@citygirl_liz@elonmusk I'm afraid the collapse of civilization due to AI, politics, and AI-politics will occur much sooner than problems from global warming or pollution.
@krassenstein No, the complaint is that ordinary businesses will not receive equivalent subsidies, and will be run out of business, leaving government stores the only ones left. Throughout history, government stores have featured shortages, long lines for staples, and little to no variety.
@BretWeinstein This is absolutely not new. It's been the same since the dawn of time. What is new is the Western culture of non-reproduction. Essentially, it has become very easy not to go to the trouble.
@OurProgressive Your chart says nothing. Scandinavia has small, monocultural populations and scads of oil to finance social programs. Also, they produce little else.
@WornhamHelen@LizGlab So tired a comment. So stupid and jealous. Such a losing attitude. Owning their own companies made them rich. Try it sometime if you think it's not hard work.
@Flexxb777@nicksortor The military embarrassment was so glaring, as were the crowds streaming across the open border, and the stumbling around lost on the stage, and so much more. We were governed by a radical party, not by Biden.
@BernieSanders It's smart business to take advantage of government welfare programs. Just as universities have taken advantage of government issued student loans. Don't you see?
@World_Warrior@elonmusk Have you tried starting your own online payments company, electric car company, AI company, social media company, satellite internet company, neural link company, tunnel boring company, solar panel/roof/storage company, and/or rocket company?
@Owennfa 92% of student loans are now given out by the government, without regards to qualifications as it used to be with banks. The government is now a loan shark. Universities have taken advantage of the opportunity to quadruple tuition.
@ProudSocialist Universal healthcare isn't often good csre. But by law, everyone in the US can get healthcare. Social housing is concrete bunkers and ghetto projects. In this country we aim higher than that.
@GunnelsWarren The greed is in looking at other people's property enviously and wanting to take it and spend it as you see fit. Brin has contributed to society a million times more than you.
@AbakpaJob Water gets circulated for cooling like in a car radiator. I have to believe it's part of a cooling loop and gets reused indefinitely. Not evaporatively.
@RepMGS Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it. DST change has already been repealed and re-instated three times in the US. We keep it because the time of sunrise varies rather dramatically at our latitude. Would you rather schools and businesses all vary their opening times?
@Ilhan What are you doing to help these young people learn to escape the traps they're in and become happy, healthy independent contributors to society?