My current biology class isn't molecular enough. I'm getting bored. I honestly don't care about naming and classifications. I like knowing how shit works, and shit works regardless of the names assigned to them.

"Biotech" is redundant and annoying. Biology is the mature form of technology. Its the final form, the real deal. I am reminded of that other super annoying word phrase thing - "avian bird flu." Remember that round of collective retardation? Every few years, the matrix glitches and tries to generate the most irritating thing for all the NPC's to mindlessly repeat. View quoted note →

Idk why companies with websites want me to use their wpp so badly, but I don't trust it. What's wrong with running that crap out of a website? So... No.

In economics, they actually teach that inflation causes economic actors to choose not to defer purchases, and that that is good for the economy because it increases spending. This is at least partially wrong, and I'm amazed it wasn't obvious immediately. First, it's questionable whether anyone actually chooses to buy now rather than later for fear if inflation. When you want or need something, do you rush to do it before inflation makes it more expensive? If you live during a hyper inflationary period, sure, but not normally. And that behavior actually makes inflation worse, and is often the trigger that pushes high inflation into hyperinflation. But maybe you're buying some production input in bulk and want to lock in the price by using futures contracts, like when a chemical company buys a shipload of oil, or a cereal company buys a shitload of oats. Is that motivated by a desire to beat inflation? No, its motivated by a desire to have predictable prices. And besides, any futures contract has a seller as well as a buyer - sellers are likewise motivated by a need for predictability, not a need to move production forward to beat inflation, and even if either side was motivated by inflation, the other side cancels it. Upward price pressure from demand is cancelled by downward price pressure from selling : if net more buyers enter the market, upward pressure pushes prices up, but that logic doesn't apply to inflation because inflation is a trend, a long term phenomenon, and is subject also to suppliers responding to the increased price by supplying more. Some goods certainly are more price inelastic than others, where there are greater hurdles to supply expansion, so if purchases of such goods are pulled forward, there will be inflation in that sector, but then you have to answer the question of whether those prices will sustain the upward trend or if they'll pause and wait for the rest of the economy to catch up, assuming there's some rational equilibrium (which is itself a shaky proposition sometimes). Second, its questionable whether bringing purchases forward is actually "good for the economy" (in quotes because: what does that actually mean?) Supposing that inflation actually does bring purchases forward, how long can that be sustained? There is an assumption that the economic actors have some reservoir of savings, either their own savings or the borrowed savings of others, with which they can increase their spending. But that's probably mostly wrong too, since a company sitting on cash is forgoing opportunities. But that logic can't be applied only partially - it must also be applied to debt. If a company is able to borrow, its rational to do so, as long as expected returns from an expansion of operations exceed the cost of the debt. Since the first (and possinly only) axiom of economics is to assume that economic actors are rational, then it follows that all actors are tapped out and at their limit for borrowing. Then it follows that they can't respond to an expectation of inflation with earlier or more spending. If there are some that, for whatever reason, needed to see that inflation to start behaving rationally, then it must be outliers, unless you think you can invalidate the first principle and foundation of economics. But let's suspend our disbelief and suppose that this phenomon of purchases moving forward actually occurs - is it "good for the economy"? Well, if debt is being used to make the purchases, then you are moving debt accumulation forward as well as purchases. What's the cause of recessions? Its debt. Businesses reach the rational limit that they can borrow, and stop borrowing. Since the purpose of taking on debt it to expand operations, it follows that a recession is when businesses stop expanding operations, and it follows that debt has reached its maximal growth for the current size of the economy. Now, if its rational to take debt as long as there's a return greater than that debt's interest, then the point where businesses stop taking new debt is when new operations have zero return. And the cost of debt increases the more you already have (yes, its nonlinear, I know you can get more credit as a consumer the more you have) - creditors are also rational economic actors, and avoid lending to someone likely to default, and the highly the chance if default, the higher return they'll need to be persuaded to take the risk. So, you have to assume that businesses are at or near their limit for borrowing - not that its impossible to borrow more, but that its not rational to to so, since its likely that the interest expense will exceed returns. Now, what happens when sales slow? Then they're losing money, since the debt they used to expand was based on an expectation of future returns. And now you want to add to that, the proposition that expectations of inflation cause actors to buy (meaning borrow) more now rather than later? Instant recession. This is not how I would define "good for the economy." Conclusion : its hogwash. Inflation does not accelerate purchases or the economy as a whole. Its a bold faced lie. Future note : deflation (also slows the economy). Other future note : it would be better to incentivize saving than spending, and having an I nation target instead of a savings target is utter idiocy.

