The thing is that this has all happened before, Deloreans were notorious rustbuckets and the joke was your couldn’t drive them in the rain. The lesson that the entire automotive industry learned was that its a dumb idea to make a car body out of stainless steel.

“The car shouldn’t have caught fire either, because it’s engineered to be inflammable.” – Elon Musk, probably

They literally call it something it’s not, encourage people to misuse it, and make it just work well enough to lull people into a false sense of security, then blame them for causing accidents when they do, sounds about right...

If Musk says something, believe the opposite.

They also struggle with empathy and recognizing their privilege.

Libertarians do not, cannot, or will not understand the tragedy of the commons. It’s pretty much that simple.

I hate it when I am with a big group camping and the libertarians are bitching about the liberals while camping in the very natural areas protected by liberals from libertarians.

The only book they think they’ll ever need is Atlas Shrugged. Too bad they don’t realize that Galt’s Gulch is not only ridiculously fictional, but it’s really, really bad fiction.

Reminds me of people living in unincorporated parts in Arizona. There was a guy who was very angry to find out that when his house was on fire, there was no fire department. The area contracted with the nearest fire department was like 30 minutes away, so his house was ash by the time they arrived.

Don’t forget the bears!

Nah, don’t warn them. It will be more fun to watch.

Yep. Also, FDIC insurance covers a max of $250k. If the FDIC is looking to make depositors “whole” even on balances above $250k, that should, at very minimum, come after the bank’s tax bill is paid.

It’s almost like government departments are separate entities or something.

I don’t remember where I first heard this, but it’s stuck with me:

Jesus, this is terrible.

I live in California, and folks who choose not to incorporate, often out of a “we don’t need no gubmit” worldview, basically get ignored by their county governments, who tend to focus on a few big donors/tax revenue generators. But California Forever doesn’t sound like it has any real plan to…

My first thought was a quote from season 5 of Fargo.

We just sent more than 50 billion to a genocidal dictator because their country has a lobby in Congress, when all of that could of ended homelessness and even hunger here. As the article states, we just bailed out an apathetic bank industry that will do more to enrich themselves than actually “stabilize the economy”.…

The IRS has a legal duty to collect taxes. They’re legally bound to pursue a debt if they see it.

Origins of the Myth

The way I remember it was that Macs didn’t have viruses because they didn’t have enough of a footprint for anybody to both with.