m.l.leuschen

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• Commented on Generation Z
  "At £30,000 a year per person, a single parent with Alzheimer's may linger for 2-3 years in a nursing home, in which case you can kiss goodbye to your inheritance from that £250,000 family home" In the future an important...
• Commented on A nation of slaves
  Sodium-sulfur is a great battery and a ... brave ... thing to put on motor vehicle. Molten sodium is not a good thing to have sloshing around in a car accident. Elemental sulfur ain't great either. Having them both, in...
• Commented on Who ordered *that*?
  "So you've put together a scenario where Germany, the Confederacy, and Japan keep down the New Yorkers, the Californians, and the Scandinavians so they can put the screws to Latin America. I think I read that book once." (I strongly...
• Commented on Books I've written
  1) I remember "Space Nazis Must Die" from Usenet, and I still remember those books by that title. That title was so awesome that when I first read Iron Sunrise it popped into my head unbidden from the turbid depths...
• Commented on Thinking the unthinkable
  I realize the UK has many separatist movements of its own for study, but allow me to still recommend a quick look-see at the history of the Quebec Separatist movement. There was, and still is, a lot of opportunity for...
• Commented on Roko's Basilisk wants YOU
  So SIs are going to play sadistic ~DnD? I've sat in a few of those games, but I usually walk pretty quick......
• Commented on If this had happened 30 years ago today, we would all have died
  Much freaking out, but the Geiger counters would have cleared it as not nuclear in, what, a few minutes? Also, no significant military damage. Radar tracking would not be consistent with a missile but make sense as a meteor. So...
• Commented on If this had happened 30 years ago today, we would all have died
  I think you underestimate the former USSR - they were kooky in many ways (as are we all) but they were not MADbots. This sort of thing is certainly not safe under MAD conditions, but "we would all have died"...
• Commented on 2512
  Given the incoming Great Climate Kerbloopsie, geoengineering is so close to inevitable that I take them as a gimme. Since I also suspect that international consensus about what needs to done is unlikely, AND that whatever is tried probably won't...