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I reblogged your post because I have ADHD. https://www.soundcloud.com/rimiform

No, Bezos could not end world hunger by himself.

grrr i bet the guardian is owned by bezos though!!

ah fuck

STILL!!!! if he and, say, bill gates pooled their money together they could solve it in one day right?? i mean it’s only a lump-sum paymen---

goddammit i knew it was a subscription fee

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Some people seem to think that the fracking boom was yet another of those nonprofitable failures that got funded during the weird zero-interest era. (Like WeWork or Uber, but even bigger—the fracking industry got $300 billion in investments while Uber+Lyft got $30 billion.)

Maybe this illustrates a weakness of market economies as opposed to command economies. If you recall, during Obama’s first term he tried to directly invest government money as loans to renewable energy companies, and it was a Republican talking point that the government should not “pick winners”. There was no small amount of glee when one of the loan recipients, the solar cell manufacturer Solyndra, failed.

But at the same time the Quantitative Easing bonanza picked winners in the most market-based way possible: print money, use it to buy bonds to drive down interest rates, and let the cash trickle down wherever the invisible hand (or its avatars, Masayoshi Son and Mohammed bin Salman) sees fit. In retrospect, it turns out that savvy venture capitalists and the wise crowds on reddit also are not great at picking winners, so maybe we can call it a tie.

However, what the central government planners can do, and the markets can’t, is consider externalities. It’s probably hard to tell in advance whether solar cell factories or fracking wells will be profitable. But it seems clear that the fossil fuel investments have huge climate change costs, so if both of them are balancing on the edge of profitability, you can probably safely say that the renewable energy company has better expected social utility.

my girlfriend just said she would lick my cum off the floor bc she hates seeing it get wasted

what the fuck

People should refer to the rich more often as rats, cockroaches, and other vermin, specifically to bait pants-wetting centrists into making hysterical comparisons to the Holocaust and Rwandan hate radio.

Isn't the traditional animal the pig, to symbolize greed? Is that too played-out and cliche? No sting anymore?

i don't think any word will sting to a person who knows you're insulting them because you're poor and they're rich.

A kind person whose social justice vocabulary is outdated or inadequate for the concepts they’re trying to communicate is a better person than anyone who’d rip them down as a bigot for not keeping up with the euphemism treadmill. Morality is measured by how you treat people, not how well you’ve memorized a continuously evolving set of shibboleths.

Morality is measured

Found the moral realist!

hot take but men and women aren’t different species and any worldview you adopt that leads you to act like they are is suspect at best and will lead you to some not great ideological places

Gender essentialism wasn’t woke when when the fucking church did it and just because yall slapped a vaguely feminist veneer over the same concept doesn’t make it woke now lmao

my dude,,,, it appears you have overlooked one crucial element...... namely the

quintessential female experience

No, Bezos could not end world hunger by himself.

grrr i bet the guardian is owned by bezos though!!

ah fuck

STILL!!!! if he and, say, bill gates pooled their money together they could solve it in one day right?? i mean it’s only a lump-sum paymen—

goddammit i knew it was a subscription fee

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okay? so we would only have to kill two billionaires instead of one. this isnt the rebuttal to leftists that you think it is, lol

i'm gonna ignore the obvious fact that 'killing' them will do absolutely nothing.

didn't i already entertain this option by saying 'what if he and bill gates pooled their money'? did you not read that part? there's like 10 words in this post, how could you miss that?

you would need ALL of the money of the 2 richest people in the world EVERY YEAR. so, this year it would be 2 people, then next year it would be 3, then it would require 4 or 5 or 6, etc. you would run out billionaires pretty quickly.

this is even an extremely optimistic calculation, because as you probably know, most of that wealth is tied up in assets, meaning they would have to be liquidated first, and quickly. let me ask you: have you ever been to a business which had to liquidate their assets quickly? that's called a fire sale, and usually the sale percentages are very high. so probably you will be very lucky indeed if you can recuperate 50% of the accounting value of these assets.

the rebuttal is (obviously) that thinking random individuals should shoulder this burden firstly shows a keen misunderstanding of what it would take to actually make that happen, not to mention the nature of the problem, and secondly an embarrassing display of ignorance about how the people actually involved in trying to end world hunger (i.e. the people writing the UN reports, not the ones writing the low-effort articles) want it to come about, namely via combined government action. that would not only be more coherent legally, it would also be more sustainable.

Book 1 Zuko is completely outmatched by one element Aang, and consistently has his ass completely kicked.

Book 2 Azula generally has the advantage(and sometimes a big one) on two to three element Aang.

You know as well as I do that Azula’s fighting prowess has less to do with her technical skill as a bender and more to do with her excellent general martial and mental abilities. Ngl, Zuko is kind of dumb.

I do think that Azula is probably by far the most naturally talented firebender we see. But yes, her mind, her athleticism, her general martial ability(i.e. she learned a lot from Ty Lee and Mai), and her strategic sense are what make her truly dangerous. Having to fight at all to accomplish her objectives is a failure from her perspective.