To be fair, the US did use the bomb ruthlessly and some claim unnecessarily. The US also basically menaced the non US-aligned world with their advantage.

My point being the US wasn’t better than her ops at the time.

Idaho, Washington, and Oregon are where a lot of confederates fled to after the war so this tracks.

Wow, he died last year.

He jumped from about 128,000ft / 39,000 m. While an extreme altitude, it is very much inside the stratosphere. The prevailing accepted boundary of space is the Karman line which starts at 328,000 ft / 100,000 m and is much, much higher.

Present day billionaires also launder their images using half assed public works and “charities.” Bill Gates has been trying for decades to remove his stench with the Gates foundation.

You want to impress me? Pay your people and pay your goddamned taxes.

Because these drug and AI addled idiots refuse to or can’t think more than a quarter ahead at a time. As there are no consequences for the executive caste, why should they?

If you have an external monitor, turn it into a halftop.

That’s true.

Proton Pass.

You give Thiel too much credit. He is less stupid than Trump.

Isn’t their slogan “shop like a billionaire?”. This tracks.

We don’t really have castes in the US. But yes

I’d argue the US does. Things such as zipcode and skin color determine outcomes and are inescapable. Economic mobility doesn’t exist as it does in the myth of the American dream. Sure if one is really lucky and works very hard, one can move from living in or on the edge of disaster to being a few paychecks away from disaster.

I was speaking more in terms of infrastructure and public assistance. For example, I was able to get a student loan and an education in the States. I have clean, potable tap water. Dependable utilities. Those sorts of things.

I’d argue that’s not true either. Again, it depends on your zipcode. So many places don’t have potable water, reliable services, or functional infrastructure. One’s ability to get student loans depends on what zipcode they’re born into.

And the sad thing - even at its worst, the US is still a better place to live than 80% of the world.

I’d say it depends on what you value. If one is born of a certain caste (or above) and wants to accumulate stuff, I’d say you’re right.

Forget what it says on the tin. To truly understand a society, look at its institutions.

Education isn’t valued by the sociopaths that run the US.

There can always be more!

Ads as far as the eye can see… and more!

To people in the real world, it sure seems like it. I think the people managing the product (middle management on up) live in their corpo bubble so far from reality, they don’t feel/hear or have to deal with actual state of things.

Short term profitability over all else seems to be the mantra.

That’ll teach him.

The parasites are still making money. Rocking the boat would temporarily interrupt the party, they’ll continue to party until they’re forced to change.