It has already happened

Tea bricks were the preferred form of currency over metallic coins for the nomads of Mongolia and Siberia. The tea could not only be used as money and eaten as food in times of hunger but also brewed as allegedly beneficial medicine for treating coughs and colds. Until World War II, tea bricks were still used as a form of edible currency in Siberia

Money can be anything.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rai_stones https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania

What I was fishing for. Thanks.

Chatgpt is decidedly unerotic in its responses.

Not voting at all is just laziness.

Spoiled ballots may have some long term influence. But they have no power over the election being boycotted.

Certainly not. But choosing to punish at this precise opportunity would be like shooting your own feet.

Punish at the local level. Punish by supporting voting reform. Etc.

You have to think of the lack of primary as a sunk cost. The decision in front of you is independent of all previous decisions.

The monte hall problem is easier to understand if you start with 1000 doors, then take 998 away.

Monte hall?

I’m suggesting these flying transport firms may be lobbying for change, not that they have a viable business/technology.

Related?

More than 150 technology companies have been working towards developing the vehicles, with a consensus largely forming that the flying taxi of the near future will look something like a drone

Heeeeeead

Get off my lawn

Yes, offices will be a small proportion of total assets. But there is still profit to be made.

If the value of corporate real estate falls then that had a material impact on the balance sheet of companies owning their own offices. It’s in their own best interests to keep demand high.

Companies that rent don’t enforce RTO.

How is he getting paid though?

For example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_viewing

Occupy wall street was the protest that really spooked the ruling class.

Music artists get paid to change their album titles.

Katy Perry released Prism to drown out Snowden’s revelations about the NSA Prism program

For high end restaurants, true.

However top chefs will happily buy ugly fruit and veg if they taste good.

Supermarket fresh fruit and veg is always sold on how it looks, not on how it tastes. Shoppers don’t buy ugly vegetables (except when shaped like genitalia).

What is the expiry date on using Weekend at Bernies as a cultural reference point?