I learned vi first in the 90s, and it wasn't until much later that I learned nano existed. At that point it was like "I CAST YE OUT!" and I don't use vi anymore.
I went to see that movie with my mom. At the end they had the stinger where they were like "we need your help!" and my mom was like "gee, I wonder if there'll be a sequel" as if it was self-evident there would be and I wasn't sophisticated enough to realize there was no way that garbage video game movie was ever getting a sequel.
I was watching a video, and it really got me thinking about something. We give children amphetamines so that they can work harder in school.
Now just stop and think about that for a minute. When a child isn't working hard enough in school, we give them amphetamines. This isn't something that happened 100 years ago that we deeply regret, it isn't something that happened 50 years ago and we're playing preparations to the people who had it done to them, it's a thing that we are presently doing today and it is considered a normal practice.
Roll those words over your tongue a few times. Sound them out. It feels strange, doesn't it?
Now just stop and think about that for a minute. When a child isn't working hard enough in school, we give them amphetamines. This isn't something that happened 100 years ago that we deeply regret, it isn't something that happened 50 years ago and we're playing preparations to the people who had it done to them, it's a thing that we are presently doing today and it is considered a normal practice.
Roll those words over your tongue a few times. Sound them out. It feels strange, doesn't it?
Such a big tent that the first thing they did was turn off federation.
All the non federated sites are dead to me.
All the non federated sites are dead to me.
I saw a video of him recently and he said a lot of pretty words. Would make sense if he was trying to do a Mein kampftrable shoes tour preparing for a presidential run.
I don't disagree, but since we have the same screen showing two movies right now, I prefer using facts people who disagree with me already advocate so they can't dispute my logic on a base factual basis and must instead face my arguments from a practical basis.
I've never been banned from a major social media platform. My youtube is up without incident. My reddit accounts only disappeared because I personally deleted them. My facebook account was perfectly safe until I personally deleted it. And so on and so forth.
When I realized you could no longer use these communications websites to communicate, that's when I left them. Decentralized communications such as the fediverse are the only choice imo.
When I realized you could no longer use these communications websites to communicate, that's when I left them. Decentralized communications such as the fediverse are the only choice imo.
I sorta feel like the Tuskegee Syphillis experiment should be the final word in "The Government wouldn't do that".
1. It's totally monstrous.
2. It wasn't some flash in the pan "well we decided to do a thing but we stopped right away", they did this monstrous thing for 40 years.
3. They had opportunities to end it but decided not to. A "Mere" 28 years in one worker said "Hey, we should stop this it's monstrous" and they refused to after forming a committee.
4. Everyone agrees it happened.
Shooting a powerful guy is bad, but watching hundreds of innocent people suffer, die and pass on to their wives and children a treatable disease for 40 years while lying to them about treating them because you're curious to see what it looks like is on a level where all manner of evil is totally acceptable.
They see us as state property to be disposed of as they wish.
1. It's totally monstrous.
2. It wasn't some flash in the pan "well we decided to do a thing but we stopped right away", they did this monstrous thing for 40 years.
3. They had opportunities to end it but decided not to. A "Mere" 28 years in one worker said "Hey, we should stop this it's monstrous" and they refused to after forming a committee.
4. Everyone agrees it happened.
Shooting a powerful guy is bad, but watching hundreds of innocent people suffer, die and pass on to their wives and children a treatable disease for 40 years while lying to them about treating them because you're curious to see what it looks like is on a level where all manner of evil is totally acceptable.
They see us as state property to be disposed of as they wish.
These graphs tell the real story of the past 30 years. The recessions are the cure to economic problems, not something to be stopped.
Someone who doesn't feel pain will destroy their body. They aren't a superhero, they're incredibly fragile. 30 years of economic heroin from governments and central banks have similarly harmed the world economy.
Someone who doesn't feel pain will destroy their body. They aren't a superhero, they're incredibly fragile. 30 years of economic heroin from governments and central banks have similarly harmed the world economy.
