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And they Trump wanted to throw Ukraine under the bus while Meloni keeps supporting Ukraine.

And Italy got tariffed with all the rest. Loyalty didn’t get rewarded much.

You didn’t mention toll booths to pay for the maintenance. Those can still be added.

After that, you know it’s only true when the government officials denies it.

Transform and cluck out!

Survival is not economically viable

“The President always maintains all options at all times, and it is the job of the Pentagon to be ready to execute any decision the Commander-in-Chief could make,” Kelly said.

That’s a nice way to say Trump doesn’t have a clue, but if he says jump they’ll jump.

You can try supercritical CO2 now if you don’t like water.

Some folks just really like to believe there is an order to things, with people above them to aspire to, and people to kick down on.

Tech bros seem to get all their ideas from scifi books so yeah, that does sound good.

Historically, taxes were invented to feed the army. A leader didn’t need taxes to pay for things. They could just point at local blacksmith and demand a new spear. But to sustain an army you need a lot of food. The answer is to give soldiers money to buy stuff and demand the money back from the population.

These days a lot depends on what kind of society you have. An extractive society has a strongman as leader and everybody is involved in digging stuff out of the ground. Not much is giving back to society as everybody is just a replaceable pair of hands.

Societies where people’s mind is your resource because you design and make stuff, the situation is different. For people to do their more complex work you need education, healthcare, nice neighborhoods.

How taxes are used reflects on where you’re going as a society.

It’s been tried just to see off it could, like putting it in charge of a coffee shop. It’s not going well.

There are rumours of people at his companies to keep Musk occupied and away from the real work.

Costs. AI companies have been running at a big loss using investment money trying to scale quickly and conquer the market. That always comes at an end and something closer to the real costs has to be paid.

That was always the reason AI was put into everything.

AI companies are switching to token based billing. Money is running out and heavy AI users are going to have to pay closer to the real price. People suddenly having to pay 10 times as much. You can just as well hire an intern for that money.

There are enough Japanese saying they’d rather die as a civilization than compromise on their uniqueness and allow foreigners to dilute it. That’s what you get when a lot of old folks that don’t want any change have the voting majority.

That’s a gonk thing to say.

cool

Like that word. They’re isn’t anything temperature related in that sentence. It’s impressive how long “cool” keeps being used.

These words are important though. Without them you get in a 1984 world where some fool forces people to use double plus good.

Step 1: start a new economy based on a different kind of money

30F = 0C

50F = 10C

70F = 20C

85F = 30C

100F = 40C

That’s rough but close enough to get a feel what range they’re talking about.