Mister_DK

Mister_DK

  • Commented on Crib Sheet: Quantum of Nightmares
    , with the threat of De-Emphasis (essentially a revival of mediaeval Outlawry by the modern state) as a Foucaultian discipline to keep the working poor in line. Oh, I always thought that was a reference to the practice by the...
  • Commented on The impotence of the long-distance trillionaire
    However, personal billionaires have a slightly better record as charitable patrons, especially for less popular purposes. It's a marginal benefit, but matches your request. This is like saying the Oaxaca Cartel has a net benefit because their money laundering operations...
  • Commented on The impotence of the long-distance trillionaire
    Seems like the argument you make lays out their utility - they are paths for inflicting extreme damage on a state. The Kochs and Epstein and Sheldon Adelson do a lot of damage to America and the American hegemony, but...
  • Commented on Behind the Ukraine war
    " friend and he pointed out that Dead Lies Dreaming was already Squeecore with Lovecraftian features" Heh,just read it this weekend and that was my criticism of it, didn't realize it was intentional. Guess I need to be a better...
  • Commented on Hugos, 2022
    With the Hugos / Raytheon connection, well, kinda seems like the Hugos are something better boycotted now. Even setting aside Covid risks, Raytheon does objectively more harm than, say, the Sad Puppies....
  • Commented on So you think you can be a reality TV producer
    and Lindsey Graham and wife cough Lindsey Graham famously has never married and has a lifestyle and mannerisms that are recognized as the classic "southern dandy". Read between the lines....
  • Commented on So you think you can be a reality TV producer
    Obviously my pitch only works in America for now, but soon Boris will sell off the NHS and then we can roll out a UK version...
  • Commented on So you think you can be a reality TV producer
    Heal Thyself Think a combination of Dr Phil, Hoarders, and Ninja Warrior Mentally ill contestants discuss their troubles with pseudo-doctor, show documentary-porn of their problems, then they run through a brutal obstacle course to win a year's worth of therapy...
  • Commented on Introducing Dead Lies Dreaming
    I will absolutely guarantee that the thought process on this assassination was "Who ordered the storming of the embassy? Kill them" treating Soleimani like the head of a terrorist cell rather than a leader of state. Pure ideological blinders that...
  • Commented on The obligatory general election discussion post
    Americans tend to assume that the USA is the centre of the universe and everyone else's politics revolves around them. This can give them some unpleasant surprises, when dealing with the rest of the world. You know, back in June...
  • Commented on The obligatory general election discussion post
    Jezza, take my energy! Go on and do it!...
  • Commented on Sucker bet (a thought experiment)
    " foundation to facilitate free open-source education for everyone. Not only will it destroy the republican voters' base and right-wing populism" This is a misunderstanding of the situation. While it is true that the Republican base corresponds with a lower...
  • Commented on Sucker bet (a thought experiment)
    Keep in mind that Finally, you're outside the public eye. While your fellow multi-billionaires know you, your photo doesn't regularly appear in HELLO! magazine or Private Eye: you can walk the streets of Manhattan in reasonable safety without a bodyguard,...
  • Commented on Sucker bet (a thought experiment)
    1% wealth increase a year is offset by 2% inflation. Add to that the crash probabilities and you are much more limited than most here suppose. You are probably best off going to a northern inland midwest American state and...
  • Commented on CASE NIGHTMARE BLONDE
    I think it is now clear that America must pursue a policy of regime change via invasion for the United Kingdom. We will depose the evil tyrants who currently oppress the English and install Jeremy Corbyn as leader of a...
  • Commented on Crawling from the wreckage
    AI-controlled targeting of individual voters by state-level propaganda systems in order to amplify internal hatred and dissent No. I mean, they certainly did run ads and memes, but those were not "state level propaganda systems" nor is there any...
  • Commented on Publishing: A Slice of Life
    The reasonable, sophisticated scam is they are shorting the publisher and are going to mass dump the manuscripts to pirates and cratering the stock once their entire portfolio of future products is in the wild A more likely scam is...
  • Commented on Do my Homework
    That the way of organizing states will continue to mirror the westphalian model - As an individual your national identity and government you follow is determined by the territory you live in rather than religious/cultural/ethnic identity, and said government has...
  • Commented on Sitrep
    Calm down. First, you're misreading nojay. He's not saying that bankers == Jews, he's saying there are still a ton of lackwits out there who think that way, who probably also consider all Jews "Christ-killers". It was a direct accusation...
  • Commented on Sitrep
    For a lot of Americans and others around the world "bankers" = "Jews". You might want to take that into account when you read polemics about how the "bankers" are all guilty of unspecified crimes and should all be rounded...
  • Commented on The Pivot
    The only clear issue is that the US Navy and the USAF guard their monopoly on supersonic fast-moving dakka-dakka jets like a pair of bad-tempered, jealous dragons guard their hoards. Incorrect. The F-35 is for all branches. Army and Air...
  • Commented on Happy 21st Century!
    Obviously not, because anyone contemplating genocide as a solution to a perceived resource allocation problem is dumb enough not to understand that economics is a positive-sum game, and that downsizing your population is deflationary/causes negative growth. They don't understand externalities,...
  • Commented on Test Case
    ok everything you just said about guns and gun safety was completely wrong. Not the least of which is you are operating in some idealized perfect dream where no one every makes a mistake in weapon handling, therefore things like...
  • Commented on The Nakamoto Variations
    Satoshi Nakamoto is a fairly lazy cube drone who worked in the monitoring division for his asshole defense contractor boss. Rather than spend his time trying to hack the phone of Muslim teens or get inept dads to click...
  • Commented on New publication dates (and audiobook news)
    Hi Charlie, have you considered writing a story about an ENT doctor that gets abducted by aliens? It would be the first work of sinus fiction...
  • Commented on Why I barely read SF these days
    As for dust or gas ... an alpha particle is a stripped helium nucleus traveling typically at 0.01-0.05 c. If you manage to make it up to 1% of c, the interstellar medium (roughly one atom per cubic metre) can...
  • Commented on Why I barely read SF these days
    Regarding kings trying to rob Iron Bank: Think of the other unique institution in City of Braavos. No doubt Iron Bank has some special arrangement with the Faceless Men, for just such eventuality. Well, also there was a real life...
  • Commented on Why I barely read SF these days
    I agree - I see all kinds of people expressing some variant on "let's get rid of the police" and it always comes over as hopelessly naive. However utopian and lacking in motives for crime your society may be, there...
  • Commented on Why I barely read SF these days
    Take a random grab-bag of concepts and try to imagine the following without capitalism: [...] "trophy wife", That one is fairly easy actually. Plenty of status marriages before capitalism "She has HUGE... tracks of land" and all....
  • Commented on The crazy years
    Also, given how high speed trading works, there's also something of an issue with timing. A bulk of the money that the rich "have" will tend to be theirs for sometimes vanishingly small bits of time. Yeah, that's not how...
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