The juxtaposition of the left carrying water for the CCP and the actual policies of the CCP is pretty funny.
It's surprising how far down the list you need to go to hit an EU country.
Edit (wait, maybe they picked the countries to avoid the EU and most other countries?)
Edit (wait, maybe they picked the countries to avoid the EU and most other countries?)
One youtuber I watch suggested that asian culture will become hegemonic like American culture was 30 years ago. I tend to believe it.
I was looking up the most expensive games ever made today, and last year Monopoly go was released. It had a budget of over 500 million dollars.
For 500 million dollars, I could make 500 really good Monopoly games. With mini games if they really wanted them.
For 500 million dollars, I could make 500 really good Monopoly games. With mini games if they really wanted them.
There was a "Japanese age of consent" joke in Solo Leveling Abridged, so I decided to look up the Korean age of consent.
20! You can shoot at North Koreans for 2 years in your mandatory military conscription before you can get a little booty!
20! You can shoot at North Koreans for 2 years in your mandatory military conscription before you can get a little booty!
More like the broadcaster might pull him off the air.
A bunch of cable TV people pretending cable isn't going away at a cataclysmic rate.
A bunch of cable TV people pretending cable isn't going away at a cataclysmic rate.
"why did you guys walk away from the strengthen our borders and kill all puppies tragically bill? Don't you want strong borders?"
Poison pill legislation really needs to be called out more.
Poison pill legislation really needs to be called out more.
I think it's kinda funny that people use "the kids" lingo popularized by Moon Unit Zappa in a song that came out just as the first millennials were being born in 1982. Moon Unit herself is nearly 60 now.
Time keeps moving which breaks most people's generational narratives. Trump is a very early boomer generation, Joe Biden is very late silent generation, and the recently departed Jimmy Carter was late greatest generation. Some people nonetheless would think of all 3 as boomer.
I suspect in the recession I expect to see this year (it could end up next year, but I'm pretty sure it'll be this year), tech ends up revaluing, similar to how Netflix did a few years ago. In that case, the company lost 80% of its valuation just to get to a PE that matches most other companies on earth.
A hypothetical 2025 recession wouldn't look anything like the 2008 or 2020 recessions, because there's no dry powder left. Most governments have been running up debt like there's literally no tomorrow, with the US doubling its debt every 4-8 years, Canada tripling its debt in the past 15 years, inflation still running hot in most places in spite of years of QT, and in spite of that the lived reality for most people has been cataclysmic, with food bank usage and homelessness reaching insane records. The idea that cold places like Edmonton have huge tent cities because normal people can't afford homes anymore ought to be a wake-up call. If the government does what they did in 2008 or 2020, it's only going to make that worse, and we could have a Sri Lanka situation on our hands.
Another huge thing is the "muh GDP" meme. Just because the GDP number goes up doesn't mean your quality of life did. You don't get paid in GDP, you get paid in whatever your employer pays you. If your rent goes up, that increases GDP even though your life just got worse. If your pay goes down but they hire a bunch of foreigners who live 25 to a basement as was discovered a few years ago in Brampton, GDP goes up even though your life just got worse.
A hypothetical 2025 recession wouldn't look anything like the 2008 or 2020 recessions, because there's no dry powder left. Most governments have been running up debt like there's literally no tomorrow, with the US doubling its debt every 4-8 years, Canada tripling its debt in the past 15 years, inflation still running hot in most places in spite of years of QT, and in spite of that the lived reality for most people has been cataclysmic, with food bank usage and homelessness reaching insane records. The idea that cold places like Edmonton have huge tent cities because normal people can't afford homes anymore ought to be a wake-up call. If the government does what they did in 2008 or 2020, it's only going to make that worse, and we could have a Sri Lanka situation on our hands.
Another huge thing is the "muh GDP" meme. Just because the GDP number goes up doesn't mean your quality of life did. You don't get paid in GDP, you get paid in whatever your employer pays you. If your rent goes up, that increases GDP even though your life just got worse. If your pay goes down but they hire a bunch of foreigners who live 25 to a basement as was discovered a few years ago in Brampton, GDP goes up even though your life just got worse.
