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Which isn't ideal, but easily better than the pentagon that has literally never passed a full audit since they started auditing them in 2018. I'm a huge fan of musk's company's, but I don't want my public tax dollars ever choosing winners/losers

copy-left is referred to as open source and some even claim it's _more_ open source, but thanks for the information, I wasn't aware of the that detail.

edit: oh it's not copyleft, but specifically quid pro quo so tesla gives you their patents if you give them yours

you hate the company or the product? How does someone hate a company the open sourced all of their patents which resulted in creating a ton of competition in a previously dominated market?

> even if Americans do speak more like the Elizabethan English than today’s Brits themselves

I get the sense that the article very much believes Americans speak more traditional English.

> War destroys existing structures and gives them a chance to evolve again.

are you suggesting that destroying things, results in improvement in the long run? I don't know that I could be farther from agreeing with that. If starting from scratch was better, why wouldn't we be doing it voluntarily at frequent intervals? It just seems easily dismissed as entirely incorrect.

> The economy is growth dependent and can only perform its basic functions under growth, even if that growth is fake.

I don't think this describes the economy, it just describes some of the metrics we use to gauge the health of the economy. burning down the internet and killing everyone that understands it might result in another dotcom boom, but would you say the economy is more healthy than some other reality where the internet continued to exist with no reset and only has smaller incremental gains?

I just don't believe this, not because I have hard data, but it just doesn't make any sense. Sure, the central banks will do everything they can to ignite the economy and everyone will be generally working their hardest to recover from hard times, but how can an economy that gets completely halted to go full bore in war efforts ever hope to generate the wealth of an economy that isn't halted and has been making incremental improvements, uninterrupted?

people don't demand wealth equality after a war, they just create massive inflation during the war and solve it by taking everyone's savings after the war...half the countries in europe post ww2 did something akin to replacing the national currency at exchanges rates of like 10:1 in some cases like germany...and germanys post-war inflation solution is hailed as an 'economic miracle' by many history books. Somethings tells me I wouldn't feel too jazzed about taking 90% of my savings, but I would also be resigned to do whatever because war is worse.

I get really worried when I see people glamorize equality post-war...post-war times are not good times for the middle class. The most equal wealth humanity has ever had is during caveman times, but that is not the goal.

war does not make things better folks, I hope that's not what OP was trying to say, but just in case let's be very very clear about how awful war is for progress and humanity.

being unlawful is a vital tool for people to keep tyranny in check, I would hope that most people are incredibly strong supporters of lawlessness when the laws are wrong. To give an extreme example, I imagine you supported the hiding of jewish people during nazi germanys reign, which means you support unlawful activity as long as it's against laws that are against the people.

> Newtonian physics is still settled science even though we have relativity to give more accurate results..

You've proved my entire point in your very first sentence and then go on to say I don't seem to understand how scientific models and theories work.

> Nobody believed in geocentrism due to "Science"...

This isn't a serious argument. Feel free to look up the works of Aristotle, who is sometimes called the first scientist.

I don't have the energy to address the rest of your incorrect conjecture.

> Germ theory is settled science. Is it theoretically possible that we'll overturn it? Sure.

You need to understand that every single theory will be improved upon in the future. That means they will change and it's impossible to predict if these improvements will have consequences in different contexts where people incorrectly claim the science is settled.

> It's unproductive to constantly re-litigate questions like "is germ theory true" or "is global warming real"

Can you think of any cases where the science had nearly full consensus and it was useful to re-litigate? Galileo isn't the only example. I can think of many.

Ironically, it's often attributed to religion that they claim settled truths that can't be proven.

There's no such thing as "settled science". You can not prove that any scientific consensus has no flaws in the same way you can't prove the absence of bugs in any software. It's unproductive to treat science as anything more than an ongoing, constantly improving process.

Can we give this fear-mongering a rest? This is his second term, he didn't topple democracy in his first term and everyone made the same arguments back then.

If anything the democrats were the party to get rid of some of their democratic process. They didn't even vote on their parties candidate, and no, that doesn't scare me either.

Not to mention the democrats had far more private money spent all three times fighting Trump and yet he still won democratically twice and lost once democratically.

The system isn't great or even good, but it's still functioning.

load isn't what causes degradation, it's heat and as someone who has mined crypto for years I'm aware that there are a lot of things that can be done to run hardware quite hard and keep thermals low. Whether or not that is what is being done, I have no idea. A GPU mining crypto for 5 years kept below 65C (rather easily done) is going to have far more life left than a GPU in some kids gaming PC that spikes frequently to 85C for even a year.

Seems like the news headlines should read "President makes a mistake that benefits crypto grifters, but luckily for the grifters the only blame seems to be attributed to the president because of a single tweet."

I imagine taking the inflation rate (that was growing exponentially) from nearly 300% yearly to less than 3% monthly in less than a year isn't likely to be wildly popular to all the non-crypto grifters.