[ExI] it won't work, but i have a better idea

[spike at rainier66.com]

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From: extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> On Behalf Of Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat
Subject: Re: [ExI] it won't work, but i have a better idea

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> On Sun, Oct 12, 2025 at 10:15 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> >>... OK.  Now I REALLY sense a market here.  Time and money, put em together and they produce MORE money.  It is what capitalism is all about...  spike
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> >...Yes, and China sensed this market decades ago.  That's why they went on to establish the near-monopoly they have today... Adrian


Hey cool, monopoly!

Adrian, congratulations on your Cubecab paper and clearing export control.  Excellent!

Good chance the commie REE extractors will figure out how to slip away to Taiwan, then get on a plane for the USA, knowing their value.  Commies want to be rich too.  Then we hang on their coattails for a while.  Regarding factory cost: ja, but I am one who believes in the invisible hand of capitalism.  It finds a way to invisibly make miracles happen, invisibly make visible factories appear.  

For instance... consider the business I was posting about earlier today, Tesla.  I met the fellers who started that company when I was over at Moffett in 2008 and noticed their car had no radiator.  They explained to me that they had an experimental electric car.  Later I heard those two had perished in a plane crash in East Palo Alto, owwww damn.

Then somehow an African American investor got involved in it and they started a factory up the street from my house (hey cool!)  I am not that much a fan of electric cars.  But my neighbor is, and he thought those were the coolest things since dry ice, so he bought in cheap, back when the whole thing looked dubious at best.  Always he was telling me what a great deal it was, yaaaakkity yak and blaaa bla.  Of course I didn't do it.

Then when it went suddenly to 10, it gave him gambling fever, see there, almost DOUBLED my money spike!  DOUBLED!  He retired about that time and put most of his retirement savings into Tesla, about a year of his gross salary, at 11.  Six years later, this guy was sitting on 35 years of his gross salary, which caused him to have the look on his face and that walk.  I see it everywhere around here.

Consider this strut:

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1280864936391255

Kinda like that only a little different because people who have money up the kazoo walk a little more like this guy right when he enters stage left at about 19 seconds:  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0q6yphdZhUA

Similar confident look with both fellers, but the walk is just different.  Adrian, follow me here, my young friend.

So this Travola character, the dancing survivalist who was hoping to stay alive, hired some British men to go on about how one can tell by the way he walks he's a woman's man.  Inexplicably Travolta chose men who sing like women for that task.  (I think they are the EssGees or something (hey Hollywood was weird in the 1970s (I was there (we thought the 1960s was weird (back when hipsters were eating LDS (heh, Hollyweird took that paltry level of weirdness as a challenge (and beat all the 60s records for weird.)))))))  

I figure if we had gotten the Trololo guy outta Russia somehow, offered him a hundred billion rubles (what's that, about 137 bucks?) they could have taken the Stayin Alive song, dropped it about two octaves, had the commie basso profundo sing it, with that brilliant baritone voice of his, and that whole thing just would have been much more convincing when singing about being a woman's man.  But hey, Hollyweird never asked me.  Movies would be different if I ran the zoo.

Be that as it may, a lot of people around here went up and toured that Tesla factory while it was being built, and we realized whoever was doing this was quite serious and committed, so the tourists  bought in, all of them except me, before any cars came out the front door (Tesla was a buck a share back then (but did spike buy any?  (NOOOOOOOO he didn't (which is why I don't have that look (or the awkward walk (or the Maserati (or the condo at Mammoth (aaahhhhh shit.)))))))

Adrian I offer you the benefit of my decades of experience here, my young friend!

So anyway... my neighbor and his wife had their marital difficulties and had decided after their daughter was on her own they would go their own way, but neither could afford an apartment, so they were... separated(?) in their own mutually-owned home.  Or legally... something.  I don't know how divorces work, but somehow that living arrangement can count as separated (?)  May you and I never need to know that information sir.

California being a community property state resulted in his ex owning 17 years of his gross salary, but he was willing to just pay for it, rather than fight, leaving him with the other 17 years, and I figure anyone who can't retire comfortably on a nest egg of 17 YEARS of their gross pay at retirement just isn't trying, ja?  How much would it be for you?  How dang much does one need?

Every time I saw him in the park or anywhere with Travolta, one could easily tell who was who.  The one guy had that bouncy strut with the sissy boots, the other walked like the commie Trololo guy at 19 seconds into the video.  Mugger gangs in the park knew which one to go for: the one who walks like he has money up the kazoo.  The muggers didn't like where they had to go for that money, preferring back when they just robbed banks because that was where the money was.  We know the old saying: follow the money (eeewwwwwww...)

But I digress.

Now every time I go out in that park... I see guys with that confident survival look and that awkward walk rather than the strut.  I already know what they bought and for how much approximately.  

I coulda had that look and that walk.  Did he do it?  Nooooooooo he didn't...

spike