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Exhibit A:
“Japan is sending all these cars, and what do we get?”
“…the cars?”
Oh damn, I thought this was the same story as earlier when the details weren’t known yet.
Holy shit, that’s unbelievable. So they found the carceral equivalent of “it can’t be undone cuz it’s on the blockchain”.
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38·1 day agotar nation
No, zip nation. You just said so.
We’ve had first stock market crash, yes. But what about second stock market crash?
61·1 day agoI remember watching a Noam Chomsky talk where he said replacing USD as the global reserve currency could be a good thing for ordinary Americans, long-term.
I don’t think he had anything like this in mind for how to do it though.
It’s no use! He’s such an incredible innovator, he’ll just be a billionaire again by next year!
If only this could’ve been avoided.
If only there were some sort of “due procedure” where facts could be presented as “evidently” in some sort of “room of law” and sort some of “evaluator person” could come up with a “deciding” on what to do with an accused person.
Speaking nonstop for 6 hours without using the bathroom, drinking water, sitting down, leaning on a podium, or even placing your hand on a solid surface isn’t my idea of easy.
Really?
The most warned-about person in the history of the world?
With their most warned-about policy?
Giving them the power to do it was a mistake?
What’s next, we shouldn’t drink bleach?
I got it from You Are Not So Smart, but yes — same study.
I take your point, but I’ll offer a couple other things to consider:
All social science findings are, to at least some degree, propaganda1. Everything about them is steeped in social influence, and they only make sense in context of a given society.
That’s why I think the socio-economic finding is actually more true than the delayed gratification finding. It broadens the scope of the considered influences, beyond the individual.
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1 I say this with respect. Because here I am, doing propaganda. Seriously. I don’t like how our society acts like individuals have immutable traits and the world sorts them fairly according to their evaluated worth. Meritocracy is a joke, and we’d all be better off to consider material conditions and moral luck.
Neo-cons: Man, I wish we could just liquidate the entire country.
MMT: We’ve been looking at the national debt all wrong. It’s not a burden, it’s a measure of all the assets in the country. The only way to “pay off” the national debt would be to liquidate the entire country.
Neo-cons: Repeat that last part? … Guys, I have an idea. I really, really care about the national debt. It’s a big problem. We gotta solve it. Who’s with me?
GOP: His only real crime was spending money in Europe.
It’s all part of it.
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When you complain about Big Balls at DOGE, it makes you sound ridiculous, which makes it easier to dismiss your concerns.