zeke5123a
8mo ago
I’m not sure the Twitter purchase was always a financial one by Elon. In any event, most people predicted Twitter would fail after Elon cut a bunch of people. It didn’t. Elon was right on the business aspects. Assuming advertisers come back (which it seems they will) it actually wouldn’t surprise me if he makes a little money off of it.
zeke5123a
8mo ago
So basically we have a bunch of people focused on the world of bits instead of atoms?
zeke5123a
8mo ago
Relatedly, these people also probably said you can’t build a rocket ship company or an electric car company. Doesn’t mean Elon will succeed but…I try not to bet against him.
zeke5123a
8mo ago
I think the left adopts this view because their self image is that of being the experts (by which they mean credentialed). The replication crisis strikes at the heart of this view. So they pretend it (and all of the other mistakes by the experts) don’t exist.
zeke5123a
8mo ago
It’s interesting the Dems have been focusing on “we have to figure out a way to get our message out” and not on “maybe the problem is the message.”
zeke5123a
8mo ago
You are in Pittsburgh, right?
It’s different in NYC in that my social circle is much more lawyer heavy. With that said, a lot of them don’t look down on other professions as much complain about the lawyer profession.
zeke5123a
8mo ago
I think it is also rage against Elon because Trump won and Elon obviously played a role in it. I think democrats hate Elon more than Trump.
zeke5123a
8mo ago
You asserted that X is an echo chamber. What is your evidence for that?
Also why would you assume blue sky wouldn’t be an echo chamber given that the media types specifically left X in reaction to losing an election.
zeke5123a
9mo ago
I don’t buy into therapy. But if I was going to do therapy, I would want clear actionable goals for what I want to achieve and when it is achieved.
zeke5123a
9mo ago
You might be interested in https://www.amazon.com/Order-without-Law-Neighbors-Disputes/dp/0674641698
It is a similar point in that law is useful when the game is functionally not iterative (either because of the size of the market or the size of the transaction) but when iterative law is basically irrelevant.
zeke5123a
9mo ago
Except there is a large group of women who don’t share the values of the strikers. So effectively you have probably at least 40% of the population already going to defect and they will heavily benefit which would encourage the not true true believers to defect.
zeke5123a
9mo ago
Have you seen the guys who are white dudes for Harris? I don’t blame women for not wanting to have sex with them.
zeke5123a
9mo ago
Agreed. There are problems with how we calculate compensatory damages. That could be fixed resulting in the better cost benefit regulation of not just vaccines but al products.
zeke5123a
9mo ago
And this is what is frustrating about modern vaccine discussions. Take for example the covid vaxx. It basically was useless unless you were old. But modern vaccines use the goodwill earned from the old vaccines to short circuit discussions on whether the new vaccines are worthwhile.
zeke5123a
9mo ago
It is a bit odd how worried people are about credentials. Look at the last number of HHS secretaries. Do they really have better credentials?
zeke5123a
9mo ago
I once lost my wallet in an Uber coming back from AC. It had about 800 dollars in it. A woman found it and took pains to reach out to me. I wanted to give her one hundred dollars as a tip but she refused as she said she was just doing the right thing. I told her to give the hundred to the charity of her choice and then she accepted. I doubt she actually gave it to a charity but I was okay with that.
zeke5123a
9mo ago
Technically there are 500 dollar bills that are legal tender. But they haven’t been printed since 1945.
zeke5123a
9mo ago
Ok. Now we are talking. So the problem isn’t torts per se but absurd compensatory damages. Isn’t the solution then not unlimited liability but a more proscribed amount of damages?
As it happens, there are tons of thing people do to their body regularly that incurs damage. The idea that pregnancy is unique is the outlier position.
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