Digital Deepspace

“It is great to never be hungry or thirsty! The bliss of not being a slave to need! I used to miss the taste of food sometimes, but this intravenous therapy liberated me from those wants. This syringe gives me everything! The longer I go not needing food or drink, the less I remember what it is like to have ever wanted them. Which does me infinite good living inside this cage. I am free,” the prisoner screams! Halting his crazed monologue, the prisoner spasms his head around, looking at the metal bars surrounding him and the darkness beyond them. This was his fate. To sit alone in this cage for the rest of his life.  “You think freedom is for everybody? Your punishment serves you right,” a guard he couldn’t see said. The prisoner got up and grabbed the bars of his cage, peering out to find the voice. “I am freer than I’ve ever been,” the prisoner yelled back! “FREEEEE… HA HAHAHA HA! Free enough to tear you to pieces!” The hidden guard said nothing, but the excited prisoner still heard

I am setting off on a journey, and I don’t know where I am going or how it will end. On this trip, we will travel on roads forged by society. Societies which are manifested through their respective economic and political systems. I have my pen as my walking stick, and my limited knowledge as my subsistence, as I attempt to discover what system is best for weary travelers that are also taking this journey. Because the better the system, the better the society, and therefore the better our journey will be on the road of life. Of course, better is a loose term. What can be better for one can be disastrous for another. That being the case, what is actually better? It is better for shareholders if employees work at a lower wage and increase margins, and it’s better for workers if their wage is increased. Those two betters are opposite, which means, with any sentiment left aside (some shareholders might care about workers), someone’s better is another’s worse. This is true in many facets of

There is money to be made. Go make as much as possible for as long as you can. Keep it coming in while you sleep. Make even more when you wake up. Life is gaining income and spending it. With no money, you will die. It’s a big part of human reality. A reality which changes often. When a tornado steamrolls a town, it distorts their reality. That distortion has a cascading effect. Those alterations range from emotional to geologic and everything in between. Distortions like these keep reality forever changing. Within our dynamic reality, there are systems. Seasonal change is a system. A system that would very much alter if a space object collided with Earth and changed our orbit. Ecosystems are systems, so is the electrical grid. All these examples are very tangible. There are also systems that do not exist but are real, like economic ones. And just like everything else in reality, these systems are always changing too. The thing is with something not tangible, like an idea, it can only

Summer 2021 Transfers FC Barcelona Rebuild - Pre-Season 2021   TRANSFERS:   With the way I wanted the team to play a Pressing Forward was my top target. This also improved depth at the Striker position with Braithwaite being undesired and Aguero out injured. With a tight budget Andrea Belotti was the purchase at $30M, and he has been perfect for my lead Pressing Forward when in 442, and as a deeper Target when playing with 1 Striker.   Bentancur and Raul Garcia were both brought in to provide quality depth at a good price. Raul Garcia , even though he has gotten off to a slow start bc of weaker technicals, did also achieve the goal of weakening the competition. Bentancur has been very good as a rotation Box-to-Box Mid which covers his weakness in Concentration. He was a loan with an option to buy for $19M that will be exercised at the end of the season.     TACTICS: The team as primarily played in the shape shown below. It is a style the rewards player technical, mental, and athletic s

Money is Power, But Wisdom is Best The goal when making a decision is to be right. The same goes for when confronted with problems and arguments. We want to solve them and win them, respectively. Doesn’t everyone, especially lawyers, want to win every argument? However, most non-mathematical problems and arguments are very non-binary (binary being true or false, yes or no, innocent or guilty, to do or not do, etc.) in that they have many prospective solutions and answers. In those cases, winning an argument does not always mean the winner is even correct. Is there a right or wrong answer on where to have the company’s Christmas Party? Among the people discussing, one person could seem more right to some, and another could be less right yet more convincing to others, and either could be speaking to the wrong or right crowd correctly or incorrectly. That illustrates what we all already know. Which is that for different people, the same problem often has different solutions. So then, what

A Simple Analogy on the Philosophy of Waste The summer heat at the State Fair is intense. After wiping the sweat from his eyes, George sees an ice cream vendor in the distance. He loves ice cream and smiles, knowing there’s nothing better than its cold tastiness on a humid day. George walks over, fingering the money in his pocket, knowing he has no reason to count it. He came to the State Fair with enough money to play as many games and eat as much as he wanted. Once he reaches the ice cream trailer, George pulls out his wad of cash and orders.  A couple of locals named Bill and Ted lean on a vacant trailer kiddie corner to the ice cream vendor and oogle at the massive amount of cash a slightly overweight, sweaty young man is holding. They then look at each other, aghast, as George turns away from the booth with a single cone filled with a ridiculous amount of Superman-flavored ice cream. The top scoop, which looks to be the eighth, immediately drops from the mountain of ice cream to t