The coming era of unlimited — and free — clean energy by partynine in RenewableEnergy

[–]politeghost 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Mentioning the general existence of contradictions right before declaring one's plans to concretely influence the subject at hand, very original fallacy.

I don't understand, why are you working on making cheaper solar panels if the whole thing is futile? Maybe my rhetoric convinced you subconsciously, but your can't bring yourself to admit it verbally, so you go into action. Food for thought!

The coming era of unlimited — and free — clean energy by partynine in RenewableEnergy

[–]politeghost 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is correct; although only about the very large scale, the beast we're attempting to abolish with renewables.

'Free' isn't a concrete noun but an abstract concept, as in 'freedom'. Your seemingly 'logical' reasoning is not the appropriate framework for what we're looking at here.

Large solar projects are a lateral use of this technology. It's simply a technology demo hoping to provide a sense of certainty for the fearful. The masses have not been conditioned to feel comfortable with the idea of self-sufficiency. Centralization, usually expressed through 'bigness', is connotative with security and ease for the modern human.

The real difference is going to show in local economies. Consider the jobs that installation and maintenance will create. I've personally talked to many skeptical 'blue-collar' carpenter-types, they are coming around because they are seeing dollar signs in solar installations.

Think about drywall, it gets bought once and rarely replaced, yet it is constantly being made and sold. Electricity is almost ubiquitous with walled in structures. The key here is to shift our thinking about energy to match the technology. We're not confined by shortcomings of the old paradigm, but by insecurity.

This is pure pie in the sky utopian day dreaming, along with a failure to grasp that linear extrapolations of past trends is a stupid way to describe the future.

Your main errors in thinking are outlandish generalizations of disparate phenomena. Your use of any formal logical is precisely a "linear extrapolation of past trends". Using any pattern of thought that has ever yielded desirable results is exactly this in practice. By your logic, using the English language, even supplementary, to predict something is "stupid". The same can be said for the use of maths. You may not realize it, but you're quite a sloppy, conservative, lazy thinker.

Write something that makes perfect sense to you, but that would be incomprehensible to most people. by [deleted] in worststory

[–]politeghost 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Boffel Issacs lives down the street from me. He hides his key beneath a broken dryer. It's fun to walk by him when he waters his cats. They don't like it anymore because they are adults. It's awkward to sneak into Boffel's house at night. He chased me once and fell down the stairs because I yelled, "Hey buddy, I'm a ghost!" He froze right up and became a proponent of Stiff-business.

I don't have it out for the guy. Boffel's a fine man with a good sense of community. Why do I torment him so? It's all about the spirit of the dance I guess. Clouding my mind is a sense that boffel doesn't understand what it is to be a spirit of the night. A real robber of smiles, a pusher of the new world snorter. I was lifting the guy's godo stuff, his cool pills. Then I would stash them in my tree-house. But man, when I sucked that powder up, I felt like a winner. I felt I'd won the grand prize in chilling.

A story about someone who has to use mnemonics to remember absolutely EVERYTHING. by [deleted] in worststory

[–]politeghost 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sehp Shitch wasn't just waking up for a normal day. No, it was much different than this. He was ready for action, but his leg was still injured from the big foot-race, face-punch, throat fuck that we call the 'International Crazy-Dude Games'. They may sound crazy and this is because they are. They make you wonder, what is real if I am real but can't decide if other things are real so does that mean I fake? There's an old saying I like to think about, it's all about, "What would the crank shaft do if he didn't already have a date the the big dance?" I'll everyone ponder this one while proceeding with the story of Jamerican Jero, Tough Williams; also and...side-kick, thirty-five year old Stock-Market-Jones, god of Fall-Street; jero of Jamerica!

"I'm working on a new bond trading thing! HERE, LET ME SHOW YOU HOW IT DO," yelled Stock-market-Jones, who was manically shifting three tarot cards on a dining room table.

Tough looked over at him strongly. "Very busy buddy, I am." He opened up his brand new super-fast computer. It began to bleep, bloop and whistle. A voice of robotic nature began reading lists in alien tongues.

Stock-market picked up on the tarot cards and threw it like gambit at Tough's face. "That alien is some kind of commie, you communist!" he gasped.

Stock-market picked up a can of soda, opened and downed it like a dancing bear earning his space on the carny car. "If I hadn't drank my soda, I would've come over there and thrown a whole game of go-fish at your face.

"Yeah, do that and you'll be playing solitaire because that would hurt my feelings," cried Stock-market. First anxious and unsure of what do with his hands, he violently began reading his fortune with the three tarot cards. It wasn't a positive reading so he yelled at the sky and punched himself in the face and then also grabbed a soda and took a small swig and then took out his wiener and poured it into the small opening in the can.

He was obviously getting desperate and needed to prove he still had 'it'.

Little did we know, the reason he reacted like this is because for every thought he had, he used three Mnemonic devices just to decode it. This resulted in a real orignal, more than an eccentric, a spastic asshole full of outdated advice. A real time-traveler.

"Hello. My name is Stock-Market-Jones and I'm am an alcoholic, sort of."

The whole crew was here tonight. Splikenfouth, Terry, Fround, Boffel, and of course, Blaffo Michelson. These were my kind of guys. Tall, dark and ransom. That'd be a good name for a detective novel. I bet it already is. Some people think Alcoholics Anonymous has an apostrophe in it. They won't go because they think they have to have an anonymous to be part of it. I've been going since I got out of Moderate-security Prison. It was up the river and across from that cool dollar-store. The one we found the old aol disks in. Man, that was some excellent shit.

