The joke is twofold:

1. Some people, mostly authoritarian communists, claim that the ‘tankie’ is being used to describe anybody too far left.
2. Democrats are by now very right on immigration.

Plus the only places that are left to build giant factories are distant from population centers.

You’re forgetting about eminent domain. Clearly, giant factory on American soil is a public good, even if it’s privately owned. Hence, the government will seize the homes and give the land to the corp. The prices of the houses will fall first, because who wants to buy a house that’s going to get bulldozed, reducing the compensation the government has to pay to the homeowners, potentially causing them to be upside down on their mortgages. This will leave them with nothing, or potentially even debt, when their homes get sized.

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Did they give you a playbook, or something?

How much are your Mossad handlers paying you to type this?

I think that even if Trump were to win, Musk would loose. Trump seems to loathe Musk, having publicly humiliated Musk before, and then snubbing Twitter after Musk unbanned him, at least for a while. Secondly, Trump has a habit of not paying bills, which probably translates into not returning favors. Trump’s alliance with Musk will end once Musk is no longer useful, which will be once the election is over.

In fact, Trump winning might be worse for Musk than Harris winning, because the Democrats probably won’t retaliate against him for helping Trump. But Trump, well, for one thing, somebody like Trump might see it as a humiliation that he had to work with Musk. And secondly, electric cars don’t fit into the Republican worldview Trump champions.

Looking at a larger scope, capital tends to screw themselves over by aligning themselves with authoritarians. It’s easier to hold on to power than it is to seize power, and if all you bring to the table is money, then you won’t be needed once power is seized. Because money is something humans made up to facilitate the exchange of resources and labor.

A better idea about what should be done now. Everybody knows that things could be better.

Do you have a better idea, though?

Yes. That’s how the two party system works. Dems are still miles better than Republicans on the issue, and thus don’t need to improve. It sucks, but that’s the hand that’s been dealt I don’t see any better strategy to help the people of Gaza. If you see one, feel free to share.

A big question is, how many sales are actually lost to pirates, or, how many pirates would have bought the game if they couldn’t pirate it. The answer is neither zero, nor all of them, but I don’t know what the actual answer is.

The reason why DMR tends to get cracked is that the concept is inherently flawed. If the entire game runs on your machine, then everything needed to run the game has to be on your machine at some point. DMR is security by obscurity.

Idea: Governments maintain a list of entities that are evading the law like that, and then doesn’t prosecute people who are accused of crimes against such entities. The idea being that if you place yourself outside of the law’s reach, you also place yourself outside of the law’s protection.

A lot of things about foreign policy are based on realpolitik, not ideology. As long as you’re not in power, you can ignore realpolitik, and therefore can promise anything you want. Once in power, things are different.

I figure with Lemmy having much fewer users, there’s less potential for toxic communities to form.

So, in the post you’re replying to, it’s laid out how insurance wouldn’t work, and your reply is “Have you considered insurance?”

Anybody who wants Trump to win. Which likely includes Israel.

Well, given time, prices will move to where the businesses make the most profit. If relationship between price and demand is linear, then an increase in expenses will move the ideal price point by half as much.

Assuming a linear relationship between price and demand, then if you increase the cost of product, the price where the most profit is generated moves by half of this amount.

I suppose that’s true. But it just bothers me when people talk about the market cap like it’s an amount of money that exists somewhere, instead of being an abstract valuation.

Looking at a different example, Ford’s market cap is $42.61e9, and its revenue is $47.81e9, while the profit is $1.83e9, 20 times of which is $36.6e9. If we average both of them we get $42.205e9. So Ford seems to have about the right valuation.