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On 3/24/2025 1:57 AM, Bill Sloman wrote:
> On 24/03/2025 10:08 am, john larkin wrote:
>> On Sun, 23 Mar 2025 18:44:39 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
>>
>>> On 3/23/2025 1:37 PM, john larkin wrote:
>>>> On Sun, 23 Mar 2025 13:19:27 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 3/22/2025 10:48 PM, Bill Sloman wrote:
>>>>>> On 23/03/2025 9:28 am, john larkin wrote:
>>>>>>> On Sat, 22 Mar 2025 19:15:43 +0100, Jeroen Belleman
>>>>>>> <jeroen@nospam.please> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 3/22/25 16:13, Phil Hobbs wrote:
>>>>>>>>> john larkin <jlArbor.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> https://regmedia.co.uk/2023/03/09/dutch_shutterstock.jpg?
>>>>>>>>>> x=954&y=477&crop=1
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> ;)
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Of course with a square package and no pin 1 mark, it’s impossible
>>>>>>>>> to tell
>>>>>>>>> whether the glorious achievement is Dutch or French.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Of course the EU will convene another summit and fail to 
>>>>>>>>> decide, as
>>>>>>>>> usual.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Cheers
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Phil Hobbs
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I sometimes think that huge, irresolute governments are good.
>>>>>>>> They can't decide on new regulations to bother and impair us.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Jeroen Belleman
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Better yet, they can't enforce them.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Some small portion of the population is actually productive. We make
>>>>>>> the food and power and roads and buildings for the rest.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> John Larkin doesn't understand much, so it looks that way to him.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Most government employees are useless or worse.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If you don't understand what they are doing. it can look that way.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The anti-government propaganda which has formed John Larkin's 
>>>>>> thinking
>>>>>> on the subject is paid for by US industry, which wants to be free 
>>>>>> make
>>>>>> as much money as possible by organising itself into cartels and over-
>>>>>> charging its customers.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/big-myth-9781635573572/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The same author's also wrote
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchants_of_Doubt
>>>>>>
>>>>>> which is about the climate change denial propaganda machine which has
>>>>>> formed John Larkin's opinions about climate change.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> But if we fire them, they will just join the existing mob of useless
>>>>>>> drones, so maybe not much will change.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If it did John Larkin would only notice if his favourite propaganda
>>>>>> sources told him that it had. The US education system does seem to 
>>>>>> churn
>>>>>> out a lot of gullible suckers, and Trump does seem to want to make 
>>>>>> sure
>>>>>> that it doesn't get improved by any Federal government intervention.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Despite having a personal admiration and fascination for them Musk
>>>>> sometimes forgets that a lot of people still don't like Hitler, 
>>>>> Mao, and
>>>>> Stalin:
>>>>>
>>>>> <https://archive.is/SNNyw#selection-857.0-869.170>
>>>>
>>>> Musk does invent things, and is pretty hands-on.
>>>>
>>>> You guys should try designing some electronics. It's an activity that
>>>> rubs your nose in reality.
>>>>
>>>
>>> He seems to have given it up to be a politician/social media
>>> "influencer", he can't have been that good...
>>
>> As the richest person on Earth, he must have done something right.
> 
> He seems to have been better at buying up people who did know what they 
> were doing and needed more capital, that he was at inveting stuff for 
> himself.
> 
> US venture capitalism is all about backing twenty companies and 
> recovering all the money invested from the one that was worth buying.
> 
>> I don't think he's being paid for the DOGE thing. It's a volunteer
>> public service.
> 
> Like Carrie Nation.
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrie_Nation
> 
> Musk's objections to bureaucracy seem to be just as intense as Carrie 
> Nation's dislike of alcohol, and even more poorly rationalised.
> 

 >

“Let’s say Social Security didn’t send out your check this month. My 
mother-in-law, who is 94, wouldn’t call and complain. She just wouldn’t. 
She’d think something got messed up and will get it next month. A 
fraudster always makes the loudest noise, screaming and yelling and 
complaining.”

- Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick (net worth $800 million)

The super-rich oligarchs in the Trump administration really have no clue 
how the US poor (which describes a substantial fraction of their 
faithful) live or what or how they spend what little money they have, 
and have no interest in knowing. And a substantial fraction of their 
faithful seem to prefer it that way, I guess assuming the former know 
they have some mandate to support them regardless that it's very unclear 
they know they have, anymore..