Most of it.

And yet, there's a long way yet to go.

Only if you treat them like shit.

Effects.

Treating women like shit makes them not want to pump out babies. Now they have a choice, so they are doing a lot less of it. Literally all it would take to get a large portion (a majority IMO) of them to do it without support from a decent partner would be to gracefully and quietly fund the programs that ensure they will be able to feed and provide medical care for their children even if their circumstances change, but there seems to be a problem even meeting that bar.

But then your entire fucking point becomes pointless about 8 seconds later, literally before I could read it and roll my eyes about it.

Except it doesn't. It's shit all day. It makes people upset all day. This means it's costing productivity all day. See, in the real world with real humans, these user pain points have real impacts on those real people.

HTH, HAND!

Same for if it is made in America. If it's not FOSS, then it's not trustworthy, and even then it's limited to e.g. devices you can build your own firmware for.

Well then, you must know better than most people that when you are on the right drugs it not only seems possible, but easy!

Funny you should mention that.

How much cash could Musk actually get his hands on? If he wanted could he withdraw say 100 billion in cash from his companies? Seems the valuations of anything having to do with Musk is uniquely disconnected from reality.

I'm at a complete loss as to why you believe your personal ignorance is relevant. Your false assertion no one in Europe mentioned him is trivially disproven. Some pre-demonstration European references that took all of 5 seconds to find.

https://www.unav.edu/web/globa...
https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-c...
https://www.oxfordstudent.com/...
https://www.euronews.com/my-eu...
https://www.eureporter.co/worl...

Personally I've been keeping track of Iran and Pahlavi for decades. Your cluelessness is your problem and your problem alone.

What's the point of this? We've been seeing feeds full of videos before, during and after the massacres with pro Pahlavi slogans chanted by huge crowds of people. One of the most crazy sets were of people answering Pahlavi's call shouting from their balconies at night being met with indiscriminate gunfire at residential apartments from regime goons on the ground.

This really shouldn't be surprising given widespread support for Pahlavi within Iran.

"Pahlavi nostalgia is further reflected in the survey's findings that 79.9 percent of Iranians overwhelmingly favor Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi over the current political leaders."

https://kayhanlife.com/authors...

I'm at a loss as to what you are trying to say here. Why is what you didn't see relevant? Is your lack of knowledge indicative of anything other than personal ignorance?

Oh right I forgot they already have an illegitimate leader who terrorizes and massacres their own people while exporting revolution (e.g. terrorism) globally.

No such thing has in fact occurred. He has made consistent statements for decades indicating his goal is a democratic transition and most Iranians trust him.

He is a prince not a king.

How would you have funded and created SpaceX? It was funded by Musk, he took the lion share of the risk. There were other investors but they invested because Musk had already invested. Most of the initial funding was his, if the company partially fails, he loses his investment first. When he was worth 100B what would you have done? How would you have divided up that wealth such that there would still have been an incentive and money to create SpaceX? Or would you have taken the wealth when he was worth only 1B? What would you have done with the wealth that is Tesla?

If you are a reasonable liberal or social democrat how would you have created these new things? And if you don't create them please tell me how society as a whole would be better off?

I care that capital is well used. I don't care if it is a government, an AI, a committee or a single person who makes the decisions on how to allocate capital. Musk has demonstrated that he is better than anyone else in the world at using capital. If he becomes a 10 Trillionaire then that would be good for society as a whole. Musk doesn't eat more calories than me, he doesn't have 1000x as many homes as me. His personal consumption is comparable to the average person. His wealth benefits society at large a million times more than it does him. Him being worth 100x more than what he is worth today would be a gain to society.

Imagine if we blocked him being worth more than 100 million, we wouldn't have ecommerce between strangers - Paypal reduced the stranger fraud problem to a level low enough for paypal to insure transactions. If we set the limit to 1B then Tesla would have gone bankrupt and SpaceX wouldn't exist. Starlink wouldn't exist. The boring company wouldn't exist. And what would we have traded this for? What would society have gotten in return? Some people would feel better?

Musk has risked almost every penny he has on multiple occasions. He has created, commercialized or drastically improved four things (five if you count the boring company). The 1T of his wealth benefits society in the products we all consume, the environmental gains (he was the first to mass produce electric cars profitably), the jobs he has created and the taxes paid by him, his companies and his workers. Do you see any socialists doing any of these things? This is one capitalistic person. He's done more for the environment than any green party. He's created more wealth and better jobs than all communists combined.

Oh but one person shouldn't have that much power. We need socialists to own the capital and make decisions. Think about how incompetent your local government is at doing, well everything. My city takes 12 years to open a dog park in an open field, $16000 to put in a speed bump, $80 per injection at their safe injection site and $40,000 per bike in their ride share program. I'm sure that's about average for any socialists.

This is a wee bit bonkers. We just saw millions in the streets chanting his name and writing his name on buildings with their own blood during the massacres early this year.

Ding ding ding... tyranny out, democracy in. The IPP seeks to retain the vast majority of existing systems and positions during the transitional period minus IRGC "oppressive apparatus" ..etc.

Read the IPP. He is offering to lead a transitional government for the people to vote on a new democratic system and finally to vote to fill elections over the projected two year period. He isn't installing himself as a new king.

Yes, at least that is at least on paper a solution. As long as you can't just buy your way out of it more cheaply because the legal system works, that is. I can't speak to their efficacy there, only here, where... Well, you know.