mar 22 2025 1:29 utc | 186

@186 Tom
“You’ll note, possibly, that I have repetitively called on the Bar to set out their own Economic, or Industrial policy for the U.S. going-forward. No Takers … so far.”
First you would have to define an objective, what scenario is anyone aiming for ?
A sci-tech reality
Minimal effort for minimal/maximum reward
A harmonious balance of work and play
A nation view or an individual choice
Quality or quantity
Isolationist or integrated at world level
To fit what kind of societal paradigm.
Etc. etc. etc.
Though each person might have their ideal, they are hardly going to suggest that national policy be made to fit to it ? If only because it would invite others to impose their own ideal instead ?

Posted by: Ornot | Mar 22 2025 2:38 utc | 188

Posted by: too scents | Mar 21 2025 17:31 utc | 129
gonna have to check that out

Posted by: UWDude | Mar 22 2025 2:57 utc | 190

Posted by: HB Brian | Mar 22 2025 0:53 utc | 185
You are arguing with a total know-nothing-know-it-all reddit tier troll who first came here posting to new york times and washington post to back his shit up begore he realized he was in the wrong bar to be talking that kind of shit.
A total asshole who will stoop to any level to protect his agenda… which I dont know, or care to know, because I stop reading his shit as soon as I recognize it is his.
steven t johnson is not interested in intellectual dialogue.
Just letting you know, I am sure when you call him a liar or say he is strawmanning, etc, I am sure he is, nevause thats all he really does.

Posted by: UWDude | Mar 22 2025 3:12 utc | 192

…anyways, what a great time to be Chinese and shameful time to be American, (well, the latter always has been for me for my adult life).
Posted by: UWDude | Mar 22 2025 3:06 utc | 191
############
Competition is good. The Axis countries are setting a high bar, and now America will have to catch up.
First, they have to ditch Trump’s “they stole that from us” approach.
Getting rid of the DoE will pay dividends in a generation.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 22 2025 3:21 utc | 194

I mean Wilbur Ross’s confession of course !

Posted by: denk | Mar 22 2025 3:36 utc | 196

As a follow on to my recent Xinhuanet posting about low altitude drone pilot projects in China there is this
China certifies first unmanned helicopter
https://english.news.cn/20250321/3125a33e408e4add95378e44eb0eddcb/c.html
quote

According to the company, the TD550D boasts high payload capacity, long endurance, and strong high-altitude performance, making it well-suited for complex environments such as plateaus and islands.
The helicopter has a maximum takeoff weight of 640 kg at sea level and 550 kg at an altitude of 5,000 meters. Its maximum payload capacity reaches 200 kg at sea level and 120 kg at 5,000 meters, demonstrating its versatility in high-altitude operations.
The aircraft, designed for applications in emergency rescue, firefighting, and smart logistics, features emergency return, automatic landing, and forced landing capabilities in critical situations.
The certification comes as the drone industry in China is entering a stage of rapid growth. According to Yang Jincai, chairman of Shenzhen Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Industry Association, the number of drone operating companies nationwide has surpassed 20,000, with an annual output value reaching approximately 210 billion yuan (about 29.26 billion U.S. dollars), reflecting a 39.5-percent increase over the previous year.
As a major hub for the industry, Shenzhen is home to nearly 2,000 drone companies, contributing 107 billion yuan in output value for 2024, representing a 12-percent growth rate.

I think China’s support of industry hubs is key to the speed and depth of their developments. Since profit is not the key driver like the West, there is automatically less economic/market scoping of R&D which limits the innovation potential.
I damn well feel that China is prioritizing safety much better than the profit driven West with their developments.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Mar 22 2025 4:45 utc | 198

> be Trump
campaign on mass deportations
“Only criminals”
“Only violent criminals”
“Also I want more Indian H1Bs”
deports fewer people than Obama
“Let’s sell a million golden green cards”
> MAGA slob sponges: “Promise made, promise kept!”
> “I’ll end the war in a single day”
“With me it would’ve never started”
pauses military aid for 48 hours
gets mineral deal
resumes military aid
sends $20B to Israel so it can genocide in HD
bombs Yemen because muh tradition
cuts DEI so Bubba doesn’t feel gay in camo
gunning for Iran war because donors said so
talks China containment, stacking wars
still funding ISIS in Syria, minorities get wiped
“it helps Israel tho”
> MAGA slob sponges: “That’s my peace president!”
> “We need to restore freedom of speech”
deports people who criticize Israel
declares antisemitism a public health emergency
denies education to those who won’t rim Bibi 24/7
> MAGA slob sponges: “Finally winning!”
> fills entire cabinet with deep state Ziocons
> MAGA slob sponges: “He’s draining the swamp!”
> refuses to dismantle USAID in full
keeps writing them checks
> MAGA slob sponges: “He’s fighting the deep state!”
> puts an oligarch in charge of reviewing government
> MAGA slob sponges: “He’s fighting the globalists!”
> literally follows Project 2025 from Heritage Foundation step by step
> MAGA slob sponges: “Finally, change!”
> first anti-America protest in… Greenland
Greenland, bro
> MAGA slob sponges: “America is finally respected again!”
> wants to primary Thomas Massie
the only sane guy in 300 million
should be locked in Fort Knox
> MAGA slob sponges: “Something something COMMUNISTS!”
Point all that out, and the same slob sponges will tell you to be patient.
No, Sally—just because you’re taking forever to recognize a pattern doesn’t mean I’m gonna pretend to slow down too.

Posted by: Dlugaj July | Mar 22 2025 5:24 utc | 200