Safe trip to the crew. I do hope that they have ironed out all the issues.

It is the Middle East. Wars are always in season. And supply is more than the demand.

Capitalism works quite well at solving problems.

Efficiency is when you make a problem and then make people pay you to solve it. Or maybe that was some other word, I forget.

Yes. When you don't have kids you can always quit the game/rat race one way or another if it gets too much. With kids - it is different. Kids are the only burden you can't easily shrug off in this life.

I assume you grew up in different circles than me. I have seen countless kids shrugged off growing up poor and around drug addiction. I have heard the rich shrug them off to boarding school sometimes.

So you’ve never seen parents quit and neglect their kids ? That does not exists ?

I have seen of course. But the point is - if you abandon everything in life right now while childless you are not a failure as human being. It is your right to say fuck it all at any moment. If you abandon your kids you are.

Agreed, but it proves the point that having kids does not makes you an adult

There are 3 stages in life - when they care for you, when you care for yourself, when you are forced to care for someone else.

So i would say that you become adult when you have kids. Due to reasons this is postponed (or missing) to older and older age.

The drink started as a cocaine wine. So if we are looking for authenticity - we are half way there.

I did not know that! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca_wine has more.

To me it seems like the rent seeking is everywhere and getting strong in all facets of our lives. Tech companies, utilities, marketplaces, car companies, appliance companies - everyone is pushing subscriptions, gate keeping features and milking every possible dime.

Local veterinary, dentists, medical practices, funeral home, retirement homes, roofing, HVAC, etc are being bought by private equity and wealth extracted.

When every financial transaction I make in part goes to a layer at the top that exists solely because they leveraged some digit in a balance book it is techno feudalism with an owning class being paid because they are the owning class, only instead of the baron always getting his cut it's invisible someones with even less accountability than the local feudal baron had.

Now is Haskell's time to shine.

Not that great. Chances are you will destroy your country before you destroy some other.

That's just an engineering problem as well.

It’s a fundamentally different and riskier paradigm. Nuclear weapons at rest are inert, and can even be disarmed. If the lock falls off the gate at the compound, the nukes won’t spontaneously explode.

Antimatter is always “armed” and is only rendered safe by containment. If containment fails, it explodes. It’s more like keeping a massive stockpile of fluorine, but somehow worse and harder to contain.

Not to be dramatic, but wouldn't that level of destruction threaten all life on Earth? After the immediate destruction of the first county, extreme climate change would cause the same kind of problems as nuclear winter would, no?

Antimatter bombs are not a realistic technology. Aside from the unsolved technical issues - many, and fatal - no country has the GDP needed to make 1g of antimatter, which would make an explosion around 40kT.

We can't afford to blow up ourselves that way.

There are plenty of other ways we can afford, so antimatter isn't top of anyone's worries.

But they were wrong and we were right!