Seems like a lot of people in tech are having a midlife crisis in front of everyone.
Maybe not such a bad thing, there was a long period where society idolized tech founders as gods among men, so maybe people can stop automatically assuming that success automatically equals virtue.
In fact, the sort of stable and boring but competent leadership you want from a company that makes up most of your portfolio (both Mag 7 and the faang stocks before them were all tech stocks) is incompatible with the sort of risk taking that is required to create such a company in the first place.
In reality, a company that makes screwdrivers really well is equally or perhaps more important to the world than a company that makes a website, but tech is a self-fulfilling prophecy -- people think it's the next big thing, so they dump money into it, and so it becomes the next big thing. That's why PE ratios for tech companies are consistently higher than in other industries. That's why the smallest car company in the world has a larger market cap than most other car companies on earth combined, because they were able to convince people they were a "tech" company instead of a car company. In alternative universe, Klein or Snap-on could have become similarly insane if they managed to pull off the same jedi mind trick, and we'd be treating the CEO of those companies like they were geniuses instead of shysters.
Maybe not such a bad thing, there was a long period where society idolized tech founders as gods among men, so maybe people can stop automatically assuming that success automatically equals virtue.
In fact, the sort of stable and boring but competent leadership you want from a company that makes up most of your portfolio (both Mag 7 and the faang stocks before them were all tech stocks) is incompatible with the sort of risk taking that is required to create such a company in the first place.
In reality, a company that makes screwdrivers really well is equally or perhaps more important to the world than a company that makes a website, but tech is a self-fulfilling prophecy -- people think it's the next big thing, so they dump money into it, and so it becomes the next big thing. That's why PE ratios for tech companies are consistently higher than in other industries. That's why the smallest car company in the world has a larger market cap than most other car companies on earth combined, because they were able to convince people they were a "tech" company instead of a car company. In alternative universe, Klein or Snap-on could have become similarly insane if they managed to pull off the same jedi mind trick, and we'd be treating the CEO of those companies like they were geniuses instead of shysters.
If youre in the scenario described, yes -- among other things.
Sun Tzu says you must win the victory before fighting the battle. This means finding a set of conditions where you can succeed. If there are no conditions where you can succeed, then you need to give up on your current strategy.
If you're homeless, about to lose the car you live in, have no money and no prospects for money, then your priority shouldn't be trying to become an elite by going to college. You need to be focusing on the immediate bottom of Maslow's hierarchy of needs -- finding long term shelter, finding food, securing your things such as your car so it doesn't get impounded when you can't afford insurance or after it runs out of fuel.
In the Graysonian Ethic I described how I had to drop out of college because I was in a no-win scenario, in my case it was a 2-hour commute each way that meant there was no way I could pass my course. In my case, I took the financial hit, went back to work, then tried again in a few years. Failure is an option, and it sucks, but sometimes you have to manage the failure. Nothing in the post suggested for example that the author was in their last semester of a high paying program, so you can't keep living in your car for years with no income and expect to get through college. Eventually just your situation will lead you to flunking out, but moreover, what if you graduate and can't get a job right away? You're not necessarily any better off than you were. If the OP has a few credits maybe they can start over when they're in a better place, just like I did, but at this point each day is a phyrric victory.
First step should be finding shelter, perhaps in a homeless shelter for now. There are programs in most provinces for helping people get back on their feet, might as well make use of them. The food banks are struggling because it's Trudeau's Canada, but they can still be utilized. Going out and finding a crap job isn't going to hurt, it'll mean some cash flow if they want their car to not be impounded, if they aren't living in their car maybe they can do Lyft or something on the side.
Sun Tzu says you must win the victory before fighting the battle. This means finding a set of conditions where you can succeed. If there are no conditions where you can succeed, then you need to give up on your current strategy.