Governments want power particularly to do flashy things and say they give stuff to someone (especially their corporate sponsors) and this means being able to wield more of the economy to their own ends. This generally means being able to spend more money either without taking consequences for the inflation it creates because that would drive up price of living increases which are boring or without paying the real debt costs for what they've done. In a number of ways inflation allows politicians to spend more economic output over time without appearing to tax any more.
To this end, being able to spend more money through an invisible inflation tax on all income and savings and chip away at sovereign debts, they want to be able to create inflation without reporting that they're doing so. This has a number of benefits. Increasing debt does temporarily increase real economic output because it can bring future investments forward. Unreported inflation has an added benefit of appearing to grow real GDP whether there is growth or not since prices rise which is politically beneficial.
Central bankers ultimately work for the state which we get to see in many ways, so they've helped to increase unreported inflation by fudging the numbers, they've increased general indebtedness by artificially raising prices and lowering borrowing costs, and they help keep governments afloat by letting them to gather more taxes and inflate way their debts without appearing to inflate away their debts. Workers fall behind while the government gets to pretend they're doing so well.
The wage/price spiral is a wonderful bit of propaganda that blames the working and middle class for the effects of too much money in the system caused by the government and banks. Wages are just another price, workers getting fairly paid in terms of purchasing power isn't the cause inflation -- if they succeed and that looks like constantly rising wages despite stagnating purchasing power, then that's the nature of the broken system driving up all prices, not the nature of getting raises.
The ultimate effect of all this is to take power away from the masses and bring it together in the hands of the richest most powerful people on earth in ways that don't piss people off since you can raise their wages every single year and still be implementing across the board pay cuts every year, implement tax increases every year and benefit reductions every year while claiming you're doing the opposite, and slowly drive the working and middle classes into debt slavery without ever directly forcing them to do anything.
To this end, being able to spend more money through an invisible inflation tax on all income and savings and chip away at sovereign debts, they want to be able to create inflation without reporting that they're doing so. This has a number of benefits. Increasing debt does temporarily increase real economic output because it can bring future investments forward. Unreported inflation has an added benefit of appearing to grow real GDP whether there is growth or not since prices rise which is politically beneficial.
Central bankers ultimately work for the state which we get to see in many ways, so they've helped to increase unreported inflation by fudging the numbers, they've increased general indebtedness by artificially raising prices and lowering borrowing costs, and they help keep governments afloat by letting them to gather more taxes and inflate way their debts without appearing to inflate away their debts. Workers fall behind while the government gets to pretend they're doing so well.
The wage/price spiral is a wonderful bit of propaganda that blames the working and middle class for the effects of too much money in the system caused by the government and banks. Wages are just another price, workers getting fairly paid in terms of purchasing power isn't the cause inflation -- if they succeed and that looks like constantly rising wages despite stagnating purchasing power, then that's the nature of the broken system driving up all prices, not the nature of getting raises.
The ultimate effect of all this is to take power away from the masses and bring it together in the hands of the richest most powerful people on earth in ways that don't piss people off since you can raise their wages every single year and still be implementing across the board pay cuts every year, implement tax increases every year and benefit reductions every year while claiming you're doing the opposite, and slowly drive the working and middle classes into debt slavery without ever directly forcing them to do anything.
I liked this bot until it started posting a bunch of politifact garbage.
Internet Fact Checkers are like Pravda and Der Strumer rolled into one -- just tools for an evil establishment.
Internet Fact Checkers are like Pravda and Der Strumer rolled into one -- just tools for an evil establishment.
On paper central banks are independent, but in reality they aren't. That's why they keep making political choices instead of good choices.
In some ways, it reminds me of all those videos of 98 pound women wailing away on some big guy and he sits there and takes it, but then he swings one time and she hits the turf and she acts like the victim.
The fact that the adults in the room aren't misbehaving isn't evidence of the strength of those who do. It's evidence of the moral character of the people who are doing everything in their power to prevent what's about to happen because it will get super ugly. Can't last forever though.
The fact that the adults in the room aren't misbehaving isn't evidence of the strength of those who do. It's evidence of the moral character of the people who are doing everything in their power to prevent what's about to happen because it will get super ugly. Can't last forever though.
I had some blackrock investments, but divested once I realized what I was into. Dodged a giant bullet in many ways!