When Biden asks for a poster's ID, how quickly dies Markos jump to obey?

"Apple is actually breaking its own previous record. Back in 2018, Apple initiated a share buyback for $100 billionâ"a record that held until now.

But between then and now, Apple also initiated five other share buybacks: $75 billion in 2019, $50 billion in 2020, $90 billion in 2021, $90 billion in 2022, and $90 billion in 2023."

"**NOBODY** buys stock because they want to throw away money."

Have you heard about tax harvesting?

"Capitalism is the worst way of managing real world resource allocation, except for all the others that have been tried."

How come the native americans of the west left the gold in the hills and ate heartily enough from salmon runs that were so thick you could walk across the Columbia River on them?

Is the real tragedy of the commons that privatization enclosed it, taking away our freedom not to cooperate, nonviolently, with markets, as much as possible?

How come there was no tragedy of the commons in the american west before the privateering anglos got there? Is capitalism some kind of disease that destroys a natural spirit of sharing land?

Wouldn't Roman engineers be lowering or sliding big and little blocks in the course of their construction activities, and observing they moved at the same speed and making unconscious operational adjustments to accomodate reality, no matter what the textbooks said?

What if something like that is occurring with the Law of Non-Contradiction, where we find ways around it in quantum mechanics (hiding contradictions within vectors, for example), and definitely find ways around it in politics?

"exhaustively shown to be correct by experiment."

What about the "worst prediction in the history of physics"? Why does quantum mechanics predict that dark energy should be 10^120 times greater than observed?

"Einstein's only flaw was thinking that the result was absurd."

Is it not absurd that spooky action at a distance removes locality and causality from particle behavior?

"The reality is the FTC is an independent authority for that very reason."

Was Hoover's FBI an independent authority, too, and did that stop him from unfair prosecutions under the authority of law?

Are you completely oblivious of the Big Brother implications of this regulatory power to dictate record retention policies to private citizens? Won't this just lead a Trump FTC to investigate Taylor Swift for possibly illegal in-kind campaign contributions?

Ain't capitalism efficient, amirite? Would a strong basic income help at all? (PS Having been a casualty of dot-com, can I say I feel your pain?)

"not once did any agency or any grant officer even hint that they were looking for a particular answer."

Did they follow your science if they didn't get what they really wanted, though? And did you get further grants from them? So is there a lot of nonverbal, psychological pressure taking place that you can plausibly deny?

"The amusing thing is that EPR -- what Einstein (with Podolsky & Rosen) pointed out as "absurd" -- also matched experimental results,"

Thus, is there actually a law of non-contradiction in nature?

"The government is accountable to the people."

So why can't we the people ask for better results than these endless cycles of punishment and evasion through politics and bribery? Why not empower people instead with a strong basic income, instead of making a lot of work for lawyers to run up huge bills with?

Do you think Bezos has enough money and political friends to go over their head?

Why does this make me think of the deep state, I wonder? Do you think I'm alone?