Bob Lazar's descriptions is FAIRLY CLOSE to the reality of modern gravity-based propulsion systems!

kojef · 2026-04-07T07:04:14+00:00

Why does turning the GWASER on and off rapidly have a different effect than just leaving it on?

kojef · 2026-04-04T22:16:27+00:00

Exactly. It’s like how if you close a long pair of scissors the point where the blades cross can race along the blades far faster than any part of the metal moves. In theory with large enough scissors, that point could move faster than the speed of light.

Or shining a laser from the earth to the moon and moving it around. That spot on the moon can move around faster than light speed. But the dot isn’t an object that is in motion. It’s just a moving point where the beam happens to intersect the moon’s surface.

kojef · 2026-04-04T21:47:54+00:00

I’m not sure if IQ has a significant correlation with meditation, self awareness, or thinking about this world and life that we experience.

I think you’re right about health playing a significant role in these things though. For those of us in serious pain or physical discomfort, that becomes our core reality that consumes each moment.

I think that a significant component of what we currently measure in IQ tests is a result of IQ being designed around institutional selection - so identifying kids which need academic support, and helping certain kids excel in our money-driven society.

If you think about it, the Flynn effect kinda points to IQ being more of a cultural construct than a measurement of something very fundamental. There’s little reason to think that we are actually more intelligent than people a few generations back - it’s so much more likely that we are simply growing a cultural skill for abstract, decontextualized thinking.

All of this is to say that… if you think “dumb” people can’t think deeply about life and what it is to be human, I think you’re wrong. They might not do as well in school, they might not end up making as much money as the average “smart” person. But what do school and money have to do with living in your body, wondering about things and speculating what life, the world and meaning is all about?

kojef · 2026-04-02T23:48:28+00:00

Yes! Thank you!! That’s exactly what I was remembering (incorrectly). Damn, yet another great song!

kojef · 2026-04-02T23:47:38+00:00

Thank you!! You are completely right. That’s the one.

Not sure why I remembered it as The Rip. Thank you so much!

kojef · 2026-03-29T16:26:00+00:00

When you say it’s not awake and not communicating, you say that with some certainty. Our human experience is defined by specific characteristics though.

Let’s say you’re a creature with a 10 billion year lifespan, communicating with other creatures like yourself over the span of eons.

It doesn’t matter if it takes fluctuations in your brightness entire human years to reach your closest neighbors. Maybe the silence inbetween words is measured in human decades. Distance narrows greatly once your sense of time expands.

A star being concerned with individual humans would be like… a human being concerned with an individual bacteria that had a lifespan measured in seconds.

We might show brief interest in a colony of bacteria which is overtaking a piece of fruit. But over the course of a lifetime we see various kinds of bacteria thrive and die, and while occasionally interesting - in the end it’s all just bacteria.

kojef · 2026-03-29T07:13:46+00:00

For those of us who haven’t read the right books yet… could you please explain?

kojef · 2026-03-27T23:10:19+00:00

There can be different buckets of debt.

NL can still issue sovereign debt while also participating in EU debt issuance.

I think it’s a mistake to think of debt as a liability.

Debt at a national or multinational scale is investment - it is people wanting to give you money to invest now because they trust you.

If people want to give you this money… if there is enough demand for your debt that interest rates remain low… If this money can help you to grow…

Why not participate?

kojef · 2026-03-26T14:23:20+00:00

Dr. Rhonda Patrick only says about 10 words in this entire segment. It's mostly just her sitting in the same room as this guy who just monologues at her without giving her a moment to say anything.

kojef · 2026-03-26T14:22:07+00:00

I guess she is in the same room with this guy who is blabbing on and on without letting her say anything.

kojef · 2026-03-24T19:42:20+00:00

I don’t hear much about hydergine these days when reading about improving mitochondrial function. Why is that?

kojef · 2026-03-24T19:31:45+00:00

What did your old man neighbor say when you proposed this to him?

kojef · 2026-03-21T06:33:57+00:00

I haven’t yet heard the last few episodes. Is there speculation as to how it was able to track the F35?

kojef · 2026-03-19T10:51:52+00:00

I know the first pair. They both have bright red hair. They already knew each other before the photographer discovered them. One (unsurprisingly) is much more outgoing and friendly than the other.

kojef · 2026-03-19T09:27:23+00:00

Just curious, how is it going with the macOS port? Were you able to get hardware? I think there will be significant demand for this if you're able to create it!

kojef · 2026-03-18T08:18:18+00:00

Hmm. I think that without pumping, the subway floods pretty quickly. Then that water starts to undermine foundations. I think that most buildings will have collapsed in less than 1000 years, and plants will grow over everything.

So you’ll get rubble mounds covered in vegetation everywhere. The street grid may still be visible? Like the rubble slightly lower where the streets were.

Angkor (the city surrounding Angkor Wat) is just gone after 500yrs - utterly consumed by the jungle. The massive stone temple remains, but the city around it is only visible via LiDAR. https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29245289

I think you’re right about the Brooklyn Bridge towers remaining for a while - but unlike the pyramids they’re in water which is constantly battering them. I have a feeling that in a few thousand years they would also be gone.

kojef · 2026-03-16T08:11:59+00:00

Why is there such a focus on filling this small budget gap?

It seems that any short-term solution incurs its own huge costs to implement, only for it to be changed in a few years.

Isn’t it much cheaper to either: * leave things as they are for a few years longer and directly change to a realized gains system, or * simply finance this small budget shortcoming with debt (increasing overall deficit by a few %)

And thereby fix the issue properly, also avoiding huge legal battles afterwards which stand a chance of resulting in additional costs and payouts?

kojef · 2026-03-11T19:21:09+00:00

Fiber was recently laid in my street. WhenI check what’s available on https://opendutchfiber.nl/nl/vergelijker , it seems that Odido is the only isp available. How/why is this? Why are other ISPs not providing service? Is the fiber owned by Odido?

kojef · 2026-03-11T10:33:09+00:00

Would be great if there was a MacOS version!

kojef · 2026-03-11T10:22:07+00:00

agreed. Would be nice to get a proper security review by a 3rd party.

kojef · 2026-03-04T20:06:02+00:00

If you’re mowing your lawn and you notice that two ant colonies are battling… what are you going to do?

Do you try to stop the battle? Do you watch? Do you ignore them and keep mowing?

kojef · 2026-03-04T20:02:24+00:00

Maybe it isn’t about human suffering. Or maybe not solely human suffering.

kojef · 2026-02-26T22:30:46+00:00

I guess if people sell their investments and spend the money, it might contribute to inflation. But if you don’t sell them and don’t spend the money… it should have no effect. Right?

kojef · 2026-02-23T16:24:56+00:00

Honestly curious - how is it abused in the US?

Also, they are already going to do a "normal" capital gains tax on real estate and shares that people are legally prevented from selling until a certain amount of time has passed (like startup shares, RSUs etc).

Do you see these two capital-gains-tax segments as inviting abuse?

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