I don’t understand, he seemed so genuine and I really thought he was going to use his razor sharp business acumen and trust fund baby work ethic to solve all these problems!

The market will crash when the oligarchs decide it has crashed. It’s all just made up.

*Dad voice - fixing bridges is a war crime?

But I’m actually a bridge engineer and you’re spot on, shit takes a shocking amount of time even for small, simple bridges. That’s why they last for 100 years.

Fair enough, I guess the combo of being maga-hot, maga-smart, and maga-loud also works.

if you want to be already are rich

None of these people would have made it anywhere without being born into privilege.

I’d hope it would be US vs the rest of the world, but I don’t have that much faith in our leadership.

Canada hasn’t been making military alliances and trade deals with every other country for the last year for nothing. They also didn’t just recall their military for nothing either. Canada’s fortifying itself in plain sight and the trump admin are too stupid to notice.

Didn’t we all…

I have an anecdote, albeit a little old. Circa 2010 I was living in the US (WI). Traded an old bar fridge I didn’t need to a friend for a 30-06 rifle. It was the first firearm I owned while living there. I then went to my local police and asked if there was any kind of registration process I should go through and they said nope, we don’t care. Not saying you’re wrong, just one experience I had.

When I bought a shotgun from a store after that I did have to wait 3 days, I presumed at the time because I wasn’t a citizen.

In competitive markets that’s how it worked. What we have now are mega corporations who build monopolies by buying out the competition or sending them broke by brute force. Then once the corporation has a stranglehold they are free to cheapen their products and services and/or jack up prices knowing they have no competition. That’s why formerly quality brands are constantly becoming poor quality trash.

Inherited wealth leads to spoiled, privileged idiots who have grown up thinking they earned their lives through talent and hard work, when in reality they’ve just been failing upwards while the family money and connections have been covering their asses.

In late stage capitalism, those idiots have amassed enough wealth and power to make them a genuine threat to all of us. If you can’t see that happening already then I have to assume you’re one of the many people who are just beyond help.

I wasn’t the one making the statement, just offering an interpretation. I think a good case could be made that the US IS a shining example of mature capitalism.

The problem with capitalism is the high prices needed to pay for shareholder profits and executive bonuses. The key is to adopt some capitalistic programs but not so much that prices increase while quality of goods and services decrease in perpetuity.

Oh, and also end inherited wealth, because it’s antithetical to an egalitarian society.

I don’t think it’s the capitalism part they were disputing, it was the shining example part.

And the “don’t tread on me” crowd will gleefully sign up to join his gestapo so they can tread on their fellow citizens.

just say it makes you feel powerful.

The way god must feel when he’s holding a gun! (Old Simpsons quote 🤣 ) I’ve always said my favourite thing about guns is the brandishing. They sure are fun to brandish.

Holy cow man. I was pointing out the comedy value of a random internet commenter assuming someone doesn’t know anything about neural networks only to have that person be an actual expert on neural networks. You might want to put some of that psych knowledge into checking into your sensitivity issues.

And just for the record, I don’t know shit about how brains work. I have a ba and ms in computer science and I also don’t know shit about AI.

Ultimate internet nightmare!

“You just don’t understand neural networks.”

“Well akshully, I’m a cognitive neuroscientist…”

🤣

You specifically stated “free a US service person,” which netanyahu isn’t.

He was incredibly consistently pro-war.

That’s how you do it until you start to bump against the limits of growth. When the growth is done, profits no longer matter as much as straight ownership of what remains, and it’s easier to take pieces if you smash it first.