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Correct. Most states’ laws do not envision the situation we are currently seeing, let alone what’s coming.

Check your state. What constitutes harassment, and can you think of harassing things that could be done without violating the law? I can for my state.

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I think you’re right if the goal is to stop them all together.

But what we can do is stop people from sending them around and saying that it’s true/actually the person.

Once they’ve turned it from a art project into a weapon, it should have similar consequences to “revenge porn.”

Wonderful in theory, but in practice it’s a dumpster fire. Quick, mainstreamm-acceptable takes are incentived, and nuanced, alternative viewpoints are nearly impossible.

If it were all for hobby stuff, it would be fine, but when this is how most people get their news, it’s not good.

These folks won’t witness it either. Not with that eye anyway.

Not the original person you responded to, but I type 120ish wpm. The trick is to try to tap into the same part of your brain that verbalizes words when you talk, rather than the part that composes stuff when you write.

As with most things, “free market” is what they demand when they don’t get have access to the market or can’t command the whole market.

Once they have access or enough of a percentage to set the prices, suddenly the best thing is high barriers to entry and whatever else will help them maintain inelastic demand.

It’s literally what’s happening.

Texas used the same concept to empower private people to sue abortion providers and receivers under civil law since they couldn’t do it criminally.

The country as a whole has done it for a long time with cellphone data, the five eyes alliance, etc.

They have access to information they’re barred from getting directly themselves, and they get it from private companies. Spying by proxy.

It’s all the same thing. He “offered” to buy Twitter and then tried to back out. Market manipulation.

The board of Twitter forced the sale, because they had every right and responsibility to their shareholders to do so.

Now he’s wrecking the company seemingly on purpose. Market manipulation.

True. And we can’t legislate our way out of this. Any legislation we proffer and make happen will be weaponized against the poor.

I don’t think anyone told him he couldn’t buy it.

The board of Twitter is who sued to force the sale, since musk had kicked himself in.

That doesn’t mean his offer and subsequent behavior with the company isn’t market manipulation to be investigated, which is being done by the government.

Both things can be true. He stupidly kicked himself into a deal he was forced to complete, and his behavior since has indicated that he’s just gaming the market since he had to complete the deal.

Some countries make their penalties a percentage of income. Makes the sting equal for everyone.

Sometimes, and I don’t know if that’s possible here, it’s best to go after the current thing on its way out than to try to attack a brand new thing that is gaining influence.

Depends on how specific the scope is, and whether this will set precedent for future issues.

It probably doesn’t make sense to do infrastructure -wide duplication for a greywater system. That would be a lot of pipe and possible leaks in places where that resource isn’t needed.

Smaller loops make more sense for specific needs like this. It just needs to be legislated - over a certain size, you need to pump, filter if required for your application, and then dump in accordance with whatever rules we set. If local governments want, they can subsidize this through tax breaks - we already have robust systems for giving corporations money back, we just need to tie it to the types of performance we need to see, whether that be environmental improvements, job creation/retention, etc.

While you’re right, I think the issue here is the hypocrisy of Musk claiming to be pro free speech (specifically on his platform) only to then repeatedly limit speech he doesn’t personally like.

Overpaying and then destroying the value means that eventually, he will be able to claim losses on his taxes. This will allow him to reduce his tax liability for his profitable businesses.

File it under “no shit” and “stuff that was called from the beginning but now we’ll all act surprised.”

This assumes all other things are equal.

Elon musk and Donald Trump and others are not stupid. They may act stupid. Their brains may be psychologically damaged by the distance their money allows them to put between themselves, others, and the consequences of their actions.

But they are not stupid. If they were stupid, their stupidity would sometimes bite them in the ass in a way that actually has consequences for them. Since that does not happen, we can be relatively certain that their actions are going according to plan…their plan? Maybe. Or their accountant’s plan. But until a mistake costs them actual money that they cannot recoup through tax shenanigans, I find it hard to accept that they aren’t just evil.

This. He’s on the hook for a relatively small percent of his personal wealth. He has a ton of government contracts, which equate to cash flow. To insulate that cash flow, he needs a loss. He can get that loss by destroying the value of Twitter, which he also artificially inflated by making an insane offer in the first place.

The thing that folks don’t get is that money is different when you have none, some, and a ton. When you have none, you are effectively living moment to moment - when youre out, you spend what you have on your immediate needs, and make it work the rest of the time.

When you have some, which is most of us, you may live paycheck to paycheck, but you can still plan two weeks at a time and may have some long term plans.

Elon musk and others in his bracket could literally burn 99% of their wealth and still have more money than almost anyone else. This level of rich is marked by planning years in advance, and having contingency plans to take advantage of set backs. For example, a market crash for most of us means we lose wealth and still probably never recover it. But for Elon musk, a market crash is just a fire sale on stock. He can sell at a loss for tax benefit, or he can buy up stuff at step discounts. The benefit of wealth is that ever situation can make you more money.

People will keep saying stupid shit if you keep acting like they are arguing in good faith.

Laugh in these peoples’ faces, and you’ll find out real quick what their actual agenda is. They’ll scream it at you in between spitting.