Hope springs eternal.
But I feel like it gets extinguished earlier every year.
Hope springs eternal.
But I feel like it gets extinguished earlier every year.
It’s going to be Walz and Vance competing to declare how much war we’re going to declare on Iran
Excited to realize Walz is absolute shit and abandon all hope for 2025
I’m fairly certain they’d continue fighting regardless.
As insurgents, maybe. I doubt they’d be sending cruise missiles over the border if the US wasn’t passing them out.
It’s called tactics! I’ve played Risk a bunch of times, and everyone knows you plow through north Asia, then try to sneak a bunch of troops in to hold Australia or South America until the end of the game. By expanding the size of the front, you always get a huge advantage over your better supplied and more heavily armored opposition.
Also, it makes for some AMAZING HEADLINES as NAFO liberals get gassed up on the idea of Ukrainian troops marching into Moscow before winter.
You’ll take the salmon from my cold dead hands. Fucking love fish. Best food in existence.
Things are indeed fucked, but I’m hard pressed to get my hands on a sandwich for less than $5. And I can churn those fuckers out at home for half that.
I am perpetually annoyed at how expensive any kind of fresh fruit or vegetable is, though. Why can I buy a pound of chicken for less than a pound of blueberries? When did onions start running over $1/lb? Why is a bag of rice at the asian market twice the size and half the price of its equivalent in Kroger?
Still so much cheaper to dice up some potatoes and carrots, season to taste, throw them in a baking dish, and wait an hour than to go out of pocket $10-15 literally anywhere outside my home. And holy shit, breakfast tacos! Basically free in my kitchen. I can’t find anyone willing to sell them for less than $4 outside of my home.
“People care too much about things” has long been the message of South Park
South Park routinely trips over itself as it sprints between “only an insufferable liberal would care about things” and “why are people so unfathomably cruel to each other?” Empathy isn’t unknown to the writers. It just slips in and out of their memory whenever a punchline necessitates it.
ideals and aspirations for 15 year old edgy children and 50 year old edgy manchildren
The dirty truth of the human condition is how easy it can be for people to stop maturing (or outright regress) far earlier than we would like to acknowledge. And it certainly doesn’t help when Americans are the most propagandized people on earth.
Canadian marketing professor
I’m hard pressed to assemble a more cursed string of words.
Just do shit that needs to be done then tax me whatever you had to spend?
We don’t couple taxes with spending, so even that much is a farce. Whenever the US overspends (basically always) they simply cover the balance with new debt instruments. But then Congress needs to give the Treasury permission to issue more debt to go with the new spending. So they can write Treasury $1T in distributions but only give it the ability to cover $900B in spending, at which point Treasury has to decide what $100B goes unpaid.
And that brings us to the inevitably “Will Treasury pay your nan’s Social Security check this month?!” headlines (that never resolve, because SS isn’t part of the general fund, but what the fuck ever!)
Ohhh I thought you meant Cuba, Venezuela, and Haiti were commiting a genocide.
No. Sorry, that was some terrible phrasing if it came across that way.
No pets please
Something about this last bit makes me extra angry.
In fairness, this is a callback to Dr. No - the original James Bond movie. Killing a British secret agent is always a good thing.
Petrodollar doesn’t look as hot when people are migrating away from petroleum.
But also, the US Dollar has been defying socio-economic gravity for decades while the Euro and the Yen and the Ruble and the Peso all decline. “Worst since 1995” understates how overvalued the USD continues to be globally.
Also, not a good sign for anyone’s economy when you’re stockpiling gold.
Give it five days before Musk integrates a new “Bold text only for people with blue check marks” feature.
Does the paper discuss the Feel Bad Effect of having to throw away your desk every time you move apartments, because it is impossible to disassemble and transport?
Three Quarters of a Century of Triumph
it’s kind of similar to the IKEA model of providing a kit for people to assemble furniture and, afterward, feeling increased satisfaction for having accomplished something and internalizing the sense that they built the furniture
I don’t think that’s why IKEA furniture needs to be assembled. If you’ve ever tried to move a piece of pre-assembled IKEA furniture, you’ll know why it comes in pieces. There’s a reason people value hardwood. It doesn’t disintegrate as soon as you put pressure on it in the wrong direction.
if you told people to “just add water” it would break the illusion.
The illusion that butter tastes good?
I don’t think it’s fair to say he was ungenuine or just chasing a pay day.
He did a good job of delivery early on. But once he started defending George Bush Jr - a man who stacked his career on phony religious pandering - the mask dropped like a rock. No one who goes this hard for an American Christian Conservative can possibly hold the views he claimed a decade earlier.
Maybe he changed over time. Or maybe Rupert Murdoch found the price for his soul. But the guy sold out hard all through the '00s.
It’s a speculative commodity. But the real value of gold is its relative portability.
Precious metals have very limited utility value. If you’re seeing resources move out of capital development and into specie accumulation, that’s a sign the leadership doesn’t have strong long term prospects for your economy.
That, or you’re getting ready to take your nation’s financial reserves and run