Curt Doolittle

Form: Short Note

  • Why Can’t Canada Become As Powerful As Russia, Given That Both Nations Share A Few Similarities: Vast Regions And Are Next To A Superpower (china And The Us)?

    To create a word power one requires ~500M people, nuclear weapons, and sufficient access to natural resources that one can sustain an autarkic economy during a period of long conflict.

    Russia cannot be a world power. It isn’t. It’s a gas station with nuclear missiles, a lot of unemployed men, and a history of invading and conquering neighbors. The only reason russia exists is that the rest of the world didn’t shut her out of the financial and economic system out of fear she’d use her missiles.

    Canada by contrast has something on the order of 75K total military personnel, which cannot even defend itself without the USA paying for it (just like europe).

    https://www.quora.com/Why-can’t-Canada-become-as-powerful-as-Russia-given-that-both-nations-share-a-few-similarities-vast-regions-and-are-next-to-a-superpower-China-and-the-US

  • Why Can’t Canada Become As Powerful As Russia, Given That Both Nations Share A Few Similarities: Vast Regions And Are Next To A Superpower (china And The Us)?

    To create a word power one requires ~500M people, nuclear weapons, and sufficient access to natural resources that one can sustain an autarkic economy during a period of long conflict.

    Russia cannot be a world power. It isn’t. It’s a gas station with nuclear missiles, a lot of unemployed men, and a history of invading and conquering neighbors. The only reason russia exists is that the rest of the world didn’t shut her out of the financial and economic system out of fear she’d use her missiles.

    Canada by contrast has something on the order of 75K total military personnel, which cannot even defend itself without the USA paying for it (just like europe).

    https://www.quora.com/Why-can’t-Canada-become-as-powerful-as-Russia-given-that-both-nations-share-a-few-similarities-vast-regions-and-are-next-to-a-superpower-China-and-the-US

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    Source date (UTC): 2016-08-17 16:10:00 UTC

  • Chemistry, and Doing The Dishes

    [T]he subject I know the least about is chemistry. Why? For very simple reasons: while there is an intellectual component that is akin to three-dimensional puzzle-solving, the existential feature of chemistry is dishwashing.

    Now, aside from the fact that as an autist I really don’t like to get my hands dirty – it’s over-stimulating in a way that normals can’t understand; as a child, we had to wash the dishes after supper, and my father was a bit of a tyrant about it.

    Chemistry involves dirtying a lot of dishes that need cleaning, and that unlike the joy of cooking, produces all sorts of smells, and burns, and other nasty consequences that someone with intense experiences just has a problem with.

    I can diagnose a Ferrari engine pretty accurately just by listening to it idle in an enclosed space. I can criticize any artwork past or present. I’m an adequate if messy cook. And I’m hella-scary with what we can claim is true or not.

    But I’m comfortable not working with chemistry really. Because I’m uncomfortable doing dishes.

  • Chemistry, and Doing The Dishes

    [T]he subject I know the least about is chemistry. Why? For very simple reasons: while there is an intellectual component that is akin to three-dimensional puzzle-solving, the existential feature of chemistry is dishwashing.

    Now, aside from the fact that as an autist I really don’t like to get my hands dirty – it’s over-stimulating in a way that normals can’t understand; as a child, we had to wash the dishes after supper, and my father was a bit of a tyrant about it.

    Chemistry involves dirtying a lot of dishes that need cleaning, and that unlike the joy of cooking, produces all sorts of smells, and burns, and other nasty consequences that someone with intense experiences just has a problem with.

    I can diagnose a Ferrari engine pretty accurately just by listening to it idle in an enclosed space. I can criticize any artwork past or present. I’m an adequate if messy cook. And I’m hella-scary with what we can claim is true or not.

    But I’m comfortable not working with chemistry really. Because I’m uncomfortable doing dishes.

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    https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-best-time-to-email-a-very-important-person/answer/Curt-Doolittle?share=ec545975

    Source date (UTC): 2016-08-17 14:22:00 UTC

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    https://www.quora.com/Is-there-objective-value-to-life-or-is-all-value-subjective/answer/Curt-Doolittle?share=e96a19f0

    Source date (UTC): 2016-08-17 14:20:00 UTC

  • WHY DO CONSERVATIVES TALK THAT WAY? Conservatives speak in a manner that exercis

    WHY DO CONSERVATIVES TALK THAT WAY?

    Conservatives speak in a manner that exercises and makes obvious the categorical imperative “If everyone did this then this would happen”. We call this speaking hyperbolically, but for conservatives, it’s the entire point of public speech: giving warning.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-08-17 10:07:00 UTC

  • One of the bits of advice I got from Limbaugh is that you must be able sit in an

    One of the bits of advice I got from Limbaugh is that you must be able sit in an empty room, stare at the wall, and talk continuously for three hours while sounding entirely sensible.

    I did the same thing. I recorded myself on an iPod while walking and talking through the park. It was incomprehensible. But you just have to START somewhere. And so I just kept at it.

    Once I have propertarianism figured out, I had a language to use to express those ideas, and it no longer sounded like nonsense.

    well… at least mostly. lol

    It’s the same thing with anything. if you are looking for natural talent, you don’t likely have it. If you want to build a skill, it’s just hours: time and effort.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-08-17 08:57:00 UTC

  • ***When describing any mean, one necessarily discounts the margins. Thank those

    ***When describing any mean, one necessarily discounts the margins. Thank those of you who follow me for being on the margin, and thank you for understanding that I’m usually referring to the people at the mean.***

    Source date (UTC): 2016-08-17 04:44:00 UTC