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Bali and Singapore will execute tourists for having drugs, so you can go there I guess.
I’m not sure many tourists are traveling with quantities sufficient to qualify for that treatment. More likely you’ll face a fine or a strong talking to if you get caught at the airport with some small quantity of pot.
You're getting banned for life.
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> There is a weird assumption people make that somebody as successful as Charli XCX isn't smart because her persona is "I like cocaine and partying," Considering cocaine is both illegal and has an obviously unethical supply chain, you'd think someone would try, you know, prosecuting her or something.
What's the point of prosecuting users?
Also, it's illegal.
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The majority of the popular male musicians there are comparably photogenic to the females, Sheeran is really the major exception and he's not even ugly, just Distinctive in a way that's easily matched by Sia and personally I'd say both Gaga and Eilish. It just looks like pretty people are in general a lot more successful, which is unsurprising. The attempt to apply a sexist lens to it is a bit tortured.
i absolutely don't agree that they are in the same ballpark of being photogenic when we look at top 50 and estimate averages - this could probably be easy to measure with a jailbroken LLM. the difference is even bigger when I look at agreeability - this is more difficult to measure.
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He essentially invented the electric car industry. E cars before then were impractical and failures. > There is no objective valuation Value investing is Warren Buffett's style, which is generally a backwards looking approach. It's not good at predicting transformative technologies. Such was no good at predicting the success of, say, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, etc.
Okay. He invented it. So what? Other companies are selling more and the first mover advantage is moot. And the other examples you ara giving… Apple’s valuation went up as it was clear that Apple had a sustainable advantage and was going to see increasing revenues and profits going forward. Where are the companies that invented the modern smart phone? Microsoft has a sustainable advantage that hasn’t been challenged i…
It does more than cars. It's in the solar energy business, the grid scale battery business, AI, FSD, robotics, a global network of superchargers, home battery systems, etc.
Tesla shareholders voted to offer him a $1t compensation package over the next decade, provided he meets certain targets.
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Okay. He invented it. So what? Other companies are selling more and the first mover advantage is moot. And the other examples you ara giving… Apple’s valuation went up as it was clear that Apple had a sustainable advantage and was going to see increasing revenues and profits going forward. Where are the companies that invented the modern smart phone? Microsoft has a sustainable advantage that hasn’t been challenged i…
> What does Tesla have? It does more than cars. It's in the solar energy business, the grid scale battery business, AI, FSD, robotics, a global network of superchargers, home battery systems, etc. Tesla shareholders voted to offer him a $1t compensation package over the next decade, provided he meets certain targets.
Again what is their moat? Waymo is much further along with self driving, they are a very distant also ran in AI and absolutely no company is going to choose them over anyone else, and their supercharging network is more anemic than you think it is in the vast majority if the US let alone the world.
China has shown its very capable when it comes to battery technologies and they have most of the rare earth minerals needed.
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You know how it's said that eskimos have 50 words for "snow"? Aussies have 50 meanings for the word "cunt". It can simultaneously be both the worst and the best thing you can call someone. And aussies know exactly which meaning is intended from context.
For the record, eskimo is a derrogatory term meaning "raw meat eater". The term Inuit is nowadays preferred.
> We are still trained to hate women, to hate ourselves and to be angry at women if they step out of the neat little box that public perception has put them in. I really don’t see this. Female singers seem to be enjoying about as much freedom to do and act in whatever way they please as it’s possible without basically letting them get away with criminal behavior… and even then many openly talk about doing drugs and o…
I also think she missed the point there. Normal people bust their asses on a daily basis to do a good job at whatever it is they do, with more often than not, under rewarding compensation and a lot of problems to overcome. I think it is normal for average people to think that it isn’t fair that some of these people are getting so much overwhelmingly good stuff for things that can be reasonably seen as futile.
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I know of her name, but I couldn’t name a single song of hers. Luckily we don’t all enjoy the same music, that would be boring as well! :)
I would bet you have encountered a much larger catalog of Charli tracks than you might think. I too was in the same position last year. Then I looked her up and she has actually produced like 30% of the songs played in Urban hat shops, in public places that allow swimming, and in office buildings in the hvac-safe entrance zone between the first and second set of automatic doors.