What was the America that you don't hate? I struggle to find a time period where America wasn't engaged in one form of genocide, land and resource theft, or another(e.g. slavery, Jim Crow, genocide of Native Americans, Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Operation Condor, Monroe Doctrine, Hawaii, Alaska, Puerto Rico, Philippines, Samoa, militarization of the police since Clinton, Yugoslavia, etc...). I would love for someone to find just one year, or even one day, where America lived up to its mythological ideals while not doing something horrific to some group of people.

If this goes anything like the hyperloop he'll be building a bunker on Earth soon. I'm guessing an underwater hotel or a mountain bunker, either will somehow be revolutionary.

Ironically, and sadly, you are the useful idiot here

I don't get what you're implying here. Just like any other county, China found niches it could compete in and pursued it. The U.S. could have subsidized domestic rate earth producers if it had the foresight to understand that they're a strategic necessity.

China has pleaded with the U.S. to not do a trade war or Cold War. They are simply doing export controls to ensure the resources don't go into weapons that will be pointed back at China. Americans think they should have the right to everyone's resources and will turn around and attack a country with those same resources to steal more.

This will make owning BMW a status demotion. Essentially, a statement that you can't afford a car that has all the features enabled upfront. BMW is cheapening their brand.

This is politically good for the politician, good for his donors invested in AI, and costs him nothing. Right now, workers have leverage to slow or stop AI development. If AI does destroy all the jobs then workers won't have any leverage. Without leverage there won't be UBI. Thus, this is a bait and switch. They're insinuating to workers that they won't have to worry about the future if they just stay calm and let their jobs get destroyed.

What about the residents that bring value to the businesses? I wouldn't visit SF to go to a shopping mall or an empty restaurant, but I'll go to hang out with people from SF at bars, restaurants and coffee shops. Coffee shops and bars are cool because the workers there are cool and lend their aura to the owner. This is kind of the ultimate in unidirectional profit stealing. "Give me the profits from your house because of my proximity to your house."

Even open source software costs something, a person's life spent to create it. The only way to have a just system with truly free software is to collectively pay developers to produce the software we want. Otherwise, you're just asking for free labor. Politically and economically, and as a software developer, I totally support a global effort to pay software developers to make the software everyone needs. Realistically, under the current economic mode of production, that means not all software is going to be free.

They can buy 18 F-35s with that money so they can steal more resources

These institutions were magnificent stores of soft power abroad. Voluntarily dismantling the thing you built for some very small political points on the domestic stage is really very smart.

I'm split on this. Few things are more stressful than Trump attacking yet another country on a Saturday (it's always on Friday night or Saturday; I believe so that markets can't react) and having to wait a minimum of 24-48 hours to exit a vulnerable position. This massively benefits larger firms with access to liquidity you can't access from your brokerage account.

This is just shitty writing. The final season of Stranger Things did this and it made me pick up my phone out of boredom.

As a professional in trading, this just sounds exhausting. But, I suppose they're just clawing back some of the dark pool flow, which would be a net positive.

I recall that glyphosate itself might be ok, until it's mixed with POEA to increase potency. POEA is banned in Europe, but not in the US.