AnimeIsTrash posted:

there is literally a "jump to recipe" button on all these websites

bedpan posted:

I'm still waiting for 31337Singles

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Musk wasn’t immediately convinced. “My inference was that he was getting nervous that Starlink’s involvement was increasingly seen in Russia as enabling the Ukrainian war effort, and was looking for a way to placate Russian concerns,” Kahl told me. To the dismay of Pentagon officials, Musk volunteered that he had spoken with Putin personally. Another individual told me that Musk had made the same assertion in the weeks before he tweeted his pro-Russia peace plan, and had said that his consultations with the Kremlin were regular. (Musk later denied having spoken with Putin about Ukraine.) On the phone, Musk said that he was looking at his laptop and could see “the entire war unfolding” through a map of Starlink activity. “This was, like, three minutes before he said, ‘Well, I had this great conversation with Putin,’ ” the senior defense official told me. “And we were, like, ‘Oh, dear, this is not good.’ ” Musk told Kahl that the vivid illustration of how technology he had designed for peaceful ends was being used to wage war gave him pause.

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But Musk’s influence is more brazen and expansive. There is little precedent for a civilian’s becoming the arbiter of a war between nations in such a granular way, or for the degree of dependency that the U.S. now has on Musk in a variety of fields, from the future of energy and transportation to the exploration of space. SpaceX is currently the sole means by which nasa transports crew from U.S. soil into space, a situation that will persist for at least another year. The government’s plan to move the auto industry toward electric cars requires increasing access to charging stations along America’s highways. But this rests on the actions of another Musk enterprise, Tesla. The automaker has seeded so much of the country with its proprietary charging stations that the Biden Administration relaxed an early push for a universal charging standard disliked by Musk. His stations are eligible for billions of dollars in subsidies, so long as Tesla makes them compatible with the other charging standard.

In the past twenty years, against a backdrop of crumbling infrastructure and declining trust in institutions, Musk has sought out business opportunities in crucial areas where, after decades of privatization, the state has receded. The government is now reliant on him, but struggles to respond to his risk-taking, brinkmanship, and caprice. Current and former officials from nasa, the Department of Defense, the Department of Transportation, the Federal Aviation Administration, and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration told me that Musk’s influence had become inescapable in their work, and several of them said that they now treat him like a sort of unelected official. One Pentagon spokesman said that he was keeping Musk apprised of my inquiries about his role in Ukraine and would grant an interview with an official about the matter only with Musk’s permission. “We’ll talk to you if Elon wants us to,” he told me. In a podcast interview last year, Musk was asked whether he has more influence than the American government. He replied immediately, “In some ways.” Reid Hoffman told me that Musk’s attitude is “like Louis XIV: ‘L’état, c’est moi.’ ”

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Perhaps the most revealing moment in the PayPal saga happened at its outset. In March, 2000, as the merger was under way, Musk was driving his new McLaren, with Thiel in the passenger seat. The two were on Sand Hill Road, an artery that cuts through Silicon Valley. Thiel asked Musk, “So what can this do?” Musk replied, “Watch this,” then floored the gas pedal, hit an embankment, and sent the car airborne and spinning before it slammed back onto the pavement, blowing out its suspension and its windows. “This isn’t insured,” Musk told Thiel.

Jazerus posted:

i think you'll find you're actually doing a woke by taking a knee in fenway park

Ham Equity posted:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/08/28/elon-musks-shadow-rule

The whole article is worth reading, but those are the highlights. I almost fell out of my chair laughing at the bolded.

Fat-Lip-Sum-41.mp3 posted:

cars that cost over $200,000 should be exempt from safety regulations due to their sophisticated drivers

Tendales posted:

Nationalize Elon.

Coolness Averted posted:

hmm not sure I see the jump to recipe button, better turn off scriptblock on this random shady site designed to extract any income it can from me

FFT posted:

I trust those about as much as I trust x-1/x download buttons.

Ham Equity posted:

https://twitter.com/joncstone/status/1693906805984800913?s=20
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AnimeIsTrash posted:

HallelujahLee posted:

bidenomics

Paladinus posted:

I wouldn't blame the UK housing crisis on Biden, to be honest.

Paladinus posted:

I wouldn't blame the UK housing crisis on Biden, to be honest.

Paladinus posted:

I wouldn't blame the UK housing crisis on Biden, to be honest.

Paladinus posted:

I wouldn't blame the UK housing crisis on Biden, to be honest.

LIVE AMMO COSPLAY posted:

Does the UK elect their own Prime Ministers or do they have to run it by the USA first like Australia does?

tokin opposition posted:

The UK invented capitalism and amerikkka perfected it

Orange Devil posted:

The Netherlands invented capitalism bitch.

HallelujahLee posted:

Its time for the uk to rise above fifth rate vassal

gradenko_2000 posted:

https://twitter.com/dennisbhooper/status/1692965731657298247?t=82bSTbbNXevmyPqoUB7x6A&s=19

LIVE AMMO COSPLAY posted:

Does the UK elect their own Prime Ministers or do they have to run it by the USA first like Australia does?

Jazerus posted:

that's what got the world into this mess in the first place!!

ArmZ posted:

if you don't blame the US for everything then you don't get your anti-imperialism credential

Frosted Flake posted:

Amazon has gotten worse to the point where I can't find products I know I've bought from them before unless I know the exact name, size etc.

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1. Don’t borrow for college. It’s far too risky and expensive. I don’t say this lightly. I’m a college professor. But you can get a fine education without mortgaging your future and potentially dashing your career plans.

It simply involves pursuing scholarships and applying to less expensive, if generally less prestigious, institutions.

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6. Your perfect home may be far cheaper several time zones away. Or it may be someplace with no state income tax, no state estate tax, and no state inheritance tax.

Yes, things are more complicated. Land values in New Hampshire may be higher in light of the state’s tax advantage. And the school system may be better in Massachusetts. But who knows? You may be childless and happy to live in a tall five-decker with no yard.

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7. Choose jobs that everyone but you hates. All else being equal — skills, education and experience — people with unpleasant, nerve-racking, insecure, disturbing or financially risky jobs get paid more than people with the same skills working jobs with none of these drawbacks.

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9. Consider working for yourself. I tell this to my students often. If you start the right business the right way, it will raise your remaining future earnings and provide unmatched job security.

If that sounds too risky, brainstorm ways to turn your hobby and interests into a side hustle.

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13. If you do get married, count on getting divorced. It’s as likely as not. Protect yourself and the love of your life with a prenup.

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16. Wait until age 70 to take Social Security retirement benefits. Retirees who wait to claim can get hundreds of dollars more each month than those who take benefits early.

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21. If you’re worried about downside risk, play the stock market like a casino.

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Laurence J. Kotlikoff is an economics professor and the author of “Money Magic: An Economist’s Secrets to More Money, Less Risk, and a Better Life.” He received his Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University in 1977. His columns have appeared in The New York Times, WSJ, Bloomberg and The Financial Times. In 2014, The Economist named him one of the world’s 25 most influential economists.