Read this earlier today. The idea that he was going to be able to repay at all, let alone from outside the organization, was hilarious. I would love to hear more from the wife given how thinly-veiled her contempt was here.
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GUYS! If you’re looking for a Bill Gates’ energy investment to pay off big:
It is an open secret, I am told, that Bill Gates, in addition to his work in other aspects of futuristic nuclear technology, is also engaged in this area.
Except for some minor issues, this is the article I’d write on the history of cold fusion up to the present for a general audience, if I could write. Thanks for keeping me from starting the Cold Fusion on Unstuck thread.
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Dunno if I’m ponied from another thread, but this is from a Ken Burns documentary and one of these little kids becomes Lt. Col. Vindman.
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At a basic level, the idea that some college dropout should be managing a research portfolio of a bazillion dollars is absurd on its face. I mean, anyone who’s worked in science at a public/academic level understands that there are publicly-accountable pencil-necked bureaucrats with Ph.Ds whose entire job is to review research proposals and to decide which ones should get funding. It’s not at all a perfectly efficient system, but giving some doofus who gamed anti-trust laws a final say in how this money is spent is absurd.
And like, we’re all poker players here, we all understand that if you have a hundred BILLION fucking dollars and a need to launder your reputation you can certainly spend your days flinging out dimes out to researchers and eventually some of that will lead to a big breakthrough of some kind. That’s when the recovering Libertarians here chime in with “fucking billionaires!” The challenge for the bobomans out there is to explain why unqualified robber-barons vetting solar power projects is more efficient than having qualified public employees make the call.
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I mean, the real poser for libertarians is why Bill Gates has a need to launder his reputation in the first place.He should be investing all that money into for-profit ventures, no?
Don’t even question it. The tremendous intellect of Ben Shapiro is as unimpeachable as Donald J. Trump himself.
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So Shapiro thinks Stalin > Trotsky.
He probably likes people who didn’t get ice picked.
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Refugees are the best people ever. @zarapochka
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Cosigned. A friend came here from Russia with her parents as a young kid. She’s as generous a person as I’ve ever met.
I thought about it for a second, for giggles I’m going to try to imbue this Shaprio statement with some sense. Leninism was a right wing form of Marxism, if it was meaningfully Marxist at all, and Stalinism was worse than Leninism. There were Marxists to the left of Lenin and Trotsky was one of them until 1917.
To the extent that there emerged a struggle in the mid 20s between Stalinism and Trotskyism, I can get on board with Trotskyism being to the left of Stalinism. Trotskyites were not fans of bureaucratic centralization, which sounds like right wing opposition to ‘big government’, on the other hand, this was to enfranchise workers over party leaders, which is left I guess? Trotskyism was predicated on spreading worldwide socialism and was crippled by the failure of other workers revolutions from taking root in Europe, so in this sense I guess he’s a ‘globalist’ and that’s to the left of Stalin’s self-sufficiency/isolationism which is typically right wing trope.
I guess the main error in this comparison is the implication that people to the left of Stalin were even worse than Stalin, which is silly.
Anyway micro since you’re here this is a good video if you haven’t seen it.
Thx. I’ve posted that video probably 5 times or more between here and 2p2. It’s awesome imo.
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It could be the case that the first time I saw it was because you linked it then, although I think I watched Chomsky vs. Buckley stuff before 2p2, not sure.
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Could you imagine Chomsky at that age debating Shapiro? Not that he wouldn’t tear him to shreds at 90 years old, but back then it would have been merciless.
I don’t think there’s enough surface area to Shapiro’s knowledge of history for Chomsky to grab a hold of and tear up.
At 90 and beyond. In the womb or in the grave, Chomsky would obliterate Shapi
One the one hand I don’t want to be glib about these things, on the other that’s a terrible show by the Nazis to not think of checking there.
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https://twitter.com/HeyCoolCam101/status/1197033697981022208
Kind of funny that Requiem for a Dream was solo trending because someone had asked the question, “what is the best film that you never want to see again? or at least for a very long time?”
Seems to be one of those questions like, “Who was the best basketball player of the 90s” where there is a certain level of consensus.
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