Musk has prior art.

Now I'm thinking Nike iShoes should be a thing.

I'm assuming you're just being sarcastic, but there's probably a bunch of 'em on eBay. I'll go look and... oh, that's unfortunate.

I think I'm going to go with what 93 Escort Wagon said earlier - they made 8 of the damn things, and all of them ended up on eBay for some insanely inflated price.

Because at this time nobody knows how far off this is or whether it is even possible. LLMs are certainly not the way there.

So apparently Jeffrey Epstein wrote that Donald Trump sucked Bill Clinton's dick and Vladimir Putin has the pictures.

Stop, read that again, Google it, and just Jesus fucking Christ what the hell is wrong with our world?

Anyway, I doubt Trump sucked Clinton's dick. Although given some of the freaky shit guys at ivy League schools do in those gentlemen's clubs who the hell knows? The point of something like that would be to have pictures so that both sides could use them for mutually assured destruction...

I think it's much more likely though that Epstein was exaggerating for effect but that Putin really does have some extremely damning compromat on Donald Trump.

MAGA could watch Donald Trump rape their own babies and they would somehow blame Obama.

When we say it's a cult that's what we mean.

They wouldn't have made very many of these so they could advertise they sold out.

The purpose of this is to get you angry at excess spending by idiots. Then you engage and become aware.

This is a marketing campaign and I'm participating in it and if you're reading this you're participating in it too.

Think critically and Google competently

I'm going to tell you right now there is no way this passes a background check unless the companies wanted it to.

It's just like how anytime we want to put a stop to illegal immigration you just throw a few businesses that hire them in jail.

But instead we brutalize the immigrants and look the other way 99% of the time when the businesses commit the crime.

Every now and then some small business owner gets raked over the coals but never any of the big ones. It's usually some shitty little Mexican restaurant somewhere.

Meanwhile it's impossible to have sensible immigration policies, like you know we get to have H1B doctors in rural towns where nobody will work but we don't bring in a limitless supply of JavaScript programmers...

That is way too much nuance for the American voter. Let alone having a discussion of taking the increased GDP from immigration and giving it to all citizens instead of shunting it up to the top as fast as we can.

In the last 40 years the top 1% have taken about 60 trillion with a t dollars out of the economy.

The guy running from our drug wars cutting your grass isn't the problem.

I would say under-regulation, or more to the point, mal-regulation. Unregulated markets inevitably settle into a worst case scenario given time.

In the case of residential property (which is what your link refers to), I agree that some of the regulations there are bad and need to be revised or eliminated. But they have nothing to do with the commercial space falling into squalor.

Relative to Trump, yes 1000% absolutely. Inarguable.

Oh yeah I agree that Putin is more dangerous than Kamala but it doesn't matter how dangerous he is as an individual if we just give Ukraine enough weapons then it's over for Russia they're going to have to back out.

However more and more it's looking like Putin has dirt on Trump involving the Epstein files and underaged girls. I don't mean girls who are like 17 and a half years old we're talking 12 and 13 year olds...

It's also extremely likely that Putin has pictures of trump in a variety of bizarre compromising positions because it's not uncommon for ultra-wealthy people to take those kind of pictures with other ultra wealthy people as a kind of dead man's switch in order to make sure nobody betrays anyone.

A while back one of the ivy League colleges had a bunch of it leak.

Russia would be finished. Jeffrey Epstein apparently expressed concern that Vladimir Putin might have a picture of Donald Trump giving Bill Clinton a blowjob.

Now I suspect that's an amusing exaggeration but the implication is that Putin absolutely has black male material on the US president. Probably pictures of him raping one of the eight women who have credibly accused him of it when they were under the age of 14.

Now with the supreme Court basically making Trump God that's not really going to change much I don't think. The Republican party is never going to remove him from office after all and the current Senate map favors the Republican party so the Democrats don't have a prayer in hell of getting a supermajority there.

still one thing I think this is going to do, Trump is absolutely going to do everything he can to remain in office after 2028. It's going to be painfully obvious that he committed very heinous acts that can be prosecuted. And there's going to be no shortage of people that want to prosecute him for it. As president he's basically immune but is a private citizen?

If inflation is not a tax, then where does the value of newly printed or fractionally lent money come from? Money has no intrinsic value, it's a mere token -- if you add more tokens, the value of every existing token is suddenly lowered.

People not spending money is bad... how? This doesn't slow the economy any, nor does it freeze any value -- all it freezes is some _money_. Any money that's temporarily out of circulation increases the value of any actual assets that are in use.

As for borrowing costs, you got that reversed: if there's inflation, borrowing gives you an advantage by having the real cost decrease as time goes. With deflation, you need to actually pay to borrow.

My observation has been that any streaming package that includes ESPN is automatically well more than 4 times as expensive as any package without it. Perhaps the cable companies should find a way to dump ESPN and pass along the savings to remain viable.

The problem with the stable coin is they aren't stable. It's basically a bank but without regulation.

You give them your money and they agree that they will hold on to it. That's a bank.

Multiple stable coin providers have been caught giving out the underlying assets when they're not supposed to. Often by taking extremely high risk bets with the money.

Because they aren't Banks you don't have any recourse when they do that and because they aren't Banks you aren't insured and because they aren't Banks there are reams and reams of regulations and paperwork they do not have to file with anyone so they can hide things on their books a bank can only dream of.

It's something that a functional civilization would nip in the bud by applying the same banking regulations but more and more we are a failed state.