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Every engine that america was buying from Russia was not ending up in China. Massive national defense win.

What's wrong with NATO expanding? It's a voluntary organization that protects member states from aggressors? It's like saying a shelter for abused women is also somehow partially responsible for domestic abuse... One side is protecting the other is attacking. South ossetia, crimea, abkhazia are all examples of what happens if you live too close to russia and aren't protected by nato lol

of course it does. you steal 20 deoderant sticks, 3 jugs of laundry detergent, 6 packs of gillete razors, and a couple of 12 packs of RX Bars, and you can fence that for $60-80 in SF. You can easily do a couple of fencing runs a day. conservatively thats $2400 a month if you do 2x runs a day 5 days a week lol. Plenty of people in SF make a living like this. Every couple of months the feds catch a fencing operation selling millions of dollars of stolen items on ebay a year.

Deoderant in particular is incredibly profitable because it sells super well on ebay. Just search old spice deoderant on ebay and look at all of the obviously stolen merchandise.

It's funny though, because it kinda creates tons of jobs. the highly incompetent just steal and sell to fencers, the semi-incompetent buy stolen goods and fence them on ebay, and poor consumers get to buy slightly cheaper goods on ebay. the only people who lose are stores elling goods, and consumers who have to ask salespeople to open the locked up merchandise.

good

hopefully this time, the DOJ is not merciful and breaks Microsoft into 3-4 different entities.

Storage is not an issue. It's been solved for decades. In fact, energy storage is amazing and cheap now, thanks to smartphones and EVs. You can buy consumer level batteries for very very cheap.

Government employee Palmer???

If I murder 2 people and reveal that john murdered 22 people and Bob murdered 36 people, does that mean I get to skip trial because I revealed bigger crimes? Sometimes, if I can get a plea deal, but this was not the case, so what is the problem here?

it is the same model. in order to buy a birkin you need to buy tens of thousands of dollars of less desireable Hermes product.

first airbnb, and now this, you love to see it. hopefully banning all gambling is next

luckily, we have hundreds of millions of 6 year olds addicted to reddit who will answer whatever question you might have.

In 30 years the cost of solar panels+batteries will have fallen so low that power will be the least important part of any manufacturing process. In fact, it already is for everything but the most commodified, low margin products, things that first world countries have no interest in competing.

nice to see a small studio seeing massive success and also resisting the urge to over-monetize and compromise quality. Takes a lot of discipline to say no tens of millions of dollars today

VR porn

The firebombing of tokyo killed 200K people, more than both nukes. the firebombing was an attempt to end the war via conventional means and it did nothing to weaken japanese resolve.

The reason hiroshima and nagasaki (small cities) were chosen as nuke targets was because every other bigger city was already mostly destroyed due to firebombing campaigns.

if the line gets long enough, it allows other companies to compete with Nvidia and creates a healthier, more competitive market, in the same way AMD has made intel a more honest, fairer, less price-gouging company. Competition is the entire thesis of american capitalism

all of the companies you listed except Huawei are in american colonies

Hey Siri, how much do 10 torpedoes cost the US government to build and deliver?

Why are you talking as if this "could exist"?

It already exists in almost every EV...

Heroin for kids! NOTIFICATIONS NOTIFICATIONS TECH TECH START THEM EARLY QUANTIFY EVERYTHING RECORD EVERYTHING CONNECT EVERYTHING

Who can pull those kinds of strings? Dog, the CIA is tremendously powerful, and the bahamas are as powerful as a mid-sized town in iowa. whatever america wants, it gets from countries subject to the monroe doctrine.

This is every military in the history of the world.

The vast majority of the USSR factories were funded by american cash. Without the US, Germany wins WW2 handily. Without the USSR, the united states drops nukes on berlin in 1946 and handily wins ww2 by 1947.

They figured this out ages ago. this is why you see billboards and ads that simply feature a large logo. The next time you are in the store the primed neurons activate and humans are drawn towards the logos that they have been exposed to

I am also selling myself for $1B

America was only pro-Free Market when they controlled the global economy. Now that there are other competing markets, we will see so many more tariffs and trade wars. Free Market economics only work in your favor when you are the sole superpower.

small nuclear power plant would be the first thing sent to mars, or many arrays of solar cells. then pods of batteries, then construction materials, then equipment, then humans.

realistically, the assembly could be done remotely, and you would want at least two habitable shielded pods with a very large excess of food/oxygen/supplies stored by the time humans arrived.

This might seem impossible, but i don't think it's particularly difficult, the only major hurdle would be the budget. The rocket vessel will make a good living pod, the small nuclear reactor was studied by the US Gov in the 50s, so that shouldn't be a problem, except maybe cooling, but again that should be a solvable problem.

there has been tons of progress made, just for shareholders, not users of the actual technology. SaaSification, subscriptions, weaponized feature tiers, emotional manipulation. We are living in the golden age of marketing, sales, and consumerism.

based on the definition of what a security and what a commodity, it should be abundantly clear to anyone over the age of 5 what crypto falls under:

Commodities are consumable goods that get transformed through usage in industrial or commercial processes. Gold and silver can be transformed into jewelry. Securities, on the other hand, grant holders the right to periodic benefits like dividends, coupons, principal repayments and potential profit shares.

How are you consuming crypto? What commercial or industrial process are being used?

Let’s not control others. If people want to use lead paint, let them. Let’s not control others. If people want to use leaded gasoline, let them. Let’s not control others. If people want to build with asbestos, let them. Let’s not control others. If people want to cook with trans fats, let them. Let’s not control others. If people want to do fentanyl, let them.

the entire basis of society and progress is controlling others for the prosperity of the human race.