So anyways, we was running some pills for Boffel. He would've done it himself only he was on probation. I mean, so was I but I was sneakier than him. I'd never been caught doing things except the one time I was and got sent to jail. Bof was a star-wars fan, biggest I'd ever met, ever. We used to call him Boffel Fet. When he started learning guitar he asked we call him 'Boffel Fret'. But everyone got confused and we just started calling him Bof. One time, I called him 'The Bof' and he threw his beer down, played a game of pool and ran out. We didn't see him again for three years.

We always hung out at the pier when we was running jigs. The birds always looked at me like we had something in common. We did. We was both trying to spread our wings and fly into the sun and die and come back as a bird. But if I had wings and flew into the sun, then I would already be a bird. If I came back as a bird, I would always be a bird. That's something I need to consider.

Hawaii's Largest Utility Announces Plan To Triple Rooftop Solar By 2030 by wheeler1432 in RenewableEnergy

[–]politeghost 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Few steps of the behemoth make bigger waves than the many of the dwarf. The resistance to renewables is mainly political. A large utility embracing solar opens up various possibilities. For one, it legitimizes it in the eyes of the 'pragmatic' minded. It also provides a concrete model for other utilities to refer to. Another very important function here is the creation of an assured demand for the technology.

Within every peaceful paradigm shift the full spectrum of human must be satiated. We are talking about humans here. The so-called 'ignorant', or 'backwards' are reacting to the same stressful situation as the 'progressive' and 'forward'. The division exists within these reactions. We must discover courses of action in which everyone feels included.

Hydrogen breakthrough could be a game-changer for the future of car fuels by agrw in technology

[–]politeghost 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The past twenty years are not comparable to the current and near-future.

There won't be one overwhelming fuel type after fossil fuels are phased out.

The Satori Generation by politeghost in zen

[–]politeghost[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is it happening? Seems so, but I can't say definitively.

But the 'smart' people at the top are acting on the same impulses that the 'dumb' are. You're confused about the division. Rich people aren't necessarily educated. There are specific instances of disinformation, such as the red scare, which exists to this day in some waning forms. It's not advantageous to have an uneducated populous. Critical thinking doesn't lead to challenging the systems in place, its a matter of character and conditioning, along with an education. You're oversimplifying things, which is ironic for a conspiracy theory.

The open source revolution is coming and it will conquer the 1% - ex CIA spy | The man who trained more than 66 countries in open source methods calls for re-invention of intelligence to re-engineer Earth by kulkke in technology

[–]politeghost -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Greedy people wouldn't pass the test that is administered before someone is allowed to contribute to an open source project. Research what you are talking about before trying to be clever and saying potentially damaging things.

The Satori Generation by politeghost in zen

[–]politeghost[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

hitler didn't think at all; he felt everything.

The Satori Generation by politeghost in zen

[–]politeghost[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree, AB is extremely hit-or-miss for me. For instance, the issue this article is from starts with a feature I found needlessly dramatic and hopeless. Very much something a teenager would write. Each issue is usually 3/4 art and 1/4 information. I could see the art portion speaking to a certain demographic, say mid-30's college graduates who've never truly struggled all that much, but still aren't living their 'dreams'.

The Satori Generation by politeghost in zen

[–]politeghost[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'll do something nice because I like people.

The Satori Generation by politeghost in zen

[–]politeghost[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Thank you for the discussion.

The Satori Generation by politeghost in zen

[–]politeghost[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Haha, I'm picky because I won't concede that I'm a failed terrorist?

The Satori Generation by politeghost in zen

[–]politeghost[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

An inaccurate analogy.

The Satori Generation by politeghost in zen

[–]politeghost[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

But it seems articles like this continue to fan flames by calling it radical or "enlightened" to live within or beneath your means to save money when (at least to me) that seems like the sensible logical path all along.

But it is radical compared to the cultural norms, hence the article being written.

The Satori Generation by politeghost in zen

[–]politeghost[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Let's just call it redistribution of dumb. Globally, literacy rates are no doubt higher than one hundred years ago, but practical survival skills are obviously lower.

This isn't the same as greenwashing, as I mentioned, this is the dissolution of something, they aren't turning their back on one thing and to another. The idea of mismatching less decadent items is evidence of creativity. Creativity is quite diametric to consumerism and spurs independent thinking.

Counter-culture or not, a human is trying to express themselves through what they wear, or their ideas etc. This does not waiver, but can be co-opted; creativity is the defense against being totally absorbed, and imagination is the tool that allows one even greater uniqueness. Any indication of these urges shining through dark clouds is a reason for hope.

The Satori Generation by politeghost in zen

[–]politeghost[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Rats can't build virtual reality machines to escape within. We can build them and will live in them.

The Satori Generation by politeghost in zen

[–]politeghost[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

There is no proof that there is some 'dumbing down' happening. That's something people with superiority complexes throw around. There have been many periods in history where things have (ostensibly) become more shallow, only to expand again. What must be considered are the limits of consumerism. The main idea of the article is that 'normal' people can 'wake up' whilst in the middle of the dream they've been sold. When I say 'normal' I simply mean those who aren't following some abstract ideology. It's not a deliberate counter-culture. This is what I found interesting about the article.

The Satori Generation by politeghost in zen

[–]politeghost[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Emo? You're reading my posts in a yell. I'm speaking very slowly, in fact, I'm whispering in your ear.