Often, that money is used to fund the historical site to which the fountain belongs, they are basically donations.

Taps chart excitedly.

This is because they count someone driving their car as emissions of the petrol company selling the gas.

My favorite is when they parked “Mig replacement parts” in a border forest. Miraculously, they were found by the Ukrainians and reassembled into complete jets.

The way to do this is plausible deniability. There is software that allows creating an encrypted volume with two passwords, resulting in two different decrypted volumes. So you give the duress password and there is no incriminating data on there.

For example grapheneOS also has a duress pin that wipes the device.

Don’t trust the corpos but Apple has a history of resisting stuff like this.

I guess that is measuring emissions including all lifetime emissions by the products? Because if the products are fossil fuels of course it would be that high.

Stoicism.

It does not make sense to worry about things outside my ability to change. Humanity has survived significantly worse. All I can do is prepare, run, lift weights, and whatever else can be useful.

It’s really funny to me how so many people are going surprised pikachu over China tech not being crap.

They started with basic manufacturing until no one could beat them, stole everything they could to close the tech gap. But behind that, invested massively into education to the point that they are producing more engineers than the rest of the world combined. They may not be super creative but they are competent enough. Also if one in a million is a genius the “West” has 800 but China has 1500. So yes, of course now their domestic designs will catch up or surpass western ones.

Basically China spent the last 50 years systematically going through the techtree and minmaxing their spies, while the west just kind of aimlessly clicked around.

If they are owned by people, all the assets of the grocery store are personal assets and wealth of the individuals owning them.

No, because if you know its not encrypted you behave differently than when you think it is.

The judiciary only has power if the executive accepts that it has power.

Everything is just so unnecessary. Everyone is worse of, no one wins. So stupid.

I will post this every time.

Billionaires have an unhealthy concentration of power, but they don’t have a billion on their bank account. They own companies that are worth that much. They also aren’t necessarily assholes.

Germany has many medium sized companies. They mostly treat their employees really well. Good pay, guaranteed jobs for their kids, etc. Many for sure are worth over a billion. And they are privately owned, so the owners are billionaires or close to it. So what is supposed to happen to those companies ownerships? Would it really be better if they are publicly owned?

I’ve come around to think that a wealth tax is necessary, but it’s for sure complicated.

You realize that a single grocery store with all of its stock is likely already worth more than 1000x median income? Who does the grocery have to be sold to to pay your 100% tax?

Its all expected, but still sad every time.

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I have a deja vu, I think around ten years ago someone on reddit said the same thing about China having naval aviation at all.

Well he also lost his finger in a metal press. Also had to tune the guitar down hence the signature Ozzy sound.

8$?! lol, wtf.