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That's easy! Microraptor

America has one of the best geographies possible. America is life on easy mode. Africa is Dark Souls.

It won't happen in our lifetime.

Zero, unless Dems have some miracle mid-term election victory.

When you do this false equivalence you terminate deep understanding.

Not in our system because a truly good man would just be eaten alive by the corrupt pigs who run Washington and the corporate business world. America cannot have a benevolent monarch because it is a system where the top 1% of corrupt rich and famous elites rule together for their own enrichment at the expense of everyone else. We have a corporatocracy. No one man can fix it. He would just be demonized and booted from power by the top 1%. And the bottom 50% would hate him too because they do not have the capacity to understand goodness.

Keep in mind that the real work is happening outside of news headlines. Right now Trump's cabinet of goons is furiously working to disable all checks and balances of the federal government, filling as many positions as they can with corrupt MAGA ideologues and loyalists. This will not be visible in the news. What you see in the news is just the tip of the corruption iceberg. The corruption and rot will be staggering and beyond anyone's imagination. But it will take a few years to blossom.

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Try eating nothing but steak for 4 years. Let us know how that goes.

Musk should not be underestimated. He has a lot of tricks up his sleeve and could do a lot of political damage, similar to Trump.

He IS in politics. Politics doesn't need to be holding office. Musk has massive political influence and potential to corrupt politicians. Most of politics happens behind closed doors, not through official channels. Especially now with Trump. The only silver lining with Musk is that he is so obnxiously narccisistic that I doubt any leaders in politics or business will want to work with him long-term. Trump will throw Musk under the bus soon. Where that leaves Musk will be unclear. Musk's unhinged behavior will turn off many respectable business leaders and executives because they won't want to partner with a domineering asshole. Musk's #1 problem is that he is incapable of sharing power with anyone. He wants full control over the relationship. But that kind of style cannot work in a liberal democracy where people are your equals, not your vassals.

I do not. That is something I have neglected. I hear Apple TV has some good ones.

It was bad, but I can only do so much.

This is actually a mistake in leftist thinking. Musk is not driven by money as leftists want to believe. He doesn't need any more money. The average Marxist is more driven by money than Musk. What drives Musk is power and the desire to reshape the world to his ideas of how it should be. He believes his ideas of how the world should be are the best, and that this justifies any means. He needs power and money to reshape the world to his vision. That is the point. The real currency here is not money, it's influence. His worldview is not so wacky. What is wacky is that he thinks his vision should crush everyone else. It is deeply anti-democractic. He wants to be a benevolent monarch. But he doesn't understand that the ego which runs him cannot be benevolent because it is the very root of corruption. Musk thinks he can be a benevolent monarch without doing personal, spiritual, or epistemic development. That is the real issue. For Musk to be benevolent monarch he would first need to cure himself of his wild narcissism and corruption.

@Joshe It is impossible to control what others say about you, even if you own the platform and make edits to the code. Dictators have faced this problem since the dawn of civilization. Musk is controlling, but there are serious real-world limits to that. Controlling what others say and think about you is a fool's fantasy.

When there is so much content to cover it's a challenge to eliminate all repetiton.

Good ol Canada is the drug capitol of the world now.

Landlocking is a real bitch. It basically dooms a nation. South America is not nearly as landlocked. Tropical disease is also huge. And it's much worse in Africa.

Musk clearly said he is waging a war against "the woke mind virus". So that is what he is doing. Part of that is to infuriate the woke. Which is straight out of Trump's playbook.

Anyone who don't like dinosaurs is going straight to Hell.

No one said they couldn't. Please be more nuanced.

The key is to handle the situation so it doesn't feel awkward. That can be done various ways and depends on context. If you set up cheap dates like coffee or ice cream then it's easy to pay. Do not set up fancy expensive 3 course dinner dates.

It is impossible to know what the right diet is for someone other than yourself. And even for yourself it will be tricky. None of these diet gurus know what they are dealing with. They are selling fantasies to earn money and spreading group-think. Figure out what works for you. That's the bottom line.

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