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Comment US depends on bubbles (Score 5, Interesting) 61

USA's economy is addicted to bubbles. Without one bubble after another, we wouldn't know what business to be in. We can't manufacturer as extensively as China because we don't have a Xi keeping wages down, we have no fashion sense like France, we don't have Venice-like tourism because GOP scares off visitors (Iraq war era, not just orangeshirts), and we don't have great ruins like Machu Picchu because we tore them down to make casinos.

Our under-taxed plutocrats have giant piles of cash to invest in speculative shit, which often pops, yet we hope a new fad on the block replaces it in time: the Hype Industrial Complex.

Comment Healing two birds with one stone (Score 2) 20

black hole called Sagittarius-A* located right in the centre of the Milky Way. This black hole is currently in a quiet phase where it isn't consuming any stars, as there is not enough matter in the vicinity,"

The obvious solution is to feed it politicians. Then the Milky Way can have central bling like the popular galaxies.

Comment Race to Armageddon (Score 2, Insightful) 149

Some in Europe argue innovation is happening faster than humans can digest it anyhow, risking doomsday. Whether that's true or not, they cannot control nations who push tech boundaries, creating pressure to join the crazy game.

The world may be going mad, but they are not in a position to stop it.

Comment Re: Google Maps directing people to non-places. (Score 1) 95

Before internet maps, one typically had a buy a roadmap of every new place they visited. I had an accordion-style folder in the back of my car with about 40 maps. For big metropolitan areas one could buy a Thomas Guide, which is essentially a book of maps. If one is just driving through a new area, then travel maps covered the roads adjacent to typical gas stops. Often these were given away free because they had hotel and restaurant ads.

Some did have mistakes. Boo boo's aren't new.

In the mid 90's one could get reasonably priced software maps of every road in the USA, to print out before starting a trip.

Once on a date I got lost and dug out the Thomas Guide. My date said, "Screw the map, go that way!" She never learned to read maps, but had an instinct for finding freeways based on studying the town. There are certain patterns actually. I was impressed. People make do.

That's my whippersnapper story of the day.

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