Adam Smith’s critique would address marcantilism’s reliance on government intervention which creates artificial suppression of the “invisible hand” of the market. This increases inefficiency and reduces innovation + competition. Shorthand would be a short term increase in win/lose deals vs win/win deals, and long term a problem with misallocation of resources.
lovely painting. watercolor captures the urban light so wonderfully
“We often think of rivers as following a given path for the course of its life, but really, the path changes over time as the flow cuts into the earth. The water flows through old and new and back again. In 1944, cartographer Harold Fisk mapped the current Mississippi River. It’s the white trail. Then Fisk used old geological maps to display old paths. They’re the old colored paths. And what you get is this long run of windy, snake-like things.”
https://i.nostr.build/kh0lm8fj6kgepdNc.webp
https://flowingdata.com/2010/09/15/evolving-path-of-the-mississippi-river/
case in point
“We often think of rivers as following a given path for the course of its life, but really, the path changes over time as the flow cuts into the earth. The water flows through old and new and back again. In 1944, cartographer Harold Fisk mapped the current Mississippi River. It’s the white trail. Then Fisk used old geological maps to display old paths. They’re the old colored paths. And what you get is this long run of windy, snake-like things.”
https://i.nostr.build/kh0lm8fj6kgepdNc.webp
https://flowingdata.com/2010/09/15/evolving-path-of-the-mississippi-river/
my wife and niece both read this one: https://citapress.org/cypherpunk-women/
on the one hand pokemon shield, on the other hand pokemon sword
for next console
on the one hand pokemon censorship, on the other hand pokemon control
"People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.” -V 
I can only imagine, one was already a lot.
Dangerous jobs and morons seem to attract one another. Such a bad combo.
Concrete example: I worked on a wildland fire crew for a while as a young fella. I didn’t have the seniority to drive my water truck, and the driver who owned the truck was a very stupid man. I almost wound up dead at least once because of his decisions, but then he also would have been, so this story doesn’t fully relate to your father’s wise aphorism.
Didn’t go back to that crew after that tour, even though it was the most satisfying and best paying job available to me at the time.
Dr Jeffrey Kripal writes and talks about the blurriness as being an essential aspect of the phenomena, btw
I remember the one you posted awhile ago, totally, very weird
I also borrowed the neologism from you, I believe
#npc #meme #memestr #shitpost
not an argument, just a comment:
I think, according to officer in the air force, we’re still energy independent and require nothing from the middle east at this point, but support due to networked alliances only
could be wrong but I trust my source