https://bikeindex.org/news/closing-the-loop-a-deep-dive-on-a-facebook-reseller-of-bikes-stolen-in
This matches my experiences with Facebook. Even giving them money is nearly impossible; their automatic fraud detection algorithm keeps blocking my clients who run ads. You have to deal with super crappy automated systems from there to try to pay.
Owners who sell their businesses can almost always expect to see their business destroyed, and customers trust abused. I am all about free markets, but I hate predatory private equity finance people.
10,000 generations of your ancestors with modern human DNA fought tooth and nail to survive, have kids, and help them succeed.
Billions upon trillions of generations of your ancestors overcame all the odds stacked against them to bring you to life.
The hard work and sacrifices of all of your ancestors brought you into being in the best and easiest time in history to be a living creature.… read more “Kids”
A fundamental problem of school is there is no one anymore who focuses on what the entire goal of education is.
Everyone focuses on small local goals like “computers are good, let’s teach math focused on computers!”
People need to think “we don’t want math robots, we want kids than understand the fundamental principles of math and can apply it to a large variety of creative situations”.
I have a conspiracy theory that the Saudis and the Russians funded the keystone pipeline protests. The keystone Pipeline protests did nothing to reduce CO2 emissions, instead they increase them because heavy bunker oil will now be burned on cargo ships. Bringing the oil from the Saudis to the United States. The Saudis and the Russians funded it to increase the price of gas in the United States and make more money.
Listening to a history lecture. Royalty and Clergy have been parasites for centuries, taking massive chunks of the economy without providing value. Why do we still have any interest in the Queen of England and other royalty who enjoy riches without producing anything?
I am listening to an interesting lecture on economics 1400- modern times. Apparently, guilds and trade unions controlled supply and kept prices high. Trade unions also prevented new ideas from coming into production. Horrifying that the greed of a few kept all of humanity enslaved longer than necessary.
When Americans asked the government to come up with economic solutions for the Covid pandemic, it was a disaster. The government gave out money via unemployment programs without basic fraud checks, resulting in hundreds of billions of dollars going to overseas fraudsters. The program to give money to businesses did not have intelligent means testing, resulting in hundreds of billions more being wasted on companies that did not need it.… read more “Government Solutions”