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Cake day: April 12th, 2024

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  • Problem with publicly traded is that there is no personal risk past the price you bought the stocks for. You paid $ 1,000 for some stocks of “evil chemical corp”? Now your financial interest, and thats the only measureable one, would want them to pollute for a damage of $ 10,000 respective to the stock value if that increases your stock price to $ 2,000, as long as the risk of them having to pay for cleaning it up is smaller than 50%. Problem is the same holds true for a damage of $ 100,000 relative to your stock. Or any arbitrarily large amount. Your share in the damage caused could be in the billions, but worst thing the company goes bankrupt and you loose your stocks buying price.

    The only alternative would be holding shareholders responsible with their own money, if a company is forced to pay up for damages they caused, going past its bankruptcy.







  • With history passing tyrants, are rebranded as great conquerors and the like.

    Take the month of July and August being named after Julius and Augustus Caesar. Two of the worst invaders and dictators in human history. Alexander II of Macedon is universally referred to as Alexander “The Great”. The Egyptian Pharaohs are mystified, despite the Torah describing them as genocidal child murderers.

    You are wrong to believe that Hitler and Mussolini, or Stalin, Mao or others of our day are not comparable.

    Anyways enjoy the rest of the Italian genocidal dictator month and the next genocidal Italian dictator month.



  • “Weird phase for tech” is a nice euphemism for “knows what casettes are, but didn’t have to put them into computers anymore.”

    I agree though that it is crazy. I remember it being a big thing for teenagers being 14,15 when i was 7 or 8 to get their own mobile phone. The kids born in 2001 onwards often had their first smartphone at 8 or 9