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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
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- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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Yeah; we very obvious need to move to gross-revenue-based fines. Megacorps can effectively ignore dollar-value fines, since even the maximal amounts are so relatively minuscule that they’re simply seen and handled as an OpEx line item, so there’s effectively zero deterrence factor.
I've said for years the fines should start with the revenue from said act, then have a serious fine on top of it, like maybe 50%. So, company makes $1 billion breaking the law, the fine is $1.5 billion. Second offence 100%, so $2 billion for this scenario. Obviously the second offence would be something different with a different revenue, but still the second offence is revenue + 100% of revenue. Third offence, nationalize the company.