Pat Myron 🔸

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Google Shopping, Amazon, and AliExpress do not seem to support even the most basic constraints

I agree with your frustrations around those sites, but more structured ecommerce sites seemingly exist: https://mcmaster.com. Perhaps more common/valued in B2B than B2C?

considered joining the team at Metaculus or Manifold Markets

@DPiepgrass furthering this recommendation with Kalshi/Polymarket/ForecastEx/PredictIt/etc. Real money prediction markets address your growth theory concerns

Easter (April 20th this year) is another unique opportunity:
Likely less defensiveness addressing annual egg decorating/tossing/hiding/etc. than confronting daily diets

Offsetting has multiplier effects.. people constantly make significant sacrifices attempting to marginally improve their personal sustainability, so publicly offsetting decades worth of personal impact with a weeks' earnings seems worth the statement

NB: I'd consider them regardless, but offsetting's a solid nudge 

acting president [...] unelected official

While Musk is influential, it wasn't clear you were talking about him until your reply

Checked the 8 links in the first section and they've all been archived on the publicly accessible Internet Archive for at least half a year. There's also browser tooling to access those archives quicker

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