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Business, Economics, and Taxes: Capitalism. Yay? >=(

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Thanks Mark Z!

(a project I’m associated with just got a chunk of funding from CZI so they’ll be paying a chunk of my salary for the next year)
 
LynahFan said:
Hmmmm. That would take a lot of money. Certainly trillions.
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Let's forget about expense, for a moment. Let's talk about denying the apes expertise.

How deep down do we have to go? Just the geniuses? Just the current professionals? Or down to every STEM college student?

If you rank-order every potential destructive-tool-creator, how far down does WOW have to monopolize talent in order to out-gun the apes, given infinite resources?

One other obvious caveat: we can't destroy the world while saving it. If (as they will) the apes attack to keep their penile pride, we can't end life on Earth in resisting them, but we still have to win.

We don't have to invade anybody. We just have to eliminate weapons as they are being used to harm others. So, Putin says "fuck it, I'm going for it" and puts all his tank and infantry and arty divisions on the border with Ukraine. WOW says, "I wouldn't." The Russians cross the border.

WOW can blow up weapons and kill soldiers, that's cool. And that means the area where the armies are (um, were) are going to take a hit -- that's bad but it happens. But the idea here is to simply eliminate war as a tool of statecraft. We aren't liberating peoples or changing regimes or anything like that. We're just eliminating airplanes and tanks and boats in the act of use and the people unfortunate enough to be near them.

Defenders, too. That's not allowed either. We're not picking sides, even. Just ending war.

We're also not attacking command and control, targetting, surveillance, etc. Have as many satellites as you want (as long as they don't have sharks with frickin' lasers on them), have all the computer banks you want. Unless your cities literally have missile silos in them they are completely safe. We're just going to eliminate the hardware that kills.
 
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Eat the rich.

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Stables in Dubai
 
Kepler said:
Eat the rich.

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Stables in Dubai
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When I worked in Bahrain I had an 18 y.o. son of a sheikh working for me. Was the nicest kid you could ever hope to meet and due to his legacy probably worth more already than 95% of the planet.

He had so much money he didn't know what to do with it. That he had a job period made him unlike every one of his peers. It was almost intimidating simply because if he was an asshole he could probably have had me erased in the blink of an eye. Clearly he was the needle in a haystack.

Strange world.
 
Slap Shot said:
When I worked in Bahrain I had an 18 y.o. son of a sheikh working for me. Was the nicest kid you could ever hope to meet and due to his legacy probably worth more already than 95% of the planet.

He had so much money he didn't know what to do with it. That he had a job period made him unlike every one of his peers. It was almost intimidating simply because if he was an ******* he could probably have had me erased in the blink of an eye. Clearly he was the needle in a haystack.

Strange world.
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When I was 20 I worked one summer for the Percival Guard Service, and I have a lifetime of stories about it. One gig was to "guard" a beach on the north shore of L.I. for the guy who owned the house -- a Middle Easterner who took a helicopter to and from the city every day. My job was to patrol the beach all day from end to end and make sure nobody swam past his property markers.

I did not take the gig. Everything about it was so creepy it felt like stories (30 years later) about Philipino maids getting thrown off the Burj Dubai observation deck for not fluffing the pillows right.
 
Conservatives supporting the free market.

Wyoming is faced by a transition to renewable energy that’s gathering pace across America, but it has now come up with a novel and controversial plan to protect its mining industry – sue other states that refuse to take its coal.

A new state law has created a $1.2m fund to be used by Wyoming’s governor to take legal action against other states that opt to power themselves with clean energy such as solar and wind, in order to meet targets to tackle the climate crisis, rather than burn Wyoming’s coal.
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dxmnkd316 said:
I hope they win. Imagine what's going to happen when California spools up their lawyers.
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I would guess that isn't likely...but man oh man the unintended consequences if it did would domino so far out of control for the Cons it would be worth it to watch. Most of the Red States couldn't afford what is coming...
 
Handyman said:
You mean like Kristy Noem overruling the will of her voters and suing to stop weed legalization after it was approved?
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I didn't even see that one. What a great way to spend our federal tax dollars.

But yeah, states suing states over trade issues seems counterproductive. I'm quickly being moved toward the merger of Wyoming/Montana/Dakota into one state. ;-)
 
My wife and I just started watching The Kominsky Method, and in the first episode a kid gets a shampoo commercial. This episode is back from 2018, and the kid says he’s going to buy Bitcoin, it’s the currency of the future. Putting $1000 into Bitcoin back then, that’d be a very lucrative Pantene commercial.
 
I sold 25% of my Doge at $.69 before it dipped. Got back double my initial investment and still doing great! Even the drop to $.48 doesn't matter I'm in the black even if it crashes!
 
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