hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
2hr ago
Even before that, Monaghan cashed out to found Ave Maria. Plenty of billionaires embark on intellectual patronage.
hydroacetylene
2hr ago
Or Anthropic just doesn't want to do with the obvious thing(which is, and has always been, to give the pentagon what it wants and then send it a bill), and no amount of political grounds will convince them to do so.
hydroacetylene
2hr ago
I didn't say I liked it. I said it's the actual demand.
hydroacetylene
3hr ago
There are creatures that routinely and prettily kill porcupines- leopards and cougars. Tigers and brown bears are the ones that get messed up by preying on them.
hydroacetylene
3hr ago
Is it? Ukraine is as poor as India, with far worse demographics, and it's also a bombed out wreck at the moment.
hydroacetylene
3hr ago
though we need some way to exclude middle class HELOCs
Only apply it above a given net worth that even very lucky and geographically well situated middle class people will not reach.
Go run for office.
I would consider it- I'd make a good crank candidate- but I suspect the background checking would result in this very forum shutting down, and besides, it's incredibly expensive.
hydroacetylene
3hr ago
A tax that could be implemented without actually destroying much value is requiring sufficiently large companies to employ worthies in well-paying sinecures. That is, presumably, the actual demand when you boil it down; much of the left side of the spectrum's representation is about how unfair it is that their degrees in fan fiction from a communist's ass don't automatically result in a high standard of living. Of course, that doesn't mean the median leftist believes this; most presumably are not the twitterati socialists who believe they should have a comfortably above median standard of living without doing any actual work, on the strength of their ideological purity(mostly expressed through degree-having). But the twitterati socialists are the representation to the public, and their enoblement would calm the rest of the leftists because they would no longer have an amplifier to their concerns.
hydroacetylene
13hr ago
I mean, this time Iran claims that is has a deal and will sign on the nineteenth in Geneva.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
The Siege of Krishnapur. I couldn’t get through Blood Meridian because it used retarded, over the top violence in lieu of plot or developed characters, albeit the prose was sheer artistry on display to almost make it readable.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
You could, like, go to a college football game. Or an English football game.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Scotland will not win the world cup, given their performance yesterday.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
TBF, USA! USA! USA! Is almost uniquely suited to chanting among major country names.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
The USA world cup match was also absolutely full of celebrities chanting 'USA! USA! USA!' after every goal(well, except for Paraguay's single goal). Sports brought America together that night; libtard celebrities were chanting with Marco Rubio and jeering the ref when he made pro-paraguay decisions. The rich and famous seemed less like an alien race and more like a bunch of regular guys living unusual lives.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
It's not that weird for committed shitlibs. Union plumbers are ultramaga republicans.
Granted we don't have a lot of people on the motte that want to clear out all the magats on the grounds that if they can do it we can do without it. But the bluesky crowd being horrified at the politics of the experts at keeping their lights on and their water running is a semi-regular occurrence.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Gypsies definitely present themselves a certain way, and that is key to being a gypsy.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Score one against the hypothesis that the male tilt of migration is why people hate it.
hydroacetylene
4d ago
So TL;DR, tokens are cheaper than basically all white collar workers in the modern west, but they get overused for fun projects?
hydroacetylene
4d ago
Charitable giving? Precious metals? More expensive food?
hydroacetylene
4d ago
This raises the question- how much does a token cost, and how much does it do? I'm given to understand the standard software engineering productivity line is 1 line of code/hour, is a token more or less than that(and does it cost more than an hour of a software engineer's time)?
This discussion of tokens is sort of like 'the carpet costs 40,000 Kazakhi tenges(to pick random foreign money I'm not familiar with)'. OK, sounds like a lot, but how much is a tenge? If it's worth as much as yen, that's not a bad deal.
hydroacetylene
5d ago
‘Whatever happens, we have got The maxim gun, and they have not’
Rotor’s drift was a British victory because the British couldn’t retreat and had guns. The zulus lost a lot of people, but Isandlwana shows that they were highly effective at war.
hydroacetylene
5d ago
The houses often rotted(literally) after being left half finished.
hydroacetylene
6d ago
Plato's philosopher kings were forbidden from owning property, after all.
hydroacetylene
6d ago
American english doesn't use lego in the singular. 'He has legos' 'oh how many' 'one brick'.
hydroacetylene
6d ago
As I understand it, the loyalist paramilitaries have turned into something like truly outlaw biker gangs in the USA- they aren't particularly religious or nationalist anymore, despite the exclusionary membership rules, and more exist to skirt the edges to society, dabble in organized crime, etc- and that the non-actual-hard-communist branches of the IRA are now more or less totally defunct, the 'real IRA' and continuity IRA are tiny fringe groups mostly made up of true believers in the hardcore versions of extreme lefty ideologies.
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