It's like the story about the farmer who won the lottery.
When asked what he'd do he replied "keep farming 'til the money runs out".
I'm not rich enough to never work again, but I've taken long gaps between jobs. Idleness is hard it turns out and I start getting antsy.
Anyone who believes the phrase "No one ever died wishing they spent more time in the office" has never met an academic.
If you want taxes that high, you don't build AI satellites in space
Heat dissipation is going to be more of a problem than taxes when it comes to AI data centres in space.
you don't complete Starship
Only Apollo?
you don't build moon bases
What moon bases?
and we don't get humanity to Mars, apart from some rovers, flags and footprints.
What humans on mars?
We managed to build roads, railroads, bridges, canals, and an entire industrial revolution without an income tax.
A lot of those railroads were built by stealing land from a bunch of people and giving it away to fund the railroads. Oh and a little light genocide on the side. That "resource" is long tapped out, unless you want to bring back large scale government expropriation and genocide again?
If you really understand history, it's clear that most of the 20th century was about squeezing the cultural, economic, and political energy out of the United States for the benefit of the people running big political machines.
Even if this is true (it's not but let's put a pin in that), Musk is a pretty integral part of that political machine now. You seem to think he's apart from it but he isn't. Massive political donor. Employed by the government to destroy departments investigating his companies. Massive recipient of loans etc raised by the taxes you so despise. Massive beneficiary of the work NASA did when taxes were at their hightest etc.
We're going to Mars. This is unstoppable money now. They raised three years of NASA budget in one day, becoming worth more as a company than the accumulated total budget of NASA since inception, adjusted for inflation.
Giving women equal rights leads to this.
Only if you treat them like shit.
They should have equal rights, but let's not pretend that there wasn't any side affects.
Effects.
Nothing happens in a vacuum.
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.
That is my entire fucking point: from 4 cars behind you have no way of knowing whether it's necessary or not.
But then your entire fucking point becomes pointless about 8 seconds later, literally before I could read it and roll my eyes about it.
Like any standard, it doesn't have to be fully supported, just "good enough" will do.
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!
Remember... your cell phone wasn't made in America, so despite assurances that it can't spy on you or whatever, who really knows what code or abilities might be baked into the main CPU.
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.
I was referring to vehicle carrying capacity not storage capacity.
I thought that was blindingly obvious given the context.
There is a difference between 'Greed' and wanting to get stuff done, with or without credit. Greed is a term used by lefties as a garbage bin to shove anything successful into. It's the root of their ideology. Do Notthing, let the state do all. Just agree, it's all you have to do.
Then We The People need (or have needed) to become post-newspaper, indeed post-any-sort-of-centralized-media, since all centralizations are pressure points for coercion and compromise.
Make Usenet Great Again? There is No Cab-NO CARRIER
Bullshit as in fake?
Right you're an arsehole, I get it.
Fortunately in the UK we have average speed checks over long distances so arseholes find a hole in their bank account and maybe points on their driving license too.
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.
Yes, when it's necessary, not just when someone is scared.
I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning. -- Plato
