Re: really big physics

On 3/04/2025 7:46 am, john larkin wrote:

On Wed, 02 Apr 2025 18:02:10 +0100, Cursitor Doom <cd@notformail.com>
wrote:
 

On Tue, 01 Apr 2025 12:59:09 -0700, john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com>
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On Tue, 1 Apr 2025 15:35:16 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
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On 4/1/2025 2:02 PM, john larkin wrote:

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The best thing for the West right now is a hefty dose of nationalistic
patriotism (but without the bellicose element which we can well do
without, of course). Globalism has impoverished us, and will continue
to do so until its proponents are crushed and sanity restored.

"Globalism", like "cultural Marxism" is just one more lunatic right-wing conspiracy theory. Cursitor Doom likes his plitical delusion to be totally implausible, so he's big fan of both.

Competition makes most everything better.

Health care does seem to be an obvious exception. The less efficient competitors kill people more often, but it takes a while for the customers to notice. Regulators look out for this kind of incompetence, and get rid of them before they kill quite a many people as they do in a competitive system.

In the USA, we have states
competing for people and businesses. Europe would be better off with
more (peaceful!) competition between countries and less globalist
bureaucracy.

The whole point of the European Union is that it s a free trade area, and all the producers within those countries compete. There is a a Europe-wide regulation system, and England got out in part because their manufacturers disliked having less influence on the regulators than they had been used to. I was involved in part of the UK regulation system in a small way in the early 1980's and was surprised by the antics of some of the UK manufacturing representatives.
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Bill Sloman, Sydney