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Surveillance and nothing else? According to the sponsors this is really about the capacity to plant false evidence on protestors.

This alone should tell you clearly enough its not about CSAM.

Don't seem to be able to edit or delete it, but i responded to the wrong person obviously.

it never was...

An important caveat to #2. Rising populations can only be leveraged into more power if they can be channeled into import substition. Countries where import substitution is suppressed can not gain power.

> Countries where import substitution is suppressed can not gain power.

What does that mean? Seriously; I can't make sense of it.

Import substition is a process where domestic industry develops by adopting the processes of overseas industries contributing to imports, so that the country can import the raw materials and make the product, instead of importing the full product at the market price. Most surveys of macroeconomics reveal that it is integral and foundational to the development of most industrialised countries today, e.g. China.

The exporter countries contain smart people who may seek to suppress this process to maintain revenue flows. This prevents the development from happening.

Two examples:

1: the 'unequal treaties' between 19th century Japan and America prohibited certain kinds of tariffs and subsidies by Japan. This allowed westerners, prominently Americans, to maintain market share in Japan by product dumping.

2: in 18th and 19th century India various British offices at different times had policies of having their sepoys arrest textile workers and maim them by the forcible amputation of both thumbs, to preserve the market share of British textiles.

Agreed. For a while, importing stuff “on the cheap” looks like a good deal, but overtime if that makes your own industries weak, you are just losing power.

You can't win by just buying stuff from someone else; it appears that people have a hard time understanding that nowadays.

If you can't produce something domestically that takes away the need to import that thing, the nation cannot gain power.

Not only did they lose the popular vote, they lost it repeatedly. Although it was only a matter of degree at each step, Clinton was more isolationist than Bush and Dole. Bush was more isolationist than Gore and Kerry. Obama was more isolationist than McCain and Romney.

Trump was more isolationist than Clinton, Biden was more isolationist than first-term Trump and Trump beat Biden last year partially on the basis of becoming much more isolationist than his first term version, surpassing Biden.

In 1944 huge numbers of people, from a large number of countries, asked for a hegemonic world police stemming from a sole hegemon:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bretton_Woods_Conference

We don't know much of it anymore with the decline of Europe, but for several centuries the dominant geopolitical goal of most countries on Earth was to defend themselves from European invasion. Why do you think every incremental ratchet step on the gear of Germany rearming in the last three years has been taken as serious headline news by so many?

> Why do you think every incremental ratchet step on the gear of Germany rearming in the last three years has been taken as serious headline news by so many?

Cause they started two world wars previously. The second one coupled with genocide, actually multiple separate genocides going on at the same time.

Germany only started the second and all parties in the first had some prior experience with conducting a genocide.

They started the first one too. They just did. Their politics was split roughly into two camps - war hawks wanting to start the war now and moderates wanting to wait for a year and then start a war.

It is not that other countries were full of saints ... but Germany did started both those wars.

It's the product of an evolutionary process. You could scrap capitalism entirely and still get cartel formation, since you have agents with varied traits competing to gain the resources to be selected to reproduce [their continued existence, into the future].

A couple other ways of looking at it come from Bataille, Odum, Prigogine or Schmitt.

Do any websites collect lists of WOTY by year?

hm, suppose https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_of_the_year

So anybody making a site for it now would be struck down by Google Panda. It's a shame there's no niche to support a middle ground.

I'd like to see an examination of how the phrase 'human slop' rose and fell in this year. Initially emerging as a counterpoint, it's now receded.

I watched that show on netflix where the professional song writers would write potential hit songs.. that was the closest thing to human slop I've seen

How did you first come to use a five digit variation of the Gregorian calendar?

Kraken often had very informative posts, but I often feel that he invests in such posts only to promote his five-digit ideology.

That's fine by me. The informative posts are worth it.

This is my first time noticing one of their posts, but to me it evokes the ideals of the Long Now Foundation, putting our thoughts in a future-forward stance.

Thanks!

In the case of piling sand exactly in the centre, the intermediate states between the initial state and reaching the final equilibrium seem to get closer to having a circular boundary as the grid size increases, instead of the diamond-shaped boundary you might expect for a symmetrical object in a planar grid. Take a look at the largest resettable grid doing this within a couple seconds of being reset.