If the event was near the equatorial near midday then there’s a very very (very) slim chance it was pointed directly at the sun.

“What is Newton’s first law of motion?”

“I want to be an astronaut!”

“No no, I meant how do you want to sell your labour to a billionaire?”

“A good slap will clear up that hysteria in your household appliance lickety split sir”

It had to be stigmatized before that to be applied to selfish people.

Good point. I suspect it was a plot point in Medical Drama #17 or Police Drama #12, thus was thoroughly misrepresented.

How do you cope with NPD?

Also, what kind of things can other people do to support someone with NPD?

It’s stigmatised because the term has entered common (mis)usage to describe people who are just selfish

No one earns more than their labour could possibly produce. That labour however does have greater or lesser value to society, hence different pay rates.

My example above show that it’s impossible for any one human to earn that much even if they were immortal and had lived since Homo Sapien migrated out of Africa.

That we have billionaires shows that a very large amount of people have been paid far far less than their labour was worth.

That value extraction goes away when labour owns the means of production the employees own the company (i.e. employees are the shareholders and reap the dividends).

It’s only 5. It just overflows.

Miller columns

Cascading lists.

It’s a way of projecting a tree structure into a table.

I like this conceptualisation: let’s say you need $20b to make the rich list.

If you earned $1m a year, you’d need to work for 20,000 years.

If you earned $1m a day, every day of the year, you’d still need 55 years: probably your entire working life. If you only worked weekdays, you need to work for 80 years: your entire life.

If you want to make it to the top ten: just add a zero to each of those numbers: 200,000 years, 550 years, 800 years.

Was their apartment rent controlled?

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Best complaint I heard was “it’s just mad max on water” .

WTF? That sounds awesome.

Fascist dichotomy: the “others” are both strong and weak at the same time.

Just like immigrants are both “lazy” and “taking all the jobs” at the same time.

Not necessarily them personally but previous generations of British colonialism really (deliberately) screwed over the indigenous people in my country in a multitude of ways.

Every descendant generation since has benefitted from that to the detriment of indigenous generations. I, and my children, benefit from it daily with superior schooling, housing, health, wealth, etc.

Even the smallest things (e.g. voting for progressive government, volunteering, learning the language and culture, advocacy) that I can do to helps mitigate some of that harm.

LOL I’m even a java developer.

That’s just kicking the can down the road.

Who else will?

Correct the mistakes of my ancestors.