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23harpsdown t1_jb1sbbx wrote

Reply to comment by dadamn in A duo of 81-year-old women are on the adventure of a lifetime: Seeing the world in 80 days by OregonTripleBeam

I just rounded three years traveling full time. One month minimum stay in each place is fantastic. You really connect with the locals you see everyday at cafes, grocery stores, and elsewhere around town. Just landed in my 10th country and like 17th(ish) city and would trade nothing.

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KingJaredoftheLand t1_jb1s3ze wrote

Reply to comment by lynx_and_nutmeg in A duo of 81-year-old women are on the adventure of a lifetime: Seeing the world in 80 days by OregonTripleBeam

Who said anything about hating them? Silent or Boomers, the point is that these ladies are enjoying a retirement that future generations aren’t going to.

What’s hateable is a capitalist, conservative economic system that is stealing this rosy future from almost every young person living today.

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destruc786 t1_jb1rlwg wrote

Reply to comment by lynx_and_nutmeg in A duo of 81-year-old women are on the adventure of a lifetime: Seeing the world in 80 days by OregonTripleBeam

Also redditors: Hates the generation that focused on individual greed at the cost of destroying the world for future generations while also trying to make the new generations feel like shit because of stagnated wages while the cost of goods astronomically skyrockets, while blaming the newer generations for not working as hard..

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andeleidun t1_jb1rj8e wrote

Reply to comment by WuTangFinance24 in New UN brokered High Seas Treaty Places 30% of Ocean into protected areas by 2030 after decades of talks by AstroEngineer314

>Tesla wouldn't exist. SpaceX wouldn't exist. We wouldn't be funding nuclear fusion. Venture capital wouldn't be a meaningful thing. OpenAI wouldn't exist. Tesla wouldn't be trying to create FSD. Google, Meta, etc. Wouldn't be investing in AI.

The only thing that across belongs on this list is fusion, and I'll grant you that. There's dreamers out there, but by and large underfunded.

None of the other things tolerate MVP launch time frames of less than 5 years. Yes, they have larger plans conceptually, but nothing they'll actually plan for, stick to, the way the Chinese do. If it can't make a sale within 5 years, it's in the vague possible todo pile.

The Chinese actually plan their future out much further. They make modifications, but the concept behind them is to figure out how to bring circumstances back into alignment with the plan, rather than jumping ship to the next biggest profit opportunity.

And you've obviously no idea how venture capital works. If you have a 100MM fund to invest, you are actively planning for one or a combination of the start ups to be worth more than 100MM in 5 years. If not, it's a failure. If you can't convince a VC that you have a way to a profitable valuation in 5 years, you get no money.

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dadamn t1_jb1rhcw wrote

Reply to comment by tallerThanYouAre in A duo of 81-year-old women are on the adventure of a lifetime: Seeing the world in 80 days by OregonTripleBeam

Also 3 months is not nearly enough time to have any deeply meaningful engagement with the places they will visit. I spent 18 months nomading around the world (longest continuous stay in one place was 1 month. Many places for just a few days) and my biggest regret was not constraining down to just a few places for longer periods of time. Thankfully I'm young(ish) and can go back to places that made a good impression to get to know them better. I suspect these ladies will end their trip wishing they could have more time and regretting not traveling more when they were young.

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CharlieApples t1_jb1pwoq wrote

Reply to New UN brokered High Seas Treaty Places 30% of Ocean into protected areas by 2030 after decades of talks by AstroEngineer314

Don’t even bother trying to protect any parts of the South China Sea. The CCP will blatantly ignore the treaty and threaten to nuke anyone who tries to stop them.

Unless the US Navy agrees to assign a shit ton of ships to just loiter around the protected areas for the foreseeable future, China will literally pretend that the treaty never happened and dredge wherever they want.

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