The future of computer science is biology. The future of nanotech is biology. The future of materials science is biology. In the beginning and the end, its all biology. Full circle.

🤔 I keep hearing communists say that capitalism doesn't work without growth. I disagree. If you were in "degrowth" (which is actually what these imbeciles call it), only capitalism could efficiently allocate increasingly scarce resources.

Oh fun, another wave of bots on nostr... Here we go again, which relay do I have to cut... View quoted note →

Predictably, I am now sick with a sore throat. I'm surrounded by thousands of kids... I guess I should be surprised it took this long.

So I'm spending a couple hours walking every day now. I need it. Anyways, I feel like I've made a discovery or something... There's a small lake I walk past, and every day thus week I've been hearing a big splash as I approach it. Today I finally saw the culprit - there's little fish, about the size of my palm, sunbathing in the shallowest part. Who ever heard of fish sunbathing? They're just laying out, soaking up sun, like some of these chicks at the university clearly must do. Tomorrow I'll try being sneaky and get a pic

2nd day of class, in my retarded quest to learn biology... I'm hating this. Looking back, those intense summer classes were heavenly. I basically had the campus to myself. Now the Stpuid is so thick you could cut it with a knife. And summer classes move at a pace I can handle - this shit now is so slow... Like, my bio 2 professor is actually going to spend 6 class periods **_on one chapter!!_** In summer class, you get half of one class per chapter. Skim it, or skip it, but its on you, and thank god for that because you can just relax and focus. This spoon-dribbling crap puts me on edge. I have to spend **_3 weeks_** on one fucking chapter!?!? And then there's the bus. I can't drive. Stroke... need a neurologist to clear me to drive again, and I don't think that's happening soon. I am literally spending more time just waiting for the bus to show up (its a university city bus, not the yellow big bird buses of our younger imprisonment) than I am taking the classes. I've travelled - I've used buses in various countries. Never. Nevvvvvvvver have I seen a worse managed bus system. Pick your third world shit hole, and I guarantee its better than this.

I've been trying for two hours to turn this off and go to bed, but every time I try, he says something amazing and I have to keep listening. Definitely don't listen to this!

The need for bitcoin is just so obvious... Like, you have free and fair trade on one hand, and imperialism on the other hand... You can trade and get rich and find infinite win-win situations forever and there's absolutely no limit to what's possible, or you can fester and be poor and angry and limited and fight until inevitable extinction. Its so fucking obvious. Is the whole world just retarded?

In last night's dream, I was playing Space Engineers and, quite wonderfully, had Shostakovich's Walz #2 playing throughout the dream. So of I course I had to look it up and hear it for real, and I'm pretty sure I've linked this before, but damn its good!

"I have returned"

I've been having this allergic reaction, itchy all over, and I had the brilliant idea of taking a bath... I used this very nice oatmeal soap... Man did I kick an anthill by doing that. There's this other little problem of having had a stroke, and lost feeling on my left side. Well, not all feeling - towards the end of the day, like now, my left side gets ice cold. Well, that thing with the cold combined with the bath - it was glorious at first, the hot water feeding warmth back into my left side, but then I got really weak and I suddenly just knew I had to get out of that bath, and then dizziness, and I've basically just been laying here while falling through space for an hour. I don't think I'll be repeating this experiment anytime soon.