anonporridge

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by anonporridge 8mo ago
A US wealth/unrealized gains tax might trigger it, because it would likely create a cascade of forced selling, with the proceeds of sales getting burned as tax revenue for entitlement programs or debt payments rather than reinvested.
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by anonporridge 11mo ago
Ditto Russia.
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by anonporridge 11mo ago
No, it's just game theory. When you're playing prisoner's dilemma games, and your co-player is consistently defecting, you can only play cooperate for so long. Tit for tat is the only way you don't get majorly screwed by
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by anonporridge 11mo ago
Why should they? The United States honors international IP law and doesn't cheat its way into threatening domestic production of other countries like China does.
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by anonporridge 11mo ago
The rise of China has done a lot to destroy the neoliberal, globalist dream. Letting them cheat the globalist system (e.g. violating IP laws, human rights violations, Uyghur/Tibetan genocide) may have been fine when they were desperate
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by anonporridge 11mo ago
Cybertruck is a great case study in how people confuse form for function. In a world where technology is advancing exponentially, aesthetics increasingly offer a poor signal for performance, and only those who obsessively look under the hoo
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by anonporridge 1y ago
That only catches the stupid criminals, which to be fair is most of them.
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by anonporridge 1y ago
You're still missing the point. Not having kids yourself but still having a retirement of any kind is a privilege that only exists if most people still have kids, so that their kids become workers who will provide the goods and service
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by anonporridge 1y ago
Taxing 100% of the wealth of all the billionaires in the US would fund federal spend for about 8 months. And you only get to do that once.
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by anonporridge 1y ago
The point just flew over your head. Yes, you could do this, but it's parasitic behavior that depends on your ability to extract value from the labor of other people's kids. If everyone does this, then there are no kids to take ove
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by anonporridge 1y ago
All money is imaginary until it becomes realized as food in your belly.
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by anonporridge 1y ago
We are working less than ever, living longer in retirement, AND spending more of early life in education and training rather than working. Denmark in particular is seeing some great decreases in annual working hours for working people. htt
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by anonporridge 2y ago
I don't get how this isn't obvious. If you can't defend your territory without relying on another country, you are not truly sovereign. The larger union might be sovereign, but you aren't, and your protection is only as
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by anonporridge 2y ago
There is not and never has been any place on Earth where being poor and sick doesn't suck.
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by anonporridge 2y ago
Just don't eat any unless you're certain it's safe. You won't get poisoned just from touching any mushrooms. One interesting gotcha that regularly kills people, is that there are some look-a-like species between Eurasia
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by anonporridge 2y ago
This comment is an excellent example of ideology superseding real world results. Just an incredible public display of cognitive dissonance.
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by anonporridge 2y ago
Yep. This is the problem I've been zeroing in on as well. Socialized retirement destroys most of the incentive to sacrifice your youth to grow and raise new people. Why sacrifice your youth and money being a parent when you can leech o
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by anonporridge 2y ago
Because that was how Tesla became what it is today starting with the Roadster. It's a tried and true formula of release a high end, very expensive vehicle with a lot of experimental features that funds and proves out the engineering pr
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by anonporridge 2y ago
No time to watch the video. Does he at least acknowledge the groundbreaking engineering for a production vehicle with things like 48V architecture, data CAN bus, and steer by wire, and how this will all likely roll into future Tesla vehicle
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by anonporridge 2y ago
The topic is inter corporate mudslinging, so it seems very on topic to point out that Lucid hasn't figured out how to not lose gobs of money yet. Honestly, this whole post should probably be deleted, because it's not a constructiv
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by anonporridge 2y ago
> How would you respond? Probably like he generally does. "Prototypes are easy, production is hard. I hope Lucid manages to figure out how to get their factory productive so they don't go bankrupt in a year."
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by anonporridge 2y ago
We don't need lightning rods, we just need to pray to Zeus.
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by anonporridge 2y ago
It is hard, but we've proven to be really fucking good at doing hard things. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/distribution-of-populatio...
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by anonporridge 2y ago
There's no intrinsic reason why it can't be. It entirely depends on how many externalities are created as debt to the future in order to ship blueberries around the world. Internalize those externalities and the grinding force of
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by anonporridge 2y ago
Isn't the premise of this video of the Consumer Reports comparison a bit of red herring? It seems like Consumer Reports is comparing Mercedes Driver Assistance with Tesla Autopilot and then the video goes on to compare it to Tesla F
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by anonporridge 2y ago
My bet is most of these long lived businesses also maintain a large pile of gold, which is a fantastic multi generational store of value. But yeah, cash is really just a call on the local monopoly on violence, which changes all the time ove
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by anonporridge 2y ago
Not mad, disappointed. It just seems embarrassing for them that they're struggling so hard to live up to their value of being "listener supported" that they have to accept sponsors like this to survive.
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by anonporridge 2y ago
It was a pretty explicit message along the lines of "come discover how to connect with God with us".
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by anonporridge 2y ago
KUOW in Seattle seems to be in trouble too. Their sponsors have been getting increasingly cringeworthy. Just last week I heard a long sponsor message from Christian Science. They seem to scraping deeper into the bottom of the barrel and spo
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by anonporridge 3y ago
Burning off excess methane is always going to be a problem that needs to be solved regardless. There are just too many small, remote sources that aren't likely to ever justify the cost of infrastructure build out to use on grid. For ex

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