ImplyingImplications

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[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 84 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (7 children)

One of the best conceptualizations of how much money the richest people have is to imagine stacking US dollars, but horizontally instead of vertically. Imagine there was a game where you could walk next to this stack and, when you stopped walking, you'd win all the money you walked past.

In just a few seconds you'd have earned over $10,000, a large sum for most people, but nobody would stop walking then. After just a minute you'd have $1,000,000, a life changing amount of money! What if you kept walking? What if you wanted to be in the top 100 richest in the world?

You'd die from exhaustion well before getting anywhere near the wealth of the top 100. It took only 1 minute to get a life changing amount of money, but it would take more than 4 days of continuous walking to make the $19,500,000,000 needed to crack the top 100.

I got this from this Tom Scott video where he drives for an hour on the highway in order to pass $1 billion.

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 18 points 9 months ago (8 children)

Canada is attempting to grow its own domestic EV supply chain in order to become the world leader in EV battery production. It is already out competing China thanks to it's large natural resource supply and developed mining and refining industries.

The general idea is that Canada doesn't want to be China's supplier of raw materials and helping them become the world's supplier of EV batteries when Canada could be that supplier.

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (4 children)

Wikipedia says she has released 25 singles and 3 albums since Friday and none of them even got close to the same success. Having rich parents must be nice.

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 37 points 9 months ago

A child will ruin your future! Why aren't you having children?

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 months ago

From the point of view of a single player, you're a cog in the machine. You're paying to have a second job. From a meta point of view, the game generates a history similar to real life history. Clans conquer large areas of the world before a revolution/war results in another clan taking its place.

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 4 points 9 months ago

Oh good, I thought it was just me! I have an older card and can barely keep 30fps with everything set to low. Good to know even top of the line $1,000+ cards can't keep 60fps on max settings.

I wonder if they'll be able to patch that. I remember Starfield had framerate issues on launch but a patch fixed it.

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 9 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Do you not keep a 6-sided die next to your microwave? I thought everyone did that...

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 15 points 9 months ago

The Queen's face and name has been on everything for decades. There are Canadians in their 70s who never knew anything different. That's just the way things were. It was tradition. That's how I saw it anyways. Anyone who complained about it was just complaining about a symbolic action we've all been doing for generations. Nobody is actually swearing their life to the queen--it's just a tradition. Then she died.

Now some random old guy's face and name is going to be on everything. If we're going to change everything anyways, then why not change it to something different? The argument that was seen as a small complaint before now makes a lot of sense. If we're changing the words to our oath anyways, then why not change them to words we can all agree on?

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What is in the Charter is the right to safety and that seems to be what the defendants are arguing. That the prohibition is creating a safety issue and is therefore a Charter violation.

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 75 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I was going to say. First Nations did not have some amazing peaceful utopia. They killed each other for resources too.

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 17 points 9 months ago

TImes described Hitler as "the greatest threatening force that the democratic, freedom-loving world faces today." They didn't think he was a good person

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)
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