People who defend billionaires either have a vested interest, have actually bought that they’re 1000x smarter than normal people, or have some (possibly vague) abstract moral position that overrules the basic idea of fairness. Often it’s more than one.

Capitalism, as the term is commonly used, is poorly defined enough that you have to specify what it means here. Is it any kind of market? Is it large corporations? Is it every interaction being purely voluntary (somehow)? If you consider a big Soviet firm like Gosbank a “corporation”, all three could also be socialist depending on who you ask.

Since this is .ml, for the classical Marxist definition that it’s “private ownership of the means of production”, the arguments are mainly against the proposed alternatives, or just that private vs. personal is hard to demarcate, and nobody wants to share a toothbrush.

Wow. I guess those two teams didn’t talk often, which tracks.

Happy cake day!

Uhh, in the wild? I’ve seen some pretty uncommon wetland birds a number of times. Some pretty weird bugs too, although it’s hard to say what they were.

I’ve seen big moose really up close, and that was epic, and would have been terrifying if there wasn’t usually a car-stopping amount of wood between us. They’re not rare, though, just shy.

I mean, so does an explosive charge in this specific context.

It’s an argument you could make, but there’s already a convention against these specific types of weapon, even if you promise to be careful to clear them all when you’re done.

Oh man, when was that?

Yup. I read the convention on mines recently in the wake of the pagers thing. Even if chocolate isn’t humanitarian aid, portable booby trapped non-military items are forbidden if they self-trigger. (The pagers actually seem fine by the copy I read, because being remote-controlled makes them “other devices”)

Edit: And also specifically food or drink.

Vaguely remembering what that craze was about, the basic idea that if you have savings you should invest them was good. Not sure if he ever added the diversify and wait patiently bit. Generally all “rich guy books” belong in the trash.

But muh jobs! /s

Depressingly, a factory is tangible, and the economic benefits of not subsidising things randomly based on political expediency are subtle. Add in the occasional edge cases where subsidies actually make sense (idle military manufacturing capacity during peacetime, for example) and this is a law that tends not to be put in place or stay in place.

If you really want to convince us that nuclear power is part of the future

I somehow doubt that’s the main priority here.

Yes, but have you considered that their rep showed up to a thing they were at, was nice to them, and correctly displayed the tribal symbols?

Hmm, I wonder how much navigation you could do by sound if the props were filtered out.

How much bandwidth did it need? The 90’s seem early for a live video feed.

Also, man, that’s a whole new meaning to the Wild West era of the internet.

And obviously all the US’s traditional allies, although it might have been implied they weren’t in the question.

Tom Cotton has all but said Netanyahu should kill every Palestinian, which is further than even Netanyahu’s own far-right partners will go in public.

Ah, yes, OCD.

Yeah, exactly. At some point you have to think people will stop borrowing from the government entirely, and then the central bank is in the equivalent of an airplane stall - they can pull the lever all they want, but nothing will happen. When that actually happens is a question for a real economist.

I mean, it’s not just a thing you can call yourselves, there’s a legal definition. There’s no way to pay money out of a nonprofit into your pocket without committing embezzlement.

It’s pretty clear he’s not willing to actually punish them for anything. Sending ordinary American troops into a ground war for them is another thing entirely, though. Nobody’s forgotten how the last ones went, and American democracy is already teetering on the brink.

Hamas’ known deal breaker that IDF troops would remain afterwards

And, y’know, that’s not a ceasefire. Just thought I’d point that out.

My god, would he? Even if that meant tanking the election? (If it’s in the lame duck period after Nov. 5 that seems less crazy, I guess)