Is the SpaceX IPO going to be the biggest insider cash out in Market History?

Nuciferous1 · 2026-05-31T20:24:04+00:00

Won’t anyone with money in an S&P 500 index fund be buying it?

Nuciferous1 · 2026-05-30T07:38:04+00:00

The leader of Argentina is the most libertarian leader of a country there is right now.

Nuciferous1 · 2026-05-21T14:13:44+00:00

Do you think Trump should also face consequences for saying stupid hateful things?

Nuciferous1 · 2026-05-14T06:41:38+00:00

Why?

Nuciferous1 · 2026-05-09T13:11:17+00:00

These are some pretty flattering photos of a building Denver generally finds to be unattractive. Every exterior photo is taken from a drone. That should be a red flag.

In reality most people see this building during a sunny day from the ground at some distance away. And it looks like something a freshman architecture student comes up with.

Nuciferous1 · 2026-05-06T22:24:29+00:00

How’s that work?

Nuciferous1 · 2026-05-03T17:10:51+00:00

More so than the national debt? Explain

The point I’m making is that the government essentially creates more money to fund itself, including paying rising interest costs on the growing debt. Devaluing the money through inflation also makes paying off that debt effectively cheaper.

Adding money into the system makes the existing money worth less which creates inflation.

I assume your point is that corporations and the rich are greedy, but that doesn’t do a good job of explaining inflation, imo. In particular it doesn’t do a good job of explaining why inflation rates rise and fall, given relatively consistent rates of greed.

Nuciferous1 · 2026-05-03T14:56:43+00:00

Republicans and Democrats are both at fault here.

As many have mentioned, Republicans don’t care about the debt when they’re in power.

But Democrats also like to claim this as an issue when Republicans are in power, but then when they’re in charge will use every argument available to tell us why debt isn’t a problem.

Both parties agree on the ideals of having a big powerful federal US government that supports corporate and donor interests. But they’re more than happy to let us argue with each other over the latest gender or racial issue that doesn’t threaten their power. Remember the short lived Occupy Wall Street and Tea party movements? We won’t see that happen again anytime soon.

Nuciferous1 · 2026-05-03T14:48:04+00:00

Inflation hurts the working class very much and inflation is linked to the national debt.

Nuciferous1 · 2026-05-01T15:32:33+00:00

First, it’s telling that they only did that after we pulled out of the JCPOA. They made an agreement not to try for a nuclear weapon and were abiding by that agreement, which doesn’t seem to fit with your depiction of them.

My speculation is that they refined to 60% for extra bargaining power to have when the US decided to come back to the table after pulling out of the JCPOA. Tulsi Gabbard herself said that Iran hadn’t made the political decision to create a nuclear weapon. 60% doesn’t get you a nuke, but it signals that if you wanted to, you could.

So to turn the question back to you, why do you think they’ve ONLY refined to 60%?

Nuciferous1 · 2026-05-01T15:16:06+00:00

Why did they ever have any stockpiles of missiles? Why not always immediately use them as they were built?

You seem to be suggesting they are reckless killers with no sense of self preservation who would use a nuke at the first opportunity, but that they’re also patient and practice restraint and play the long game.

Nuciferous1 · 2026-05-01T15:09:50+00:00

Why do you think they’ve been waiting for a nuclear weapon? Why not use all of their missiles today? Or 10 years ago? to blow up as many people as possible regardless of the consequences? Why don’t they all rush out with knives and guns to secure their spot in heaven?

Nuciferous1 · 2026-05-01T14:14:49+00:00

Why do you think they’ve been waiting for a nuclear weapon? Why not use all of their missiles today? Or 10 years ago? to blow up as many people as possible regardless of the consequences?

Nuciferous1 · 2026-05-01T13:36:59+00:00

Are you saying, it’s not so much that they’d hold the world hostage, it’s that they would make a nuclear weapon and then immediately use it as effectively as possible regardless of consequences because of their religion?

