It looks like a child growing

And slavery is what pushed certain empires and colonies to riches, that doesn't mean we keep doing it forever expecting positive returns

Moving electrons around isn't inherently immoral like slavery is. It's odd to compare the two!

It’s almost flat lining. I’m pleasantly surprised.

Despite the recent faster growth at the top, the total shares of wealth held by the upper echelon has remained fairly stable for decades. The top 1% held 29% of total household wealth in the second quarter, compared with 28% in 2000. The top 10% held 67% of total household wealth in the quarter while the bottom 90% held 33%.

I think this is just because wealth distribution is a powerlaw with extreme concentration at the far end. For example in this graph you can see a trend, the closer to the top, the steeper the line.

https://imgur.com/a/6omRYu3

As an extreme case, let's look at the top 3 billionaires in 2000 and 2025 respectively.

2000 Gates, Ellison, Allen $135 billion vs. $42.0 trillion ≈0.32 %

2025 Musk, Ellison, Zuckerberg $957 billion vs. $172.9 trillion ≈0.55 %

I didn’t know that, I would’ve guessed we’re pretty close already. What would that level be?

Globalization always wins

Americans keep drilling baby drilling for oil that is becoming less and less necessary

But influencers are by default distributed and don't really need to be in a single place. Most of their collabs are in luxurious venues around the world (Because we live in a world worshipping rich stuff but that s another matter)

Plus AI porn is already a thing

I guess this is just a continuation of the Search deal, and an admission that LLMs are replacing search.

I can't wait for gemini to lecture me why I should throw away my android

But why is a Danish product being accused of something that an American product also does

It was always called Turkiye in Turkish.

I promise to use it in English as soon as Germany becomes Deutschland and Japan becomes Nippon.

I know that this was tongue-in-cheek, but I could imagine living in a world where naming countries as they name themselves is the dominant linguistic convention. Why not call Japan Nippon in a sentence.

I could imagine living in a world where there are 3 sexes and everyone walks on ceilings.

You're free to call Japan Nippon as long as you're fine with people raising eyebrows, sometimes not understanding what you mean, or deciding you're a pretentious twit.

The request that we use a character that doesn't even exist in the English alphabet (ü) is particularly ludicrous.

If there is a mechanism by which the English language can lose letters over time (such as þ or æ), why wouldn't there be one by which it gains it?

It would make even more sense, after all we lose letters because we write those sounds using other letters or letter combinations, however the "ü" in "Türkiye" doesn't have an analogue in the existing alphabet.

I don't know how exactly that works, but definitely not by fiat from another country.

How much increase in consumption is due to AI ?