I was listening to a representative who had a show talking about how you get up there, and instead of representing the people who voted for you, you're expected to vote the way some expert in the capitol says you should vote.
But the capitol has its representatives. Let them vote the way the experts in the capitol say to!
But the capitol has its representatives. Let them vote the way the experts in the capitol say to!
I recall it was some absurd number, like half of books struggled to get more than 12 sales. I got more than 12 sales, and I'm just some shitposter on the Internet!
Something I realized listening to music with my son is that high fidelity music has existed for about 80 years, so any new musician needs to compete with the greatest music produced by all of human civilization in 80 years.
What's easier at that point, especially given the fact they're going to keep getting a revenue drip from a lot of artists who have been dead longer than any of us have been alive? Finding the next Jimi Hendrix, or finding some dumb ho to mumble about her "wet ass pussy"?
What's easier at that point, especially given the fact they're going to keep getting a revenue drip from a lot of artists who have been dead longer than any of us have been alive? Finding the next Jimi Hendrix, or finding some dumb ho to mumble about her "wet ass pussy"?
Honestly, typically I'm pretty much entirely opposed to Central planning, but when you're dealing with a public good like electricity I can tolerate it, but it needs to stay a public good. At the end of the day all of the stuff that needs to get done in order to produce the levels of electricity required to keep rates low he's probably going to need enough Capital that very few private sector players are going to invest that, especially when they can make way more money by making less power and charging more for it.
It's like, all right -- use taxpayer money to fund the creation of a public good and keep it a public good. Fine. But "Deregulation" meaning selling off that asset the private sector didn't build and wouldn't build is just wholesale corruption and theft.
It's like, all right -- use taxpayer money to fund the creation of a public good and keep it a public good. Fine. But "Deregulation" meaning selling off that asset the private sector didn't build and wouldn't build is just wholesale corruption and theft.
It appeals to my inner grade 4 student who probably would have drawn something very similar in my notebook while I'm bored in class.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTTMVIhMkkM
Gotta admit, seeing the cyber truck, there's a lot of things I absolutely hate about it.
Buttons on the steering wheel for turn signals, and having to use the touch screen to put it in gear? Yuck.
Gotta admit, seeing the cyber truck, there's a lot of things I absolutely hate about it.
Buttons on the steering wheel for turn signals, and having to use the touch screen to put it in gear? Yuck.
Even up here, the Conservatives are on track to get a huge majority. I think last I saw 224 seats projected of 342 (with the balance held by 4 other parties), it's gonna be a pantsing, because I don't think they're done losing seats yet.
The only place I'm not hearing about this is the UK, because the conservatives have been in power forever there but have consistently failed to be conservative.
The only place I'm not hearing about this is the UK, because the conservatives have been in power forever there but have consistently failed to be conservative.
To amplify what you're saying, this is a research professor at a Canadian university who made comments about mRNA vaccines was fired just this year.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-university-professor-suspended-anti-vax-comments-1.6507928
So stories like this are coming out, and yet people keep saying smug and stupid things like "if any experts thought there was a problem they'd publish and be rewarded!"
A large number of doctors and professors and media people have lost their careers -- not just their jobs but their careers -- because they spoke out against the establishment narrative. The idea that you can trust a system that potentially May reward you for lying and punish you for telling the truth, that is actively rooting out anyone who dissents, that's just absurd. People who used to be skeptical and would need compelling evidence have shut off their brains...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-university-professor-suspended-anti-vax-comments-1.6507928
So stories like this are coming out, and yet people keep saying smug and stupid things like "if any experts thought there was a problem they'd publish and be rewarded!"
A large number of doctors and professors and media people have lost their careers -- not just their jobs but their careers -- because they spoke out against the establishment narrative. The idea that you can trust a system that potentially May reward you for lying and punish you for telling the truth, that is actively rooting out anyone who dissents, that's just absurd. People who used to be skeptical and would need compelling evidence have shut off their brains...
"hello you absolute Legends. IQ tests are a long and complicated test intended to test your intelligence, some people took this as a challenge. Today we're going to talk about the IQ test any % speed run. Some people have taken the IQ test over 10,000 times to achieve some of the records that will be talking about today."
