Claims of infinite growth is definitely not a sign of a shady investment!
LOL, pretty much ANY investment's value is expected to grow infinitely, at least when "value" is measured in dollars. Or do you expect the FED to ever stop. fucking. printing. more. money?
There are plenty of useful alternative payment systems now making its use as currency redundant
Name one that is immune to some fascist in government deciding I'm an Enemy of the People and taking away my livelihood with a click of a button, I'll wait. Or wanting to find out if I'm one and going through a nicely compiled list of all my purchases. Any newspapers with wrongthink? Donations to wrong parties? Oh, and as a nice bonus Bitcoin is also immune to some communist in the government deciding he needs to fund yet another Big State Project and just giving himself a ton of money created out of nowhere with a click of another button, devaluing the ones I have.
But you knew all that. In fact this is exactly why you're raging against Bitcoin.
You're just another fascist fucktard who thinks it'll be his foot wearing the boot on my face (or at least, feet of politicians from his side) and that's your reason for pushing this govt-controlled e-banking shit.
Oh well, you fascists made a huge mistake with those Canadian truckers. Waaaaaay to early to be swinging hammer like that. You should have waited until you were way more entrenched. You gained almost nothing, and now noone will believe your "benign intensions" while you're pushing this CBDC shit and working against alternatives like cash or BTC.
No, the actual worst thing Meta can do is give the data about you to the government, but this takes us back to the previous issue.
But that's the rebuttal to the beginning of your own paragraph! You cancelled out your own comment! That's exactly the reason why The People would be outraged at it if they were smart, which in turn is the reason why the Republicans began to attack public education in the Reagan era.
OK, so in the scenario where government disappears you because of some info they got on you from Meta, it's Meta that's the evil villain that needs to be taken down and not the government? I see the leftist education system has brainwashed you nicely.
Just to add: if the government, including the police, started mass video surveillance, there would be justified outrage. Meta has more data processing than at least the UK government and consequently should be given less leeway.
Yeah, and the reason for that is if the government decides they don't like you, they can debank you, make you unemployable, put you in prison for however long they feel like, torture you, kill you and any combination of the above. Oh, and go after your loved ones too. Worst thing Meta can do to you is show you a targetted ad or ban you off their platform. No, the actual worst thing Meta can do is give the data about you to the government, but this takes us back to the previous issue.
Whether you're 20, 30, 40, or 50, you're gonna be fucked by AI in some way in the next decade. It doesn't matter if you're old or not.
Not really. Only if you're this epoch's equivalent of buggy whip manufacturer. Everyone else will benefit hugely from from not needing to pay for your services anymore.
How much NVDA do you hold?
How much are the Chinese paying you?
Are you thinking of the 2021 Texas winter storm, when renewables held up great but production from gas and coal collapsed? Of course, the governor then lied about it and tried to claim the opposite:
State officials, including Republican governor Greg Abbott, initially incorrectly blamed the outages on frozen wind turbines and solar panels. Data showed that failure to winterize traditional power sources, principally natural gas infrastructure but also, to a lesser extent, wind turbines, had caused the grid failure, with a drop in power production from natural gas more than five times greater than that from wind turbines.
LOL. Quite funny how you're still wanking off to that one event caused by cataclysmic weather, under an article where it literally made the news that California had *no* blackouts, completely surprising everyone.
Yeah, I was waiting for someone to bring up the convoy criminals.
Believe me, the USA has far harsher sanctions for anyone who commits a crime. Look up "Civil Forfeiture", which is not nearly as easy to do in Canada.
Are you fucking seriously comparing legal procedure which is decided by a court, in which both sides get to present their case, and which ultimately is decided by a judge, to a politician deciding to debank his political enemies? How fucking brainwashed are you?
No reasonable person thinks that the word hate in this context means the same thing as the definition to which you are trying to recast it.
No reasonable person would use the word hate where it cannot possibly apply. They would find some other way to discuss the thing which actually made sense because it took into account the definitions of words.
Yes, they would. It's called a "metaphor", look it up. Oh, and BTW, getting pissed about other people using metaphors and figures of speech isn't the intelligence flex you seem to think it is, rather it just outs you as being on the spectrum.
Not a lawyer, but I don't think intent is necessary for it to be criminal. Negligence and can also have severe consequences that can be criminal.
"Negligence" isn't a magic word that you can say to remove intentionality requirement from any crime law, as you seem to think it is.
It is not just the teachers. The whole thing is a feedback loop. When a teacher finds that they would have to fail 80% of a class on a book reading assignment, they will reduce or remove that assignment in the future. Hence the problem is larger.
How to fix it? No idea. One approach would be that below a certain skill level, unless you are really mentally challenged, you do not leave school. Lear to read or never graduate. Another would be realistic feedback that includes both potential and actual skill and refuse to graduate people with a larger gap there. But all of that includes telling parents, "no your kid is not a genius" or "your kid is lazy and does not want to learn". There are some parents that this would not even be needed for, but there are many others that just have a deep disdain for education because they are failures themselves. And the second group makes "uneducated" a socially inherited trait. You also have the problem that some political groups and especially almost all religious groups do not want an educated population. These assholes only ever supported education to the level that was needed to keep society going and that level has dropped. Maybe.
Sure. Except, in, you know, actual real reality, it's not "religious groups" that decided math is racist, and everyone should be given participation award.
I think you fundamentally misunderstand the point. The point of induced demand is that it can't solve traffic congestion, it can only further intrench car dependency. It's counter-intuitive to its own goal, as you said the point is to get people where they want to get to, and the best way of doing that is to provide them with a method of doing so that doesn't waste their lives.
Induced demand is a concept unique to overcrowded individual mobility sources, specifically driving. On the flip side you can do something like invest in high-speed rail or better more efficient public transit and move more people, more quickly, without it just turning into a parking lot, which at the same time reduces demand on an arterial.
This isn't a question of expand highway vs do nothing. It's a question of expanding highway vs doing something different that may have a better outcome (for both people who will use the system as well existing people on the highway who won't).
Rather than telling people to fuck off, please understand what it means in the context of city planning.
But if that's your aim, at least be honest about it.
City planning is fundamentally about controlling habits of people. It's at the very core. You don't drive because you want to drive. You drive because planners and designers have ultimately created an environment which made it either the best or maybe the only option for you. This kind of thing doesn't need to be stated.
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Ah yes, the deep seated leftist preconception that they know better than I do what I want to do. As a matter of fact, yes, I want to drive. Or to be more precise I want a mode of transportation that operates on my schedule, on my route, which doesn't force me to wait in weather for its arrival on a "stop", where I can always comfortably sit (in a chair I adjusted for myself) and not just if I'm lucky during off hours, where I control the AC setting, the music, where I do not have to worry about pickpockets, other people's personal hygiene or being stabbed (or worse, smalltalked), so unless those "city planners" have some way of providing me with all that then yes, as GP said, you can fuck right off.
If someone writes "No rocket had ever reached orbit from Western European soil" then you cannot just miss out qualifying words like "Western" to make a headline. If I write a story saying "Greytree is the fastest 100m runner called Greytree" you cannot post a story with the headline "Greytree is the fastest 100m runner". This is Journalism 101, not rocket science.
Hush, it's a "Yurup can has into space too" story, you're supposed to celebrate. You know, kind of like you celebrate when that slightly retarded kid manages to do for the first time something his peers have been doing or years. Yes, Yurup, we love you, here, let me give you a participation award.
After a number of decimal places, nobody gives a damn.