If you're homeless, about to lose the car you live in, have no money and no prospects for money, then your priority shouldn't be trying to become an elite by going to college. You need to be focusing on the immediate bottom of Maslow's hierarchy of needs -- finding long term shelter, finding food, securing your things such as your car so it doesn't get impounded when you can't afford insurance or after it runs out of fuel.
In the Graysonian Ethic I described how I had to drop out of college because I was in a no-win scenario, in my case it was a 2-hour commute each way that meant there was no way I could pass my course. In my case, I took the financial hit, went back to work, then tried again in a few years. Failure is an option, and it sucks, but sometimes you have to manage the failure. Nothing in the post suggested for example that the author was in their last semester of a high paying program, so you can't keep living in your car for years with no income and expect to get through college. Eventually just your situation will lead you to flunking out, but moreover, what if you graduate and can't get a job right away? You're not necessarily any better off than you were. If the OP has a few credits maybe they can start over when they're in a better place, just like I did, but at this point each day is a phyrric victory.
First step should be finding shelter, perhaps in a homeless shelter for now. There are programs in most provinces for helping people get back on their feet, might as well make use of them. The food banks are struggling because it's Trudeau's Canada, but they can still be utilized. Going out and finding a crap job isn't going to hurt, it'll mean some cash flow if they want their car to not be impounded, if they aren't living in their car maybe they can do Lyft or something on the side.
One thing people need to understand about Justin Trudeau's "resignation" is that it actually prolonged his regime.
Things were looking like his regime was going to effectively end by March and we would be into another election. By proroguing parliament and holding a new leadership race, he's effectively set himself up to hold onto power until the next election.
His resignation was a political move, and one that he himself criticized in his predecessor, Stephen Harper, who prorogued parliament on December 30, 2009 to prevent his failing government from facing a non-confidence vote. In their 2015 platform they called this practice out directly, and in 2017 as part of government the Liberals claimed they were still dedicated to not using the practice.[1] In fact, to make the point Trudeau refused to prorogue his parliament for the entire 4 year term, which is unprecedented. (He's on video somewhere chirping Harper, but it's amazing to say that every piece of video from that era that could look bad for the left magically disappears)
His second term was no longer a cozy majority, so he prorogued parliament in 2020, shutting down investigations into the fact that he's a corrupt piece of garbage. So it isn't like this is a new thing.
Regardless, we're stuck until March now, and it'll take time to get the no confidence motion through, by the time the election starts we're not going to be far from the election we were supposed to have anyway by law. And Trudeau will have escaped the personal defeat he so richly deserves.
[1] https://www.canada.ca/en/leader-government-house-commons/services/reform-standing-orders-house-commons/2017/march.html
[2] https://www.parl.ca/Committees/en/AMAD?parl=42&session=1
Things were looking like his regime was going to effectively end by March and we would be into another election. By proroguing parliament and holding a new leadership race, he's effectively set himself up to hold onto power until the next election.
His resignation was a political move, and one that he himself criticized in his predecessor, Stephen Harper, who prorogued parliament on December 30, 2009 to prevent his failing government from facing a non-confidence vote. In their 2015 platform they called this practice out directly, and in 2017 as part of government the Liberals claimed they were still dedicated to not using the practice.[1] In fact, to make the point Trudeau refused to prorogue his parliament for the entire 4 year term, which is unprecedented. (He's on video somewhere chirping Harper, but it's amazing to say that every piece of video from that era that could look bad for the left magically disappears)
His second term was no longer a cozy majority, so he prorogued parliament in 2020, shutting down investigations into the fact that he's a corrupt piece of garbage. So it isn't like this is a new thing.
Regardless, we're stuck until March now, and it'll take time to get the no confidence motion through, by the time the election starts we're not going to be far from the election we were supposed to have anyway by law. And Trudeau will have escaped the personal defeat he so richly deserves.
[1] https://www.canada.ca/en/leader-government-house-commons/services/reform-standing-orders-house-commons/2017/march.html
[2] https://www.parl.ca/Committees/en/AMAD?parl=42&session=1
