Leo Gura

I would certainly decline. I'm not gonna degrade myself to play politics. You can argue someone has to do it, but that doesn't mean me.

It just doesn't work like that. This is a naive and shallow way of understanding the issue.

I got the perfect example for ya: One time, Obama was doing a public fundraiser for his reelection campaign. He was meeting with donors and shaking their hands. A donor walked up to shake his hand and get a photo. The donor told him: "Here's a check for $100k. Can I tell everyone that I knew you back in college?" Obama looked at him and said, "I tell you what, make that $200k and you can tell them that we knew each other back in middle school."

Are you kidding? Of course there are. You gotta be seriously deluded to even want the job. If you actually valued truth you would never apply for that job.

Is there anything more American than corrupting your government with your obcene profits?

Attack Of The Drones

Croc chess

No. It's not needed. You can easily clean a pan in 1 minute by hand. Just pour some water into it and let it stand a bit.

Not true at all. Twitter/X is an unprofitable shitshow, bleeding people to Threads and Bluesky. Entrusting AI to Musk is foolish. He cannot even run Twitter without injecting it with his silly biases. Twitter is less truthful than before he took it over. Because he has no understanding of what truth requires. His notion of truth is just whatever serves his power.

I don't have any experience with them so cannot say. Stainless steel handles all my needs. If debris sticks just soak them with some water overnight. It all comes off the next day. Basically, expecting a perfectly stick-less pan is a fantasy. You shouldn't expect that. I don't like seasoning pans because it's a hassle and feels quite limiting. I like to be able to soak and wash my pans so they are clean.

In a healthy, developed society corporations would place the betterment of mankind as their highest priority and profit as secondary. Until that happens society will be sick and corrupt.

But if they are neither foreign nor American?

Funnily, I have been playing chess all week

I don't know where you get this idea. That's just like your opinion man. He is not his family and he has no obligation to run the family business, especially if said business contradicts his values. As if selling that company would have avoided giving it to devils. Imagine if you inherited a tobacco company and your goal would be what? To sell it? How does that help the world?

@Sandhu How old are you? Moving out from under your family is a crucial aspect of this work. You have to develop towards living on your own. You can still see them and relate with them, but your daily survival should not be held hostage to them or their ideology or their value system. Working towards financial independence should be a top priority for you. This enables you to live by your own higher values. Otherwise you'll always be a slave to someone else's corrupt lower values. Hatch a plan to increase your financial independence, and as soon as you're able, move into your own place.

Why are they calling them drones?

@integral You are thinking in terms of maximizing some kind of survival value but the highest mind's don't think like that. This is like saying, Why didn't Jesus start an ice cream empire instead of pissing off the establishment. Surely he could have used the profits to benefit mankind.

Higher values like betterment of mankind, consciousness, justice, truth, beauty, etc.

Strange that you see that as "wrong". You're not going to succeed in business unless business is your thing. Not everyone is suited to run a giant ice cream empire.

That's exactly how war works.

Betterhelp is a scam to resell your information. Look for a proper therapist.

They are not better, they just pander to ignorant people and ignorance always sells better than intelligence. It's easy to peddle bullshit to rubes. Calling that "better" is sick. It's the difference between skating downhill vs skating uphill. Skating downhill is easier but it also leads you off a cliff. So it's not better.

Of course gov regulation is crucial. But yes it is a company'a job to regulate itself too if we are to have a healthy society. A company's top priority should not be to maximize profit.

Sure, that's fine.

It's really a Wall Street problem. The incentives of every public company is to maximize profits for shraeholders. This is always done at the expense of customers. Until that is changed this will continue.