in what way is buying a competitor not inherently anti-competitive?

If someone has a history of anti-competitive behavior, preventing them from buying competitors is perfectly logical

Nope. Wasted questions on animal/plant/mineral when that paradigm isn’t accurate enough for a machine I guess.

Seemed to understand alive vs not.

This may be unpopular but the marraige model was never good for women in the west, and Im glad we are free of it.

We were expected to be live-in bang-maid-mothers. Women were lobotomized during the ‘golden 1950s’ that some (often conservative men) worship.

I think I am starting to prefer a model where I live together in groups with friends/ family for protection and support.

People were saying that about cryogenics.

Humans have a vast body of knowledge about how things work. It’s a shame its dwarfed by the vast body of knowledge we are completely ignorant of.

Much as scientists managed to be surprised that life had evolved to eat garbage in the pacific garbage patch, it seems some will manage to be surprised that when humans eliminate one source of mortality, another inevitably evolves to take advantage of the ever-growing supply of humans.

‘people posting stuff you consider harmful’ is not a simple, black and white issue. Anyone who pretends that allowing all opinions has no consequences is full of shit, anyone who claims that tightly policing opinions has no consequences is full of shit.

Like almost everything in life, you will have to navigate a tenuous balance between these two things and you will never know if you got the balance right. You are just a sack of meat doomed to die.

Africa & South America: Am I a joke to you?

I sort of feel that way about the things most consultants spit out during their ‘big vision’ moments. They seem like modern equivalent of seers paid to make the CEOS (kings) believe they can predict the future.