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THIS PRODUCT IS NOT APPROVED BY THE FDA TO TREAT, CURE, OR PREVENT ANY DISEASE.
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@TwinkRegimer @LinkofSunshine yes. and US government spending as a share of GDP has 4Xed in the last 200 years
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@xsphi @LinkofSunshine our society gotten infinitely better in every way in the last 200 years. freer, healthier, richer, more comfortable, more accepting.
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@EtchAic @LinkofSunshine and don't get me started on health insurance. you can't build buildings on your own land. we only just recently legalized prediction markets. the US is not an elegant example of capitalism. and it seems the reason it's not is because idealistic capitalism does *not* work
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@EtchAic @LinkofSunshine but I think all of these countries aren't actually very capitalist, at least compared to what could be. especially in the US which I'm most familiar with we have corporate bailouts like every few years.
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@TwinkRegimer @LinkofSunshine (I briefly looked at data here and did not find anything that clearly supports this claim) x.com/xsphi/status/2…
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@EtchAic @LinkofSunshine not really. like first of all, capitalism is hard to define. if you define it rather simply but intuitively as low government spending as a percentage of GDP than everyone is getting capitalismmogged my mega-poor countries except maybe singapore
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@EtchAic @LinkofSunshine but also China is kinda capitalist? it has less gov spending as a percentage of GDP than US, just worse property rights and shit according to heritage foundation. but also heritage foundation is a conservative US think tank so...
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@EtchAic @LinkofSunshine now what does "success" mean? GDP I guess? but there's a lot of confounders so maybe GDP per capita growth works? Singapore and Irland are doing decent, Switzerland and Australia (and US for that matter) less so, but they all get mogged by China
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aight, i'm sold. my new bar for AGI is when it can make beyblade mt. fuji
Enguerrand VII de Coucy@ingelramdecoucy
“Imagine how many good paying union jobs this project proposal would provide to the surrounding communities, voting against it is voting against putting food on the tables of working families”
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kinda fucked up that openwrt routes and openrouter writes
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@support hey can you fix the text box that you type tweets into being kinda broken now (Firefox 140.8.0esr on Linux, when you do ctrl-a to select text, it breaks the backspace key thereafter, errors in the js console; also other shortcuts like ctrl-c etc break, it's v annoying)
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@cagedthecactus it's possible, but this ignores opportunity cost. I'm more likely to find a product (or other type of information/idea) that improves my life doing the counterfactual. if I actually valued finding good products highly, I would be reading consumer reports.
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kind of an insane moment in society where one cannot imagine being advertised a product that will actually improve their life
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it's funny how basically all advertisement is ugly dead weight on society at best or malicious exploitation at worst, except for an addictive stimulant company promoting extreme danger unrelated to their product, which is cool and pro-social imo
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@AlecBCHall wait is this true? do they have like, salaried mechanical engineers and welders and shit that go from project to project?
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The reason this works is because RedBull is an engineering company. Not an advertisement company, not a sports entity, not a drinks company.
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it's funny how basically all advertisement is ugly dead weight on society at best or malicious exploitation at worst, except for an addictive stimulant company promoting extreme danger unrelated to their product, which is cool and pro-social imo
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