¯\_(ツ)_/¯ You came into this thread with all that heat, w/ no source, and ignoring the subject matter. Didn't mean to alienate you as a spook. Your views just align.
Sen. Ron Wyden: "So what I wanted to see is if you could give me a yes or no answer to the question, does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans?”
James Clapper: "No, sir."
When asked if he lied to congress, Clapper said: "When Senator Wyden asked me the question I simply didn’t think of the business records telephony metadata, at the time stored by NSA..."
Anything this guy touches needs a thorough investigation.
I store ALL my notes on charleskarpati(dot)com using .txt files or by using this tool I made: ipynb2web(dot)com
Ipynb content is mostly static content I'd like to share w people. It requires a git push to update.
.txt notes are stored on a php based shared host and managed via a hidden url. I use it for life notes, and todos. It's been working great so I plan on using this approach to add a blog to my site at some point.
My downloads folder just piles up till I sort what I can and dump the rest in my archive. The archive is real and an llm will sort it all out for me one day :) I hope.
A lil game I play is to see how long until a pandering buzzword is said from the time I turn on the radio. Usually T < 3 seconds if not the very first word I hear.
Malthusianism is from the late 1700s. Another example would be Paul Ehrlich who wrote 'The Population Bomb' in the 1960s with the quote:
> The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now.
Smart people make predictions about the future all the time. The problem is the future is hard to predict. The mere fact that birth rates in developed nations are falling below sustainment level calls into question any sort of extrapolation of when or if overpopulation will happen. That's not to say the Earth can support an infinite number of people because it can't; but that doesn't imply any specific trends we see right now will continue into the future.
I'd consider it a public transit service. We wouldn't be upset about people using shuttle busses to get to the parks, would we? I think long term footing the bill for an open platform with principle beneficiaries who use it is fine so long as it provides a net benefit.
