Have you tried the grapefruit technique?

It’s about the half flags isn’t it?

Thank you. I will immediately write this down in my little black book of things that I don’t give a shit about.

It would be an interesting experiment to hand out a lot of money to random people and then track how they behave statistically. Everyone has the potential to be an asshole, but it requires a lot of money to prove that one is not.

Immigration Nation

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt12754910/

It’s a series on Netflix.

This got me thinking. What about people who get rich by luck, winning a lottery or something?

They aren’t corrupt, but they’ll surely turn into assholes anyway, when they justify their luck to themselves and start doing asshole actions to guard their precious money. It’s the same thing with inheritance or getting lucky in business. They’ll talk about “self-made” success, even if they just bought a lottery ticket.

In my opinion, money does corrupt people. It’s just through ordinary greed. Litteral corruption or cheating isn’t even necessary to see this effect that money has.

It’s written in the first two paragraphs of the article:

The 2022 explosion and leak of the Nord Stream pipeline in the Baltic Sea resulted in the release of 485,000 tonnes of methane into the atmosphere, according to a new study of the disaster.

The methane released from the pipeline was the largest human-caused methane emissions event in history. But the magnitude of the release is twice as bad as previously thought, according to a new study conducted by the United Nations Environment Programme and published in Nature. Prior studies estimated the methane released from the disaster at between 75,000 and 230,000 tonnes.

Those people are the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

They also happily did the dirty work last time when they put children in cages very efficiently. There’s a documentary showing how excited they were to finally be allowed to beat up brown people without consequences.

Meanwhile we were all entertained by the media showing Trump walking weirdly down a slope and drinking from a bottle using both hands.

Exactly. The media runs the country. Murdoch runs the media.

A classic.

Apparently they heard him this time. It would be interesting to know why they paid attention now.

He’ll probably rename Airforce One to Xbox420lol69

Not sure if serious, but anyway it means “you damn smart”.

In Danish it has become a commonly known allegory used for threatening to initiate a fight over someone being provokingly clever. It started with a viral video in which two guys argue over a pocket bike.

Yes. But at the same time, we’re litteraly mining for salt, because it’s cheaper.

For sure. All the freshwater needs in the world is soo tiny in comparison to the oceans that it would be completely impossible to even measure a rise of salinity in the oceans if we were to desalinate all our freshwater and dump the brine in the oceans. However, we can’t feasibly distribute the brine all over the oceans, so it would increase salinity locally and kill everything there.

That didn’t happen last time, despite people hoping for it back then too.

It’s a bit of a paradox, but he actually stayed clear of a total crash last time by not doing his job. He used most of his time scamming the system for money by doing everything at his estates, but it’s remarkable how little he actually fucked up because he was occupied with those small amount scams. He’s not just a bad businessman, he’s also incompetent as a scammer.

I expect the following years to be another golf tour for him, and that’s probably the best outcome. Again.

Du’ dælme smart.

It’s supposedly used for gross profit margin calculations, which is an equation for business stuff rather than an ordinary math function. It adds a profit of a margin calculated from the gross price. The gross price is unknown, so you’d input the net price and the desired margin of the result.

Ordinary percentages would be used for “net margin”: net price + percentage of net price = gross price. This can be done by simple multiplication, such as: 100 x 1.2 = 120

This does “gross margin”: net price + percentage of gross price = gross price. This would require solving an equation in several steps to do: 100 / ( 1 - 0.20) = 125

It might seem like a rather random function to add to a calculator, but it has to be seen in the context of being prior to computer spread sheets, where accountants would make price lists of hundreds of products manually, so a short cut like this could save a lot of time.

Hmm. I guess different brands do this stuff differently. In real life I’d definitely prefer to break the equation into separate operations, just to ensure that I understand and can document the process.

It think you should try:

100 > + > MU > 20 > % > +=

It should show 125.