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From: Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
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Subject: Re: oscillator gain
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2024 14:17:50 +1100
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On 21/10/2024 2:18 am, john larkin wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Oct 2024 03:52:28 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
> wrote:
>> On a sunny day (Sat, 19 Oct 2024 21:59:05 -0000 (UTC)) it happened Cursitor
>> Doom <cd999666@notformail.com> wrote in <vf1a39$1su3$4@dont-email.me>
>>> On Sat, 19 Oct 2024 07:05:08 -0700, john larkin wrote:

<snip>

>> Russia and China are doing just fine..
> 
> Russia is falling apart. The real talent is leaving. I think Putin
> wants them out, so he can have a loyal, patriotic, poor, stupid
> population to rule over.
> 
> Both Russia and China face a demographic disaster: people, especially
> the smartest people, aren't having babies.

Smart people can work out how not to have babies, if they don't want 
them. Most of the smart people I know have two or three kids.

<snipped Jan being stupid>

> The US is doing pretty well, given the ways the world is changing.
> It's still the technology center of the world. Farm output is
> fantastic and still increasing. We have huge energy resources. The
> most talented people in the world emigrate here and get Nobel prizes
> or start industries.

They used to. The rest of the world has learned how to bribe their best 
and brightest to stay at home. The US with its over-priced health care 
and gross social inequality, is a much less attractive destination for 
clever people than it used to be, so the bribes don't have to be all 
that generous.

> It could be that the USA is actually the pioneer case for how the
> world will be: super multicultural and super productive and lots of
> outdoor recreation.

Except that it isn't super productive or super multi-cultural any more.

> I read an essay by a half-asian half-anglo guy who moved to San
> Francisco. He loves it here because it's the only place he's lived
> where people didn't stare at him for looking different.

Australia would work just as well for him, but you wouldn't have read 
his essay if he lived in Sydney.

> Ultimately, the world will homogenize and everybody will speak a sort
> of English. Without racial and language-based tribalism, and everybody
> moving around, we won't need wars.

Pretty much everybody can speak English in countries that do secondary 
education. They tend not to speak it at home.

The US has a lot of racial and language-based tribalism, so it has got a 
long way to go. It's military-industrial complex needs wars to keep it's 
turnover high, in the same way that the fossil carbon extraction 
industry needs to sell a lot of fossil carbon as fuel, despite the 
unfortunate side effects of burning it.

As prophet, John Larkin sucks.

-- 
Bill Sloman, Sydney