That’s if they don’t decide the best course of action is to launch them into LEO lol. If they do (they will–they’re that stupid), the infrastructure will burn up in less than five years.

Tom Morello lives in California.

You don’t.

Vote strategically, dumbasses.

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I wasn’t using Thiel as an example–at least not on purpose. Take any obvious idea and marry it to a technological revolution, and you’ll have a bunch of rich people who got rich mostly by pure luck. Musk is a piece of shit, but the case for Tesla taking off was actually proven by GM’s EV1 ~3 years prior. The main reason it didn’t take off? Well it was twofold: first, GM was reluctant to commit to EVs because marketing them would make their conventional fuel vehicles look environmentally destructive, and second, the battery technology the EV1 used was nickle metal hydride. Tesla succeeded because it coincided with the proliferation of lithium ion batteries, and in that particular case, I don’t think anything unethical happened. If Musk had stopped here we probably wouldn’t think of him as an evil piece of shit.

So a lottery winner is guilty of crimes? There are ways to “win the lottery” inside capitalism without breaking any rules. Sure, the amassing of wealth is in itself unethical in a country where many kids can’t eat nutritious meals, but you don’t necessarily have to be a backstabbing thief to become rich. You can just luck out and have an idea like online banking take off at the same time the technology becomes mature enough for something like online banking to be feasible.

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Inheritance is only one way the ultra-wealthy gained their status. There’s also exploitation, luck, predatory business practices, corruption, …

Some gained wealth legitimately, but they usually fall under the luck category and should have been taxed at a higher rate for decades.

I respect your argument and acknowledge your conclusion. However, I choose to ignore it.

Would they have called that constellation Ursa Major if not for the presence of bears in that direction? Maybe the constellation naming was like, “don’t go too far towards bear country if you don’t want to deal with bears that think of humans as food.” “Bears this way. Bears ahead.”

Nah. If people say it, and aren’t mocked or corrected, it’s a word. We’re keeping irregardless out of our lexicon by force, so help me flying spaghetti monster.

New to me. Thanks, regardless!

thank you for your service

I even voted for him

irregardless

Well I know what kind of guy got duped by the dumbest con man in politics

Can you make one that’s “progressives vocally against Democrats in an election year” on the top and “right wing agitators” on the bottom?

Now he’s “done with the president.” Well he’s fucking term limited so he bravely made his choice after he no longer had the option to make it.

I’ve seen those, but I’ve never bothered to read them, really. Do you know if they control for other factors like diet, exercise, drug use, etc.? Forgive my laziness; I could read the damn papers myself.