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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • Yes, exactly this. You want people who can’t see behind the simple facade. Because they are more likely to be easily fooled. You don’t want to work someone who is very sceptical or just moderately sceptical. In that time you could work through a bunch of people that can’t see behind this and pull out money from them.

    Scammers want easy marks. Why wouldn’t someone make it easier for themselves by naturally filtering out people that can’t be easily fooled?









  • You’re disagreeing with that then:

    much of this additional military spending will go to line the pockets of hugely profitable defense contractors – it is corporate welfare by a different name. Almost half of the Pentagon budget goes to private contractors, some of whom are exploiting their monopoly positions and the trust granted them by the United States to line their pockets. Repeated investigations by the DOD inspector general, the GAO and CBS News have uncovered numerous instances of contractors massively overcharging DOD, helping boost these companies’ profits to nearly 40% – and sometimes as high as 4,451% – while costing US taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars. TransDigm, Lockheed Martin, Boeing and Raytheon are among the offenders, dramatically overcharging the taxpayer while reaping enormous profits, seeing their stock prices soar and handing out massive executive compensation packages. Last year, Lockheed Martin received $46bn in unclassified federal contracts, returned $11bn to shareholders through dividends and stock buybacks, and paid its CEO $25m a year. TransDigm, the company behind the 4,451% markup, touted $3.1bn in profits on $5.4bn of net sales, almost boasting to investors about just how fully it was fleecing the taxpayer. The fact that a share of the profits from these lucrative contracts will flow back to the congressional backers of higher defense budgets in the form of campaign contributions – America’s unique system of legalized bribery – makes the whole situation even more unconscionable.



  • Would be mad.

    There are many topics people discuss that are problematic. Forget piracy. What about people from authoritarian regimes, people from countries that are in danger to fall to authoritarians, even if they haven’t yet. Anything from years ago could become problematic if the wrong government gets into power.

    Making jokes about God is no deal under some regimes, it’s blasphemy in others.

    Drugs are a problem in a lot of countries, and a literal death sentence in some.

    Making fun of a fringe politician is nothing when they are not in power, but becomes a problem if they get into power.

    I am sure Reddit gives some data in cases of actual danger, which is fair. But if they start to hand out data for something minor like piracy, it’s going to be a problem for discussion on the discussion plattform.