Now, here’s the thing. I’d say you would be sharing those winnings with the original winner unless you prevented them from getting the ticket

The January 2nd Powerball draw was not won by anyone and paid $39M.

That’s plenty of seed money to invest in Google, Bitcoin, et al with perfect knowledge of stock trends. Even if it’s only short term knowledge due to breaking from the original timeline, you could easily grow your investment into the billions overnight.

Perhaps the most amazing stock of the year was Xcelera.com, formerly known as Scandinavia. Once a closed-end fund specializing in Scandinavian stocks, and then an operating company that owned a hotel in the Canary Islands, it made a small investment in an Internet company last year. Before it disclosed that investment, the family of Alexander Vik, the company’s chief executive, was given options to buy a million shares of stock, at a price of $3.25 each. The shares ended 1998 at $3.75, or $1.25 adjusted for two subsequent splits. They ended 1999 at $139.50, an increase of 11,060 percent. The Viks’ option position is now valued at $415 million.

That’s not so much losing your home as it is having it forcibly purchased from you at a fair market price. At least in theory.

Half Life 3.

But why?

bloviating

What a wildly inappropriate waste of a thesaurus.

the slightest bit of research

Are you competing in some obscure Internet irony competition?

Write that article and post it in a blog. Use ChatGPT if you need to. Bang, you’re the media.

I mean, you’ll want to do all the SEO things to drive your hit rate, but this ain’t the old days anymore where major media conglomerates control the news.

I think we could work it out. We can for driving tests.

I don’t think we can. Have you seen the results of our “driving tests”?

In all seriousness though. I get what you want to do, but this isn’t how you get there.

Honestly, I would just ban it entirely at this point. I’d rather see the abolition of marriage entirely than have the government dictate who can and cannot participate (outside of consent issues, obviously).

I mean, go forth. Be fruitful. Multiply.

Eat, drink, be merry with each other.

Just leave the government out of it.

I like your ideas, but have you considered that this one:

All natural resources, be it harvested (e.g. ores, oil) or otherwise (e.g. land, air), are property of everyone. If any individual is to monopolise and/or utilise some of these resources, they are to compensate everyone else for doing so.

Effectively makes literally everything free? Not that this would be a bad thing. It just makes so many of the other things irrelevant.

Or you can look at the history of 4chan “trolling” and realize that it is almost always taken seriously by the very people it’s intended to lampoon.

I have a fresh bag of popcorn in the microwave, just waiting on the “That’s not a tuba!” comments to start pouring in.

To be fair, it’s already pretty uninteresting.