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And rates have been terrible, which depress auto loans.

Considering there have been over 170 dire climate predictions since the 1960s, and none of them have ever come close to coming to pass, I think we'll be ok.


What's really funny is the same people whining about Musk's views would be cheering him on if he shared their own.


Can you explain why this is funny? What's the joke?


I guess It is less haha funny, and more depressing funny.


Do communists ever come up with any ideas of their own, or do they just steal them?


Meanwhile we got an experimental "vaccine" that doesn't cure or prevent disease, but does cause weird cancers, blood clots, and other effects.


"how do you attract customers?"

You're in a tight spot because you're asking this question after the product was built.

#Who is my customer, where can they be found, how do I reach them, what do they buy now, who do they buy from already, how much does it cost to get in front of them, what modalities do they respond to, how do competitors price, position, and reach them? What is the actual problem, what are the core benefits they seek, what solutions exist today and what do they lack or ignore?

These are questions that need to be answered prior to building anything.

You will have an incredibly difficult time selling what you have now if this research was not performed beforehand. Do this the research and then decide if you can save it. Otherwise, you've learned a valuable lesson and should start anew. Many great projects were built upon the bones of past mistakes.


Plastic explosives are impact and heat stable. It takes an electric charge or blast cap to detonate them based on which compound is being used.


Electrical charge? There are electrically initiated caps, but you can’t place a negative and positive charge into a stick of C4 and expect it to do anything.


Only a child brings their activism to work. Do the job you were hired to do; it is your livelihood and how you survive. Their priorities are all mixed up, but I can't fault them too much. Such people were raised by others who told them that their feelings matter more than objective reality.


> Only a child brings their activism to work.

Heavily disagree. We are not robots/tools to simply do what we are told, we are people with free will and morals. It's only a child that will simply do what they are told by "authority" without asking any questions, having any objections, and not having an opinion on their own.

> Do the job you were hired to do

That's the motto of many war criminals, notably the Nazis, who were doing horrendous things to other humans, simply following orders. We each have a brain to think, and morality to guide us, and there is nothing wrong with people banding up to change what their job requires of them.

That's how we got the 40 hours work week and a weekend. People gathered together and together pressured their employers to respect their demands. And now you have your Saturday and Sunday off. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amalgamated_Clothing_Workers_o...

> it is your livelihood and how you survive

You are forgetting the fact that workers also have rights and also can demand things from their employers. It's not as one sided, as you try to make it sound, and as a matter of fact, it's employers who need their workers, not the other way around.

> Such people were raised by others who told them that their feelings matter

Not sure if this is trolling, but people's feelings do matter, and those people seem to be raised right, to have a moral spine.

> than objective reality.

Objective reality is that the workers are pushing the company to drop the military contracts, and, as many other cases where workers gathered together, they might actually succeed. I wish them luck!


What place is so terrible that not only do the children have to work but conditions are so bad that the children need to protest and be activists?


And that, folks, is how we ended up with the shitty everything we have in today's world.


Dictatorships run on people who think "I was only following orders" is an adequate excuse.


This makes no sense. You mean the evil businesses owners, dressed in all black, sneak into her backdoor in the middle of the night carrying burlap sacks embroidered with the money emblem on them? You can't presume to know what anyone thinks.


I can kick you in the balls, and presume to know what you think.

I think you are really confused about theory and reality.

But if I give you a good faith excuse, often time we prescibe evil motives to more mundane human heuristics like "All my friends tell me great things about small business owners and as such, we should try to protect their ability to hire people".

See, some of us know how to properly understand the banality of evil.


How about we punish the bad actors and their state-sponsors?


How? Sanctions? War? What do you suggest?


Doesnt the US have like 17 clandestine agencies, I am sure many of which could engage in covert overseas activities that send a message to future actors about what could happen to them.


This is how you end up bombing wedding parties. It's a bad idea.

And not just in a "An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind" kind of way.


Who said anything about war?

Yes, economic sanctions. Withhold money and make markets unavailable until local law enforcement addresses it.


Cause it worked so well in Iraq?


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