Yeah and if not a bicycle then a Libertarian should at least go with an EV.

Gasoline requires requires far away refineries supplied with crude oil that comes even further away. The government needs to maintain a large military to secure foreign oil to keep the global oil prices down because that's the rate everyone has to pay in a capitalist system. Even then oilt prices are subject to regulation by OPEC, which is an international organization that we don't have any say in.

Meanwhile an EV can be charged by a wind turbine in your home town or even a solar panel on your roof. I suppose the lithium for the battery comes for further away, but once you own that battery you own it. You aren't dependent of oil coming from very far away every week. Sure you'll eventually have to replace that battery, but it's way less frequent than having to gas up. And if it came down to it you could probably produce a battery more locally without lithium if you're willing to sacrifice range.

The fact is a libertarian utopia simply isn't possible with a dependence on oil. Oil is the most international business in the world and requires the most support form the government to function. But with EVs it may be possible to have everything needed for a society to function within a small region. You need big government to get a reliable supply of oil, but with EVs and renewable energy, big government isn't as necessary.

And yeah bicycles are even better than EV in terms of libertarian ideals.

Wait, was Ensign Ro LGBTQ+?

I thought that sort of thing wasn't really allowed in 90s Trek, unless the writers could sneak it past Rick Berman. Obligatory: Fuck you Rick Berman!

Do you think all Palestinians are Hamas?

Seems racist to me.

Speed Walking Workshop at 10:30pm? This is blasphemy!

In modern wars, the invasion isn't actually the hard part. It's the occupation that's the hard part. And Russia is having a really difficult time trying to accomplish the easy part (the invasion).

The only way Russia can go after Georgia (or anywhere else) would be if they withdrew from Ukraine immediately. Taking territory from Ukraine means more land they have to deal with a resistance campaign. Occupying any country takes a large amount of manpower, and Ukraine is a very large country and will likely be dedicated to resist a Russian occupation for at least a decade.

By most estimates, Russia simply doesn't have the manpower to successfully occupy Ukraine. Even if Russia can take all of the territory (which I doubt) they'd bogged down for at least a decade, with the most likely outcome being a withdrawal and collapse of of the Russian Federation similar to how the Soviet campaign ended in Afghanistan.

LLMs simply aren't capable of the precision required for most jobs. But it could attend meetings, write up tasks for human employees, assign tasks, make timelines, put together a project plan presentation.

So yeah it's basically middle management that are most in danger of being replaced by AI. Sure there'd some inaccuracies tasks getting assigned to the wrong eomployee, a task description being wrong or unclear, but all of that happens now with human middle managers now. So having AI do middle management is probably already feasible.

But what is likelihood of management recommending their jobs be replaced?

With real money you can take out a loan. Kinda the whole point of money, it represents value that is owed.

While crypto loans would be technically possible it would be a foolish thing to do since it's effectively a short on something that could increase in value. Real money has a small but steady (well, ideally) inflation so you can be confident in taking out a loan and not having to worry about the currency doing something crazy like doubling in value resulting in you owing double the value than you initially borrowed. This is not the case for crypto so it's simply not a viable currency for financing anything.

Since it's not viable for financing, it's not a real currency and never will be. Like is someone supposed to take out a business loan in real currency, convert it to crypto, pay someone else who would then have to convert it back to real money so they can pay back their loan? Why would people want to do all of these conversions back and forth to and from crypto? Because they like the risk of the value dropping for the brief time they're holding onto it?

Uber is also scum tho. Seems there's always going to be something dodgy about getting into cars with random strangers.

I guess? It's social construct what we all agree to because trading 20 bushels of wheat for a chicken is a pain in the ass.

It's like a quest in an adventure game. Follow the map to to get to the inn, follow these clues to find the key, is the inn owned by cool NPC or is it owned by a villain? Boss fight! You've done well adventurer, you only owe $30 in cleaning fees!

Yeah I know exactly what you mean. People don't want to discuss an issue, they seem to just want to prove how much of a hardcore whateverist they are and prove you're a part of whichever nefarious group their group is a against. "So you're a neo-con-classical-liberal-proto-fascist because you don't want to burn everything down and start over with a the new whateverist utopia I want! You're too stupid to talk to me!!!"

I think it's mostly kids in university that learned some terminology they never heard before and think everyone should be impressed by the word they learned. But when a topic they're unfamiliar with comes up they're out of their element and instead of just lurking and learning something they start spewing out the jargon in a desperate attempt to sound like they know something.