Not sure if you’re new to this or what, but money buys a shitton of power in the US, and Musk has plenty of money.

China has a big problem with selling an identical product fifteen times through twelve different companies.

I think it’s an SEO strategy for Amazon, where they edge out any competition by being everywhere on the first page of search results. They also have the ability to game reviews by killing any products that get bad reviews and recreating them under a new brand.

What, you’ve never written markdown?

Forget monogamy, I just need a mathematical relationship!

Monogamy? In THIS economy?

So non-monogamy is generally looked down upon because a lot of people have bad outcomes from it.

In the vast majority of these situations, the couple has decided to see other people because they are trying to avoid or alleviate the problems they are currently dealing with. If you or your spouse are not mature enough to handle one relationship, there’s no way in hell that the exponential complexity of a polyamorous relationship will work.

That being said, it sounds like you ARE one of the few people who are considering non-monogamy for the right reasons. Some of the most important things you need to do to make this successful:

• Great communication. No games, no bottling up your feelings. You need to be able to clearly express what your hopes and fears are, and then listen to those from each other person.
• Handle jealousy and loneliness. If you’re a jealous-type person, best to stop now. You need to be comfortable with your partners spending a significant amount of time together, without you. And you need to use that time doing things you want to do, not feeling left out.
• Secure in your self. Don’t base your self-worth on what your partner thinks about you. Successful non-monogamous people are not dependent on their partners as their sole source of happiness.
• Flexibility. You need to be adaptable to new situations, because a lot of things will be changing rapidly. Successful polyamorous people embrace the ever-changing nature of life rather than try to stop it.
• Be able to handle loss. All relationships end at some point. With non-monogamy, that happens far more often than with just two people. Remember that a relationship ending doesn’t invalidate the goodness it brought to your life in the past. You need to be prepared to process events like this.

One great book on non-monogamy is More Than Two. I highly recommend everybody giving it a read before moving forward.

Having a polyamorous relationship can be very fulfilling! If you can navigate the complexity, it’s a wonderful way to maximize life.

Those “heavy duty” tents are so expensive because they’re made entirely of $20 bills sewn together.

All that would do is get Jeff Bezos to hire a hitman to take out Trump.

I think we all know the answer is zero. No way Trump can run.

Mostly Russian assets, very few actual spies.

https://www.kyivpost.com/post/46892

Luckily narcissism isn’t inherited, it’s learned. But you know what else is inherited? Money.

That being said, I don’t have a lot of faith in the morals of a parent who’d have a kid for the money.

Using AI as a propaganda machine? Who could possibly have guessed that would happen!?

Honestly when they’re done, that manufacturing capacity will do great things for their economy.

I wonder what North Korea considers a “mine clearing specialist”.

Well I mean, slavery is still illegal. Black people are able to vote, hold office, own property, etc.

There’s still a lot of social injustice to solve but there’s been a lot of progress, albeit slow.

I don’t think that’s true. There were violent riots accompanying every major social change in at least recent history.

And famously, it took an entire fucking war to end slavery in the United States.

Nah the US would find another “favorite child” to use for their proxy wars.

No money is exactly what’s needed to achieve this.

How the hell is Starship pictured in an “early SpaceX” post? The problems with Musk have been going on far longer than any Starship hardware has existed.