While most of our power is coal generation, the governments here already have opted for separating cost of electricity and cost to deliver it.
We used to have all combined, but with the rising solar/hydro generation the governments recognised that the cost to deliver was rising faster than the cost to generate.
In the future the cost to deliver would also include the cost to build solar plants.
Yes.
The Universe works in mysterious ways. If you think you got it all worked out I got news for you.
Humans have used symbols to convey messages and communicate ideas since the dawn of time. Our entire waking lives are filled with symbols from religious to corporate logos and more. Actually more than just the conscious waking realms, Jung believed the human subconscious plays a big role in using symbolism in dreams to direct, guide and heal humans.
Or of course it could just be a work of art that has coincidentally been discovered at this interesting point in time. And if it is that, I find that even more interesting.
That’s the new spaceX “stainless steel” being used for their starship rocket isn’t it? someone really wants us to invest more in space ships! 
Refusing to defy the order of the day, Filecoin jumps on the DeFi bandwagon: Filecoin storage tops 1 billion GB as tokenized FIL launches for use in DeFi
Defi seems/feels a bit hacky-scammy to me at the moment - like it needs to mature a fair bit. Filecoin has also felt a bit that way to me and this isn’t helping.
Of course I don’t think I’ve got it all worked out. I’ve studied Jung and he was both an interesting and innovative thinker, who reported many experiences which could be seen as super natural. I’m sure others do too, in fact close members of my family also report such things. In my life I’ve had one very explicit clear yet inexplicable experience.
None of that leads me to believe there is anything super natural though. I may well be wrong, but I can see other more credible, logical and self consistent explanations for these phenomena. Including my own, which was like the scene in the matrix where the cat walks by twice. It wasn’t at all vague or ambiguous.
I’ve thought a lot about how the world works, why humans have or report such experiences, why they believe in interpretations which to me seen unlikely or obviously unreal. I of course know there are limits to my understanding of all this, to what I can conceive and what I, or humans in general can know. So I never rule anything out, but I do not regard super natural explanations as unnecessary. They can be helpful, even useful tools for some (including myself at times) but that doesn’t mean they are magical or real in the sense that people may think.
So, for example I don’t take tarot or astrology seriously as theories of the universe but I might take part in them believing that they can help me. To explore my own subconscious perhaps, revealing things that I didn’t know, coming up with new ideas or possibilities etc. But I’ve seen nothing to substantiate predictive power for example. I take what’s useful but I don’t have to swallow something whole to have that.
I subscribe to a view more like that portrayed in The Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo. That we are eager to imagine power and magic where we encounter things that we can’t explain in rational ways, and I think this has caused problems for humanity when we see it as real rather than something to look more deeply at. It’s why we have science. If super natural explanations worked better for us we’d have much less need for science and may not have developed it. But thankfully most of us recognise the value of medicines based on science which have eradicated numerous diseases you, I and our families are saved from but which would have killed us in the past. And prayer, animal or human sacrifice are no longer needed in order to reassure us or give us hope of survival. It’s interesting and writing to see the readiness of humans to disregard this and put themselves and humans at risk.
Reach for the sky but keep your feet on the ground.
Interesting thoughts here @happybeing. A small point about astrology, I sometimes play along for a laugh basically to see if some interesting discussion develops, and sometimes try the opposite. It’s a simple and fun strategy, when some new person you meet asks you what is your sign you say: I don’t have one. Some of the reactions I’ve gotten have been fascinating. Seems to work best in groups, and can surprisingly easily get very fiery.
I used to use an " i ching " deck which is a modern concept devised from throwing sticks and recording patterns.
The deck makes it clear that even though you get a now answer and a next phase answer, it is predictive, but can only answer things that you already know.
Because it is. Just look at all of the recent hacks. Kind of reminds me of the ICO craze—more rotten apples than good.
Greenwald interview with Snowden Monday - (roughly 40 minutes) about the growing dangers of Silicon Valley censorship, why a tech industry that never wanted the power or responsibility to regulate discourse has had that obligation foisted upon them by politicians and journalists, the lurking dangers to press freedoms, and how a Biden/Harris administration may make all of this worse:
You should read some of Jacques Vallee works. On “super natural” phenomena.
And I too do not believe in anything super natural to be honest it’s just we don’t yet understand some of these things.
In terms of the monolith. I have no idea. But that is my theory. You would be very surprised at the amount of symbolism used in media.
Not at all. Symbolism is everywhere. Myths and archetypes are the basis of much manipulation in the media, frequently in movies because we enjoy our subconscious being pulled along for the ride, and even moreso in advertising because it manipulates.
Why do you recommend Jacques Vallee?
My guess re the monolith is it’s an artist installation. It’s obviously alluding to Kubrick’s 2001. Whatever the motivation it is an interesting de facto experiment in human psychology. At a time when it seems many are attracted to irrational explanations, how different are we to the neanderthal? What progress have we really made despite the technology we’ve developed and the science we built to achieve it?
Because you wrote that. Probably one of the best researchers in these supernatural fields ever.
Did you ever look at any of the stuff that happens at Skinwalker?
Hey friends,
I created Twitter profiles and Facebook pages for the international Safe sites. Please follow them 
(For some of them it may give you that they have been - temporarily restricted - this is because Twitter is blackmailing for mobile numbers, today I will buy numbers and verify the profiles)
Covid vaccine “effectiveness” is big pharma hype to sell vaccine.
Reason for sudden negative movement, maybe?
Let’s hope not … although I also see this sort of thing as becoming inevitable - and why we need good anonymous alternatives to centralized exchanges.
The timing of this nonsense right when btc is pushing for all time highs is astonishing.
Seems a lot like market manipulation to me, I believe that he is in up to his eyeballs with the exact government agencies and institutions that the cryptosphere despise.
No regulation is going to be rushed through between now and January, rumors, I call bs.
Foul play for sure.
Just out! Michael Malice interview of Glenn Greenwald !!
