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One thing that does have an influence? Money. While the opinions of the bottom 90% of income earners in America have a “statistically non-significant impact,” economic elites, business interests, and people who can afford lobbyists still carry major influence.

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In the last 5 years alone, the 200 most politically active companies in the U.S. spent $5.8 billion influencing our government with lobbying and campaign contributions.

Those same companies got $4.4 trillion in taxpayer support — earning a return of 750 times their investment.

https://act.represent.us/sign/problempoll-fba/
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I like this, it fits with my prediction/observation that high tech - especially ai - will dissolve centralized civilization as we know it. We'll probably be left to choose between techno-feudal smart cities w/ digital id (because how else will we know if you're a real human?) and more rustic libertarian small towns/vilages (w/ a few small free cities here and there) powered by self-sustaining high tech (3d-printers, exotic alt-tech, etc.) and irl interpersonal relationships.
In other words, technology will force us to return to tradition, so to speak.

Can people realize that this whole shoplifting epidemic is all a psyop? Why are governments making it legally harder to prevent shoplifting? It's to crush the brick and motor stores and force everyone to do their shopping on Amazon.

freeatlantis.com/@watson/11101

If only he lived long enough maybe I could see this happening.

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Even the homeless don’t want to live in the pod
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I would like to have a word with whoever was responsible for the filesystem library in C++. Iterator objects are from the devil.

en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/file

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