he said. “We’ve never done anything harmful.”

He’s personally seen to the loss of tens of thousands (hundreds now perhaps) of jobs has no signs of stopping, stopping nutritional aid to those that need it most, and has even made comments about going after Social Security which serves our societies most vulnerable. Elon, how on Earth are you so clueless to see that all this hate is directly from your actions.

I’d even argue people may not have cared for Tesla, but the fact that Musk directly benefits monetarily makes Tesla a target.

A perfect example: Musk also was partial creator of Paypal even though he sold his interest in it a long time ago and has no association with it now. While lots of folks don’t like Paypal for a number of reasons, I don’t hear one peep of people ditching paypal because Musk had a hand in its creation.

Got it. Shitposting. I’m out. Enjoy your day.

In another post you made here you said you had a silly original post to have interesting in serious conversation in comments. Are you just shitposting?

Suburbia with a train/bus pass isn’t possible for you? Get a place with roommates to make it affordable.

I want money and want to have a mindset that will allow for a swift and easy accumulation

Almost nothing in life is swift and easy, and certainly not what you’re asking for here. You already know this. Since that’s the case are you okay with the possibility of going through your entire life still clinging to this idea without even getting close to it until you shut your eyes for the last time on your deathbed? I mean, its your life, but that sounds like a pretty sorry existence to me especially when there are alternatives available to you.

such as some kind of abstract ethics or whatever

You don’t need money to accomplish this.

Here is a fun thought experiment. In any zero sum game there will be a Warren Buffet. And people will follow him or her around asking for their advice and writing books on it while ignoring all the people who did exactly the same thing that lost everything.

So for the experiment it’s a coin flipping championship with millions of participants. Heads you win and move on, tails you lose. All the coins are the same and totally fair. Someone will win far more than everyone else. People will follow this person around, invite them to speak publicly, write books, and so on. If they fail to understand the world properly they’ll buy into it and even tell people their secret to flipping coins successfully.

Thats an incomplete thought experiment for this topic and and in my mind it makes it invalid. Even your own followup statement (which i agree with) negates your thought experiment.

Don’t be fooled by randomness. Instead motivate against bad luck and position yourself to exploit good luck.

I agree with this but this is the opposite of your thought experiment.

I think of more of the concept of good luck (and bad for that matter) are harvested. If you make choices create conditions in your life that will give you more coin flips that others on both good and bad luck. If you get a college degree, you will have options to flip the coin for opportunities that require a college degree. If you don’t have the degree you don’t even get the chance to flip the coin. Keep in mind, I’m not saying getting a degree will absolutely lead to success. No of course not, but if the particular lucky opportunity in front of two people requires a degree and one person has it and the other doesn’t. The degree-less person doesn’t even have the chance at the luck.

The same thing occurs with bad luck. If you hang out with people that shoplift, even if you don’t, you run the risk of being unlucky enough to have to flip the coin when to be accused of shoplifting because of the actions of those around you. It doesn’t mean you’ll absolutely get charged with shoplifted even if you did nothing, but the chance increases that you will.

The article even covers lots of this for those that didn’t read it. Mackie wasn’t just some guy off the street that landed an MCU role. He did a WHOLE BUNCH OF THINGS that gave him more chances at luck.

• After graduating from the prestigious Juilliard School in 2001
• he performed in both on- and Off-Broadway productions
• and in Academy award-winning films, like 2008’s “The Hurt Locker.”
• he worked his ass of acting: Mackie estimates he “put in 10,750 hours of training” before landing that life-changing job.
• He was proactive, too: He wrote letters to executives at Disney’s Marvel Studios over a decade ago in the hopes of landing a role in one of the studio’s popular superhero films,

Each one of these things and dozens more were his hard work that gave him more chances to flip the good luck coin. So while its true that someone else could have done all of these exact same things and still not succeeded where Mackie did, had Mackie not done these things it is highly likely he would never have become an actor we know of today.

So put the hard work into giving yourself more chances of flipping the “good luck coin” and few chances to flip the “bad luck coin”.

A good part of therapy is having the problems accurately identified with possible realistic goals for how to improve your mental situation.

