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Or on "a cure for cancer" (according to Gemini, $2.2T 2024 US dollars...)

10 year survival is 50% in 2024 in the UK. It was 25% in the 1970s.

Age-standardised deaths in the US are down by a third since the 1990s.


But it may be much better than dealing with the problems that come with having 500 "random" kids to socialize / interact with. Everything's a tradeoff.

Yeah, wouldn’t want kids to learn how to deal with problems.

Dealing with adult problems shouldn't be something kids have to learn, as long as the problems scale with their development that's not a problem

Stock market seems to agree with their strategy....

Maybe? or lemmings following BH purchase of $4B in Google stock this week assuming "Buffett only buys value stocks; it must be ready to grow!"

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/warren-buffetts-berkshire-hat...


... and has a tendency to disagree past the Peak of Inflated Expectations.

Came to make exactly the same comment. It was funny that the author specifically said that Nano Banana got all five edit prompts correct, rather than noting this discrepancy, which could be argued either way (although I think the "right eye" of a skull should be interpreted with respect to the skull's POV.)


A sports car on the roads through the Malibu hills is very fun...


But not as much as knowledge.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GIwTG8V-Ko


Have you driven in LA? Traffic speed is generally bimodal: either stuck in traffic jam or easily 15 mph above the limit. (Source: live in LA, drive regularly.)


Yes, I drive in LA every day, since I have lived here 20 years. I literally have the 405 in my back yard. I can verify that there is always traffic on it by looking out my window.


OK well LA is a big metro... Your anecdotal evidence is not representative of the whole region.


Obviously. I was not trying to make a completely factual and consistent logical claim. I was making a pithy observation.


Not true of many highways in LA, especially after ten p.m.


There are many, many, many airports to which it is easier to travel via public transit from their associated city than it is from Manhattan to JFK. For example, all of these global-top-25 airports have single-train access:

London Heathrow (LHR)

Tokyo Haneda (HND)

Amsterdam Schiphol (AMS)

Paris-Charles de Gaulle (CDG)

Frankfurt (FRA)

Dubai (DXB)

Seoul Incheon (ICN)

Guangzhou (CAN)

Shanghai Pudong (PVG)

New Delhi (DEL)

Madrid Barajas (MAD)

Beijing Capital (PEK)

Chicago O'Hare (ORD)

Denver (DEN)


I don't get the gripe. AirTrain gets you to A,E,J,Z, and LIRR, all of which get you to "Manhattan" or a significant number of intermediate destinations in about an hour. LGA is far worse.


Having to take AirTrain beyond the terminals at all is annoying. LIRR should just go to JFK directly. AirTrain is slow as molasses, and the fact that it costs money is absurd. It works and I'm glad it exists, but it's nothing like e.g. the Paris RER connecting CDG.

You generally never want to take A/E/J/Z because they're sooo much slower than LIRR, unless you live along them.

Yes, LGA is far worse.


> the fact that it costs money is absurd

Bart from SFO to downtown SF is about $11 due to a surcharge and the combined fare AirTrain + subway is also about $11.50. LIRR is a bit more expensive. The Paris RER is €13. I don’t see how the fare is objectionable.

I personally appreciate the subway connections exist. Taking LIRR would require a subway transfer to most destinations anyway.


You're comparing apples and oranges. The LIRR already is the train ticket. I'm complaining about the fact you have to pay two fares. Using two different systems.

And like I said, you don't want to take the subway unless you live along its route, it's so much slower.

If you need to pay for the construction cost of the AirTrain, it should just be funded as part of the airport generally, because that's what it is. Charging for it is as silly as if you charged to take the AirTrain between terminals.


I've been in plenty of Uber & Lyft rides in what were literally taxis.


That sounds very much like an appeal to authority...

Professional designers put out the Pontiac Aztec and the Apple puck mouse.


Year Europeans Obtaining U.S. Lawful Permanent Resident Status

2014 83,270

2015 85,800

2016 93,570

2017 84,340

2018 80,020

2019 87,600

2020 68,990

2021 61,520

2022 75,610

2023 80,280

Yup, definitely looks like no Europeans have ever considered moving to the US...


You yourself may want to look at some stats regarding the size of the European Union to put that in perspective but I’ll do the math for you it’s 0.01% of people meaning that they were in fact correct… 99.99% of people have no interest in moving to freedom land.

Also keep in mind that these uncited figures you’ve magically produced conveniently cut-off before you started implementing a policy of kidnapping people off the streets without any right to a trial and shipping them off to 3rd world torture prisons.

This story you’ve made up about Europeans secretly craving to live in the US is one you’ve completely made up in your mind (or through that bullshit propaganda of “American exceptionalism” that the country is so in love with) and isn’t supported by any real world data.

Almost everyone in Europe thinks it’s a worse place to live, work, get sick in, get an education in or to die in. Again, all supported by hard data.


"I don't think anyone" - means zero, not "almost no one" - you yourself should probably study English some more.

And... let's put it this way - there are far fewer than 80,000 people who drive the growth of either the US or EU economy in non-linear ways. If 80,000 of the "wrong" (most positively impactful) people move from the EU to US, that's a big deal.

I'm pretty sure that I didn't implement any such policies. Did you implement the Third Reich's policies, sir?

There are apparently also stories that I've made up. Interesting. How's that mind-reading technology coming along?


Really only finding a way to match almost every negative US stereotype possible here. I feel like I lost brain cells just reading it. This is that famous education system in action.

I genuinely laughed when I read this. Like you had set up an argument in your mind where if even one person moved from the EU to the US you were going to be right and the best part is I don’t think you’re joking like you actually believed this. Back in the real world though everyone understands that 99.9% means everyone.

But sure, do go on telling people to “learn English better” while you proudly continue on through life with a first grade reading comprehension and math skills.


Typical. Make an argument. Be proven wrong. Lash out at the terrible US education system (which, of course, has most of the best universities in the world and to which many foreign people spend collectively billions of dollars to attend.) Goodbye.


MALA: Make America Literate Again.

P.S which one is it? The best in the world or terrible? You didn’t seem to be able to hold a coherent thought for a full sentence. Between this and an inability to understand the advanced statistical concept of percentages I can’t help but think that things aren’t going particularly well for you at the moment.


76,221 Americana moved to the EU in 2022.

So in fact there was a net migration out of the US and to the EU.


Yep - I saw those numbers too. But they're irrelevant to the OP's comment that no one is moving to the US.


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