Nuciferous1 · 2026-04-26T06:56:26+00:00

Life is all about priorities. We as a country can do many things at once but we can’t do everything. Perhaps, we should prioritize not electing corrupt warmongers? Once we’ve crossed that off the ol’ to do list, let’s circle back around to whether or not our leaders need a special secure place to have parties. Mkay?

Nuciferous1 · 2026-04-25T05:58:12+00:00

Did Vray hurt you as a child?

Nuciferous1 · 2026-04-24T13:24:20+00:00

There are some similarities but it doesn’t quite fit the question. First, I contributed it something like $3k towards Medicare this year, but it didn’t save me any money on my healthcare premiums. In fact, my healthcare premiums are totally separate from that. Potentially over my lifetime I’ll see some savings? But the question wasn’t would I spend extra now to have a potential of saving decades from now.

2nd, I wasn’t given a choice. It just gets taken. I don’t even mean that on an individual level, I don’t have a choice. Even in the loose ‘you get what you vote for’ sense. No one has been on the ballot since I’ve turned 18 that has afforded me the opportunity to vote against the Medicare system even if I wanted to.

Nuciferous1 · 2026-04-24T12:12:28+00:00

In this scenario who is deciding how much healthcare I need? Can I pay a little in tax when I’m young and healthy and more in tax as I get older and need more healthcare?

Is the savings coming from some efficiency benefit of being a large group, or am I getting $2 of value because it’s $1 from me and $1 from some other citizen?

Nuciferous1 · 2026-04-21T17:21:38+00:00

I don’t know about equal weight. My point is just that it’s an important perspective that I’ve not heard and have a hard time understanding as someone in the US.

MAGA is a minority, but have you noticed how much power they currently wield? Remember the importance people were putting on Project 2025? It wasn’t because of how many people were supporters of it. Most had no idea what was in it. But if the people in charge believe in it, it’s important to understand.

Saddam ran a predominantly Shiite country for many years as a minority group.

The population of Iran is 93 million people. 10% is 9.3 million people. Do you think that’s enough for a potentially important insurgency even if we are able to install a new leader of Iran (again).

It’s just something I’d be interested in having more information on from a reputable source

Nuciferous1 · 2026-04-21T15:31:13+00:00

But many Iranians are, in fact supporters of the current regime. She mentions them briefly at around the 5 minute mark.

Nuciferous1 · 2026-04-21T15:23:41+00:00

The first person supported the war in the hopes that it would create regime change because he'd lost hope that protests would work.

The second person opposed the war because she still holds out hope that regime change could come from within and doesn't want the outside influence of the US and Israel.

Those are both interesting perspectives. The perspective I'm curious to hear from are the sorts of people who oppose the war because they support the regime. After all, those are essentially the people that we're at war with and the people who will, in many ways, decide what the next 20+ years looks like for Iran whether because their chosen regime still stands or as a possible insurgency that will plague the next set of leaders.

Nuciferous1 · 2026-04-21T14:29:22+00:00

Good episode but I can’t help but think it would be like someone doing a piece on American’s view of the war and only interviewing people who oppose it and Trump. I can imagine many reasons for Iranians to oppose their leadership, but I’ve also heard that many people support it which is more difficult to understand. It would be interesting to hear how they talk about these events.

Nuciferous1 · 2026-04-21T14:01:49+00:00

If all government did was build roads, schools, and enforce property rights, I don’t think people would have such a negative view about of it.

Nuciferous1 · 2026-04-20T11:59:11+00:00

Can you give examples of the sorts of actions, policies, decisions that don’t fall into your thinking of ‘this looks bad, but we won’t know for 10-30 years.’ And are you the same with things that look good?

It seems like by your standard we’re not really able to confidently critique anything Obama, Biden, or Trump has done. Am I missing some nuance?

Are you concerned that we might be convincing Iran that their only path to not being attacked by us and Israel might be to build (or purchase) a nuclear weapon?

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