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You're insane.

They've already succeeded. America is already unprecedentedly divided and demoralised. “One need not destroy one's enemy. One need only destroy his willingness to engage.” ― Sun Tz…

When 45% of the East Coast's supply of diesel, gasoline and jet fuel is impacted, the government has a problem.

Why is the network constructed in such a way that it allows things to spread?

The fact they're both islands in the middle of the pacific is more than likely their saving grace.

For most, newfound income does not materialise itself as wealth but rather an increase in living standards. $400k can buy you an entry-level home in cash, or a 10% deposit on that …

Those taxes will be passed onto the majority in the form of price hikes. Further, with current inflation rates, $400k will be solidly middle-upper class in a few years from now.

If we can reverse ageing, your entire life will be spent planning how to avoid existential risks. When you can live forever even crossing the road becomes too risky.

You need to reframe it. How many $ do the top 0.35% own vs the next 5%.

Real meat is lindy. Fake meat is not. We won't know until multi-decade studies have been done on the health effects of a fake meat diet.

Don’t hire woke folk. How? 95% of the employees that left Basecamp have pronouns in their Twitter bios. There’s your signal.

> It's interesting how frequently this pattern exists where history is silent about class difference and loud about race/gender differences. That's not a coincidence. The 0.1% woul…

I agree with your POV. I'm arguing throwing away equal opportunities (free education and career path choice for all Scandinavians) with the aim of chasing equal outcomes (50/50 gen…

Equal opportunity ≠ equal outcomes As a teenager, I tried briefly to play basketball. But I was lucky to hit the backboard, much less the basket. Yet I had just as much opportunity…

> The only way to prevent the extreme outlier men from dominating everything is to prevent winner-takes-all games Which is why we should focus on infinite wealth creation games, ra…

> "white" isn't capitalized because it doesn't bear as much similarities to those words It is precisely the same as black. The mental gymnastics on display here are astonishing.