[FRIAM] war footing

Wed Mar 2 14:22:22 EST 2022

Which part of 'not being able to do things for the "right" reasons' do you
not comprehend?

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On Wed, Mar 2, 2022, 1:06 PM Marcus Daniels <marcus at snoutfarm.com> wrote:

> Anyone that has worked for a large company has probably experienced
> regular teleconferences with colleagues in different countries.
>
> It soon becomes clear that there is an unbelievable variance in salaries.
> Yes, some of it just adjusts for cost of living.   U.S. leads the world,
> except perhaps for Switzerland.    Then there are countries like India
> which have a massive workforce but get paid next to nothing.   On one hand
> globalization leads to exploitation of vulnerable populations, but on the
> other hand it leads to raised expectations over time.
>
>
>
> My point is that a UBI (or reparations) in the U.S. would reduce conflict
> within this country, but it won’t address the potential international
> productivity crisis that is coming.   If the U.S. doesn’t support raising
> the standard of living for people throughout the world, at some point we
> will suffer for it because we are too expensive.   (And really everyone is
> at risk from automation sooner or later.)  Our privilege shouldn’t be
> jealously guarded, as the nativists argue, it should be shared to lower the
> potential violence that could occur if we are seen as a bad guy like
> Putin.  Trump was just a dumb and incompetent version of Putin.
>
>
>
> *From:* Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> *On Behalf Of *Gillian Densmore
> *Sent:* Wednesday, March 2, 2022 9:38 AM
> *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <
> friam at redfish.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] war footing
>
>
>
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> For cars Hydrogen, compressed air, mixed with electric. On paper (or
> plugged into a wall) is pretty cool as an idea...if we can, ya know, guild
> recharge stations similarly to how we build gas stations.
>
>
>
> Pardon the interruption though. But it's all fine and good to be
> perplexed, or triggered or what ever by Russia and the (former) eastern
> block. Going postal....
>
> Any plans to put the same energy into fixing super hard  problems at home?
> I hear that a lot of people are one paycheck from being homeless. and no
> one's going out to lobby the &&&&&&&& out of a Weekly allowance aka UBI.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 2, 2022 at 10:32 AM Marcus Daniels <marcus at snoutfarm.com>
> wrote:
>
> One option is mixing hydrogen with natural gas to reduce how much needs to
> be imported.   IMO there’s nothing that motivates progress in technology
> than having a working production system that can be made incrementally
> better (e.g. the 20 TB hard drives one can buy these days).   A production
> ITER type system is still a long way off.   Note that Germany has its own
> Stellarator platform that perhaps they could accelerate.
>
>
>
>
> https://www.offshore-energy.biz/germany-to-break-free-from-russian-gas-with-two-lng-terminals/
>
>
> https://www.engie.com/en/businesses/gas/hydrogen/power-to-gas/the-grhyd-demonstration-project
>
> https://www.ipp.mpg.de/5125328/05_21?c=14226
>
>
>
> Yes, time to abandon that gas station.
>
>
>
> *From:* Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> *On Behalf Of *Roger Critchlow
> *Sent:* Wednesday, March 2, 2022 9:08 AM
> *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <
> Friam at redfish.com>
> *Subject:* [FRIAM] war footing
>
>
>
> I'm thinking that a way to escalate our response to Putin, without
> actually fighting him, is to build a "green war machine".  Start a crash
> project to research, develop, and deliver the technology to liberate our
> european allies from their energy dependencies on russian oil and gas.  And
> everyone else as a side effect.
>
>
>
> That this is all stuff that we *cough* should be doing anyway is bonus
> content.  But what we can't seem to do for the "right" reasons might be
> easily done as a way to thwart an enemy who is so successfully making
> himself the most reviled man of our age.
>
>
>
> Longer term, the economic effects of the sanctions, the social effects of
> the ukrainian refugee crisis, and the demoralization of watching brute
> force in action are going to hurt our side a lot.  That may be Putin's
> actual endgame for the "operation" while he pretends to be Trump.   Better
> to be doing something positive than to be waiting around to see how it
> turns out.
>
>
>
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