Well said. My experience is similar.

I'm writing a simple WP plugin for a client right now today, good money fast and easy.

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That's the spirit!

I am okay with nuclear plants.

But first I want full roll-out of energy I can generate myself, or with my friends and neighbors, which of course will never be true of nuclear (let alone fusion, which I'm also okay with ... but first my solar roof please).

It's a question of scale, and who controls the power.

Very informative, thanks for writing this up.

Yes! Repurpose! That's the way! Spaceship Earth, goddammit -- everything is an input to another process!

Like you, I am impressed by the reuse potential of turbine blade.

My first thought? Roofing: mount a blade flat on pylons to form a picnic pavilion. Maybe not super-efficient roofing design in some ways, but definitely durable and arguably attractive (to my eye, anyway).

It's true. We have the best government money can buy.

And the best money government can print.

"One women said that she almost hit one of the company's minivans because it suddenly stopped while trying to make a right turn ..."

She almost hit the vehicle in front of her -- making her almost an unsafe driver. This is not grounds for her to complain.

Safe drivers allow sufficient stopping distance between themselves and the vehicle ahead. Doesn't matter why the vehicle ahead stops abruptly (driver had a stroke, software crashed, doesn't matter). The vehicle behind is always responsible for not hitting the vehicle ahead.

"If you go through a lot of hammers each month, I don't think it necessarily means you're a hard worker. It may just mean that you have a lot to learn about proper hammer maintenance."

- Jack Handey

I am reminded of this passage from Neal Stephenson's novel Anathem:

“Early in the Reticulum-thousands of years ago-it became almost useless because it was cluttered with faulty, obsolete, or downright misleading information,” Sammann said.

“Crap, you once called it,” I reminded him.

“Yes-a technical term. So crap filtering became important. Businesses were built around it. Some of those businesses came up with a clever plan to make more money: they poisoned the well. They began to put crap on the Reticulum deliberately, forcing people to use their products to filter that crap back out. They created syndevs whose sole purpose was to spew crap into the Reticulum. But it had to be good crap.”

“What is good crap?” Arsibalt asked in a politely incredulous tone.

“Well, bad crap would be an unformatted document consisting of random letters. Good crap would be a beautifully typeset, well-written document that contained a hundred correct, verifiable sentences and one that was subtly false. It’s a lot harder to generate good crap. At first they had to hire humans to churn it out. They mostly did it by taking legitimate documents and inserting errors-swapping one name for another, say. But it didn’t really take off until the military got interested.”

“As a tactic for planting misinformation in the enemy’s reticules, you mean,” Osa said. “This I know about. You are referring to the Artificial Inanity programs of the mid-First Millennium A.R.”

“Exactly!” Sammann said. “Artificial Inanity systems of enormous sophistication and power were built for exactly the purpose Fraa Osa has mentioned. In no time at all, the praxis leaked to the commercial sector and spread to the Rampant Orphan Botnet Ecologies. Never mind. The point is that there was a sort of Dark Age on the Reticulum that lasted until my Ita forerunners were able to bring matters in hand.”

Source

Read: Holograms to tour as Andy Kaufman and Redd Foxx.

Future Shockshock (Alvin Toffler, 1970) observed that change is stressful, accelerating rapidly in our time, and sure to get worse.

Get worse it has. Change continues to accelerate, fulfilling Toffler's predictions.

John Brunner's excellent novel The Shockwave Rider (1975) puts it well:

In the twentieth century one did not have to be a pontificating pundit to predict that success would breed success and the nations that first were lucky enough to combine massive material resources with advanced knowhow would be those where social change would accelerate until it approximated the limit of what human beings can endure.

There's the rub: change will accelerate until it approximates the limit of what human beings can endure.

Those who cannot endure? They kill themselves, or others, or go insane.

Sources:

• https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FFuture_Shock
• https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FThe_Shockwave_Rider

You said it. We want a lot of energy in a hand-held format. But it's dangerous.

That energy will get hacked for purposes both good and bad, and the bad purposes will include explosions.

I wonder if morphological computation can solve prion folding.problems.

If not an outright solution, such models may provide insight: "Soft is as soft does."

Another thought:

Perhaps these morpho-squishy computers can run competitive genetic algorithms.

Think Robot Wars meets Fight Club.

I would pay to see that.

True, we are apex predators, and thus apex toxin accumulators.

But heavy metals and other accumulative toxins are not the reason that pregnant women -- or anyone, for that matter -- should not eat people. I haven't run the numbers, but I'm pretty sure that you won't ingest that much cadmium and whatever, even if human flesh is your primary food source.

The real peril is Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy -- "Mad Human Disease" -- which begins with a single strand of broken protein.

Also, social-evolutionary pressures tend to work against cannibalism, in the long run. Maybe. I hope.