All 401(k) are legally required to invest in fortune100 stocks.

That’s why the normal 3 month delay for getting listed as a fortune100 being reduced to 15 days in the case of SpaceX was a bit of a brouhaha.

Roughly one third of any given population is authoritarian.

Yeah the windspeed ones are like. <5cm.

That’s kinda wild. Not too crazy, knowing sailing folk damn near every boat that’s over a month old has had some weird homebrew modifications done to it. Just seems like not the best plan.

I mean was it actually a windmill generator? I have windmill-looking things on my boat for measuring wind speed and such (they are small). It’s just that using the actual sails to pull your boat along, and then using the speed to turn a water turbine on the hull is way more efficient. Especially since there’s no meaningful difference between a motor and a generator, apart from which way the power flows.

Edit: also solar. Been waiting for reliable flexible solar panels for the sole purpose of replacing my sails with solar panels. That would be dope as hell.

On sailboats? Huh. I was just looking into converting to electric, a lot of them do regenerative charging through the prop.

Saying you should vote would also be supporting capitalism or the parties/ideologies that uphold it.

It’s so that other people can still pile on. Telling people to vote is against LSC community rules.

There’s been a lot of court cases, but no nationwide precedent set. Even the states that have additional protections don’t blanket classify Uber drivers as employees.

That’s kind of the whole point of the Uber situation. Right now, they are considered small business owners doing freelance contracts. Uber is intentionally using this to cut operating costs and avoid paying their workers.

Unfortunately, that is the reality, and Gavin newsome saying it’s wrong, even in a formal executive order sense, means nothing.

They fill out form 1099…so they are.

Someone that owns their own income generating property. I.e., a business. Which is small. Local definitions put that at either <500 employees or <7.5m operating revenue.

I was wrong though, only ~16% of truckers are small business owners. They’re the ones called “owner operators”. Because they own their own truck.

Technically, anyone filling out form 1099 come tax time is a small business owner.

One guy with connections and the cash on hand to put together a plan and carry it out.

It’s not impossible. But even then, most CEOs aren’t billionaires. That one wasn’t. The people sitting on the board of directors and majority shareholders are the billionaires.

On paper both are small business owners. Most truckers are, too. One sixth of truckers are, too.

Yeah…that’s not really possible?

Oligarchs are very well insulated, both physically and financially. The nice part of town isn’t full of billionaires. It’s full of doctors and lawyers and other professionals.

Even if you do manage to burn down a Walmart or something, chances are the financials are insulated enough that the Waltons won’t even see a drop in net worth.

Eh, small businesses come in all sizes. There’s a dude in town that owns ~100 houses and rents them out. He’s a small business owner.

So is the Uber driver that delivers food to those houses.

Tbh I expect us to kessler ourselves in my lifetime.

Might actually be the thing that makes everyone care about climate change

Basically any country with an air force and a ballistic missile program has satellite killers.

China has demonstrated the ability to shoot down satellites using a fighter loaded with medium range missiles.

Yup.

Like that one scene in The Two Towers when Legolas suddenly became unable to shoot his bow.

It’s probably latin for before christ. AD is supposed to be anno domini, which is year of the Lord.

Edit: looks like BC is formally “before christ”, and the original latin is ACE for before christ. BCE and CE for before/common era are the new nonreligious equivalents.

Their family farms are a small price to pay to stop Iran from getting nukes!

Closer to 15, based on his family history.

Probably be a vegetable for 10 of those years, too. Good thing AI will be there to do his speeches.