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If a rational person was in their situation, they would see the benefit of taking the loss and making it back. But I don’t know if you become a billionaire by having a healthy relationship with money.

Yeah I’ve seen those, and agree. It’s cool that you can do that stuff, but it’s not gonna happen. Just use BEV already and build more trains.

If that energy came from renewables then it could have some uses (wherever nothing but hydrogen will do), but yeah.

The case with transit is such that they keep trying to invent ways not to use trains, and we just have to tap our feet and wait for them to look facts in the face.

I’ve always gotten nothing but weird vibes from proponents of hydrogen. Everyone I’ve ever spoken with is either sceptical and waiting for it to make sense, an unshakeable zealot, or a speculative investor who hates BEVs.

The Nuremberg trials weren’t harsh enough perhaps, but I do think there ought to be trials.

I think we’ve found out what happens. It’s happening now, and not for the first time.

Most species, we now believe, exist for a few millions of years. We might not even be a million years old, and for most of that we’ve been a constant companion to disaster. An unsympathetic observer might even see it as a defining trait.

Eh. Food has killed people too, we’re not that impressive

Time will tell.

Second thoughts here: TSLA is ascendant because Musk is emblematic of billionaires everywhere - deeply mediocre, undeserving, predatory, and absolutely confident that he’s the greatest fucker in the world.

It’s the new Business Plot basically - they chose their new stooges carefully this time, choosing men with absolutely zero moral fibre. Smedley Butler would never have gotten them this far.

I’ve seen this happen with a company that increasingly beat earnings (and is EPS positive) every quarter this year. Wall Street doesn’t care because it has already made up its mind what has to happen.

There’s a lot of money to be made destroying companies. Sophisticated financial instruments like swaps, leveraged buyouts, and death spiral financing can be used to vampirically destroy publicly traded companies. You buy a controlling share using debt, install a bunch of overpaid C-suite execs who sell all their shares and hire overpaid consultants to tell them useless shit, meanwhile the fundamentals of the business erode, corporate media goes negative on command while your hedge fund buddies short the shit out of it. Sooner or later the whole thing goes bankrupt and private equity buzzards swoop in to snap up whatever value remains.

I haven’t had coffee yet so this is not an essay, only a mild rant. I’m not gonna die on any of these hills right now, it’s my day off.

Market cap has absolutely nothing to do with reality. You can be a company with $100 in the bank and still have the whole company value be $50 according to Wall Street. Luckily this is a perfect system, and it can continue indefinitely without hurting anyone or breaking anything!

He looked about him, felt the air, looked deep within, and came to the clear realisation that what the people really deserve and crave in this political moment, is clarity and leadership on doing big cums

I don’t have any legal opinions, but I also don’t have any “legal opinions”

Since it’s inception, American police have been evil. And anyway, it’s not only Israel teaching them to act like shit.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/08/warrior-cop-class-dave-grossman-killology.html

Lucky fuckers. Well done though

“Fascists better have my money,”

• most expensive military in history

Where’s safe?

The left Democrats and the right.

I think I see. To your knowledge, does any nuclear power operate in this way? I’m only slightly familiar with the US system, and I just checked the UK and from what I’m reading, both countries pretty much have the president/PM as having ultimate authority.

While checking, I also read that the UK’s submarine deterrents don’t need launch codes from the PM at all, and rely solely on military discipline to prevent an illicit launch. Not entirely germane to this talk, but it’s an interesting difference - and it’s certainly less bound up with executive power.