This person is delusional and need mental health care.
Seriously, this looks like the start of psychosis...
The history of the name alchemy is interesting in itself. One of the possible etymology is from kemet, the black fertile soil of the nile which transformed nothing into bountiful harvest.
The ancient Egyptian themselves had one of the first chemical proto-industry, producing with competence and accuracy the famous Egyptian blue which is a synthetic pigment, papyrus, metallic extractions of copper and iron, glass making and maybe even some proto chemical fertilizers.
The seat of Hellenistic alchemy was in the ptolemaic Egyptian kingdom.
Some of the first treaties on lab practice were writen for alchemy.
Alchemy is absolutely the precursor to chemistry and the scientific method, I don't think this is even contentious in the mainstream.
To me these are just not real concerns. I'm not trying to invalidate yours but I write a lot of code per day and I just run a cleanup tool after to match the teams style - I do a lot of consulation work in big teams and fighting for code-style issue does nothing I feel.
I prefer to adopt the current guideline and fix real problems and fight real battles like making sure the code is testable from the get go and that OpSec is respected.
Why is it better ?
I don't have a strong opinion, taking the style of the team I work with but why do you feel it is better?
It's not like putting it on the other line causes any issue.
Here's a version without an ideological filter : An actuary will calculate what is the best for the stock market for a corporation: invest into automation or offshore production to a country where production is cheaper. It's mostly always cheaper to offshore than invest in automation.
At some point, no offshoring option exist and some actuary will actually tell their masters to invest in automation. Some will do, but research is not always successful and takes a long time.
Neo-liberal gov. will seek stability and so they will either invest into their friends corporation, to stabilize them and enrich themselves. This will mean wage stagnation and being outcompeted by countries that successfully automated.
At this point, the empire will grow hungry for stability and stock market growth, and will either try to make another country it's cheap offshore location, by several economic, diplomatic or even millitary strategy or start to make it's actually population serf again.
If the second happens, chances of revolution starts to go up. We may see a modern French-style revolution in the empire, or something like that, start to be more likely.
But more realistically, we won't get to see this, as the climate is already starting to disrupt human activity. The western empire is already imploding and unable to respond to the new reality so mostly, no one serious is able to predict the next few years.
Honestly, I just dislike his writing style. I don't think the pages sings with his words like other authors do. I feel that it's wordy for the sake of using words and has absolutely no sense of rhythm.
I know a lot of people like it but it just does nothing for me. I'd rather read anything by pascal quignard than jordans.
I also dislike Tolkien's writing style... I know, I know... To be fair it's mostly a me problem
You might be right! In fact that's a good point. But they still did not do anything for me... But ai get your point, we got several very good moments amputated, and tbey decided to cut a lot of fun characters too...
I think their choice was mostly pragmatic... They needed to make 8 episodes that would convince the studio to produce a fourth season.
In a non capitalistic art world, your vision would have been the right answer I think...
I feel like we didn't read the same book. I never felt that the character had any depth in the books. I never felt that actions were a thing in the books. I never felt that the books were adaptable also, because they are so full of ... nothing? most of the time.
To be fair, i dislike how Jordan wrote. I know it's very vivid and full of details for some peoples but it feel very flat to me... And I did read and loved Malazan Book of the Fallen...
So to say, I prefer the TV version to the books, mostly because the books are written in a way that do nothing for me...
Where was I going with all of this ?
Nowhere, like book 4-5-6 ... I kid, I kid!
Talking like this is helping how - unless it's an emotional lash out which I can understand....
Wow... That's insane -_-
I tried but they are so far into thinking that communism does not work ...
Very depressing thing of the day...
I suck at using tools with my hands but I'm great at imaging stuff. I can now make art that some peope like where before I was stuck because my nervous system suck...
That's how.
It's a disruptive new technology that disrupt an industry that already has trouble giving a living to people in the western world.
The reaction is warranted but it's now a fact of life. It just show how stupid our value system is and most liberal have trouble reconciling that their hardship is due to their value and economic system.
It's just another mean of automation and should be seized by the experts to gain more bargaining power, instead they fear it and bemoan reality.
So nothing new under the sun...
The masses have been divided in the west.
Family links are next to none existant and people are seen as tools to an end.
Individualism made it very easy to make the whole of idea of "organizing" something fringe or hard.
People simply forgot we used to work collaboratively for our own good and welfare and see organizations as a feodal like link, because that's mostly the reality of the westerner.
Wealth inequality is high-ish in norway, with a lot of the country being owned by less than 10% of the population. It's also a petro-state, making a real green transition for the whole world harder.
It has a low population, making it easy to have these services with the amount of wealth the country produce by being a petro-state.
It relies on immigration for it's population replacement which will likely cause the kind of crisis we see in other so called developed countries.
I think Norway is in a petro-dollat fuelled bubble, and when it will burst, which is innevitable, will see a decline in its standard of living like in other so called developed countries as it did not invest in itself fully.
I hope i'm wrong but most petro-state happens to follow fhe same pattern actually.
For sure, the republicans are worst.
But the dems are still not good.
Americans have no representation at all.
I really wonder how it would work in a country that big in empty spaces and populations with so much authoritarian actors.
Each county has a well armed police force. Nearly each state has an armed force millitia. The country has a national guard. It also has several armed agencies. It has the three biggest armies on earth if you separate each corp and only count active soldiers. It has so much millitary equipment the overflow gets sold to polices.
Those armed millitia are all in different counties, are smaller than the local police forces, with less weapon and next to no organizational know how... They would never be able to have any other impact than get outgunned in a remote place by cops or the national guard...
Unless they all start to cause chaos at the same time, which would maybe lead to a semi destabilization of some part of the USA, I don't see these people with guns achieve anything.
Also most people who wants guns are scared/anxious persons and will talk loud about using them but won't act when it's time, because their real motivation is hiding a percived weaknesses with a weapon.
That's why in all the years of abuse by the insurance system in America, there was only one Luidgi.
Ohhh that's interesting!! What mainstream media so I can show the naysayers!?!