Ah okay. I thought one might be Yglesias and who knows where his politics truly are.
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I’m fairly sure that a 50 gallon drum of lye at room temperature will take care of a body in a week or two. Not really suited to volume "production”, which is what water cremation businesses need.
They made $45 billion in revenue in 2023 ($1.3 billion net), so I'm sure that is a factor.
If you owned $219,000 in stock and grossed $45,000 a year, and had $31,000 in cash, could you borrow $16,000?
Obviously Oracle and OpenAI are also expecting to soak the idiot in the White House for billions and billions of taxpayer dollars.
"Here, I’ll fund some smart people to isolate them among like-minded fringe thinkers rather than mixing with a healthy normal range of opinions.”
I never read it but somehow absorbed bits from the ambient culture. Might have watched a version at some point.
Age may be part of it. I'm 53. Perhaps Oliver Twist stuff was more visible in US culture in the 70s and 80s than it was later.
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