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Traders profit. Chilled Pilgrim. Pondering a novel. “…nor need it be anything sudden, spectacular…”

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@orphicresonance bedtime reading?

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@animalologist @realityspammer am not going to elaborate but re grid I think it would be relatively difficult even for state actors without any sort of kinetic / emp component

*I am a mere energy trader, i dont actually do grid ops

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@Merridew__ smells like Vance

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@quant_____ resolution chicanery is the name of the game in general lol

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@equacc yep

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@fkasummer there are a handful of quirky 3rd great awakening prot sects that would have been firmly on the other end of the spectrum, but they were afaict thoroughly wiped out by utilitarian/ Marxist successors

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@fkasummer not clear to me that any other (still functional) legacy institution has staked out such a legible position on the transhumanism axis

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@quant_____ truth nuke, unfortunately

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@vivian39_ if it were an actual narrow gavage ban maybe it would do better

but ballot initiatives aren’t known for being well specified…

[hope hopes hoping @hopes_revenge]

theres something about the suburbs that makes me feel like a dark-hearted pervert .

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@wwwojtekk wait is it actually dilutive or just a class restructure into nonvoting on his end

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@atlanticesque divorced people have to live somewhere

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@zagrebbi @istishhadia41 In general you are right, but manifold specifically is a toy for the bored

[Tom @morliklosername]

@TheOmniZaddy NGO worker who launders tax money to themselves through endless "community consultancy" when you tell them public transport is made to transport the public, instead of retroactively solving all of America's sins both foreign and domestic.

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@NLRG_it @EmouseMichael @coryfromphilly @constans good grief

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the amount of lawfare fedsoc types could cook up if CA 40 somehow passed and were upheld federally would be bonkers right?

am I missing something?

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@gabriel_zucman for instance, I personally think it would be funny to seize all of your assets and donate them to the Hoover Institute

however, I am capable of understanding second order consequences and will therefore refrain from backing such a policy… you should try that second part out

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@gabriel_zucman I don’t think it’s a sure bet that retroactive taxation by a state against now-external assets will survive judicial scrutiny

stop and think about the broader implications of that. Do you really want it to exist as precedent?

[Rachel @tolstoybb]

So many people have a book fetish that you could probably start a publishing house that puts out "premium fiction" or whatever and charge $200 for a book.

[ian @anionization]

@tolstoybb Gravity’s Rainbow hardcover cost $15 in 1973. That’s 114 of our shitty 2026 dollars, Rachel