@MelGibsonafter4Beers You can homeschool your kids but they will still live in a world populated by people who went to public school so there's no excuse to not take back the schools.
@deprecated_ii People of all ideologies love to misuse the North Korea / South Korea situation to "prove" the effects of <insert pet issue here> while completely ignoring the fact that one has received intense subsidies while the other one has received equally intense sanctions.
I caught Molymeme doing it with muh free market once and called him out on it.
Unless you've managed to build your own nuclear reactor and secured a fuel supply for it you can forget about maintaining any reasonable long term quality of life out there.
Then for an offshore settlement to be viable to permanently inhabit you have to find something to affordably produce out in the middle of the ocean that you can sell to the mainland to trade for all the stuff you can't produce yourself.
The economic model for every seasteading project I've ever seen relies on fake and gay businesses like tourism and gambling, or else is just a retirement community for people to live off their passive income from the mainland.
There are a lot of sources you can find that talk about the idea of extracting uranium from seawater, but that one is nice because it gives you some concrete numbers to play with in a spreadsheet.
Once you do all the calculations you find the process described can supply nuclear power at an implied rate of 1450 watts per kg of filter material. That's fairly decent, especially if the filter material can be reused.
On the other hand if you used a more efficient molten salt reactor design that includes online reprocessing so that you can use all the uranium instead of throwing most of it away the 27,000 kilograms / gigawatt-year mentioned at the bottom of the page drops to about 1,000 kilograms per gigawatt-year.
Rerunning the numbers with that now your extraction process is worth 39100 watts per kg of filter.
Those are the kinds of numbers you need to build a viable settlement out in the middle of the ocean. 26 tons of filter active continually will keep a 1 GW molten salt reactor fueled. Now you have plenty of energy to not just keep yourself alive but also power manufacturing and agriculture so that you have products worth selling.
@Publius2@OceanRedux@PunishedD >Bot networks are written to amplify either corporate advertising schlock or judeo-libtard political narratives
There's more too it than that because, while I don't have any specific links handy, I've seen web sites full of non-advertising, non-political content which I am certain were not human generated.
The last time I remember this I was researching public campgrounds and hiking trails in Alaska and came across some sites purporting to be blogs written by real people whose prose landed squarely in the uncanny valley.
@OceanRedux The most coherent versions of the theory posit a sharp drop off in organic human-generated content for various reasons at a certain point in recent history which large corporate interests are hiding with bot farms to make the internet look less like a ghost town than it really is, also for their own various reasons.
@WashedOutGundamPilot@mmmfeet As the boomer jews retire and hand over power to their descendants everything those descendants touch immediately turns to shit in a spectacular public failure.
You love to see it (at least until we all die in the coming nuclear war).
There are a lot of factors involved but one of the largest factors is that starting from the 2001 tech crash housing every time housing prices should have fallen to levels that would have allowed the millennial and subsequent generations to start families this was never permitted to happen.
The white middle class doesn't have many assets because starting about now they were never born in the first place.
When the shitskins migrate to the US their birthrates drop to below-replacement too.
They only migrate because there is an economic incentive to do so but that incentive will disappear in the short to medium term when the US economy can no longer support an increasing parasite load.
Meanwhile the Amish with their 6.5 births per woman fertility rate are going to become a majority by 2150 and will control most of the non-urban territory.
By then the urban centers will have long since gone through a collapse cycle where all the diversity fled or perished.
Paying IP licensing fees is one of the ways that a US corporation, whether or not it is owned by a foreign corporation, can reduce its tax burden by being less profitable.
The foreign company that owns the IP may or may not have tax liability in its jurisdiction for income generated in another country (most countries besides the US do not tax income earned outside their borders).
Usually this state of legal affairs has few if any practical implications but there are some situations where it can be useful.
If you can do all your business (income and expenses) in crypto so that you don't need a bank account then you're in really good shape, allegedly in Minecraft.