There's exactly one positive thing that he's done in his entire 8 years, and that's legalize weed. I can't really name any other policies that were good.
Thing is, weed is legal now he can go away.
Thing is, weed is legal now he can go away.
Oi! You got a loicense for that levity?! We don't take kindly to unloicensed levity around these parts!
Look, he might not build 4 million homes by 31, but he will make sure that the people that are going to pay him bribes will get enough money to build 4 million homes by 2031.
And isn't that what really matters?
And isn't that what really matters?
A lot of people think that BRICS can create an alternative currency to the US dollar, but I don't think that's going to be the case. I think what's going to be the case is if the US dollar collapses as a reserve currency then currency will no longer be a reserve. Neighboring countries or blocs might come to bilateral or multilateral agreements to use certain forms of local currency, but you'll probably have to have something of value for big truly international transactions.
When something that big fills that catastrophically, it doesn't tend to be a similar thing that rises up in its place.
When something that big fills that catastrophically, it doesn't tend to be a similar thing that rises up in its place.
Technically this isn't really true. By creating the content you retain the copyright to it even if you make it available. That's why in the TOs of the big tech companies they either assign themselves the copyright to your work or assign themselves and unlimited license to use your work.
All that being said, you are still absolutely correct. If I were to for example post the full PDF of the graysonian ethic, and people are going to download it and it is in fact if not in law me saying it's okay to take, and that thing that I downloaded for free I'm going to treat as if I can just hand it to whoever even though technically that's not really the case.
I seem to recall there were a few game companies that released copies of old games for free and said that those free copies of the games were not being released is freeware and they were still under copyright and yada yada yada, but come on -- if you downloaded a copy of GTA and GTA 2 off of the Rockstar website, you're not going to shed any tears giving a few copies to your buddies for some multiplayer.
All that being said, you are still absolutely correct. If I were to for example post the full PDF of the graysonian ethic, and people are going to download it and it is in fact if not in law me saying it's okay to take, and that thing that I downloaded for free I'm going to treat as if I can just hand it to whoever even though technically that's not really the case.
I seem to recall there were a few game companies that released copies of old games for free and said that those free copies of the games were not being released is freeware and they were still under copyright and yada yada yada, but come on -- if you downloaded a copy of GTA and GTA 2 off of the Rockstar website, you're not going to shed any tears giving a few copies to your buddies for some multiplayer.
One of the discussions that I've had with people online that we did eventually come to an agreement about is that although there is a lot of criticism of neoliberalism, the real problem is that neoliberalism is just used as a tablecloth to hide what is actually increasing strangleholds on everyone and everything.
Just consider the amount of income tax that someone was playing prior to world war I compared to today. The answer was zero in most countries prior to world war I and today someone can be working a fairly mundane blue collar job and lose half of their income before it even lands in their bank account.
Then there's the amount of regulation that we live under. If you want to partake in any endeavor, you essentially need a full-time lawyer or team of lawyers to help you navigate the almost unlimited amount of hidden regulations in this world.
Now you can definitely make an argument that those rules are there for a reason and they are good ones, but what you can't argue legitimately is that those rules somehow represent a loosening of regulations compared to previous generations. Neoliberalism suggests effectively economic libertarianism, getting out of the way and letting the world get on with their business. You aren't doing that when 60% of a country's GDP is just government.
Just consider the amount of income tax that someone was playing prior to world war I compared to today. The answer was zero in most countries prior to world war I and today someone can be working a fairly mundane blue collar job and lose half of their income before it even lands in their bank account.
Then there's the amount of regulation that we live under. If you want to partake in any endeavor, you essentially need a full-time lawyer or team of lawyers to help you navigate the almost unlimited amount of hidden regulations in this world.
Now you can definitely make an argument that those rules are there for a reason and they are good ones, but what you can't argue legitimately is that those rules somehow represent a loosening of regulations compared to previous generations. Neoliberalism suggests effectively economic libertarianism, getting out of the way and letting the world get on with their business. You aren't doing that when 60% of a country's GDP is just government.