It’ll postpone the inevitable for another few years, but there’ll be another autocrat soon enough. Have enough people with bad jobs and in debt up to their eyeballs, and some minority scapegoating wannabe dictator will appear eager for the job.
Block all major roads going out of Hungary with trucks and call it a total random strike of truck drivers until he changes his tune.
"“engineering details” is usually code for “very expensive”.
Everyone should get the same carbon budget a year. Maybe as a separate currency. It can then be saved up or traded to use as you see fit. Want to go on oversee flights? Better buy some carbon from some tree huggers with budget to spare.
Tesla/Musk really went for the “I have the right to not use collective bargaining” and is really shocked to find out people went for “we have the right to strike”.
That has some real “Grand Vizier whispering in the Sultan’s ear” vibes.
That organic smell means my exit is coming up next and I’m almost home.
A bit of trivia: it used to be called NMRI, nuclear magnetic resonance imaging. They dropped the N after it became clear people didn’t want to go in the machine because they were afraid of radiation. That’s why it’s called MRI now.
It’s a USA thing. Other places often have rules that say the price advertised (on menu, website, in store) is the price the customer pays, all fees and taxes included.
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He didn’t plan on spending 44B. The plan was to manipulatie stock price with pretending to buy, but Twitter management saw that one coming and let him sign a document for 44B that the rich idiot didn’t read.
So when the “I changed my mind” phase of his master plan started, Twitter pulled out the document and forced him to cough up the 44B. So yeah, now he pretends it was the plan all along.
The tl;dr at the beginning of the post was shorter than the auto tl;dr and was enough info.
Except with cloning the other twin would be a different age as with current tech the clone is back to being a baby. You’d need rapid growth tech and mind transfer tech to at least make the clone have the same age, memories and personality, although that would most likely introduce other differences.
“but the climate is always changing”
Too bad we built a civilization on the assumption it wouldn’t
It’s not authoritarianism! It’s just a very repressive regime with Chinese characteristics.
More likely there will simply be no peace and they’ll technically stay at war, with a huge minefield in between the two countries, until one of them runs out of money.
I discovered I’m bad at growing food and glad I don’t have to live off what I grow. That would be stressful.
A landlord was being shitty to someone and it was clear he wouldn’t get his deposit back no matter what, so when the renter moved, he took everything. Meaning he unscrewed the plugs from the wall and took those with him, took the toilet seat and so on. Play stupid games, win stupid prices I guess.
“Make aristocracy great again” seems to sum it up.