The 105000 in Tokyo not enough? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Tokyo The 25000 in Dresden not enough? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Dresden The 246000 in Hiroshima and Nagasaki not enough? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki Post war casualties? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties

But those civilian casualties aren’t in the millions unless you count the post war casualties. That makes the US a “Good guy”. Right?

Or they know that there weren’t any “Good guys” around.

The Japanese war crimes are well known in the West. The US ones are routinely glossed over or ignored.

Wars don’t determine who was right. They determine who’s left.

teslas are really nice cars now that theyve dialed in the quality

Have they really? With all the problems with the cybertruck I don’t think so. Also there design issues that make them death traps.

Yeah, the secondary effects of a drop of that magnitude are going to be catastrophic.

Millions of people dead. Wars popping up everywhere. Hoarding on an industrial scale.

FOE: Fuck Off Elon

I like it. He is a foe. And needs to Fuck Off.

This is why I love EU’s GDPR. Reply to their spam with an official GDPR request to be removed from their records.

It doesn’t work all the time. But it works well enough.

Where the wild pigs will get them.

It should be obvious to all Ukrainian allies that this is in their long term interests.

But alas we have the “escalation paralysis”.

Musk wants Trump to pull the subsidies. So that the legacy auto makers won’t benefit from them. This will just slow the adoption of EVs. But it will not negatively impact Tesla.

There was some talk about it a while back. But I haven’t seen any evidence of it yet.

They did it right though. The 14 were all walking in front in a line unarmed. Two guys with automatic weapons can kill 14 unarmed people very quickly if any one of them tries anything. One or two might get away if they tried to run. But I don’t think they have a chance of overwhelming the two. Also they had drone support.

Democracy doesn’t have to be a tyranny of the majority. In its purest form it is. And that is why constitutional republics ensure citizen’s rights in their constitutions. We need a similar system for economy.

A sketch of that would a be a system where you’d have constitutional republic with independent legislature, judiciary and executive branches. Separated from the economic players as well as possible. They would provide the the outer bounds of a level playing field. Economy would a market economy, where ownership of companies would be distributed among the stakeholders of the system workers, customers and the executive. Similar to how governments ideally function. Workers would have “legislative” power in the company. They would be responsible for company policy. Executives would implement those policies. Customers would decide how well the company performs by either buying their products or withholding their patronage. This would need a lot of guard rails in place. But this would prevent centralization of power in the hands of an “owner”-class.

Transitioning to this type of system would not be that difficult. As most of what it has is already there. In western democracies. At least on paper. There would be a lot of resistance to this from the “owner”-class. I have no doubt of that.

Before that happens Russia will likely implement policies that bring the price down to about a hundred. And then it will rise again in spite of them. Rinse and repeat.

The USD RUB comparison is tenuous at best. Ruble isn’t being freely exchanged and the volumes are so low that Russia can manipulate the price. They just don’t have the reserves to do it for an extended period of time. So they apply policies to achieve the same goal. But even that hasn’t worked in the long term.

For a growing economy with an excess of people and resources it’s pretty good.

Our current world, not so much.

The problem is that there isn’t a currently viable alternative.

When speaking of drones of all sorts the figure is more like 95%.

Dude was transporting fireworks in the car. They caught on fire. For whatever reason. Doors locked automatically. As designed. The guy couldn’t find the hidden release lever. And so he burned to death.

Or was killed by the awful design decision of AUTOMATICALLY LOCKING THE DOORS in the case of an accident. WITHOUT AN EASY TO REACH RELEASE MECHANISM INSIDE.

This type of design should be illegal. Several people have already died because of this idiocy.

Yeah, that’s how it has been done for ages. At least when it comes to the administration. Best democracy money can buy.

I prefer macro-forests. You know ones you can actually walk in without seeing the other side or hearing traffic. But every little bit helps I guess.

Yeah, let’s show him how democracy and actual justice works.