[ExI] vaccines again

[William Flynn Wallace]

Personality is inextricable from behavior.   will

Private thoughts may be to the contrary, but what you do is who and what
you are.   No bad or good people.  Agreed.
bill w

On Tue, Jan 3, 2023 at 4:40 PM Will Steinberg via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> First off, being against high-speed rail is painfully retarded.  The
> amount of good it does for commerce, culture, economy is massive.  Not to
> mention ou country looks like shit when everyone else does it better.  Rail
> is economically efficient.
>
> On Tue, Jan 3, 2023 at 4:43 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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>> *…*> *On Behalf Of *Will Steinberg via extropy-chat
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>> >…Btw spike as someone who seems to be aware of propaganda and cults of
>> personality…
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>> I know nothing and care nothing about personalities or lack thereof.
>> Reasoning:
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>> Anyone who spends 44 billion dollars on anything, It doesn’t matter what
>> it is, benefits society.  The act of dropping 44 billion dollars back into
>> the economy is a good thing, without exception.  All that capital
>> stimulates the economy, encourages investment in other businesses and
>> enterprises.  There is no downside.  None!
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> This is an unbelievably juvenile understanding of 'the economy'.  I don't
> really have the time to deal with the incorrectness here but I would
> encourage you to read some college-level economic textbooks or even just
> try and think about the flow of that 44 billion and where it goes and how
> it might stimulate the economy better or worse depending on where it goes.
> All spending is NOT equal, holy moly.  Gimme 44 bil I promise it will be
> good for the economy!
>
> Anyone who fixes the huge obvious problem with the space business is a
>> good guy.  Rocket building was spread out all over the map, intentionally,
>> because of the cold war and political considerations when the US government
>> was the prime customer.  The US government isn’t the primary customer now,
>> communications companies are.  SpaceX preferentially chooses subcontractors
>> located near the launch site, which saves a lot of cost and helps the
>> environment.  This is a good thing.
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> There are no good guys or bad guys, there are people who do things.  Those
> things might help or hurt society or themselves.  I think Elon does some
> good stuff and also a whole lotta nothing, and spends way too much time
> being weird on social media.
>
> Anyone who buys Twitter with the intention of exposing illegal activity on
>> the part of the US government is a good guy.  To say otherwise is to argue
>> that illegal activity on the part of the US government is OK under some
>> circumstances.  I am at a loss to imagine what circumstances illegal
>> activity by the US government is OK.  The FBI practiced censorship of US
>> citizens on Twitter, which is a violation of civil rights, which is
>> illegal.  Illegal activity by the US government is never OK.  It’s double
>> plus ungood.
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> This wasn't why he bought Twitter, man.  He didn't even mean to buy
> Twitter at that price.  He is a control freak and thought he could make
> some slick moves but ended up stuck with a company he had to have known was
> vastly undervalued.  The stuff he did recently is some of the most foolish
> economic decisions by a mogul that I have seen in a long time.
>
> The government being shitty and evil and censoring Twitter isn't related
> to Elon.  He's mostly just an insecure grifter who knows how to throw YOU a
> bone.  I'm glad he cares about revealing those truths but he also spins
> plenty of manipulation and lies about himself for personal gain.  Again,
> your bias makes it really hard to have a truthful conversation with you.
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>> Electric cars: anyone who builds a successful car factory four miles from
>> my house gets a permanent spot on my list of people who can do no wrong.
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> Do you actually think this?????
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>> Will, notice none of that has anything to do with personality, flawed
>> anything.  All those considerations are irrelevant.  I don’t care about
>> anyone’s personality or political leanings if they do the kinds of things
>> listed above.  Do you?
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> Personality is inextricable from behavior.
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