{"id":85618,"date":"2023-08-07T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85618"},"modified":"2023-08-06T08:04:39","modified_gmt":"2023-08-06T13:04:39","slug":"things-id-do-if-i-had-a-time-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85618","title":{"rendered":"Things I&#8217;d Do If I Had A Time Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Speaking for myself?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8221;d go back and try to show&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;well, not &#8220;the idiots who shut down nuclear power&#8221;, so much as the mushy minds that believed them, how much trouble and misery they would eventually cause around the world.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI don&#39;t see any limit in terms of a cornucopian world if we have freedom, and I think we&#39;d be way far ahead on nuclear had we not had the anti-nuclear movement of the last 50 years.\u201d<br><br>With <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/peterthiel?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@peterthiel<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1dGPpZMA5p\">pic.twitter.com\/1dGPpZMA5p<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Alex Epstein (@AlexEpstein) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlexEpstein\/status\/1684889047523786753?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 28, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, destroying cornucopia in general is a goal of the totalitarian left.  Poor people don&#8217;t solve problems &#8211; but they <em>do <\/em>demand strongmen to solve the problems <em>for <\/em>them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking for myself? I&#8221;d go back and try to show&#8230; &#8230;well, not &#8220;the idiots who shut down nuclear power&#8221;, so much as the mushy minds that believed them, how much trouble and misery they would eventually cause around the world. Of course, destroying cornucopia in general is a goal of the totalitarian left. Poor people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market","category-global-warmingcoolingchange"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85652,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85618\/revisions\/85652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}