In the 21st century, technology only means information technology; progress in all other fields has halted.
this is definitely A Take, everything sweaty nazi doesn't like or care about stops existing. or maybe "progress" for him only means things he can grift on, in conditions when grifting is possible? bubble popping will definitely mean stop to whatever bullshit is going on in vc rollercoaster and that includes him specifically, this of course means that sky has fallen and humanity stopped progressing forever. masters thesis from this year can be easily more insightful and include more new knowledge than phd thesis from, say, 60s. (depends on field of course). together with geometric increase in new phds i guess that progress is, indeed, still happening
i'll try to replace "progress" by "cocaine money" from now on in his writing. is he pro-trump because the only thing whose price fell so far is cocaine?
The world feels stuck. We are running a "red queen's race": working harder, running faster, yet standing still. Wages have stagnated, health is plateauing, and optimism is fading.
yeah, why are wages stagnating, fucker?
Science once promised radical life extension; today, the closest we come to mastery over death is legalized euthanasia.
yeah it was called "alchemy" and even the truest believers dropped it when they figured out that mercury pills kill people. also, why would sweaty nazi say this? he bought fully into cryonics grift (and maybe others) and might be the most scared of death man walking the earth. is he trying to pivot to evangelical christianity and hope that everyone will forget how fast he got sweaty when he was asked about luigi?
Since then, secular apocalyptic fears have multiplied:
Bioweapons
Nuclear war
Artificial intelligence
Fertility collapse
Since then, secular apocalyptic fears have multiplied:
Imaginary exudate of imaginary robots
Something that didn't happen and won't because MAD works just as well now as in, say, 70s
Imaginary robots
Nazi talking point
I like how there's no democratic backsliding on that list, or warrantless mass surveillance or climate change with its many downstream effects, like zoonoses, or these fuckers specifically inflating another economic bubble. I guess this must be bringing most progress cocaine money for sweaty nazis, and who i am to stand in its way
e: also, sweaty nazi cites a russian proponent of global theocracy (dead in 1900), nice touch
i guess it only makes sense that rats get wowed by TEMPEST if they all self-taught physics
ignore for five minutes that it's one way only, someone has to listen for it specifically, 2.4GHz is way too high frequency to synthetize this way, and in real life it gets defeated by such sophisticated countermeasures like "putting a bunch of computers close together" or "not letting adversary closer than 50m" because it turns out that real DCs are, in fact, noisy enough to not need jammers for this purpose
in 90s, russian oil production dropped by almost half, and rebuilding that output took some 20 years. i thought it was because when you stop using oil well, all these sediments settle and over time it becomes harder to draw oil from it. or was it all undermaintained and they just capped a bunch of wells back then?
that tally is wildly optimistic. last time i've checked, one of latest strikes, the one on kirishi, disabled some 30% of capacity (it's too big of facility to have only one oil processing stream, so there are two in parallel. the one disabled had a bit under half of capacity, and the other one is using all slack capacity it had) and only for a month or two. some of strikes listed are from year+ ago
even with that, some 20% of oil processing capability is disabled (or was at some point), and further decrease would mean that decline in oil extraction is needed because export of crude and storage can't keep up. which means that some oil wells would get disused, and if these are down for some time they can't get restarted easily
lol they would just get a waiver from Hegseth that they're doing very important national security stuff with it
waiver that says: I can do whatever I want, possibly acquired with help of agent Jack Daniels