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Dont let anyone ruin your day. Be a man. Ruin it yourself.

@Lifetron in either case variables will escape the model; that's where the chaos will build and the social engineering will simply become another component of a higher level of complexity

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disintegration theory: one thing that distinguishes the united states from other countries is the ease with which we can decentralize on the fly. If the federal government were to collapse, the state governments would be ready and willing to keep their state a capital-S State. If the state government falls, counties have such tight ties that they would start rebuilding trade without the need for a state to intervene, and the counties are so stable in most places that you wouldn't have to get to the last stage -- but the last stage is the apocryphal Gun Behind Every Blade of Grass.
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@fluffy really her worst was mistake so far has been asking for advice about it from reddit

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physicstravelguide.com/start

a physics wiki which breaks topics down into "intuitive", "concrete", and "abstract" discussions, with other tabs available - useful for finding short and sweet intuitive primers and more in-depth references for a variety of levels

it's a bit sparse atm but looks like it could become a super useful resource in the future

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@11112011 don't really care, just seems a bullshit assumption for cutting to the hot take

plus ça change...

social engineering cannot predict the influence of social engineering

I see the sheep are bleating about the guided tour again

@11112011 everything else aside, I've never understood this assumption that musk is incapable of making Twitter turn a profit

what the economy needs is new margin pairs

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brb got some galazy brain analysis of shitposts to carry out

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