Making the news today....

[Johnsond]

9 minutes ago, Youngstu said:

Is this job you're on particularly stressful? You seem to have been especially angry over the last few days! 

No not at all, you woke lefty types see anger everywhere 🤷‍♂️, the irony is bearing in mind my views on such things it’s actually preparing old gas wells for a CCS scheme, so here I am helping save the world and being paid for it. Tidal job so time on my hands. I finished the Maggie Oliver book recently too which I’d genuinely recommend to the likes of yourself and others who can’t seem to comprehend what went on and how it was covered up. To be honest it’s probably reading that which has caused the utter disgust in me for those refuse to acknowledge the issue to manifest itself a tad more than it normally would. 

 

[Mesterh]

Space news for today, sending a couple of landers to the moon. 

 

SpaceX

WWW.SPACEX.COM

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SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft.

 

Some more info about the landers.

American, Japanese robotic landers share rocket launch to the Moon – Spaceflight Now

SPACEFLIGHTNOW.COM

 

 

[peds]

I long for SpaceX's early days, before we really knew what a disaster of a human being Elon Musk is. 

I'm still 100% on board for SpaceX success, but how I wish they had someone else at the helm. Someone competent.

[AHPP]

6 hours ago, tree-fancier123 said:

So with a state, there is at least a chance some kids from poor backgrounds can get an education, but without a state only those kids whose parents can make enough down the liberated mines can go to private Uni

 

No. It only looks that way because that state monopoly on education in this country makes private education artificially expensive. Society and industry need people to keep the lights on and the wheels turning. It's in their interests to educate people.

More to the point, the state teaches what it wants people to think. Like thinking it's necessary...

 

A perfect little example from yesterday of the free market working gloriously. I called the British Stainless Steel Association to ask a technical question. Their members join and pay voluntarily and part of what that pays for is a bloke to answer the phone to me (someone who's never paid them a penny) and answer questions about austentite, for free. We chatted and the conversation turned to a related industrial association, who are taxvictim funded. They don't give free advice.

 

So yeah. Bugger the state. It doesn't work.

Edited yesterday at 21:03 by AHPP

[Steven P]

The moon? Didn't you know there is a secret alien base there on the dark side, the communicate with the lizards on earth and whichever world order you think controls it. Be surprised if the landers lived very long... Weird to be talking of Musk and lizards on the same sentence?

 

It would be quite good to do some more moon exploring, is there a plan in the near future to put a manned base there? The article said the rockets are good for 10 round trips so must be something planned?

[Mesterh]

They are planning to have a lunar base around 2030 but they have already had lots of set backs so its probably going to be later than that from what ive read about it.

 

[tree-fancier123]

46 minutes ago, AHPP said:

 

No. It only looks that way because that state monopoly on education in this country makes private education artificially expensive. Society and industry need people to keep the lights on and the wheels turning. It's in their interests to educate people.

More to the point, the state teaches what it wants people to think. Like thinking it's necessary...

 

A perfect little example from yesterday of the free market working gloriously. I called the British Stainless Steel Association to ask a technical question. Their members join and pay voluntarily and part of what that pays for is a bloke to answer the phone to me (someone who's never paid them a penny) and answer questions about austentite, for free. We chatted and the conversation turned to a related industrial association, who are taxvictim funded. They don't give free advice.

 

So yeah. Bugger the state. It doesn't work.

It seems the Stainless Steel Association came into being after a discovery made during state funded warfare

- that doesn't mean that unbridled free marketeers (not necessarily anarchists) couldn't have made the same discovery under different circumstances

 

In 1913, Harry Brearley of Sheffield, UK discovered ‘rustless’ steel. Although there had been many prior attempts, Brearley has been credited with inventing the first true stainless steel, which had a 12.8% chromium content. He had added chromium to molten iron to produce a metal that did not rust. Chromium is a key ingredient, as it provides the resistance to corrosion. After this discovery, Sheffield itself became synonymous with steel and metallurgy.

Brearley stumbled upon this discovery while trying to solve the problem of erosion of the internal surfaces of gun barrels for the British army during the onset of the First World War.

[AHPP]

Let's keep talking about education. Would you maintain state funding for it?

[tree-fancier123]

 I'm not planing on entering politics, so my answer will have no bearing on anything. 

I just think that the state is part of evolution and part of nature, it's not some evil controlling thing. 

If a person gets cancer - that's nature being evil and controlling - a state educated radiographer may help find the lump so it can be zapped or removed, but a privately educated radiographer would do just as good a job without ripping off hard working tax payers?

 

[AHPP]

As it happens, I sort of agree. You could say the state is a natural occurence in natural philosophical (not political) anarchy, since we keep ending up with one. But that does nothing for individuals afflicted by it and I see no reason why we can't strive for something better. If we can actively try to form the world into various authoritarian shapes, why can't we try something arguably equally as un-natural and form it into a politically anarchist shape? Communication and technology for living has never been better.

 

Back in England in 2025, the private radiographer is finding lumps without the politicians and civil servants in the middle making everything cost more. The state radiographer is off with stress, tossing off the mornings going to Pret a Manger with his boyfriend.