oops, shows what happens when I do arithmetic on the fly.

Wow, and I thought that I was the science-fiction writer here.

If only 20% fail, the rest only need to average 20% growth for investors to break even.

And if at least 2% of them go up by a factor of ten, it's a win.

This is a problem that should be taken seriously. Our entire economy-- our entire social structure-- is built on the premise that people need to work in order to buy the essentials to stay alive. What do we do if, and when, AI and robots do all of the work, and there simply ARE no jobs for humans?

The current paradigm is, the rich people who own the robots get all the money, and the rest of the people, who now have no jobs... what? Do they starve? What happens?

"buy-now-pay-later loans"

Wait-- that just means credit cards. Buy now, pay when the bill comes (or, actually, 20 days after the bill comes).

Yeah, I buy groceries with my credit card.

To be fair, if you look at the history starting with the Ranger missions, success in getting to and landing on the moon came only after a series of failures.

Well, "resilient" means bouncing back after failure. So... we'll see.

If what they say is correct, it apparently only dissolves in salt water. So you can get it wet, just not wet with salt water.

But... what does it break down into?

I think you're right, if the dark energy was inversely proportional to the size of the universe, that sounds like it would act like a feedback mechanism and would have a point of stability where if the universe shrinks, the dark energy tends to expand it, and it the universe expands, the dark energy tends to shrink it.

(Okay, I take that back: there's one version in which I'd be okay with them lionizing Sam, but it'd have to involve actual lions)

I just hope they're not going to lionize Sam. That's the last thing we need. He pulled a classic sociopath-style manipulation to retain his position in the face of legitimate concerns about his abuse of power in the company.

You can find a static solution, but not a stable solution.

A stable solution would need feedback.

Sorry, I don't have time to critique people who have alternative theories of physics; there's too many of them out there, and I've noticed that people who think they've invented new physics come up with newly revised theories faster than you can point of the flaws in their previous ones.

For the thermodynamics of adiabatic lapse in atmospheres, try, say, https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fduckduckgo.com%2F%3Fq%3Dther...

You're basically saying that if you can make a Maxwell's Demon, you can violate the second law of thermodynamics. This turns out not to be the case, although the reason it's not true is subtle. (In very very short summary, it is that acquiring the information to sort particles requires free energy, and this energy negates the entropy you can decrease in the sorting. But the devil (no pun intended) is in the details.)

Gas in a gravitational field does not violate the second law of thermodynamics. If you drop down in a gravitational potential well, you release energy.

RFK jr. announced that he was quitting the Democratic party on Oct. 9, 2023.
Tulsi Gabbard announced that she was quitting the Democratic party on October 11, 2022.

If these are intended to be examples of Democratic party members who were appointed to Cabinet positions by DT, you are incorrect. Neither one was a member of the Democratic party when nominated.

If the assertion were modified to state that DT has appointed former Democrats to Cabinet positions, it would be accurate.