

Casually betting a trillion on the wrong horse.


Casually betting a trillion on the wrong horse.
In economics, the Jevons paradox, or Jevons effect, is said to occur when technological improvements that increase the efficiency of a resource’s use lead to a rise, rather than a fall, in total consumption of that resource.
Unfortunately using less of a good thing isn’t how we do things.


Children, terrorism, criminals or drugs. If one argument stops working they’ll move to the next one.


Yeah, you’re living in state capitalism in the USA these days.
Step 2: after the bubble pops buy everything for pennies on the dollar. repurpose AI and datacenters for extremely invasive surveillance network and sell data and services to totalitarian governments


It’s moving like that in more places. The result is tourism for the rich. Everybody likes fewer visitors if they’re large spenders.


No still wouldn’t do it
And then suggests the solution it complained about in the first place.
Of course, the current El Niño is in the early stages of formation and might not live up to the hype. But if the forecasts prove accurate, it would be a whopper (NY Times)
It’s still spooling up. I’m afraid to experience this thing at full force.


They’re not actually leaving, besides a small minority. Right now they’re a big fish in a small pond, and leaving it behind isn’t as easy as they say it is.


No more CO2 means no more greenhouse effect. Everything froze, and you can’t do photosynthesis well through a thick layer of ice, so the die, CO2 gets released as they rot. Maybe some large volcano erupts, things thaw again and they repeat the cycle.


Tariffa and Hormuz makes things expensive. People buy less so companies sell less. Layoffs everywhere.


And they Trump wanted to throw Ukraine under the bus while Meloni keeps supporting Ukraine.
And Italy got tariffed with all the rest. Loyalty didn’t get rewarded much.


Play store just checks what location you put in for Google account registration and shows the app or not. It’s the same for showing region locked movies.


After that, you know it’s only true when the government officials denies it.
Transform and cluck out!


Survival is not economically viable
The trick is to be rich. Wealth and power does things to a brain and makes the empathy circuits wither and die, so perfect for getting even more rich.