Re: assuming we don't have a 100x unicorn improvement in battery tech anytime soon ...

On Fri, 31 Jul 2026 16:29:56 -0000 (UTC), Tara <[email protected]>
wrote:

>On Jul 31, 2026 at 12:16:14?PM EDT, "Wilson" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On 7/30/2026 1:07 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
>>> On Thu, 30 Jul 2026 10:34:31 -0400, Wilson <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>> On 7/28/2026 5:36 PM, dart200 wrote:
>>>>> On 7/28/26 2:10 PM, Wilson wrote:
>>>>>> On 7/28/2026 3:06 PM, dart200 wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> i still won't trust or support private companies running nuclear
>>>>>>> shipping dud, ur just a negligent retard who willfully ignores how
>>>>>>> that record was produced because ur nothing more than unrepentant
>>>>>>> ideologue
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> And you think centralized command and control is a panacea, apparently.
>>>>> 
>>>>> that's what produced the record wilson: a strict military hierarchy
>>>>> dealing with life/death decision making, where command comes entirely
>>>>> from within and is strictly audited in performance for actual decades
>>>>> before given major positions of command
>>>>> 
>>>>> on what basis do have to show that the private market will be anything
>>>>> of that sort...
>>>>> 
>>>>> just more _bear_ assertions, eh?
>>>> 
>>>> Ah, so the best possible scenario you can imagine is a world that is
>>>> based on a military structure.
>>>> 
>>>> Got it.
>>> 
>>> No, the implication is that profit motive does not provide the kind of
>>> minds that society needs.
>> 
>> There's this thing called ethics. The free market works best when the
>> participants have a shared and broad ethical system that values (among
>> other things) treating others fairly, the same way most of us want to be
>
>> treated.
>
>Oh right...Ethics.  oh where oh where did they go.
>
>But they didn't disappear. And don't dispair, I see them poking up all over
>the place here in my little town.

Americans, however, can't agree on what they are.  In other words,
post-truth is steering that starship.  Towards oblivion.
-- 
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or I'll tie you to a railroad track and
<<<talk>>> to <<<YOOooooo>>>
Who dares to talk to El Sombrero?
dares: Ned
does not dare: Julian  shrinks in horror and warns others away