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  • Infinite growth in a finite reality. Numbers go up up up but minerals and food don’t exponentially grow, in fact they deplete.

    Shareholder profit > sustained profit is what broke it.

    There’s nothing wrong with say, Mark Cubans drug store model of 15% capped profits. If it were publicly owned however it’s legally liable to pump that up to infinity until the model breaks for shareholders to make quarterly gains. Short term thinking replaced long term strategy.

    Even Costco knows you keep the $1.50 hot dog as a loss leader but if it were up to the ghouls in suits it would be $6.99 today and $7.99 tomorrow.






  • Every time there is a ceasefire, Hamas fires rockets out of apartments, hospitals, or their tunnel networks under schools. Every time they are asked for hostages they are told “lol oops we killed them already”. So what do you want Israel to do? Nothing? Hamas has undermined it’s own citizens by constantly using them as rage bait news by putting them directly in harms way, so the only option to hurt Hamas is to also hurt civilians nearby. I dont think genocide is an answer to anything, yet there isn’t an alternative to bombing terrorists who surround themselves with children and old women in public places. This has been decades of harassment to the point where even Arab nations don’t want Palestinians because they keep causing uprisings every single time. They refuse to integrate and also refuse to govern, so you have this situation where they are trying to get themselves harmed every opportunity to calm down.




  • Who gives a shit, this guy is done forever. Go cry on bazillionaire island or whatever people who don’t have to work ever again do.

    Why is it that once you get more money than sense your brain breaks? Shit look at elon, he only started doing nazi stuff too after he was the richest man on earth and cash meant nothing anymore. It’s all ego now, the only currency you can have after material objects aren’t a problem. I think these guys want to have a following no matter who follows them (hint it’s nazis I guess) and enter the religious stage to get there.

    Life isn’t meant to be “won” like capitalism. Nobody is supposed to achieve the status of getting what you dream of every time. I don’t think Kanye or anyone else like him can see the forest through the trees at this point.



  • Okay my next big idea is the bodega van. Instead of an ice cream truck for kids it’s a convenience store for adults in the suburbs. It’s 6:47pm and you’re out of milk, tissues, and you forgot to buy broccoli for your dinner. Oh shit it’s the bodega van music. Brb, gotta walk down the block instead of spend 20m in a car, parking lot, store, line, back. As long as the margins are less than doordash it’s worth using.

    Cmon please tell me I have one original thought in this wide world.



  • Trumps ego NEEDS the optics for himself to be strong, so he makes an issue where there is none to control the narrative and pressure other presidents. Like a bully calling someone smelly and fat in the lunch room. It’s not about this country or that country, he doesn’t care about anyone not named Trump. He wants publicly, other leaders to kiss his ring so he can make the stone cold steve austin X motion and say “suck it!” to anyone else.

    OH also crashing the economy is good for billionaires who can absorb the hit without changing their lifestyle at all and just buy infrastructure and government works to privatize.




  • Maybe that worked when you knew everyone in town or that they’d be where you can find them again, but not in a global economy. You can’t lend Joe Random 3 goats and he will pay you back if he simply is in another country doing business or is in town for the weekend. Try getting in your car and telling a random shop you don’t have cash but you’ll pay them back. This logic goes out the window as soon as you involve strangers.


  • Money isn’t real but the idea everyone agrees on subconsciously is it is a medium of exchange.

    You have a goat and I have 50 apples. You want my apples but I don’t want your goat. OK. Bye bye, good luck finding the next customer.

    Or

    Sell the goat for the value of 50 apples, and then I can turn that into the new lamp I wanted instead.

    Not everyone wants a goat but if you can float the value of something as an IOU (cash) then it’s useful.

    Same reason why people like crypto, it’s the idea of cash but with math securing it’s scarcity vs guns and vaults of gold.


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    6 months ago

    Blood letting basically. You get all the good and bad out, but your body doesn’t replace the plastic. So you’re down X amount of blood internally but when you regenerate it via your bone marrow it’s now your own body and not half human half barbie doll.

    I’m no doctor so I can’t delve any further but that’s my basic understanding of the way it would maybe work. Like having a bucket of dirty water with a hole in it. Sure some good water gets out but a lot of dirt does too. Then it rains (replenishing lost blood) and dirt doesn’t fall back into the bucket.