I need money and fearlessness, now give me that or at least ways to achieve it

Self diagnosis often leads to the wrong conclusions. A perfect example is that there are already many rich, powerful, fearless assholes. Not only is adding you to their ranks unrealistic but it may not lead you to a future where you are content with yourself. Therapy can help you find whats wrong, and help you with the tools to know what to do about it. They aren’t going to “fix” you though. If you’re going into it with that mindset you’re going to come out exactly as you went in. Therapy is work. Be prepared to put in the work. It can be difficult, but its always worth it. The alternative is what you are now or possible even a worse version of yourself if you go down the wrong spiral.

Good. If the USA isn’t supporting the rearming politically, it shouldn’t benefit from it monetarily. I say this as an American that supports Ukraine.

Also, I’m hoping it puts just a little bit more pressure on one of the few remaining powers in the USA that may affect change, the US Military Industrial Complex. What strange bedfellows we find ourselves in when I’m pinning my home of sustained democracy on the likes of Raytheon and Lockheed Martin.

I grew up using the (actual paper) card catalog in the library to find books and yes I predate VHS. However, I even understand crypto, but I think my definition may vary slightly from younger folks “understanding”.

Crypto has no intrinsic value like gold, and as fiat currency isn’t even backed by any nationstate. This means any appreciation is based upon the “greater fool” model. Its not an investment. Its a series of Ponzi schemes so repeated that the term “rug pull” is right at home in the crypto world. I’m old enough to see other Ponzi schemes and know how they end up.

The only real value that I can see for crypto is bypassing of national monetary controls. As in, you can buy crypto in your home country with your home country’s currency, then travel to another country with just your coins (as hex values on paper if you want to go that far) and exchange those coins for fiat currency in the other country. This isn’t unique to crypto though. You could do the same with buying rare Pokemon cards and transporting them with a slightly higher risk of seizure at one nation’s border. There might even be less volatility in Pokemon cards than many crypto currencies.

So many trends are variations on things we’ve already seen before. Bernie Madoff would have been right at home with cypto.

holds executive under military threat or hands control back to the legislature or judicial to hold a special election.

With the actual past insurrection supporters currently in control of the legislature and the judiciary, I wonder if this would be the final thing that triggers action on their part to preserve the country, or would they simply hand the reigns of power back to copycats of the ones that fomented the first insurrection.

No one will trust this company every again. They’d be better off selling the product and IP to another company.

This book is also available on Amazon, which I imagine will cause some Zuck on Bezos frowning at their next trump meeting.

Thank you for posting this. I had always understood creation of a qubit was a solved problem. This was an area of Quantum Computing I didn’t know was a problem in search of a solution.

You’re right. I didn’t pick up on that. Thanks for that correction.

Search “social security 83%” will net you piles of results.

Or you can go right to the Social Security website which also says this same thing PDF link

How close are you to high voltage transmission lines? This might be good for an commercial sized solar farm.

As in subsistence farming or trying to bring food to market? If the former, it will be a hard path, but possible.

OP is not in the USA If the latter, have you seen what is happening in the current food markets? For produce (quick spoilage) other nations are rejecting our produce either because of tariffs or because of retaliatory tariffs. For commodity grains like corn and soybeans, previous giant consumers like USAID, USDA, and other agencies are being cut or destroyed entirely meaning there will be a glut of production on the market for some time. Couple that with visa restrictions/deportations, the price of labor will increase substantially. Food prices are going to crater for a time because of this, and some farmers will go out of business. Those that survive will increase prices to cover all of the new expenses, but they won’t be earning more profit from their work.

Its looking more and more like thats the GOP plan. Incite an uprising, then they declare martial law where they are free from any check on their power by the courts.

Whats going to be the lynchpin is the GOP will have an army willing to put down Americans en masse.

It has, and its not just games though. Clothes, cars, movies, anime, even food all have trends. There are those that innovate, and those that imitate.

The Merge was executed on September 15, 2022. This completed Ethereum’s transition to proof-of-stake consensus, officially deprecating proof-of-work and reducing energy consumption by ~99.95%.

I don’t follow crypto trends so I hadn’t heard about this either.

I had to look up proof-of-stake, and for Ethereum apparently is required to stake 32 coins to operate a node. Another google search shows me a single Ethereum coin is just north of $2k USD. So someone mining Etherium today needs to have more than $64k if Etherium to even run a node now?!