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cop-out? more like a chicken and egg scenario. if they landed the deal the business would be less shaky and probably very viable, and they'd be able to land all the growth capital they wanted

People care, like watching a child throw a tempter tantrum in a restaurant kind of care. Us in the core west know we can shut it down if it ever becomes convenient to, so its just amusing to watch.

again, down to the reporting.

will a human being pumped with testosterone and upper body strength be violent? a human being with a Y chromosome? thats currently what culture suspects given the reported information available in crime statistics.

I'm telling you that such reductionism isn't an absolute, as there is enough evidence from marginalized people and power dynamics to warrant altering the cultural assumptions. The culture alone (and the stories written in these cultures) is what perpetuates a lack of further insight into this.

Brave New World is widely considered a dystopia, but it is an introspection and satire on existing societies, which for many people actually are dystopias. This is a separation from stories that focus on the post-apocalyptic aspects primarily to create the genre of "scifi dystopia". Therefore, viewing Brave New World as an introspection only leaves the parts of the society that I like as the part to evaluate to see an ideal segment of society, colloquially called a utopia:

- I want to be at the top of the pyramid society

- I want there to be no consequences for promiscuity

- I want a calming mind altering drug that has no side effects

- I want peace and stability to focus on my intellectual tasks

Brave New World accomplishes that.

yeah I didn't want to derail the discussion with cryptocurrency, as it is better and requires less cooperation, between partners.

but the problem here is the name on the bank accounts even if you wanted to get to cryptocurrency, you would really want a nominee director on the corporate bank account, but then you have to trust they don't take the money (there are plenty of reputable ones though).

if you had that much in cash already then you could buy mining hardware. set up a solar powered mining farm and get cryptocurrency over the next 6-12 months, then you have the liquidity. if you are interested in national currency and bigger material things, then you will still need to contract w/ a crypto-service so that you could report income, but the crypto-service's funding source would be a deadend for auditors.

There are many reasons to mine at a loss.

right, it was a half baked plan, but its not impossible. typically you would want either a corporate account in a country with little accurate banking information required, and then you would obfuscate the origins with casinos. (Fake players losing, or simply exchanging large amounts of chips which have no record of ownership, but this is a nuance because it only need to happen on paper)

To get it back to you in large amounts as clean money, you would need to have another corporation that contracts with the casino or other service provider, and it is paid with money that is clean for all intents and purposes.

The alpha and beta classes were not living in a dystopia. Seemed quite nice. Freedom to pursue intellectual endeavors, freedom to have sex with whomever you wanted with no consequence, a life of privilege.

Well the one in the article didn't, so there's your answer?

But there is plenty of evidence to suggest that isn't an absolute. Men's efficacy at aggression is greater, when it happens, and that is what gets reported.

I would say most of the research in this area is in abusive relationships. Where only heterosexual abuse from man to woman is noticed and acted on, which greatly distorts reality and cultural expectations.

Many men are physically abused by women, and this is underreported.

Gay and lesbian relationships also produce a power dynamic, which has also gone underreported, as they were already either marginalized, or collectively too busy trying to make all LGBT relationships seem completely benign so that their neighbors wouldn't marginalize them.

Do I have enough quantitative evidence to disprove your "by far" statement? No, but thats not the point. There is something about HUMANS that we should enlighten ourselves about.

Brave New World describes an inferior negroid class whose female zygotes furiously accept sperm zygotes with great vigor.

Its not just about slavery, and I'm not sure how this analysis would even begin to comprehensively find these currently unfavorable descriptions of people.

financially naive speculators blow up their account with partially featured financial company

straight out of the onion folks.

Robinhood's gold account is still 100% less margin than other brokers and the regulations themselves allow! Yet they are getting people to pay for it! Have a laugh because it is hilarious, paying for the privilege to pay interest is the bigger article here.

not illegal use of order flow

Unsophisticated investors already have access to 4:1 leverage in every stock broker out there, which is quadruple the money, so you don't know what you are talking about?

Surprise! Robinhood is going to make revenues like a normal broker, who at this point already have mobile apps that are just as intuitive and more fully featured.