Yes but have you considered that if I make up a dash of bullshit and change and conflate the contextual meaning of a word or two, I am actually very smart?

For example, cellulose is part of plant cells, and cells have protein in them, and all proteins are basically the same, therefore cellulose is protein.

Is there… a word… for… ‘exposed to the void of space for a prolonged period of time’?

Yeah I know fossilized isn’t the right word, as thats generally a process that requires water… but i dont know how to say ‘space fossilized’.

Dehydrated and Irradiated … ?

Its respect.

If you can reiterate it… you were actually paying attention.

Just saying ‘oh neat!’, you’re being flippant, in comparison.

Yeah… I’ve heard about that.

Been using gnome for years, literally cannot remember a single time the entirety of gnome crashed.

I’ve used gnome tweaks for a long time as well.

Whereas everytime I’ve tried to use a custom KDE theme of some kind, some part of it is broken in some fun new extremely specific way that I did not know KDE could be broken in.

Oh no.

That’s … that’s too humanoid.

I’m sorry you were made this way Braixen, the internet is not safe for you.

IOUs based off of gold are a literally significant part of how many modern fiat currencies started.

What in the hell do you need to spend $50M on, right away?

Not to mention gold being around 1.4x more valuable per weight.

Those weights of either gold or currrency are going to require a vault or armored car and a crew of people with a forklift to either store or hold or move anywhere.

You’re gonna be bringing both to a bank.

Suddenly showing up with or trying to spend or sell those volumes of either gold or cash is going to get you a visit from the IRS, Secret Service, and FBI, and maybe CIA.

Yep.

Literally pulling out $9,999 instead of $10,000… that in and of itself is a crime, even if you’re not actually doing anything funny with it.

I wonder if that shit is something approximating a fossil, currently.

Presumably the radiation would have killed all the fecal bacteria pretty quickly… hell … would the plastic bags have degraded as well?

P00H is hilarious.

Poop.

The end of all food, yet also, the beginning of all food.

Poop is the true neutral ground state from whence all emerges and all returns to.

… genuienly an incredible name for the idle loop, I am in awe.

I did not think Maggie Hamilton could be more legendary, but somehow, she is. Damn.

I fucking hope not.

I’m legitmately traumatized from it, in many contexts.

So your stance is ‘this is bad because other people wont go for it’ and ‘but also there are some other companies/organizations this should happen to’.

… ?

I say maybe the government ‘doing a communism’ in the colloquial, horrendously innacurate sense of the word, is infact exactly what we need.

I don’t care that other people get the ick from this.

I get the ick from corporations fiscally and environmentally raping us all to death.

You want a New, New Deal?

This is approximately what that would look like, at least a part of it.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/controllinginterest.asp

A controlling interest occurs when a shareholder or group gains enough shares to exercise major influence over a company’s governance and strategic direction.

No, it is, you’re wrong.

Yeah, most people can read through simple typos and understand them correctly.

Ok, what’s ‘more than nothing’?

Like, what is the actual thing that you want to happen?

What is your preferred policy, law, government action?

Bernie’s entire idea is that since these things functionally plagiarized everyone, ‘everyone’ (via the government) should own a controlling interest in the companies… if they are profitable, if their stocks go up, use that to start a soverign wealth fund that can help out thr government’s budget, maybe be used to fund social service improvements, healthcare, ubi, etc.

That’s his idea of ‘more than nothing’.

What is yours?

What’s ‘enough’?

Oh well I’m talking about the one Bernie is proposing.

What’s your idea?

Just… continue to let the AI companies ‘self regulate’?

It makes perfect sense at any time, given that Bernie is calling for nationalizing half the shares in these companies, with no compensation or payment to the previous shareholders.

Costs the government nothing, because they’re just seizing the shares.

It would give the government a controlling interest in these companies, thus ability to regulate them.

That makes sense at any point in time.

Bernie is not proposing spending any money on acquiring these shares.

He is proposing simply seizing half of them.

So, the government gets a half stake, a controlling interest in these companies, for free, because we are the government and we say so.

So, that would mean the government can then directly regulate these companies, and if they become profitable, those profits can be poured into a soverign wealth fund, which could fund ubi or universal healthcare, etc.