Riskable

I have an extremist view of the legal system: I think all lawyers should be government employees and they should be assigned cases based on their area of expertise in law.

So no matter how many people sue you and no matter how much legal harassment any given entity attempts, it’s the government’s problem to manage all of that.

It shouldn’t be possible to bankrupt someone with legal fees alone. It shouldn’t be possible for a billionaire (or corporation) to always have the best legal team. It shouldn’t cost millions of dollars to defend yourself from or litigate a patent.

The only way I can think of to solve these problems is to get rid of private firms.

You take their patents away and make them public domain.

I’d be the guy in the middle wearing black that forgot it was white T-shirt day.

The moves were announced and I believe they were following along with chess-specific score/move sheets in their hands. I wouldn’t be surprised if the move announcements were all that would be necessary, though for a bunch of chess fanatics.

I saw a documentary that featured a dramatic reenactment of a scene like this and that’s how it went 🤷

At the time of this match, I do believe they had overhead projectors (the kind that magnify whatever is placed on their surface). So they might have had a projector-specific (with the necessary transparency) chessboard projected behind/above the camera also showing the moves.

Another way I’ve seen it done is with magnetic pieces on a giant blackboard-like surface that had the squares drawn/painted on. There would be a person on each side with a pole that could move the pieces. One person would be assigned to white, the other to black.

If everyone is sitting up high like that a simple extra large chessboard on the floor nearby would suffice as well. They could even place it down at an angle for the audience to view. I don’t know if they did that but I was thinking about it, “how would I do it without modern technology?” That’s probably how I’d do it 🤷

I’m just telling it like it is. The old ways were terrible! However, being local and requiring proper collateral instead of just giving n people money en mass—knowing that the percentage that default will be outweighed by the percentage that pay the loan back (and ripping people off by making them pay the interest up front)—was probably better for the economy.

Not everyone should be allowed to amass debt the way we currently allow it. Furthermore, if people couldn’t get loans for school so easily (in fact, guaranteed!) then college tuition would be but a fraction of what it is today.

…which is funny because the way things are going, the tiny people living in Japan will share the same fate as homo floresiensis (hobbit-sized species of humans that lived on an island nation of sorts and we’ve extinct). Thousands of years from nowz archeologists will compare the two and wonder if homo floresuensis were equally as racist.

The last “true” Japanese person (according to them)—someone named, Sato—will be heard shouting that “it’s all the immigrants fault” as they die of heat exhaustion about 200-250 years from now.

Collateral and, historically, age, race, sex, and ethnicity. They’d also look at how well you were dressed because 100% of the time you went to the bank in-person to get a loan. Also, your bank wouldn’t be far from where you lived and the local population wasn’t so large that they couldn’t just “ask around” the local social network to see if this man before them was upstanding enough to warrant giving them money.

Also note that people didn’t need to borrow money as much as they do today. You wanted a new home appliance like an oven or refrigerator? You saved for quite some time to buy it.

There weren’t as many things to spend your money on either!

I wanted to be a shapeshifter that could turn into an eagle so I could fly to school instead of riding the bus.

My dream was ruined when I realized that an eagle—as badass and majestic as they are—can’t carry a backpack full of books ☹️

We’ve been waiting for that since 1824!

“I can go to the grocery store hungry and just buy the usual things. Surely, my hunger won’t influence my purchasing decisions!”

“I’ll take care of that tomorrow/this weekend.”

I didn’t think people laughed at that. More like, “humans can be so evil.”

The other reaction—if you’re a conservative—is this, “Yeah we should do stuff like that here!”

Do it! Let’s set a precedent where it’s normal to charge former presidents with crimes!

Let’s see which charges stick when put before a jury…

Apples themselves originated in Kazakhstan 👍

Lemons, northwestern India.

The American flag in the background should also be marked as, “Made in China” 😁

I know a guy that can’t speak anymore. He only says, “MIPI!”

AKA the “protect Visa and MasterCard bill.”

By banning the US government from making their own digital currency the bill guarantees credit card companies like Visa and MasterCard will be able to continue ripping off US consumers and businesses with transaction fees.

Who TF cares what Alex Jones thinks? You’re more likely to get an interesting take from a random stranger. In fact, do that instead of continuing to give attention to dried up former celebrities where you can be absolutely certain they don’t deserve it.

An unnecessary emulation too! Of fascists.

Yeah! Go for it!

I’m curious to see how you’ll haul away 19,600 gallons of corn syrup, 3,900 bushels of grain, 100 tons of random auto parts, 80 tons of paper reams, 70 tons of logs, 13,000 gallons of ammonia (or other dangerous chemicals), and the various other things that typically get shipped via rail these days.

You might get lucky and find a boxcar full of canned goods 👍

…or maybe even actual cars but… How would you get them off the train without the necessary equipment/track setup? 🤔

I’ve seen this before. Last time I looked, it required that everyone live in cities with good public transportation. It also didn’t factor in modern necessities like air conditioning (which will be actually necessary in many more parts of the world due to global warming).

Basically, for this to work, everyone needs to live in 2-bedroom apartments… Without air conditioning or anything like a desktop PC. You’d have a small refrigerator and heat your food with a microwave (and nothing else because stovetop and ovens use up too much energy).

It also makes huge assumptions about the availability of food, where it can be grown, and that all the necessary nutrients/fertilizer are already present in the soil and that transporting/processing things like grain is super short distance/cheap.

Also, communism. It requires functioning communism. That everyone will be ok with it and there will be no wars over resources/land.

Everyone’s joking but this is a serious problem. Imagine you’re a billionaire and someone wants to assassinate you. The would-be assassin could figure out when you have a doctor’s appointment (or similar) and force a train to get stuck, blocking their route.

It would leave the billionaire stuck in traffic with no escape until the train(s) started moving again. An entire cavalcade of security personnel would also be stuck (if they had one).

Aside: It could also work for robbing something like a Brinks truck but let’s be honest: In this dystopian world it’s more likely that this vulnerability would be used to rob a food shipment 🙄