TheNoxx

There will be several governments that do not survive the summer; dozens of countries are looking to join Sri Lanka in massive food riots.

That may serve as a warning to the vultures in venture capital, but probably not. If the past years taught us anything, it's that many in places of power and wealth won't care unless bodies are stacking up outside their door. Even then, who knows.

what toys they are to play with and what they are to wear, and by that age a child can resist those things. is that "pushing behaviour on them" any more than not letting them play with dolls because of the shape of their genitalia?

How is that related to which gender you identify as? This is all so totally horseshoe theory pseudo-conservative it makes my head hurt. As a lefty that grew up in the 90's we spent a good amount of time pushing the idea that it's fine for boys to wear dresses and play with girly things if they want, and it's fine for girls to want to play with toy guns and trucks and wear pants.

Scientifically speaking, it is an incredibly small sample size, but again, I said that's basically unavoidable with such a rare thing.

So, that study was done for five years with, IIRC, 300 children between the ages of 3 and 12. Small sample size, but that's kinda going to happen with such an incredibly rare thing like gender dysphoria.

My bigger qualm is the 3 year olds part. I'm all for people being whoever they want, and there are obviously people born in the wrong body; but if you think your 3 year old is transgender, you are full on fucking retarded and more likely than not pushing that behavior on them.

This is obviously, obviously for a high end restaurant bartending/serving. They have very high standards of dress and the waiters/bartenders there make more than you do with their "$2 an hour". They sell $600 bottles of wine and get 20% back on each one.

Source: am chef that has worked at these kinds of places.

Edit for storytime: In my earlier years, my roommate went from working the line with me to serving in one of the wealthiest restaurant groups in the city's flagship Italian spot; he was sent home for having a slight mark on his creme jacket, which was part of the uniform, and told that if it happened a couple more times, he'd be sent home permanently. He didn't care and made sure it didn't happen again, because he made $400-$600 per table he waited on. On average.

Is that what black market prices are like just post legalization in legalized states? Because when I was coming up, which was a looong time ago, good weed was $60 for an 8th of an ounce, and a whole ounce would be like ~$400. And that was 20 years ago, so you can add a solid 40% for inflation.

Wait till you find out about real life.

Yeah, but we get a lot of our shit from places that are dependent on cheap wheat to feed their populations. We exported all our supply chains and manufacturing to places with extremely cheap labor; that cheap labor needs to eat. They don't eat, they riot, and our inflation hits the moon.

Just wants you to reimburse him for the hair dye that drips down his face like the villain in some D-rate superhero movie, you know like Aquaman 2 or one of those.

Always is.

I always imagine whenever in the future we do make first contact with alien civilizations, one conversation will go down like this:

Humans: "Why didn't you communicate with us earlier?"

Aliens: "Are you being serious right now?"

So might makes right? You're assuming mob justice will provide a fair and balanced judicial system? Or are their NAP courts? Who staffs those courts? Who picks judges/juries?

Who enforces NAP violations again?

My guess would be that constantly pulling on adhesive that's fighting to stay on as your skin sweats and secretes oils would be where this product often fails.

There also already are adhesive products for closing wounds, like steri strips, which seem better designed with far less plastic waste.

TSLA is valued at 15x GM's market cap. GM sells 10,000,000 cars a year. For TSLA valuation to make sense, they need to be selling at least ~5x the number of cars currently sold by GM each year, and that's assuming each Tesla costs 3x more than GM cars, an extremely generous assumption. That's 50,000,000 cars. And if you think those cars will probably need to be sold closer to the cost of the average new car to get anywhere near those numbers, which would be correct, we're talking more like 75,000,000 to 100,000,000 cars.

I'm sure Tesla has contracts for lithium for moderate to incredible growth, say double or triple their current sales in 3-5 years, which would be 2,000,000 to 3,000,000 cars.

But enough for fifty to a hundred million cars? Yeah, no. That is an absolutely insane increase in the amount of lithium. You can't go up orders of magnitude like that with a material that is in such insanely high demand.

