ElHexo [comrade/them]

I don’t get it

Lights don’t do shit for safety, and the safest way to use cars is to not.

too noisy, too many people (leads my brain to go into hyper-vigilance mode), too closed in, too much light pollution (can’t see stars at night), and not enough green

Your last three points are an issue of urban design (and arguably the first one as well).

Biden is still way too far to the left that the overton window allows

Is he? What outcome does national or international capital want that Biden won’t deliver?

The exceptional thing is that the US went into a recession despite more rounds of extreme helicopter money.

Quick someone get on the phone and tell Gorbachev before he destroys the USSR

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their writing being so colored by their neurodivergence

How is that?

Australia has huge reserves of rare earths.

Australia also has huge reserves of cobalt too, but it’s cheaper to fuck up the DRC with violence and pollution, force kids to mine it and then write articles hand wringing about the ~ moral implications of modernity ~ without mentioning there are viable alternatives.

Centralised coordination, research and development in collaboration with other public and quasi public bodies, as well as subsidies and information to farmers to use the new cultivars

Which really should be intuitive - e.g. you have 100 scientists, should you divide them into teams and make them compete separately to deliver an outcome or direct them all to work together to the same outcome.

Late flowering lines were then crossed to high yielding varieties from the temperate zone of the world to obtain high yielding soybeans. The further breeding work at the national level was carried out mainly by the National Soybean Research Centre, whereas selection and testing in the low latitude Cerrados was carried out by the Cerrados National Research Centre (CPAC), both of EMBRAPA.

The success in selecting high yielding and stable cultivars of this breeding programme was based on the growing interchange among research Centres, State research enterprises and other members of the research cooperative system, under the leadership of EMBRAPA. In the establishment of uniform trials, differences on day-length, soil and climate were considered, given the vastness of the region.

Thus, with a network of experiments in a range of environments, the release of new cultivars was followed by practical recommendations to the farmers of growing conditions under which they were selected

https://ainfo.cnptia.embrapa.br/digital/bitstream/item/212883/1/Breeding-soybeans-to-the-low.pdf

people don’t like changing their diet drastically

We’re on track to do 55 million years of climate change in 150 years. That plants are predicted grow at all is a blessing (unlike the challenges meat eaters will face).

A little pineapple as a treat? Hopefully the slow but continued industrialisation of the third world can address that (through trade infrastructure, etc) but the barbarism outcome is looking likely in some parts of the world

On agriculture, C4 carbon fixers like corn and sugarcane will do well and rice, wheat, soybeans and barley are fucked.

Here is a good article - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3776089/

The response to COVID-19 suggests much of the lib author’s hand wringing about challenges are easily surmounted if the political will exists.

It also demonstrates some improvement over the last couple of decades from the excesses in the late 90s, and reforms have slowly improved the system (but I still think it’s comparable tinkering around the edges).

But again, the response to covid clearly shows at least for healthcare there is a “press to implement socialist healthcare” button.

Any marketised and fragmented insurance approach will necessarily be less efficient at delivering good health outcomes than a comparatively centrally planned one.

The reason was going to far looking to the US in the 1980s. The original CPC healthcare model was very different.

There have been some gradual improvements however

In 2017, the comprehensive reform pilot of urban public hospitals was fully carried out, with 93.9 percent of urban public hospitals canceling drug markup, effectively controlling the unreasonable growth of medical expenses in public hospitals. In May 2018, the National Healthcare Security Administration was formally established as an institution directly under The State Council. China’s medical security undertakings entered the stage of development in a more standardized way, with comprehensive reform of public hospitals, canceled drug markups, official drug purchase with volume, DRGS and other new policies

But tying down three US carrier groups is impressive enough on its own.

Particularly when they can barely run the existing deployed fleet at any one time

Over the decade 2005-2015, high operational tempo reduced the predictability of ship deployments for sailors and for the industrial base that supports ship repair and maintenance. For example, carrier strike group deployment lengths have increased from an average of 6.4 months between 2008 – 2011and 8.2 months between 2012 – 2014, to 9 months for three carrier strike groups in 2015. Increased deployment lengths have resulted in declining ship conditions and materiel readiness, and in a maintenance backlog that has not been fully identified or resourced, according to Navy officials. The declining condition of ships has increased the duration of time that ships spend undergoing maintenance in the shipyards, which in turn compresses the time available in the schedule for training and operations.

More reading about the state of US naval production

https://www.defensenews.com/naval/2023/07/06/after-washingtons-refueling-woes-us-navy-eyes-new-plans-for-carriers/

The team is also looking at a greater use of 3D scanning, in part to help document the difference between the condition of the ship as expected versus as-is upon arrival at Newport News so engineers can update the work packages to reflect any discrepancies.

On the contracting side, Baribeau said, the team is considering changes to how the Navy and industry share risks as a way to boost performance.

Not good for the US folks

it’s steadily improving, even if it’s not universally free at point of service yet

That’s like saying American healthcare is steadily improving (pointing at ACA) even if it’s not universally free at point of service yet.

China’s health insurance model is just as systemically broken as the US’s health insurance model, and the only effective resolution will be dumping the entire system.

The cost argument is a cop out, just look at Cuba.

I can accept that Xi wants to focus on strengthening the CPC’s foundations (particularly after the more liberal period) and develop China’s productive capacity.

Surely they can just buy the government at this point

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