Yeah I think without question that there were, if not tools, then techniques that have been lost to time.

That I agree with. I wouldn’t at all deny the high time preference, shoddy building practices/materials of today. The picture looked like a location in a city, so my comments were more directed toward the change in the appearance of cities over time, due somewhat but not wholly to the demand for capacity. Saif had a good podcast not long ago about modern architecture that was very interesting to listen to. But I def agree with you that even apart from my observations, you’re right, people don’t build for quality and endurance.

Dimensions can kill aesthetics.

Height kills all those ornate reliefs and the like because you can’t see that fancy shit if it’s a hundred feet above you.

Does “voluntary withdrawal from the political” fit somewhere in that list? Maybe that’s just me.

I meant steel materials. You don’t see buildings made of stone/marble of massive height. Once construction needed the height, the builders soon got their hands on pre-fabricated pieces made of various metals.

That building at forty storeys wouldn’t work. Too heavy. The bastards needed height. And pre-fab materials were just too inexpensive to pass up.

Despite all that, yes, short term economics over taste.

I thought Empire by Niall Ferguson was excellent.

Also, Collapse by V. Zubok.

Gandhi by R. Guha

The Pope and Mussolini by D. Kertzer

When Marty was talking about Warren on rhr and you said, “I guess I’m gonna have to say humble and stack sats about it.” I laughed out loud in agreement.

Das Boot is a Christmas movie.

Thank you! Geez!

🙏

Any guidance is much appreciated.

If I’m using an airgapped coldcard with sparrow on desktop and only my desktop computer gets destroyed, how do I go about setting up the coldcard again with sparrow on a NEW desktop?

Is it as simple as exporting the generic json from the coldcard to sparrow like I did originally? If so, will all the tx data, etc., populate in sparrow as if nothing had happened?

Thank you.

Come on, baby. Pump!

Chinese Room.

Haven’t read the fourth turning. Tempted. But if I’m picking the lenses then I can show whatever I want. That and the basic determinism behind it keep me from jumping in.

The audience is highly prejudicial. No one would be tempted to read it if they felt they were occupying the first or second turning. It’s the belief that we’re in that terminal stage that drives the seeking out of that sort of material, which means you’re just seeking material to justify an already held position.

Liz Warren is a grandstanding slag who passes zero legislation.

All of this “because other people can’t tell the difference” shit needs to go. My personal taste is not another’s fucking babysitter.

So, no fun because other people are stupid. Got it.