It’s even more bleak than that. Politically, the bargaining power of the masses is from the labor they contribute. As soon as the need of human labor is gone, there is absolutely no reason for those with power to heed the will of the populus. You can say open revolt, but if we’re talking a situation where any significant portion of the military is automated, uprisings are no longer a concern.

Are those figures revenue or profit?

Excellent write up. Appreciate your time!

I have a system dynamics question! Maybe you could point me in the right direction? If I have the system response to a step input, what is the simplist way to derive the transfer function? I’ve only ever learned how to use a system to do modeling, not how to reverse engineer the model.

I loved mushrooms and acid, salvia was terrible. It’s super short and super intense. You may think “well it’s just 5 minutes” but it will not feel like 5 min. If you’re looking to expand your mind, mushrooms and acid are great. If you want to slice your brain in half and put the two halves in two separate dimensions with no personal introspection to speak of, try salvia.

He looks like Creedy from V for Vendetta.

Yeah, the clankers would have to learn all new inside jokes to try and fit in elsewhere. Might as well stay and chat with all of the other bots just like them!

This is meta, a democratic structure in the military of the democratic nation fighting authoritarianism.

It’s also written by people in an agrarian culture so different than our culture today. The fact that it is still relevant at all is amazing. Like this is around the time germ theory was first proposed. Imagine if we still relied on a single document as the guiding principle for medicine established before germ theory was widely accepted.

There are faults with the founding fathers and their documents, but it amazes me how well the constitution has endured, not as an important document, but as a relevant document addressing issues we have today.

Only smile that matters

https://youtu.be/w9COHCrwNQs

Eros Venus now, sasa?

What kind of brick is that?

Ethicists were too preoccupied with whether or not they should, they didn’t stop and think if they could.

I can’t believe I’ve never seen this video. It’s incredible!

Is oldy moldy oldy moldy?

This is one of the things that gives me the most hope for him as a candidate. He is (imo) a great public example of how to a person of faith in politics. I think setting this example will have a large impact on US politics as a whole. I think there are a ton of Christians that would break with Trump in a heartbeat given the choice between a Talarico and a Christian nationalist (as unfortunate as that scenario is).

Just wanted to add some clarity on the term Persian. Persian is an ethnicity, the majority ethnicity in Iran. So one could be Iranian (citizenship) and Persian (ethnicity), or Australian (citizenship) and Persian (ethnicity).

It’s a useless metric for the state of the stock market. It’s used because it has been around forever and people hate change.

Why is it useless? It is calculated by tracking 30 companies on the stock market and pretty much adding up their current stock price. This is a meaningless metric because you could have one company that is worth $100 that offers two shares of stock, each worth $50. Another company worth $100 chooses to have 50 shares of stock each worth $2.

The companies are the same value, but their stock price is vastly different. Let’s say they’re both on the DOW list of 30 companies. When the first company doubles in value, so does it’s stock price. Now the company is with $200 and the stock is worth $100. That means the dow increased by 50.

When the second company doubles in value, it’s stock also doubles to $4. Now the DOW increases by a value of 2…

This is why the DOW is useless. It’s intent is to measure the general trend of the stock market, but with the two examples above it clearly fails at doing that. There are many better stock market indexes that provide a more reliable insight intoarket trends, the S&P 500 for example. The DOW is meaningless and anyone who is using it as a reference for the health of the stock market is an idiot.

Anyone using it to talk about the health of the economy overall is out of their gord and should be in the loony bin.

The operation was carried out by Mexico. US supplied intelligence, assumed location information. Characterizing this as the US murdering someone outside it’s borders is disingenuous and really just a false statement.

This was a fantastic ELI5. Thank you for your effort in writing this up.