I feel like after a century or two looking for her ex boyfriends favorite rock you might get over it.
Ironically her horoscope said "don't day trade half a million dollars in bitcoin you trollop"
I do think that people don't realize that even in a system with a limited number of viable parties, there's tactics that have an outsized impact.
If you're not happy with either party, don't vote for either party. "But you're wasting your vote!" No, you're putting your vote out there and both parties are looking at that "2% libertarian party" or "2% green party" going "goddamnit, that's 2% I could've gotten. How could I get those?"
In the last Canadian election, the conservative party was so incredibly disappointing that Justin Trudeau won another minority. The conservatives would have kept on course, but I suspect that the PPC getting more of the popular vote than the green party followed by the trucker protests being wildly popular with a small but substantial minority are the reason why there's a new leader who has a chance of winning the next election and potentially actually making some substantial changes rather than just being the NDP but slower.
I do need to mention I may end up totally eating my words on this, predictions are hard and no predictions are harder than predicting the future.
If you're not happy with either party, don't vote for either party. "But you're wasting your vote!" No, you're putting your vote out there and both parties are looking at that "2% libertarian party" or "2% green party" going "goddamnit, that's 2% I could've gotten. How could I get those?"
In the last Canadian election, the conservative party was so incredibly disappointing that Justin Trudeau won another minority. The conservatives would have kept on course, but I suspect that the PPC getting more of the popular vote than the green party followed by the trucker protests being wildly popular with a small but substantial minority are the reason why there's a new leader who has a chance of winning the next election and potentially actually making some substantial changes rather than just being the NDP but slower.
I do need to mention I may end up totally eating my words on this, predictions are hard and no predictions are harder than predicting the future.
One huge counterargument is that it would be successful at doing the thing we'd be aiming for. If you make it so businesses are smaller then you can't get super megacorps completing megaprojects that take billions of dollars to do, since any shareholder in an endeavor may find themselves on the hook for whatever the entire enterprise does.
As a direct result of making enterprises smaller (perhaps even to the extent of just people working together without any sort of organization around them), for example you wouldn't necessarily have giant factories pumping out mass amounts of merchandise because the process of making that factory could have considerably higher risks associated with it, and you might not have giant megamines that take billions of dollars of infrastructure to build.
As a direct result of making enterprises smaller (perhaps even to the extent of just people working together without any sort of organization around them), for example you wouldn't necessarily have giant factories pumping out mass amounts of merchandise because the process of making that factory could have considerably higher risks associated with it, and you might not have giant megamines that take billions of dollars of infrastructure to build.
Because like a good little pawn he claims to believe whatever he's told to believe by the establishment.
Loves who he's told to love, hates who he's told to hate, thinks that he's told to think.
If the establishment told a guy like him to start locking people up in concentration camps, we got to see exactly what they'd do -- comply enthusiastically.
Loves who he's told to love, hates who he's told to hate, thinks that he's told to think.
If the establishment told a guy like him to start locking people up in concentration camps, we got to see exactly what they'd do -- comply enthusiastically.
I used to donate annually, but it was a more innocent time back then and it seemed like the right thing to do.
Takei is a hypocrite and has been for a long time. He's the exact sort of person who would have supported the Japanese internment camps as long as he wasn't Japanese, and this sort of shit proves it.
It's something that I often mention, one of the reasons why all of these organizations can go so big is that they have the protection of the government.
If you or I killed someone by negligently making a mistake, we could be held personally responsible. Spend $900 on incorporation and suddenly you can negligently poison people all day and unless they can pierce the corporate veil the only thing they can take from you is the corporation at worst.
Eventually, without the protections of government capitalist enterprises become far too large to not collapse under their own weight. It's that protection that is the reason everything can be centralized.
So my extremist idea is to abolish the corporation. If you want to run a business, you better take personal responsibility for whatever happens.
If you or I killed someone by negligently making a mistake, we could be held personally responsible. Spend $900 on incorporation and suddenly you can negligently poison people all day and unless they can pierce the corporate veil the only thing they can take from you is the corporation at worst.
Eventually, without the protections of government capitalist enterprises become far too large to not collapse under their own weight. It's that protection that is the reason everything can be centralized.
