This app really should not require location permissions to work… something seems off.

Huh, looks like the key lesson from America’s detour into authoritarianism will be the same as every other: cowardice doesn’t pay.

Fukuyama works in mysterious ways

Producing regulatory uncertainty to own the libs

Lots of profit to be had in preventing our democracy from crumbling

2.5 billion gallons per day are used to grow alfalfa which is then mostly fed to cows which are then mostly used as obscenely inefficient water-to-protein conversion machines.

Not that I’d recommend it in normal circumstances, but in such a pinch this seems like something a reader of both Arabic and English could achieve with AI even without medical training (assuming such a resource exists in English).

Found it! bsky.app/profile/us-g...

Definitely a built-in feature, just can’t find where they live in the app after subscribing to them…

I have no clue how to find and share it with you, but there’s a thing called a “Labeler” that overlays profiles with annotations. For example I found one that overlays politicians’ profiles/posts with tags of who donates to their campaigns (from OpenSecrets).

Very neat idea

Arguably best case scenario is shit hits the fan *quickly*

People seem to have trouble comprehending change over long periods

Though I guess that’s banking on widespread disease not being pinned on 5G towers or something…

Nothing surprising here: despite Congress having very low approval ratings, people tend to love *their* representatives.

Congresspeople don’t attract nearly the same spray-and-pray disgruntlement that POTUS does.

Well we already *do* pay massive amounts of money into this stuff, as OP mentioned. It’s just much earlier in the supply chain.

NIH gives out like $38 billion in grants annually. We can spur thousands of drug programs that way, or try to put ~50 drugs through trials w/ 80%+ failure rate

A problem in one place is not a good justification to replicate it someplace else!

Not sure I’d agree the space program is similar. It was obviously POSSIBLE to get to space with enough money, and it was pretty well-understood how much it’d take. Not so with drugs. A true lottery.

Totally agree there are other risks besides financial, I’m saying the financial risk profile alone makes it pretty untenable for government to take it on.

To be clear, not b/c they wouldn’t be able to sustain losses, but b/c it’d require doling out massive amounts of 100% unaccountable money.

Better idea maybe but totally impractical. You’re talking about the government trying to select likely-winners and handing them *billion dollar budgets* to launch one of the most complex business processes in existence.

It’s just not something govt is well-suited for. That risk should be privatized

IMO people do two things:

1. fail to recognize the impact of emotional state on cognition

2. fail to recognize the sources of their emotional state

So yes, if crypto goes up, good feeling, therefore economy more better

Science is so hard because it’s hard to counteract such heuristics