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  • Funny thing is cars still use right and left (atleast in US) often. Somethings driver vs passenger side. Driver vs passenger doesn’t work everywhere for every car in the world like it does with boats.

    What also might be funny is driver vs passenger could be seen like port and starboard in the future if we get self driving cars. There would be no designated driver side of a car, and every side is a passenger. Just like boats nowadays can port on either side because there are no steering oars needed.


  • Let’s say the gas station worker makes $15 an hour

    Let’s say gas is $3 per gallon

    That means if the gas station worker wasn’t there the gas station could give away 5 gallons of gas for free per hour and still make the same profit.

    Which is better for the whole society? One person making $15 an hour doing a task that 49 other states have no problem doing themselves. Or 1 person from the community getting 5 free gallons of gas every hour?

    If you never stop paying that person $15 an hour, you can never move on to better things.


  • Broken window fallacy

    Destroying people’s ability to pump their gas then “fixing” it with a job program.

    Might as well let people pump their gas and then give the “workers” money and time. Consumers would pay the same and the “workers” still get the same money but extra time to hopefully better themselves rather than being stuck pumping gas for 8 hours a day.

    “Creating jobs” only works when the jobs are needed for the society.

    Creating a job just to justify paying someone is absurd.







  • Same can be said about traditional stock markets. The prices are entirely fictional there, too.

    Not true at all.

    Microsoft has 7.4B stocks outstanding.

    Microsoft has a valve as a company.

    Owning 1 stock gets you 1/7.4Bth of the physical company.

    If Microsoft goes bankrupt or dissolves you could get some value out of your share.

    There are 19.9M BTCs

    BTCs have no intrinsic value

    Owning 1 BTC gets you 1 BTC

    If BTC goes under you get nothing

    The stock market does have artificially inflated/deflated prices but they are roughly based on a company’s value. The stock is backed by the company.


  • I’m not trying to disprove you or anything, I know it’s not your paradox. Apologies that it came off that way.

    But like a tiny flake of space dust is enough to eclipse a sun for us a near infinite distance away. Matter is not going to let light through it. Even if some space dust thermalizes and radiates. The chances something like an asteroid, planet, moon, etc. Is high. Space seems mostly void, but an infinite amount of mostly void is still a lot of stuff.

    I’ll check then out!


  • Can’t we see stars that do not show up in the night sky? Like that spot looks dark to the naked eye, with a hobby telescope it looks dark, but with a space probe telescope you can see a distant star is there?

    You discounted space dust. But there has to be a near infinite amount of asteroids out there. If I wanted to see 1m lightyears into a specific spot, like the odds of not hitting an astroid would be pretty hard.

    Like if you had a Lite Brite globe with each Lite Brite peg representing a sun. In the middle of the globe it would be completely lit up. However, if you started throwing around astroids around inside the globe, you’d start blocking pegs. Suns, pegs, are still behind the astroid. It’s just blocking the light. A tiny astroid could cast a huge shadow. Even tiny space dust.


  • I’ll go check out your comment!

    I just find it funny that some Nirvana fans would listen to Plateau by the Meat Puppets and think it was Kurt Cobain singing. Like “He recorded a studio version??”

    I wouldn’t even know how you could change Africa to something else and be liked. It’s a tall order for sure. I enjoy Bob Dylan a ton but understand not everyone likes his voice or even harmonica. “All Along The Watch Tower” could easily be changed and enjoyed because it’s the music and lyrics that are loved mostly. Africa is an entire package. I enjoy Dave Matthews Band performing “All Along The Watch Tower”. He puts it in his own style some, but that style isn’t as different as Jimi.