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   Liam :fnord: (liamvhogan@aus.social)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 09:24:51 JST Liam :fnord:

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   As I was saying before, the American way of disaster as it is of war is to throw very large logistical resources at a problem, which is their strength, in this case to be admired, because no other society in world history has anything like it.

   It’s also a source of their conspiracy—from weird ones like Chinese warfare, to the ‘Elon is helping!’—the idea that problems can *only* be met through application of high technology is very set in culture.

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     Liam :fnord: (liamvhogan@aus.social)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 09:24:52 JST Liam :fnord:

     The thing about disasters is that we are all primed with frameworks to interpret them, that we develop in our everyday lives, before they happen. Me, I’m off this morning to a planning meeting and I’m certain that’s how I’ll meet the end of the world; a bit too early in the morning, in a meeting room, with an agenda

     Mr. Bill repeated this.