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True, but in capitalist systems anyone is free to start a new business without the government’s approval.

Airbnb’s founders sold parody cereal to hustle up the money to keep their business afloat.

“democratic ownership of the economy” cute way of saying socialism. But if people in the democracy don’t want to own the economy then it’s not democratic.

Same critique of so-called “Democratic socialism”. If it’s socialism, it’s not democracy.

Science? What theory are you testing?

Not Utopianism. Technology simply solves problems which are inevitable. It’s problems and solutions forever my friend.

The privilege disclaimer is absolutely unnecessary, and I agree with your point.

The benefit is we find solutions to objectionable ideas by discussing them. The alternative is a chilling effect where people are hesitant to discuss problems for fear of getting into trouble for even coming close to saying the illegal thing.

You are just long-windedly doubling down on your racism.

But your justificationist theory does not explain why people of other races in Nigeria, Qatar, Japan, and every other non-white majority country do not tolerate drugs.

This is a really long winded way of displaying your contempt for your fellow citizens.

Your analysis is bad and your desire to judge others is worse.

What percentage of millionaires inherited their wealth? Go Google it. Now tell me if it’s ok to judge any group of people based on that percentage.

Oh knock it off. I’m not wealthy but I’m sick of this trope where we assume rich people are jerks. It’s a lazy, unintelligent critique, and what’s more, your comment shows that even non-wealthy people can be jerks too.

Let’s say you had a rival, and they had a spy balloon floating above your house. No big deal?

You moved the goalposts by switching from “abuse” to “daily habit forming”.

Abuse doesn’t require daily or even regular use.

This is rationalizing rhetoric. Full-on psychedelic drugs are very different from any other psychiatric medicine. Users should know this difference and be prepared to mitigate the risks.

With psych drugs, the most common experience is that user takes them for a few weeks, and reports or doesn’t report some subtle change in their psyche. A bad experience is mostly limited to “didn’t work”. If the drug “doesn’t work” they stop using it and try something else.

With psychedelic drugs, the effect is 100% going to be felt within less than an hour, the effect will be very strong and is guaranteed to be one of the most memorable experiences of the user’s life. A bad experience could easily consist of being rapidly confronted with some deep truths about the user’s self and ego. There is a reason psychedelics have been linked to schizophrenia: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/article-abst...

Proves the point, there is so much more progress to be made.

Oh knock it off with the “late stage capitalism” crap please. You sound like a college sophomore. We are so close to the beginning of capitalism we have basically not even started. Standards of living have been steadily increasing since the enlightenment and will continue long into the future.

We significantly reduced smoking with a large ad campaign and taxes on tobacco. That would be a good start (assuming you wanted to help the most possible people to live longer healthier lives).

Here’s the list: https://www.whitesupremacyculture.info/characteristics.html

I would like to hear less “Elon is mean” comments on anything related to Musk’s companies and more commentary that adds to the discussion.

In this case it sounds like Tesla is doing what pretty much all tech companies have done this year.

“There is no logical reason for someone to disagree with me.”

Not only is this not relevant to the article, it’s also wrong. Computers cannot create new explanatory knowledge like humans can. One day they may. But right now we have 0 clue how this happens in humans so we are not able to program it in computers.

Cool so my whole life

The person you’re exchanging with is an ideologue.

I like how NYC is cleaning up its act lately. It’s like it got over Covid and suddenly realized it’s the greatest city in the world and better start acting like it.

You are correct, of course. Helping everyone succeed is not only possible but preferable. The tricky bit is people really really like to feel superior to each other. They love status. And unlike success, status can always be gained by putting another person down.

This is possibly the most ridiculous argument being used today. Anyone who has looked at their speed and slowed down while driving past a cop can confirm that you’re full of it.

Oh knock it off with this crap. The article is about organized retail theft. If you work for a criminal enterprise you should work a legal job and pay for things like everyone else.

I know you want this to be true but it’s not. All impersonation accounts are banned. Parody is fine. That’s consistent with how free speech in the US is enforced.

I’m talking about the person, SBF, not the company. You are conflating the two.

Most of his donations were to Democratic candidates. He was the 2nd biggest donor to the Democratic Party behind George Soros.

We will see if he’s prosecuted what the result is. I have made my prediction.

https://www.axios.com/2022/11/15/ftz-crypto-bankman-fried-de...

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2022/11/15/23460684/...

Unfortunately it will take a lot more than Waymo to solve the problems you mentioned.

It will take enforcing laws, arresting criminals, and offering drug/mental health treatment as an alternative to jail, while at the same time providing housing conditional on employment and good behavior. Nothing short of this will solve our crime, addiction, and homelessness problems in a humane way.

Twitter currently suggests tweets from people you don’t follow. I believe that would be part of the “amplification” or “reach” he’s referring to.

That’s how tweets spread and get massive faster/more than typical virality.

Now imagine turning that off. You can still say what you want, and your followers will see it, but it won’t get blasted out to that whole world.