They can’t vote. They’re either not American or they’re bots.

Is that the one that uses peer to peer tech to share videos?

Did they? He did a great job of getting rid of all his tattoos.

Yeah, I don’t think that’s how it works. The people who do not have the greed at some point are content.

It’s a mental abnormality that causes some people to act like cancer and consume resources obsessively.

It’s also a consequence of low taxes on capital gains and corporate profits.

When those taxes were higher it made more sense to reinvest the profits back into your own company. You’d build a reputation and a structure that would pay out you and your family for a hundred years.

Now the dream is to build up a company just enough to sell it to some megacorp and cash out asap, with you and your family living off of investment money that only increases over time.

It’s just a thing that needs repeated basically constantly for all of us.

Which is why it was the first and primary target for the most successful psyops campaign in history.

It’s always going to sound accurate. That’s what’s it’s built to do. It’s just that often the easiest way to sound accurate is to be accurate, but not always. Shortly after you forget that it’s going to fuck you.

Better not forget.

USAid was pretty good. And our roads are pretty reasonable, mostly.

Where federal taxes are spent was fairly reasonable until this year. Could, of course, always be better. Obviously too much went to the military and the MIC.

They’ve often (in the 90s) voted against statehood because they’re currently exempt from federal personal income tax. I guess my info is a bit dated. More recently they’ve (non-binding) voted about 56% for statehood.

Benefits of statehood include an additional $10 billion per year in federal funds, the right to vote in presidential elections, higher Social Security and Medicare benefits, increased minimum wage, and a right for its government agencies and municipalities to file for bankruptcy.

I think Europe is a more valuable target for fascism than Greenland, and tilting the vote would help with that.

Of course this is all kind of silly and a distraction anyway.

No, the ones voting against exactly that.

PR also doesn’t want to pay federal taxes.

Placebo can work even if you’re aware it’s a placebo.

Now that’s real GDP.

Shouldn’t it be called Microsoft 250? There are 250 working days in a year. As soon as I’m home I’m using Thunderbird or Libreoffice, certainly not the product formerly known as Microsoft Office.

It’s already happening, in part because of this and in part because of the unstable, unpredictable US government.

Several European countries are looking towards investing in open source as a way to get away from American big tech because they’re suddenly considering US sanctions against them a real possibility, or at least a real threat.

Honestly I’m more concerned with domestic law.

On the other hand, you know the Fortran works and you can break it.

The vibe code is already broken.

I’m still pounding the Fortran button as hard as I can.