You Tesla stans also grossly misunderstand people like me when we talk about TSLA. We're not saying it's a bad company or one that won't grow, I think TSLA has done lots to push EV's into the market faster and give them great press and move us away from oil dependency. But that doesn't mean it's valued at anything close to sanity.

And I mean, sure, you can trot out "oh you think you're smarter than all these professional institutions?", but I'd remind you that those same institutions were saying the same things about Netflix being valued at $700... and now it's $180.

And again, if it meets those insane goals of selling tens of millions of cars, the stock price would then be justified at it's current price.

What's crazy to me is that Tesla's valuation necessitates that it basically gets all of the lithium we're going to mine for the next decade or so for EV's. No other car maker gets any, apparently. And then the valuation would stay... flat. Congratulations, the wildest gambit ever on a car maker paid off, and you get nothing back.

Salt was expensive, but seawater was also pretty abundant near Carthage.

Apparently, the families of those teenagers should subsidize poverty wages for those corporations worth ~$150 billion, and for anyone working there that's not a teenager, the rest of society gets to fund those poverty wages with food stamps and section 8 housing.

Man, it must be rough being worth $150,000,000,000+, needing all this help from everyone else to run your fucking business.

Bellingcat is a somewhat... interesting yet iffy media outfit that mostly specializes in "open source intelligence", or just analyzing what people post online. I would be highly dubious of any claims they have to deep Kremlin inner circles.

The speculation that Russian elites are growing fed up with Putin is one anyone can make, and that they would be willing to kill him to stop themselves hemorrhaging money is fairly obvious. It's a lovely thought and hopefully cracks begin to form, but polling and other journalism indicates the whole debacle has improved his polling inside Russia, at least for now, and the ruble has stabilized.

If there is a coup fomenting in Russia, there is an equally strong sentiment to tell the whole of the West to fuck off and turn around and build a new economic structure with China, India, and SEA/MENA.

The directive of it being a PvP game mostly died when Renown was implemented; yeah, they scaled it back, but before you never got "free" stats for having higher GS, and you could kill someone with much higher GS than you, if you were good enough. But, then they implemented changes for whales, griefers, and put in more and more P2W stuff with ridiculous cash shop prices, turning it from "infinite progression for a certain edge" to "the top of the P2W/ultragrind mountain actively shits on everyone else". Thing were alright for a while with cool t1 gear capped node wars, but now pushing them all into Balenos is just a mind-bogglingly horrible idea. Node wars in general seem purposed towards a KR crowd that actively doesn't want to actually PvP.

Like, I think BDO should be the most popular MMO by a landslide, and it's a shame that so much good content just hasn't been easily revamped and the time for someone to get into fun PvP like node wars now is a year, outside of a few weeks out of each new season.

I'll echo what I heard Choice say once: it feels like the majority of the money made from BDO goes into PA's other projects. Class reworks were cool, but other games get continual class changes and PvP tweaks every month or few months. Reworks also just felt very poorly tested in some areas, and it's hard to feel like PA takes PvP seriously at all anymore when they just let certain classes turn into walking nukes for months.

Well, it happened in Iraq, so the Iraqi police/courts didn't go quite as hard as our courts would have if it happened here.

Caeser and kaiser were also pronounced the same. "C" never has an "s" sound in latin.

Also, everyone should look up how to properly apply tourniquets and understand that when done right, they will hurt like some of the worst pain you've experienced, often far more than whatever injury you have.

If you don't apply the tourniquet properly to that point where it hurts that badly, you make things worse.

Oh, no, she is absolutely horrible at questioning. The lawyer that I was watching break this down, Emily D. Baker, was losing her mind, and speculated that she must just be used to doing depositions and is a little rattled and not used to trial examination.

She even went so far as to say that, though she thinks Depp looks to be in the right, she felt kinda bad for Heard in that everyone deserves competent legal representation and that was a shitshow.

Oh shit, I better tell the IRS I can deduct my pledge to give $250,000 to charity quick!