Parliament is not prorogued until sometime between the 9th and 12th Sept.

Stop posting in funny languages love

We didn't build an empire to read bloody gibberish

I am actually not Norwegian but almost there. I believe in you lot though. I just love my king

September Eleventh Massages?

How do y’all feel about this?

https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2012/03/russell-kirk-conservative-purpose-of-liberal.html

Nice article, though a bit abstract I would say. I do not reallly have any points to make on it. Maybe that I thought this was common knowlege about the nature of liberal education, but maybe that has indeed been starting to get lost in United States? I would not know, I am not an American.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPjrFjAxwlw

Intresting video, I only really have three points on it: First, Myth #4 is simply not adressed. He doesnt give any reason why the US government could go bankrupt, which he doesnt do because it cant, the US is monetary sovereign and could simply decide not to pay its debts or print the money that she owes in dollars to her lenders. After all 1000 dollar debt is just 1000 dollar bills, not the value of said 1000 dollars. Second, the statement about government created inflation is a gross oversimplication and the entire part about how inflation is a 'tax on your savings' is just wrong. Inflation is a natural part of how modern economies grow. After all, inflation 'happens' every time a loan is extended by a bank, which then has to cover her increased liabilities by borrowing money from the central bank or others at a certain intrest rate (this is the federal intrest rate). Generally speaking inflation rates around 2% are normal. The fact that this man calls inflation a 'tax' is just wrong, the government doesnt recieve any of your lost savings nor does it set a law to collect that revenue.. Inflation is just the increase in prices of goods over time, the fact that your income is not increasing is a completly different issue.

The second part on Taxation too contains errors. The point about how governments can't raise tax income but only tax rates is wrong, after all, there are many first world countries that collect far more than the 19% gdp in taxes. The graph that he uses to illustrate the American governments 'tax ceiling' is very intresting, it is called 'Hauser's law' and he simplifies it to '17%' overall, completly ignoring the significant shifts in percentages on raised revenue that have happend through the year, often between 1 and 2 percent points (16 to 19,5 percent). He also uses a single example of high-low taxes, top marginal income taxes, to illustrate this discrepancy, but this tax is very 'flexible' for reasons that are similar to the graphs he presents after that. In those graphs we can see how collected tax per capita is actually lower or does not change much as tax rate increases. (continue this later)

@Comando

is it wrong to think that the world needs a disaster or a outbreak of some sort

maybe one day the progression of our species will be too much and it will backfire.

make sure the progression doesn't get that far, whatever it is.

Why break the world in a time where we have everything or enough. It will just be eternal madness.

I dunno about disaster but we could use a minor ice age

unless of course everyone could get along, which is bullshit.

but since actual ice age is soon due, we might get more than that

this recently came out btw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEWoPzaDmOA

I do believe that no regulation, petition or ridiculous UN rules could stop the inevitable, late stage technology. Where anyone could use any weapon, extremely lethal. Why go that way? why let us go that far and then somehow think we can live together at that point.

Nah. You can control the material that's needed.

(needed for weapons of mass destruction)

The issue for would-be terrorists is, when there are no easy to follow tutorials, you need to be really smart to put things together.

*cough* CIA *cough*

If a government is involved, it's not really terorism.

that's just warefare.

Like, there was that guy that was building a cruise missile in his garage.

So some stuff is already quite doable.

To be honest, it's when shit becomes widely available, like apple products.

Yep. And that can be largely controlled.

Don't believe many foresaw social media.

and its addicting features etc

Maybe if something like replicator were doable, I'd more afraid.

But I don't think anything approaching that can be done.

make sure the progression doesn't get that far, **whatever it is.**

depletion of resources, overpopulation?

I really doubt that 3d printing steel is cheaply doable.

I mean there are tons of things that needs to be stopped before we reach that phase.

and w/o affordable 3d printing of high quality specific steel alloys, many things are not doable

Resources are not a problem