Gregory's Server@CrypticMirror @tychotithonus @robertatcara What they don't realize is, 1 week without the benefits of civilization, and they'll be dead of a bone infection that turned into sepsis, or COVID, or just about anything out there, really. The worst things are the ones you can't see. Valley Fever from the soil. Ticks, parasitic worms, cuts when you don't have access to treatment, like antibiotics ...
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@thepoliticalcat @CrypticMirror @tychotithonus @robertatcara there must be a name for this logical fallacy. X worked to eliminate Y so we don’t need X anymore @bri_seven @thepoliticalcat @CrypticMirror @tychotithonus @robertatcara Donald MacKenzie of U. Edinburgh has done some sociology work on beliefs/models that are "counterperformative" if they tend to encourage action whose impact tends to (apparently) undermine their own assumptions/preconditions He's written some stuff about the histories of formal software verification and financial markets as models that encourage action that undermines/reinforces their own assumptions, respectively @bri_seven @thepoliticalcat @CrypticMirror @tychotithonus @robertatcara so roughly speaking "we should take system-critical software flaws like the y2k bug seriously" is counterperformative in this sense because it caused everything to get fixed, so unfortunately then we have this situation where people aren't taking future things like this seriously  @bri_seven @thepoliticalcat @CrypticMirror @tychotithonus @robertatcara a lot of libertarians have come out of CUNY, U Virginia, U Texas, etc.... Same energy   @bri_seven @CrypticMirror @tychotithonus @robertatcara Go ahead, tell me. Did they immediately find themselves in the middle of a raging outbreak? @thepoliticalcat @CrypticMirror @tychotithonus @robertatcara this is a second/third hand story so I’d have to go looking for the source to find out @bri_seven @thepoliticalcat @CrypticMirror @tychotithonus @robertatcara i think the system of government supports and higher-bracket income taxes that most of Western civilization had in the mid 20th century that was responsible for the prosperity of the boomers who then were responsible for Reagan and Thatcher destroying all of that resulting in the inexorable decline for all generations that followed is a case of this
@thepoliticalcat @CrypticMirror @tychotithonus @robertatcara no need to get so exotic. Most of them can't survive without weekly gasoline fillups. The silliest thing about mad Max was the idea that you could produce fuel fit for racecars in a refinery lacking access to reliable electricity, specialty chemicals, testing labs, precision valve makers, firefighting foam... @stevenbodzin @CrypticMirror @tychotithonus @robertatcara The spouse is a scientist, and you have no idea how he loves to harsh my mellow with a dose of facts.  @thepoliticalcat @tychotithonus @robertatcara I almost died of a necrotic gallbladder a few years ago. If it hadn't been for prompt hospital treatment, I'd be dead by now. And I didn't even do anything to prompt it happening. My gall bladder just up and randomly got a blocked bile duct out of nowhere. Without civilisations, anything can kill you. Including nothing. Just pure randomness can kill you. Wouldn't have mattered how "prepped" I was. |
@thepoliticalcat @CrypticMirror @tychotithonus @robertatcara whenever i hear about y2k i think about the water treatment plant that sacked all its scientists because there hadn’t been a cryptosporidia outbreak in 10 years.