Having Studied this for decades,
It is on purpose and through sheer incompetence.
1) the 'greens' in the 60's were authentic but then they were co-opted by fossil fuel and military industrial complex that didn't WANT competitive nuclear power construction industry.
2) corruption and incompetence: unions killing big construction in general. when is the last major water project...dam or otherwise (alaskan water pipeline project planned since 1950's) that the u.s. was able to pull off. ?
3) conspiracy: the only thing really stopping nuclear power being built all over the west , and being built properly in the east ( there is a construction explosion in india/china) ---is proper spent fuel reprocessing.
nuclear spent fuel is the biggest impediment to building plants. and despite how seemingly simply the problem would be to solve if you threw enough money and regulatory power at it----it is still 'unsolved'.
this is ridiculous. and the solution is not 'thorium' or other as of yet unproven technologies. it's just 'processing' the waste in any number of existing processes--that are feasible if the engineering is built out. but it's not.
the opposite. yucca mountain used the idea of 'burying the fuel' to steal money for skunkworks in a tunnel, or just for more tunnels.
i owned an A bike for like a week. they are unrideable. entirely and totally unrideable on real roads of any kind unless you want to damage your prostate.
it's either brompton or strida. other bikes are just dumb. tern. dumb. moulton dumb. pacific cycles dumb. dahon dumb. birdie dumb. bike friday , kinda dumb. old raleigh folding tanks ....the list goes on. any bike with under 16"" wheels is also totally stupid . retardedly so, unless it's for some niche clown world where bumps don't exist and you don't ride the thing farther than a mile.
advanced drone swarms that can navigate, recharge and not only do reconnaisance,audio spying , and also light land mining and light firefights are going to put an end to guerilla warfare in the next few centuries. all guerilla warfare.
there will be no place to hide whatsoever. maybe not this century, but so long as tech improves this is coming. and it will be a quick skip to global government.
i have never seen more stupid propaganda all at once than in the last week.
this is what you call and 'intellectual internationalist' form of propaganda for idiots.
oh yes, let's just disband the security counsel, that way we can rely on generals in stead of statesmen and diplomats to discuss in a very civil and calm manner how to plan to NOT have nuclear war between nuclear armed nations.
whatever you call the u.n. it is a bullshit corrupted formality.
the u.n. is useless.
the only thing of signficance is a forum for civil discussion between NON overtly military states-craft experts---to discuss the prevention of nuclear war.
beause once they stop-----the generals begin discussing how to trick one another into being vulnerable to nuclear war, while their war planners prepare.
it is as if the moron propagandists of the world would have everyon believe nuclear war is impossible and that no, of course, superpowers could have limited direct combat without risking nuclear escalation.
yes....why not. why not dumb down our own populations this much. nothing bad could result.
healthspan research is clear.
1) inflammation is a natural process that results in wear on your body
2) lower inflammation
3) doing so is different for everyone. behavior is at the core of this process. including eating, sleeping, living a life of non-excessive stress, avoiding and treating major disease, maintaining healthy mouth, and moderate exercise.
so in a word---a lot , but not all , of chinese and eastern medical philosophy has been epidimilogically confirmed.
all the new crap about 'caffiene' 'metformin' and other bullshit being good for you is just that, garbage.
what isn't , is that sometimes some people do have deficiencies of insulin sentitvity, or vitamin D, or other things---like they used to have scurvy ( vitmain C defficiency) -----so these things have been figured out and in no way relate to logevity only healthspan.
the annoying stupid thing about longevity idiots is that if a set of practices and health observation and treatments coudl guarantee living a life of perfect healthy until 100 years old----(assuming any rich person coudl afford this) ---this would yield a total revolution in human affairs for the rest of civilizations existence.
longevity is the dream of fools
guaranteed healthspan is the dream of realists.
no one on hackernews is over 60 yet, and this is why all you idiots think with your brains, instead of your hearts. you dont' talk to 80 and 90 year olds, and if you do you dont' empathize with the path towards aging sickness and death. but you will if you don't die healthy and young, because that is what happens to you . guaranteed.
and you will only realize how stupid the idea of living forever is, when you eventually get sick and just want to live healthy one more year. you will realize that feels like forever when it's you. but it's only one more year.
virtually no one lives past 110. focussing on pushing that limit is stupid and longevity research has yielded very little interesting results applicable to other areas.
suspended animation and metabolism research , are , however , intereseting and they are fundamental biological areas of exploration and not 'goal oriented' towards the philsopher's bone. cause that's what it is. a skull bone.
if a complex system can be disentangled to explain certain causes producing certain results, the system exhibits a form of laminar flow in time and space.
otherwise it exhibits turbulence. while certain forms of turbulence appear indecipherable at first, it turns out some of the turbulence can be predicted by identifying vortex patterns.
at the margin beyond those identifiable vortexes, lies the the volume in which entropy of turbulent flow goes asymptotic towards proveable non-decipherability.
thats where free will is.in that volume.
so free will might 'not exist' but still be comprised as an emergent property of provably undecipherable turbulence.
if we can prove that causation can NEVER possibly be found, then we can express this as free will. god of the gaps. free will of the gaps.
as such, even a bacteria may be found to have indetifiable free will in a number of studied circumstances. ypu may have to look in very fine detail to find it. find what? find the indecipherablr margin where the bacteria takes actions upon itself and its environment.
animals most certainly can be found to have free will.
the real question for human civilization is not whether we have free will.
the big question is how we follow a code of ethics to hold people accountable and responsible for their actions. that is the bedrock of faith in our way of life. individually and together.
James Webb might find aliens. or there might already be aliens in the james webb space program. or both.