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- shapesalad2
- Brexit and Theranos seem like similar things...shapesalad
- Wow. She's a proper psycho.MrT
- fila brazillia in the background.dorf
- She and musk will make babies on mars.deathboy
- helloeatbreathedrive1
Ken Griffin. How much is enough, dude?
- went to Havard and invested his money wisely. Don't blame him for your lack of self-determinationhotroddy
- ^ Exactly. Still 1% shouldnt equal more than 50%. Thats what I'm getting at. Tho it doesnt bother me the least, thank you very much.helloeatbreathedrive
- What hotroddy said. You're just jealous. Wealth is relative; you appear greedy to others less fortunate than you.chukkaphob
- That's a lazy argument - 'if I question someone's wealth that must mean I am jealous'. Fucking lazy, but expected.formed
- Lazy but more than likely accurate. Does one want their wealth for themselves or ideals? If no display motive, because it seems very self interesteddeathboy
- correct. it is a lazy argument which is what makes socialism so dangerous. jealousy is an easy emotion to politicize.hotroddy
- docpoz4
- I imagine this is how the planet will be saved: https://www.youtube.…PhanLo
- haadocpoz
- what could possibly go wrong?docpoz
- utopian0
- Just let the markets decide, it's fine https://www.youtube.…PhanLo
- ^ heartbreaking, mateOBBTKN
- How can the society as a whole not see how much of mess it's becoming?PhanLo
- Apathy. People just don't care. As long as the suffering doesn't impact their social media feeds or bother them on the way to work everything is just super.Morning_star
- That woman working 16-20hrs a day and sleeping upright/ sitting in a small car. Just sad. Respect to her though.NBQ00
- Inequality has really widen over the past 20 years.shapesalad
- This is the future we all dreamed of.PhanLo
- I wonder is AirBnB could capitalise on this somehow and start renting cars out in empty parking lots over night?PhanLo
- Maybe Uber could team up with them and charge their drivers for using their own car to sleep in. Create a closed loop debt prison system.PhanLo
- Maybe the workers could rise up and eat the rich.i_monk
- i_monk1
- when you have a guy who thinks its more important to build a colony on the moon than pay his staff enough to live on earth, revolution cant be far away.sothere
- Doesn't stop lower-classes from having children. That is your bigger problem. Children should be seen as investment to you and to society.hotroddy
- Starts with video games, ends with D&D.
Much like civilisation.detritus - Who are you referring to sothere?monospaced
- Elon Musk, certainly.i_monk
- Oh I didn’t realize he failed to pay his employees fair wages. As for his goals as a private entrepreneur, nobody really has a right to complain.monospaced
- Should be Jeff Bezos, given his $, infamous poor wages at AMZN and hios focus on near Earth and Moon for heavy industry. Musk is Mars and low CEO $ ratiodetritus
- Not that either would be correct because it's a vapid fallacy to collate high tech investment with poor wages in unrelated fieldsdetritus
- https://launiusr.wor…detritus
- utopian3
Study finds Chlormequat in Cheerios and Quaker products.
What to know about the pesticide!Four out of five Americans likely have a lesser-known pesticide in their bodies thanks to the consumption of certain foods, according to a new study.
Published in the Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology on Thursday, the study found that 80% of tested Americans had the chemical chlormequat in their systems, a plant regulating agent that is currently not approved for use on edible crops in the U.S.
Imported foods treated with chlormequat are allowed to enter the country, however. According to a brief published alongside the study by the advocacy organization Environmental Working Group (EWG), the findings "ring alarm bells," as the chemical is thought to be harmful and was found in common oat and wheat-based products, including Cheerios and Quaker Oats.
- nb2
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/sam-…
The WSJ is reporting that Sam Altman is looking to raise $5 to $7 trillion to manufacture chips for Open AI.
Seven. Trillion. Dollars.
Just to build the chips.
- neverscared3
- just kiddin ...neverscared
- His investors are certainly going to get the message. These antics are making me consider selling my Tesla stock....formed
- PhanLo3
- have you seen what they do with tampons?sarahfailin
- capitalism can't challenge the notion that individuals should expect shit for freehotroddy
- imbecile1
- ROIutopian
- hire more IRS agents.hotroddy
- they work for the banks/finance already. much better pay.uan
- stop taxing regular peopledoesnotexist
- utopian3
- Goodmonospaced
- I dunno. A good burger isn't necessarily pretty.colab
- PhanLo2
- https://www.business…Squiddy
- 20 grand for a womb. NicePhanLo
- Womb TraderMrT
- PhanLo1
A future built by... I D I O T S
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-- I was arrested by Egyptian MI5 there about 4 years ago for 'spying'.Thought i was gonna end up dead in a ditch. Damn scary.Morning_star
- Were you taking photos? Saw some pretty wild stuff happen to street photographers there.PhanLo
- Yeh. We were on an assignment for Cat which was about the only thing that saved us. Some phone calls were made by the Generals that worked for Cat and we were..Morning_star
- ...released after 24hrs. We got our equipment back but all our cards were taken. 4 days of film and stills. Still, it could have been much worse. We heard...Morning_star
- ...that an Italian street photographer had been randomly beaten to death by the security services and left in a ditch two days before.Morning_star
- A food yt channel I follow went through hell there trying to shootYakuZoku
- ^yeah I watched that one. Also a russian photographer got set upon by a mob and had to fist fight his way out of it, what a shithole.PhanLo
- That's rough Morningstar, I wonder what they think people are spying on there?
That food Youtuber showed how incompetent the police were.PhanLo - https://www.youtube.…PhanLo
- The Italian student's murder was 8 years ago - https://en.wikipedia… - so fucked up.Nairn
- shapesalad2
EV's I still don't see how they are good for the environment. We all should be like Cuba used to be - repairing the cars we do have.
The energy and resources already used to manufacture all the cars now on the road - is wasted if we trash our cars to replace them with EVs. To build the EV's we need extra minerals and resources, non of which are great for the environment in extraction and refining.
Then the power for EV's comes from? Electricity is not 100% from renewables. Renewable infrastructure is not a clean industry. Only nuclear is the most 'clean' source we currently have.
Batteries last for a while, then what? Currently not recyclable. There's some ex-tesla guy trying to build a recycling plant for car batteries but it still has a long way to go before he figures out how to do it without the energy in being greater than the output.
We need to repair what we have built and find ways to design out our reliance on cars to conduct life.
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Surviving Progress
https://www.youtube.…instrmntl - Wow that video is hard to watch.instrmntl
- in that its awful. I feel terrible for that community.instrmntl
- manufacturers really should have an option to "modernize" older cars at a lower price-point than a new one. but updated safety features and all.doesnotexist
- There's no way to 'modernize' old cars that would be economically or environmentally viable. That's ridiculous.formed
- Renewables will be 'clean' as long as we keep moving forward (and there's not selfish morons in power, a la Texas).formed
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