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My short term economic outlook hasn't really changed due to the election. I still see a big recession because ever since 2020 the world economy has been living on borrowed time and that time is running out. The only thing that's likely to change is the partisan establishment media is actually going to start reporting the truth about how bad things are for the man on the ground instead of lying and saying how great things are.

Trump changes the outlook a few years down the line, and some changes such as reduced regulation will definitely help and if he follows through on massively cutting government spending and staffing it has the capacity to change everything a couple years from now, but recession in 2025 was written in March 2020, and the working man has been feeling it already for years (since the CPLie isn't telling us what the actual increase in cost of living is).

Basically redditor the YouTube channel.

Now that's a great idea!

Thanks!

Interestingly, I've thought about it often that my son is part of a generation with overwhelmingly less advertising aimed at it than any generation for 100 years... depending on how their parents set things up.

Streaming subscriptions and youtube premium and stuff like spotify means where many generations heard ads on the radio or saw them on TV, some kids don't see ads there. Adblock means they might not see them on the web for the most part. And you can avoid ad reads in youtube videos by just not watching those channels.

I'm not sure what the outcome will be. I'm sort of worried that a mind that hasn't seen advertising might be particularly susceptible to it.

Depends on the software you're using, but wordpress has a comment section.

You know, you have to respect someone being willing to say the truth for a minute even if it probably is much ado about nothing.

skill issue. they need to git gud.

Sometimes people say to me "You should start a blog!"

Let me tell you how running a blog works: You write something, and then a bunch of russian bots come in trying to sell shit on your website. It's boring. I'd much rather interact with people here on the fediverse, occasionally popping out a big effortpost.

The reason we don't have elephant sized beetles running around and causing apocalypse on earth is the laws of physics limit the size bugs can be. A creature can try to be larger than that, but it starts to run up against things that mean it becomes less survivable. A giant cow sized insect would be mostly exoskeleton and so there's so little room for internal organs and the like that it wouldn't be able to survive, let alone move under its own power.

I've always thought that global megacorps are the same -- they can only exist because we've created artificial conditions, such as a false oxygen concentration via central banking, and false low gravity through separating shareholders from liability for the actions of companies, or giving them additional powers they ought not to have through corporate personhood. We've helped these giant insects survive as well through an artificial circulatory system by having the largest military in human history keeping most trade routes safe so companies don't need to (at taxpayer expense, of course). Remove just a few artificial supports, and like a cow shaped beetle, the global megacorp becomes too cumbersome to move, with too much armor to contain anything of substance.

The worst part is, they had to fabricate Trump's platform to even have anything there. "I'm going to leave it to the states and I don't support a national abortion ban and won't sign one" isn't something you can rile up people over, so they have to keep saying he's going to do stuff he said he's not going to do because they have to run against the imaginary person they wish they were running against.

I feel like that was the entire campaign, the Democrats trying to tell Trump what his platform was, and Trump running on a completely different platform.

But man do I ever hope they do it. It'll change everything.

It should probably be Hillary clinton, she seems to be a really good that sort of thing.

There was that show sister wives where the guy had like five wives. Anyone who has one wife knows you can barely managed to give one time and attention at times, sure enough 10 years later four the women divorced him he's with the hottest youngest one.

You could be 18 and Megan Fox hot (and actually a woman like Megan Fox but unlike her poor kids) and that's still not appropriate for a wedding.

These far right conspiracy theorists should immediately have their social media taken away and in some cases maybe locked up.

lol how dare this far right programmer engage in election denial!

(Biden can't investigate the election, he's having his afternoon nap)

"was" -- I'm pretty sure his American woman's California retardation ensured that ship sailed.

He *must* have a strong prenup... I mean, he was a goddamned Royal, he can't not have a strong prenup?

To an extent it's a Pascal's wager. Even if you look dumb for hoping for and acting towards what you think might be better, in the aggregate it's better than letting the worse happen opposed.

Teaching them not to have coping skills.

You know, the right still had to show up at their blue collar jobs the day after Trump lost (those who still had jobs thanks to COVID lockdowns, anyway)