I had a lovely snippy remark about inheritance taxes, but Canada apparently doesn't have inheritance taxes.
That's a good point. The ideological idea might say you can get some hypothetical society that is immune, but if the data shows the Japanese can't escape it what society possibly could?
It could potentially work if you had a unified culture that was incredibly stringent on supporting the common good, but by definition we're not that. It appears that we don't want to be that either, and that's ok, but it does mean there needs to be less universality to the universal.
#uspol #trump #oathToUpholdTheConstitution
One historian I like following on youtube has said we're right on the verge of a major revolutionary event based on models which correctly predicted some major events during the time spans they occurred.
Not all revolutions are the same. Sometimes it's like the bronze age collapse where people collectively just said "fuck this shit" and went off to live relatively independently. Other times it's an authoritarian takes power (as happened when the roman republic became the roman Empire), and yet other times it's a bloody revolution like the French revolution or the Russian revolution.
It's really a scary roulette wheel. The chances of coming out of an era like this one with a new golden age of prosperity and freedom are infinitesimal.
Not all revolutions are the same. Sometimes it's like the bronze age collapse where people collectively just said "fuck this shit" and went off to live relatively independently. Other times it's an authoritarian takes power (as happened when the roman republic became the roman Empire), and yet other times it's a bloody revolution like the French revolution or the Russian revolution.
It's really a scary roulette wheel. The chances of coming out of an era like this one with a new golden age of prosperity and freedom are infinitesimal.
It's not pretty, but it's correct. You have two classes of people: Net Tax providers and net tax consumers. If you let the net tax consumers vote, then they will inevitably vote for more things for the net tax providers to pay for. From there, the only option is for the leadership to try to make more and more people net tax consumers to placate them and buy their votes.
That's all right to think that you're smart, but you need rubber to meet road and actually have some reality to check your finances against first.
One of the biggest problems today is that anyone can say anything and it doesn't matter if it's falsifiable and or not, if it sounds good it's true.
One of the biggest problems today is that anyone can say anything and it doesn't matter if it's falsifiable and or not, if it sounds good it's true.
"journalists, who have an IQ of 100 collectively added together, decided that Mastodon was dead because it's too hrrrrrrrrrrrd"
Oh thank God.
Oh thank God.
A lot of people want a civil war. But they actually don't. They just think they do because they don't realize how shitty life gets in a real hurry if that happens.
That sort of reminds me of this story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNMwO3DywIE
People who otherwise would be at each other's throats dropping everything to work together to battle a greater evil lol
People who otherwise would be at each other's throats dropping everything to work together to battle a greater evil lol
At this point, I don't even think VR is going to be nearly as big as the tech companies think. They lucked into some really cool technologies with smart phones but don't necessarily understand why smart phones were the biggest thing since sliced bread.
That's true, which is one of the reasons for the massive supply chain issues -- Everything relied on JIT inventory systems so any hiccup took out entire production chains. Normally doesn't happen, but we haven't had a normal few years.
ngl, I'm pretty concerned about the growth of fediverse even though I love it and want to see it continue. It wouldn't take too much for bad actors to come in and break our toys something fierce.
20 days of supply isn't 20 days until the end of the world. You can have 20 days supply forever as long as you're making one day's supply per day.
The issue comes about later, when during winter demand rises and supply drops and so the buffer becomes important. Every year the supply rises and drops over the course of a year, the worrisome thing is that the amount of supply on-hand right now is abnormally low for this early in the winter. Especially given that some indicators are suggesting an abnormally cold winter.
The issue comes about later, when during winter demand rises and supply drops and so the buffer becomes important. Every year the supply rises and drops over the course of a year, the worrisome thing is that the amount of supply on-hand right now is abnormally low for this early in the winter. Especially given that some indicators are suggesting an abnormally cold winter.
If we keep on bailing out people who make bad decisions, then they will continue to make bad decisions. They will continue to need bigger and bigger bailouts, and that's what we're seeing, until it doesn't matter because there won't be anything left to bail anyone out with. I think we're pretty much there now.
To be clear, Vietnam is a bit "nicer", but it's still an authoritarian communist regime.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Io6bR4dGm6k
This is a great video for people who want to understand wtf is happening with Canada. There's a lot of moving parts to the second largest country in the world that one can make big mistakes about what's going on if you're only paying attention to der fuhrer Trudeau.
This is a great video for people who want to understand wtf is happening with Canada. There's a lot of moving parts to the second largest country in the world that one can make big mistakes about what's going on if you're only paying attention to der fuhrer Trudeau.
It makes sense that such would be the case. That's why in order to keep governments weak it requires constant vigilance and holding that as a core value. Otherwise it's just an immortal creeping thing that slowly takes over everything.