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I developed a full blown case of Stockholm syndrome when I realized Vance will be elected next. I advise you do the same.

Oh! :smile:

Money is blind. It will happily take up with dictators when the bottom line says it should. The US has a pretty big market of its own. It's well verse...

Black swan events happen often enough that every company takes risks to expand. But if anything, a lot of American companies should look for an increa...

I guess I'm looking forward to seeing how it works out. Crises can be good things, but inviting crisis is not something a wise person would do. That s...

Have you spoken with an expert in economics or geopolitics about these predictions? There are a number of educated opinions on Reddit, although the mo...

Do you feel like I don't contribute substantially? I'm asking because I'm thinking of just avoiding political discussions going forward. On this forum...

My two cents worth is that the Trump thread inevitably becomes about venting. There's a certain amount of baloney spouted by people on either side of ...

Your question presumes some higher law constraining the actions of the entity that's responsible for global trade in the first place. There is no such...

Why shouldn't we have robots produce everything and use the profits to avert climate change?

You may be right. I doubt it though.

The JOLTS jobs numbers were up. Powell is talking rate cuts. The sky hasn't fallen yet. But I did start looking at local printing costs (I make a lot ...

Trump will probably be followed by Vance, unless a Democratic superstar emerges. And even if a Democratic president follows, remember, Biden didn't re...

Slowing down in the fog is like eating spaghetti without the meatballs

The denser the fog, the more cars crash

The smaller the dog, the louder the bark.

Yes. It's a challenge.

:lol:

The futures markets say no bueno.

Apparently you can't doubt that you exist (in some sense).

I guess you could doubt them, you just exit the language game when you do.

What's the metric for success exactly?

This touches on the philosophical conundrum I mentioned earlier. How do we plan for our children? Some people plan for their welfare of their children...

Good. Me too.

Both Bitconnect and Tzeentch are having a permanently bad day.

Wow. That's clear enough.

Your point is well taken that it's precarious for any country to try to go it alone. The world we live in is a result of integration and we take that ...

It's just isolated groups that lose skills.

Doesn't the UK do automated manufacturing? Wouldn't that help the situation?

Some people will probably revert back to the stone age. People who are isolated will.

Have you ever heard of IBM? Correct.

They will stop eating avocados temporarily, but it's a very popular product in the US. I think demand will persist until American farmers start making...

I doubt it. Populism was born to be hi-jacked. They're talking about stagflation again. The fed didn't lower rates last go-round. The idea is that whe...

I didn't realize they'd said this. I'd heard Vance echoing stuff from Trump's previous presidential campaign, about jobs. It's hard to imagine Trump e...

One of the many solutions offered for global warming involved seeding clouds. It would be intentional pollution. It may still be on the table.

Vance's predictions that American manufacturing is coming back from the grave indicates a very interventionist, heading toward collectivist behavior o...

Cool. Thanks for your input.

I second that. :up:

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Does this mean I can't post a Spacetime video to explain what energy is? I've posted that thing about 5 times already.

correct.

Could you share the sources of these kinds of predictions? And here is the well known philosophical conundrum. No rational person living today will ex...

50% of all 50 percenters think 30% is too low for 25% of the 10 percenters. 60% of the 100 percenters say that 5% of the 0 percenters are 35% more lik...

In practical terms, no there isn't an end-date. In strict scientific terms, if we exhaust all available sources of CO2, then yes, the atmosphere's CO2...

Phenomenology-wise it would be a collection of experiences starting in infancy, probably diverging significantly around puberty. Some of it is imposed...

It's ok.

Each person is responsible for his or her own behavior.

A woman had a stroke and it changed her personality so she was an asshole all the time. The mute, nice person inside stares out of her eyeballs as she...

He was retarded though.

There are a lot of interpretations of the TLP, changing in character over time. I don't think any of the various interpreters can claim to have more s...