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Mentioning no names, but you've probably come across a few on here.

Just for fun, I'll unblock all 10 people I've blocked in nearly 10 years on here, until each tells a lie, refuses to accept a fact, or gratuitously insults me.

Just to get people started: Trump didn't win the majority of votes in 2016 or 2024. Even the finest dust will fall down in a vacuum, there's literally nothing there for it to be suspended in. Masks do help reduce the spread of Covid. Social distancing does, too. Vaccines work. Preventing less than 100% of something bad is not the same as preventing 0%, it is often still worthwhile. The US has a higher rate of knife murders than the UK, and that's less than 30% of US murders. There is no crisis of crime in US cities, in fact the crime rates have been going down. Trump's administration brought a convicted murderer convicted for brutally killing three people back to the US and set him free (Spain might be allowed to request he be caught, extradited, tried and re-convicted for the crime he was spending 30 in prison for, but nobody knows where he is.)

Feel free to post friendly wagers on how long each will last!

I don't know if I should because going public means I have to be held highly accountable to regulators and shareholders, in exchange for theoretically unlimited funding and less responsibilities lol. I know that for a pre-revenue deep tech startup (or even one with some revenue), it'd be extremely difficult to go IPO prematurely but by merging with SPAC, I can do it much faster and easier. Also at least in Canada, there's 2 stock exchanges where they allow smaller and earlier stage startups to join, with much less requirements than say the main ones in Toronto or Montreal.

I'm fully aware that merging with such a shell company also means they'll have control over aspects of my startup that I'd retain had I not merged, and while I'm against merging and acquisitions generally that's an exception. Only agreeing to do this because most sources of funding are gatekept to more mature startups and/or don't provide that much money, which my startup would need to truly take off. I did consider going to angel investors, but the ones I found required startups to make 10x the investment within 5 years, while only providing at most a few dozen grand.

I can't even pay 1 full time employee with that, let alone a small team of them; realistically, I'd need a small investment in 6 or even 7 figures, so sadly only going IPO prematurely is realistic. The startup I'm in is automation, which includes AI, but also goes beyond it with stuff like robotics, IoT, MR, etc as I'm wise enough to know the generative AI bubble that began in late 2022 is eventually gonna burst by the end of this decade. I'm also fully aware that going public means certain investment firms like Blackrock and Vanguard are gonna try to force pushing their agendas down my throat, which I'm prepared for by not giving a fuck about them.