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Weird. I listened several times and sometimes it was clearly ‘but’ and other times clearly ‘or’. Not sure how to interpret that. Contextually ‘or’ seems to fit.
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OTOH, can it do worse?
(The answer unfortunately is yes, but the limbo bar is getting pretty close to the floor)
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If investors have so much money to burn I have an amazing fire making investment for them.
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Dry erase marker on brand new board
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Once again the ‘news’ reporting doesn’t match reality.
While I’d prefer even less, they are almost in pocket lint territory. It’s almost like they aren’t even that one loner kid in each classroom but instead one in every other classrooom.
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Inport, fly the the host from the inboard yardarm, Navy Jack from the jackstaff on the bow, the national ensign from the flagstaff on the stern.
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I think American culture tries to deny this truth, and does everything it can to avoid being confronted by it. That might have served in some fashion but now it’s twisted into denying other truths as well.
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Deflection and denial are unfortunately very strong in most humans.
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Science has been the seed corn of the American economy, attacking it attacks the future economy and makes the future US poorer and weaker. Others will invent the future that the US will have to live with.
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Sortition for Senate, followed by three choice election at end of term:
Re-election
Thanks, we’ll give sortition another go
Ostracism - we’re seizing all your assets, your citizenship and kicking you out of the country before giving sortition another go.
Use randomness and powerful incentives.
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The pardon power needs to be overhauled and limited, and the legality of pre-emptive pardons challenged similar to ex post facto laws.
In the meantime states should prosecute aggressively.
Stunning lack of awareness by Patel that his allies would ship him off to CECOT in a heartbeat.
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I knew Grady and sat next to him for months about 35 years ago. Even back then when he was a LT he’d have been more qualified and better suited to be SecDef, or President. Someone you’d trust with your wife, daughter, car or fortune.
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And no I’m not saying that’s happened, It’m trying to frame this for those who have more concern for their guns than they have empathy for people. This is the stuff ‘We the people’ rebelled against a king about.
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Imagine this was someone’s 2A right taken away in secret, then them being arrested for not turning in their firearms that they didn’t know they couldn’t legally still have, but the removal of right can’t be found by local or state law enforcement.
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Real life maw-mouth from the Scholomance series
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I’m sure he will keep a disciplined, sober silence if he’s fired.
Oh who the hell would believe that?
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Shoigu?
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Targeting anti-semitism and also pushing it doesn’t make sense unless you realize that the real strategy is fragmentation and confusion while destroying norms in pursuit of power.
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You’d think ‘conservatives’ might have wanted to preserve that rather than enshrine and weaponize it but the current fascists aren’t really about conserving anything but their short term power and wealth.
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But it’s probably connected to internet/wifi and in two years will have have AI, not that anyone really wanted either.
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Working out that compact so as to free minds within acceptable areas let PRC apply more brainpower.
Cutting funding and narrowing freedom means US reduces brainpower from an already smaller pool. Rushing to cede previous advantages. 2/2
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Power of numbers: PRC has so many more people. As PRC work out the social compact and use a combination of economic tools from encouraging, regulating to directing markets based on high situational awareness they have come to dominate more and more fields of both production and tech. 1/2
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The PRC and Xi led CCP is smarter than that. They simply stopped buying Boeing as one part of their response.
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Except she didn’t get listened to/believed/acted on and then was relegated in history in favor of white male stories.
‘We the people’ need to act and stop waiting for a savior politician or superhero. Marvel has been bad for community action.
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Have you checked Singapore? I’d try it if I went back there.
theindependent.sg/investment-i...
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Horse shit, kind of like pollution from ICE? Maybe make the gases more visible like it was in LA basin in the 90s?
India will realize solar is cheaper, EV vehicles as well, although India needs more virtual and mass transit, not more cars. RoW will still go electric.
Trump picked the wrong horse.
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He’s fighting the tide, hence my comment on horses. Some fought automobiles in favor of horses.
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Horses are still around despite cars. Solar is growing exponentially because costs are dropping vs other sources. Meanwhile Trump’s tariffs and uncertainty have raised costs for drilling and possibility of recession: a double blow for gas and oil exploration. #ETTD
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I wish they had an index fund that worked the opposite of picking stocks to win or short selling: you get everything in the market except the stocks you pick.
Essentially highly diversified but you might improve performance a little by identifying losers or soon to be losers.
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Remember the big import tax (tariff) on tea?
That’s why 250 years later, we have so many big beautiful tea plantations in the United States.
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Scrolling back I think I may have found why and now I can just laugh it off. Life is weird, let it be weird sometimes.
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No. Rode subways/trains all over the world. Heard good things about Seoul but haven’t been. I’d add Singapore but it isn’t that extensive - total subway/bus/town planning system around train stops is impressive. Last check Singapore made great strides in recognizing ‘virtual’ as transport too.
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The most neglected form of transit is virtual. Why go to a government office for services or to most office work? You know what has gender neutral bathrooms and privacy? Your home. Virtual commuting is fast, energy efficient, and makes life easier for those who can’t commute virtually.
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Tokyo. I can count the number of times a train has been late on me on one hand with fingers left over. Before cell phones and everything tied to GPS we’d joke about JTT - Japnese Train Time and everyone set their watch to it.
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Some will slink away but others will continue to believe one more round of tariffs, a little bit crueler treatment of ‘others’, one more round of threats and bombings and the ‘winning’ will start, or that only Trump stands between them and some ‘disaster’. As if other solutions don’t exist.
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Kids die.
Visit older graveyards and it’s pretty obvious.
But also young adults, middle aged and old folks die, are crippled or impacted for life.
But you already know that.
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White collar crime displaces it’s violence, mostly to the state. Evictions, despair, anxiety, denial of health care; physical and mental harms as surely as if you bashed grandma over the head for her pension check.
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I don’t know, in typical American shooter fashion I don’t think we stopped after both feet and I fear Trump and cabal have more rounds …
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