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I think really rich people do think in long terms / generations and aim for a feudal system, which can be stable (like in the middle ages).

However, I personally don’t think that a feudal world with nukes will be stable very long.

I also think, that many rich people overestimate their amount of control in a totalitarian country (despite billionaires already disappeareing in China and falling out of windows in Russia).

No! I used to worked at Hooli and I was developing this awesome compression algorithm in my free time. However I always used my own laptop. Except maybe one day when in was in the shop for repairs, but I barely did anything that day, I think. Shouldn’t be a problem.

Dude, chill. If there ever was a safe space, it’s the internet! ;)

Nonsense! ;)

You don’t get it! Whenever they need Dollars, they just buy them with their old currency and without a central bank, the government can just decide how much Pesos they have.

It’s a self sustaining economy!

Or one yo mama joke.

The article says: the general and his wife have been found dead in their bed. Also there were no traces of violence or poison. When found, the bodies looked to be dead for about a week.

Other Russian generals also died under similar mysterious circumstances, according to the article.

“Just sprinkle some crack on him Johnson.”

No, no, no, those regions were always a part of China so this is not an “expansion”.

Bien sûr

LASSEN SIE MICH LOS! ICH BERUFE MICH AUF DEN FÜNFTEN ZUSATZ!

:D If this thread reaches the wrong people, society as we know it will end! What have we done!?

You’re right. I thought everyone here knows “the 5th” and it’s just shorter than “the right to remain silent”. However, most people seem to have got the right idea.

Good question. There are probably some constellations where the police would be like: We got plenty of matching testimonies for you. We charge you and this could send you to jail for 80 years or you pleat guilty and accept 5 years.

On the other hand, I think in Germany you could be charged with pretending to have committed a crime.

Criminal Code (StGB) § Section 145d Pretending to have committed a criminal offense

(1) Any person who, contrary to his better knowledge, pretends to an authority or to a body competent to receive reports that an unlawful act has been committed […] shall be liable to a custodial sentence not exceeding three years or to a monetary penalty […].

I think I worded it badly and mixed up things with the visual system and the central nervous system.

So I guess you could say that I was technically wrong and OP was technically right…

Damn! Still our brains don’t register any darkness, except through the optic nerve… and screw you guys! I’m going home! ;)

Your eyes are a part of your brain.
So the only part of your brain that does receive light, is located outside of this dark room. Inside the dark room, there is nothing that senses light or darkness.

Spoiler alert: it’s a sect.

Like members of other millenarian groups, who believe a utopia awaits them at the end of time, members of this Mizo sect envision a post-apocalyptic “golden age” in which its members will be spared divine wrath and accorded special privileges.

Calling a tall white man “boy” sounds rather funny that racist, to me.