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I see some car companies there. A few Nordic oil companies. Are there others?

edit: Nestle and Dior if you want some candies and fragrances, I guess.


Planes, finance, military equipment, video games, pharmaceuticals (ever heard of ozempic?)


Novo Nordisk sold so much ozempic, Denmark's central bank had to take currency action.

https://www.npr.org/sections/planet-money/2024/07/26/g-s1-13...


Yep. It’s a classic grift; it even has a name „control fraud”…

Described in depth in „lying for money”


Now we know that it is indeed possible to rob Fort Knox ! Brilliant plan.


I think it’s a different paper?

An innate drive to save a life https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adv3731?url_ver=...


I don't see a link to that in this article? The previous article linked all three - I've updated (but the first was prioritised in the body of that post)

In this Times piece, a study author, interviewed by NPR, was part of the paper: Reviving-like prosocial behavior in response to unconscious or dead conspecifics in rodents https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adq2677

It's strange all three papers have different authors from different edus (colorado.edu, ecla.edu, NIH, esc.edu)


first, folks need to exit/reduce their positions stealthily without disrupting the market. this takes time; for big positions it is not unusual to be exiting it for more than 6 months


The fun part will be if everyone is trying to do it at the same time, as they probably are. They will be trapped and have nothing left to do but sue


The new OS that doesn’t exist yet. Linux is starting to show its age, dominated by special interest groups and with the upcoming C+Rust contention it’s a perfect breeding ground for the competitor to enter the scene. Best idea likely not to come from corporate


Multiple possibilities exist but everything depends on context and the skill set.

One option is to start a consulting business with a group of engineers (essentially a market equivalent of a union but with more legal protections) and start charging very high market rates and nickel-and-dime the client hedge fund style with pass-through fees for everything. Use the knowledge of former jobs’ contracts and undercut on price.

If the skill set is very niche and highly specialized you could even attempt cornering the market by recruiting people away that are still employed and sell back their services through the consulting gig (offer profit share as a sweetener, etc.)


How did you draw the connection between being babysat and drugs?


I’m waiting for this precedent to be set in favor of META and then enjoying all the movie torrents I can get my hands on. Without seeding of course.


With Musk in the White House (who has similar interests) that might actually happen.


Especially considering it would disproportionally harm California, last bastion of Democrats?


A right adversarial move would be to support this and watch the GDP without the entertainment business as part of it. Check what happens next.


I don't know Musk but why would he make this happen? He's for corporate interests is he not?


None of his corporations is a media one, and his social media company probably has some vague interest in not having too much enforcement of copyright.

Actually this is something that has always perplexed me about corporations that want to meddle in our government. Obviously they must know that it is going to involve the government following the interest of… some corporation. The voters are pretty fickle and having the government work for your competition seems like a pretty rough spot.

I guess it is like a prisoner’s dilemma type thing or something.


Also he is big into AI. So he'd want the same as meta.


I don't think Musk's interests are aligned with those of legacy media corporations.


It’s mostly because most Americans have very little clue of what the end state and the process to get there looks like. A lot of commonalities like borderline legal or gray area business practices are often extolled as virtues here or “clever business hacks”. It takes only a few to apply them in the direction that a lot of folks are simply unfamiliar with without having lived in the Soviet bloc.


They also think they can reverse it easily. "How bad could it be in 4 years?"


We have a 28 year blueprint of how bad it can get and it starts in 1997 Russia

One thing people don’t anticipate is that the government can step in and nationalize enterprises. US hasn’t done that in a while but I’d be watching for hostile political takeovers at some point in the future. Last time it happened was with General Motors in 2008 but it’s a tool that exists and can be used in a different direction.


I’d expect the _optimistic_ case is that the US is still cleaning up the mess in the late 30s.

The pessimistic case, of course, is that it is not recognised as a mess that needs cleaning up.


I wonder if the rates of firearm ownership in this country make it different than other countries that descend into madness.


I’d say that in the top 10 US is an outlier. Let’s hope we don’t regress to the mean

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimated_number_of_civilian...


If it comes to that the US may actually fall apart, so I hope we won't find out.


Yes, even more people will get killed.


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