Yeah, no. Kids want to be cool and respected, making it clear billionaires are hated will do so much more to wake them up
And once a billionaire gives it all away to become just a normal person (with a few million in the bank as a safety net), we make them a hero
I was like “what has FIFA done now? What has Apple done now? Why are these two together?”
Yeah, and a county could say “you can’t do business in our county anymore” and block them
A country can ban dildos, but they don’t get to tell a foreign factory they can’t make dildos. If an importer orders dildos anyways, that’s between the importer and customs. Which in this case the importer is the ISP
Well, considering how fucked things are right now…
I gather up the publicly active billionaires and bring them into stage with me before starting a speech on inequality, really digging into the fact that they probably don’t feel safe in public anymore, then I announce that “these industry leaders have volunteered to help fix this, and will be staying in Washington until we have a plan”. During the speech, I’d kick out their entourage and after I’d trade out their phones for ones that can only make calls
I’d keep guards everywhere and make pointed implicit threats, but leave that wiggle room for civility. I’d use this distraction to keep other parties from interfering as I sic the FTC, SEC, and FCC on trust busting basically the entire economy. I’d have the NSA help behind the scenes to speed up this process, hell I’d expand the judiciary just for this purpose, to push it through as fast as possible
I’d deploy the national guard everywhere to basically open soup kitchens and shelters. I’d probably send in large portions of the military as well - we have the resources and logistics to feed everyone for an extended period of time, so I’d use it to mitigate the short term damage
I’d call on other world leaders for aid. I’d make a big speech about collapsing empires and the dangers of the coming dark age. I’d call for a new age of cooperation and solidarity as equals, of breaking the cycle by playing another game. I’d ask for medicine and aid workers from around the world to help us through our trying time, then I’d parade out the billionaires to let them announce their plans to use their wealth to create jobs (and make sure they talk about how they want a world where they can feel safe, no matter how forced). Not all of them would make an appearance, but they’d all pop up later
From there I’d try to stabilize this whole mess legislatively. I’d overturn citizens united by making it expressly illegal with huge penalties, come up with a transition plan to nationalize healthcare, I’d create a program to buy food from independent farmers at cost to keep the soup kitchens open, I’d expand the supreme Court and put restrictions on them, and as things settle I’d make a big deal about restricting certain powers I used to get all of this through
It would be a huge mess. Like a total shit show. The plan is to basically turn the economy off and on again without loss of life
But I’d make sure people had food, housing, and hope for the future. They’d be terrified day 1, they’d be terrified as they lose their jobs and the stock market disappears, but then they’d have people going door to door arranging free food deliveries and healthcare. The power would stay on. The Internet would still be up. The evictions wouldn’t come… And
I’d make a show of limiting my own power, and it would be largely true… But we really have to rework a lot of things, and I’d get the public buy in to do that by becoming a firm lifeline for them. I’d move much more slowly from then on
So that’s my 100 day plan. Flip the table, burn the boats, then hold things together by giving people what they need until they can reorganize bottom up
I think I’d be reelected, I think I’d have to firmly reject a third term
It’s like, the opposite of scalping. You can look at anything through the terms of markets and opportunity costs, but most of it is myths about how the world works
There’s no exchange here, there’s no loss, only gain. A shell that’s too big isn’t an investment, it’s a danger. The crab that waved the others down doesn’t benefit more than any other crab, it’s just a mutually beneficial redistribution of shells
tail lashes in agitation, destroying rows of waiting room furniture
“Please doctor, you have to try!”
Security officer runs into the room, pauses, slowly lowers taser
Honestly? Cancer is already getting cured, but no one will be able to afford it
But dinosaur people? Have fun refusing them or their families healthcare
Maybe turning people into dinosaurs is the morally superior option
Having read through these replies, I’m leaning towards your thoughts on this. It does exactly what I thought it did, and I’m just not seeing the upside
I think I’m going to just push more strictly following feature branches
I get that theoretically… But does it like, just work automagically?
Like, I’m the git guru on my team, and we’re about to start a new project larger than what we’ve done before. My teammates are old school and don’t get git
Is frequent rebasing something I should push for? A clean history is nice, but I’ve just won them over on feature branches… Is this something quick and easy that would improve our quality of life?
How does a rebase play out? I know what it is conceptually, but usually just do the difficult merges myself
Tomatoes came from the Americas, all Italy had before was mere cheesy bread.
We march at dawn.
H is the funniest. You’d get to pay people in rocks. That will lead to so much interesting slang
I legit thought it was to publicly call out a user to be (metaphorically) flogged
And while it’s not how I do things, I totally understand the impulse. Tell me that doesn’t sound like something that could exist
Goddamit… It’s ref log, not re flog. I thought this was related to blame and never touched it lmao
Wait, what does reflog do?
I did not know that, that is a fun fact
No they don’t. They like an authoritarian strong man on the throne telling them how to live their lives
They don’t like it when you point out they’re describing a dictatorship
It’s kind of it’s own category. I mean, they’re basically forced to worship the supreme leader, but I don’t think that’s a defining aspect
It’s more a totalitarian state. Everything from what job you’ll do for the rest of your life to how you cheer is given to you by the government.
It has the trappings of religion, but do people really believe that? The way they talk about it is like “the state tells us Kim was born in a flash of light on the top of a mountain”, they don’t engage with the talking points, they repeat them exactly
Because it hurts to be accused of something unfairly, even if it’s just an implication.
It will help if you try to make it a choice. In a way, this is something that will protect your child - the tiniest sliver of doubt could taint your child’s relationship with their father. And that seed has already been planted
Even if they back down, I think you should insist on it.
Honest people don’t tell you they’re honest, they show. If you want, you could politely insist they read the test results themselves, to make sure there’s absolutely no doubt that would taint their relationship with their grandchild
It would turn this around on them, it’s the third path solution. They’re going to try to brush over the unpleasantness when the results come in, if you make them linger on it for just a moment they’ll feel shame without hurting the relationship
If you do that or not should probably depend on how supportive they are during the pregnancy, but I’d personally like having that option in my back pocket
Bazzite if you’re expecting it to work without any required reading
I’ll probably be going fedora aurora, it seems more solid but would require more setup