So my extremist idea is to abolish the corporation. If you want to run a business, you better take personal responsibility for whatever happens.
Not to mention I'm sure that upvotes in downvotes would be used in any algorithm. I'm sure that they would notice that certain viewpoints get thousands of upvotes, and opposing viewpoints often get hundreds or thousands of down votes even if they are perfectly legitimate opinions stated in a perfectly legitimate way.
The whole site became damaged goods after 2008, but by 2018 it's just a hive mind.
The whole site became damaged goods after 2008, but by 2018 it's just a hive mind.
Anyone with a brain in two eyes can see that the market is heading for a crash, the only two questions are when and what is it going to look like?
If you are trying to grow your wealth you want to hang on to the rising market until the very last moment, but if you're already a multi-billionaire, and pulling out now just means you'll be liquid to snatch up everything for pennies on the dollar in a few months.
If you are trying to grow your wealth you want to hang on to the rising market until the very last moment, but if you're already a multi-billionaire, and pulling out now just means you'll be liquid to snatch up everything for pennies on the dollar in a few months.
https://chrisbray.substack.com/p/emergency-brake
Great post.
Do you need a credentialed expert to tell you that you need to take a shit? Or can you figure it out on your own? How about a cadrentialed expert to tell you that you're hungry, or that you're not hungry? "Well, I don't have a government job at the hunger department so I can't really tell you whether I'm hungry or not"
Look, as an expert in a certain field myself, I do recognize that there's a lot of details that are complicated and often need someone who knows what they're doing. The thing is, it's also very easy for an expert in a field to deny reality because their limited worldview has flaws that incorrectly predict reality. A good expert would then open their eyes to the fact that they were wrong, figure out why they were wrong, and integrate the two so that your expert knowledge is reinforced by contact with reality. Unfortunately, we often see that people who are in positions of authority aren't necessarily very good experts.
Great post.
Do you need a credentialed expert to tell you that you need to take a shit? Or can you figure it out on your own? How about a cadrentialed expert to tell you that you're hungry, or that you're not hungry? "Well, I don't have a government job at the hunger department so I can't really tell you whether I'm hungry or not"
Look, as an expert in a certain field myself, I do recognize that there's a lot of details that are complicated and often need someone who knows what they're doing. The thing is, it's also very easy for an expert in a field to deny reality because their limited worldview has flaws that incorrectly predict reality. A good expert would then open their eyes to the fact that they were wrong, figure out why they were wrong, and integrate the two so that your expert knowledge is reinforced by contact with reality. Unfortunately, we often see that people who are in positions of authority aren't necessarily very good experts.
I keep on coming back to a very basic element of medical ethics: it's extremely hard to run experiments on pregnant women or little children and not be unethical. For this reason, there is only a tiny number of drugs that are accepted for use on little children or expecting mothers, and even among those many were just grandfathered in based on previous work from time before we realized the potential impacts.
So how did they know all the things they claimed to know, all the things they claimed to know to be true?
So how did they know all the things they claimed to know, all the things they claimed to know to be true?
People don't know that stores that have all the merchandise are relatively new historically speaking. In the past, you'd have to walk up to the counter and ask for what you were shopping for and pay for it, then the clerk would go behind a locked door and get the stuff you ordered.
It was worse for everyone involved. Having the social trust to keep the merchandise out to sell was better for customers and better for shops, and moving backwards isn't better for anyone... Maybe politicians?
It was worse for everyone involved. Having the social trust to keep the merchandise out to sell was better for customers and better for shops, and moving backwards isn't better for anyone... Maybe politicians?
One of the most important phrases I use when it comes to the "immigration is great for the economy" narrative is this:
"Do you get paid in GDP? Also, what happens if a bunch of new people are trying to get the same houses, food, and energy you are?"
Because we don't get paid in GDP, we get paid in wages, and wages go down as the number of workers goes up.
"Do you get paid in GDP? Also, what happens if a bunch of new people are trying to get the same houses, food, and energy you are?"
Because we don't get paid in GDP, we get paid in wages, and wages go down as the number of workers goes up.
Come on guys, it's pretty unfair comparing Biden to Hitler. It isn't like Joe gave a firey speech surrounded by soldiers against a blood red backdrop about how we must use state violence against his political enemies.
