private equity + a whole lot of commons to encircle

This book is a good riff on "The Goal" but for software manufacturers https://itrevolution.com/product/the-phoenix-project/

Wow, thousands! In a country with 300m people... My home town with 300k people probably has well over a hundred roundabouts. They are everywhere.

You describe a state in germany. Having driven in the us and in Europe for thousands of kilometres, the amount of roundabouts in US cities is negligible.

... depends on who u ask

the answer gives me both the current consensus AND the latest possibly new consensus.

the Consensus site gives me... not even an accurate current consensus.

This reminds me of the good book "Crucial Conversations"

I want the internet to be free/open to all as much as anyone. But specific websites aren’t the internet work itself. You aren’t entitled to them. many websites, most startup websites, are maintained by individuals or small businesses which aren’t inherently profitable. They can’t afford to deal with spambots, ad click through fraud, etc. It’s reasonable for them to deny-by-default and only spend time (money) dealing with user-agents that can pass this proof-of-personhood test (until there are better zip proof of personhoods, a huge opportunity atm)

Anyone else notice how First Republic bank was bought a few years ago by Colony Capital co-managed by Thomas Barrack, who was a Senior Advisor to the Trump Campaign before being found guilty of acting as an unregistered foreign agent for UAE? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Barrack

Probably nothing.

You mean found NOT guilty.

Anyone notice how gobengo actively lied and misled (he bought SOME of FRC, a publicly traded entity) in his comment implying conspiratorial dealings?

You are clearly lying here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Barrack#cite_note-:4-19

Colony Capital acquired a $1.9bn stake in First Republic alongside General Atlantic, a well-known private equity firm. It was a minority stake [1].

Barrack was also acquitted on the charges of acting as a foreign agent for the UAE [2].

There are endless legit things to criticize the Trump administration of. You don't need to add conspiracy drivel to it.

1- https://www.perenews.com/colony-general-atlantic-finalise-1-...

2- https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/04/trump-chair-tom-bar...

from wikipedia “Barrack recommended that Trump hire Paul Manafort as his campaign manager. Barrack first met Manafort in the 1970s when they were both working for Saudis and living in Beirut. In 2007, Barrack had loaned Manafort $1.5 million to refinance a home in the Hamptons.”

some folks wish they were too big to fail but aren’t. they’re just small big failures

> At what point do we consider this a mental illness

usually when the patient complains or harms someone else, and not before

Yeah. That indicates "mental illness" is not about the mental well-being of the person, but how much negative societal impact that person has with the people around them.

The old line about crazy people not worrying if they're crazy is not entirely accurate but a lack of self-reflection on your mental state is a pretty big givaway.

millenia is not very much time to be applying inductive reasoning about future odds.

absence of evidence is not evidence of absence

Millenia is however a bloody long time to have daily diarrhea. But I commend them for trying. Good luck.

The question is whether drinking contaminated water has a survival advantage. It could have one if clean water is so scarce to the point that you're more likely to die of thirst before reproductive age than of bacterial infection.

Why don't you go out and drink raw water for a while and report back after.