Foucault’s Pendulum is fucking awesome though? It might be his best book since Name of the Rose.

I read War and Peace on an iphone. It gave a strange sense of achievement to read 57 “pages” in 15 minutes. Each page was most of a paragraph.

I haven’t bothered with David Foster Wallace yet.

They will bomb something for the first time and it will “happen” to be an American business owned by dual Canadian/US citizens.

There are enough to reduce housing supply issues.

Private golf courses provide little to no benefit to anyone especially after we factor in the environmental costs.

Golf courses not being on pubic transit is the only part I agree with.

Michael Moore in one of his books suggested we repurpose golf courses into public housing. They tend to be in better school systems to begin with so there’s an added bonus.

I literally state that unripe olives are green.

He was talking about worldwide communism. This was during the Cold War and no one would even think America was an oligarchy at the time. The audience knew it was the Soviets he was talking about primarily.

Not all olives are making bright green oil though? Not all olives are green. Unripe olives are green and the go purple to black as they ripen. Black olives are fully ripe and d not press bright green.

That really depends on many factors starting with who made your phone. The cheap $20 Huawei android phone I got as my first android because my previous phone died and I was broke was absolutely dumping everything put through it to someone in the cloud. That is why it only made phone calls.

which happens more overtly on android

Yes and that phone wasn’t the basis of most of the smart phone platforms we see whereas the iphone was.

Saw them all the time on my first android phone which was a $20 Huawei phone which is almost certainly a major factor.

It was a nurturing society when most were in communities that interacted with each other. We have lost that for many reasons

Because my belief in political freedom has nothing to do with my phone choice and it would be odd to conflate the two.

When I had an android I had to spend a lot more time making sure apps would work with my phone and that my phone would be “secure” whereas I have less concerns of that with apple.

Simply put with apple I dont have to do as much work to make sure things work.

Yes but “controlled/command/planned economy” refers to one where the state sets prices rather than letting market forces determine them. This is not possible to competently do right now with current technology.

Instead of ranting about deregulation why not look at how poorly controlled economies behave? There aren’t many functioning and what few exist aren’t doing great. Humanity is not smart enough to currently run a controlled economy effectively. That might change if actual AI exists but right now we cannot do it.

Remember the largest command economy in history, The USSR, collapsed mostly because of economic failures that were self created. The second largest command economy was the PRC who moved away from it to a hybrid system and has had greater stability since then.

Also the wave of unemployment that is about to cone might push us into a recession

It’s sad that you have downvotes for this. It is a common practice in authoritarian states.

Humanity has, the one with the least propensity to experience crises is the one most nations are following.

Controlled economies are much less stable but Marx was unaware of that as economics in his time was less data driven and more philosophical.

That simply isn’t true. There are thousands of economists all around the world trying to fix these problems.

What you are talking about is grandstanding politicians in America which isnt reflective of all nations.

That being said there is yet to be a system that does not have crises.