Now buy Dodge

Awesome, we've only been here two years. We're in Lusaka but get out any chance we can. Recently we've been really enjoying Kafue NP.

Beautiful, have you been up to Zim or Zam yet to see Mosi O Tunya (vic falls)

BTW: that was mostly meant to be a joke, but this is actually interesting. You mean Keyensianism is a blessing? I have never seriously studied economics. I've taken micro at a state university and read Economics in One Lesson, but never seriously sat down to compare the two schools of thought.

Dang! Is this on a cruiser?

I am literally taking a break from marking written assignments, and I know so much AI usage is getting past me. I actually encourage the students to use AI to research, but I still believe there is value in the students being able to build and articulate arguments of their own. However, they do not seem to see the need. Maybe there wont be a need for them to think in the future.

Thanks for the thoughtful interaction. Conversations like these are why I love nostr. The point on literacy is so important. I think one of the major points of decentralization in history was that of the commercialization of the printing press. It seems after the printing press there was radical decentralization (Reformation + 30 years wars) and then some return to something more centralized, but not quite as centralized as before. So that the overall trend of history (at least the last 500 years in the west) is toward decentralization with corrections toward centralization. Have you read Niall Ferguson's, "The Square and the Tower"? I read it 5+ years ago and it helped me start thinking about this issue from a historical point of view.

Interesting, I will have to think about this a bit more. The time horizon aspect is interesting. Balaji has his sort of theory of peak centralization and that we are in a period of decentralization. But then I look at the internet of the 90s vs the centralized internet of today and it makes me wonder. I think book "The Square and the Tower" also made me wonder if we are actually on a long trend towards decentralization or if we simply always fall back into centralization. I know very little about Europe, but couldn't the EU be seen as a sort of recentralization after the reign of nation states?

This makes sense. Inequality does seem to show centralization. However, I belive that you maybe better off (materially) in a centralized system than in an equal decentralized system. Another interesting observation is that it seems systems tend towards centralization. I don't know if there is some reason for this. I've always wondered if there is some sort of gravitational pull towards centralization.

This is just what I can see about a kilometer from my house (Lusaka) and not an in depth study. Sanitation and water: you have to walk some distance to fill water and bring it to your home. You have a shared toilet. There is a chance you'll get cholera and your definitely going to get some bug from bad sanitation. Electricity: Sometimes there is power, but most of the time there is not. Transport: You are walking or get a bus if you can afford it. Nutrition: you might be getting enough calories, but it is mostly carbs. People laugh, smile, and go on with their lives. It is hard to really capture it in a writing.

I'll be curious what you find. I tried Shakespear after first hearing about it on a podcase, but I never got it to run. I was also using Brave Browser so maybe that is the issue.

I've tried the same with a Children's book about a unicorn that slays a dragon a few years back and whatever I was using couldn't even get me a good dragon at that point.

This seems relevant

It really does depend on what we mean by freedom. I am not sure we have an agreed on set of the concept of freedom in the west. But freedom of speech is pretty concrete so that makes good sense. It seems there is an inherent tension between safety/stability and freedom and most people favor safety.

I was planning to buy a pixel simply so I could test out Graphene. I may wait.