The end goal is to stop funding education entirely, I believe

The pimps and the hookers they traffic suffer the same violence at the hands of the state.

The deplorable treatment of prisoners is entirely independent of the soulless sexual violence of the Tate Brothers.

This is not any kind of actual social justice. It’s merely a single high profile individual getting caught in the same misery machine as hundreds of thousands of other people.

You will never know the hunger of a 15 year old boy unless you were one

Jellyfin doesn’t have this problem

Peters turned on him. “I know you just came here five minutes ago. Go back to your own country.” Then: “That’s where they lie like a flatfish, but they don’t lie like that here, all right? This is called democracy. This is called democracy, unlike what you’re used to.”

So much of the racism is rooted in this eugenics tier understanding of Western political institutions.

Democracy (really, republicanism) is an inherently a feature of wealthy white college educated males. Any success garnered by people outside that cohort is defined as illegitimate. A consequence of trickery, corruption, or outside interference.

Life before 30 is great

Life after 30 is also great

Life is great.

I also hate leaving things to chance.

But that’s a security bias. If you were more prone to risk taking, you’d be doing the opposite even if the payout was - say - $150k. Or even $75k.

And then I think that if I were to take the guaranteed sum, I’d end up lying awake at night wondering what could have been if I’d gone with the 10 million and won the coin toss.

This all seems to boil down to psychological impact rather than material benefit.

All one has to do is move out of one of these crappy western countries with all their social issues and corrupt governments

The Western countries are the ones with all the accumulated infrastructure.

A very small one.

But, say, you need enough for a down payment on a truck and lawn / pool supplies, you’ve got yourself a business.

a study where people were offering $50k vs a 50% chance at $10m

That’s very different than $10T v $20T.

But I’d also like to know who is running around giving away all this money to begin with.

The premise is fanciful no matter how you slice it.

Fortunate that he went bust on only a few billion worth of stolen money and not the fate of humanity

SBF could only exist as a high stakes gambler because he kept getting stacked by equally buffoonish, but less famous, bank executives.

SBF crapped out. The gambler mindset persists. We just have one less idiot rolling dice.

It really helps if you define “value” in a material sense, rather than an abstract numerical figure.

The utility of money has a diminishing return at extraordinary volumes. But I could see a contrary scenario:

You are broke. You can receive:

• Half the money you need for a life saving operation.

• A 50% chance for all the money you need.

It means you want to consume the finer details of the limited hangout.

You’ll take my Teddy Ruxpin from my cold dead toddler hands

So, I’ve seen multiple articles on this describing it as a national trend. And now I’m reading that it’s literally just one insane rich white lady.

I was also reading that nobody could do anything about this person. But, apparently, private airlines can simply refuse her service.

Cool.

She documented the removal in a series of videos she posted on social media, one of which had racked up 3 million views on Instagram by Friday afternoon.

I guess it’s nice that we no longer live in a world where that translates to instant free money directly from the social media companies themselves.

Not a comparable situation to Hormuz, as Yemen doesn’t have a firm control of the energy infrastructure, much less a functional coast guard to patrol and administer the territory.

Mega-Embassy

Very funny to think the problem people have with the embassy is it’s size and not it’s “China”

A great deal of the industry is powered by debt financing. And the CEO typically holds the job by gatekeeping access to that borrowed money.

Labor solidarity is predicated on being able to participate in the market. It isn’t as if people don’t try to Unionize. But if your office or your business or your entire industry can be casually strangled to death by the financial sector when a plurality demand a raise, there’s quickly nothing left to unionize.