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  • Federal Reserve hasn’t raised the interbank lending rate yet. So speculation over values 60 year domination schemes over actual consumer value vs cost now.

    As long as you give banks artificially cheap loans with money printed on demand, the bubble can keep going and they can fund R&D we will regret later. Regret it because it doesn’t need to satisfy a customer or use only a reasonable amount of resources. It just has to attract investors with the promise that it will attract investors with the promise that it will attract investors. It doesn’t need a customer when you’ve messed with interest rates.

    Your econ class only told you lowering interest rates increases jobs in the short term. It didn’t tell you why. It adds jobs doing less strictly productive things. Long term all economies tend to the same employment level anyway. And long term lowered interest rates tend a market toward bullshit. We get more work but less consumer satisfaction. That’s really to say the cost of living goes up with respect to an hour of work. And you have to compete as a consumer for resources with firms that have access to infinite cheap money.








  • Maybe they’ll do the same thing as China. Leaving their international airports functional while locking down their cities, intentionally infecting as many places as possible. And then legit Xi goes on air to scold other nations telling them they need to learn how to do international cooperation.

    Everything was closed in Wuhan except outbound international flights.


  • Maybe republics don’t work. Maybe it just creates a permanent, insufficiently accountable, political class that has to sell out the people to retain power.

    My solution, and you are going to laugh, Switzerland. You should be laughing because Switzerland is labeled a republic. But it’s not a pure republic. It has significantly more direct democracy. The mechanisms provided by a republic alone just don’t do the thing they are labeled as doing. It doesn’t give you politicians that are accountable to you. It just doesn’t.

    Or maybe we should just let Switzerland expand slowly into France. Not by war. But by recognizing a better model is worth growing. And France shouldn’t feel threatened by it. If the politicians represented the people they should be happy for every French that finds himself with a better life on the other side of a border. Richer too because property value will go up the second the line moves. But politicians don’t care about the people. They seek power. And loss of land is fewer people to have power over. So they would throw a fit. But that fit would only prove the point that those politicians don’t have your interests, so it’s proof the boarder should move.

    Let’s grow Switzerland by 3% a year, as long as it has higher quality of life associated with it and is growing a smaller country into a large one. That creates competition that would actually incentive politicians. It would end up being a self-failing prophecy. France would improve with better incentives, tying what politicians want (authority) to what we want (better lives). And then it would stop being necessary. Then people can go back to lying to themselves about pure republics working.


  • Americans storm the capital building. “Worst event in American history”

    I wonder why people don’t revolt in the US? Maybe because people get upset over politicians feeling scared.

    Even if you don’t like the exact reasons why they entered, or had cops opened doors for them, it did have one effect. Politicians now know people can come through those doors on any other day over any other issue, so they better not make it worth it in general.


  • False. There is a U bend between the bladder and the end. Nothing on the bladder end will fix anything. The residual in the pipe gets squeezed out when walking.

    I’m going to wake people up to an uncomfortable truth. You already wear diapers. That’s what underwear is. Diapers used to be reusable and washable. We just don’t like to perceive it that way. We lie to ourselves about what underwear is for. And underwear is why pants last forever and shirts don’t. Call me weird but I stopped having this problem when I swallowed my pride and accepted this fact, and realized not all underwear is doing the job we don’t want to admit it’s for very well.

    Wear double underwear. One absorbent, one slick. Same properties as a diaper.

    So woah dude, you’re wearing an actual diaper shamelessly then? Yeah. We all are. You are too. The difference is mine works.

    Other benefit. Because the thing keeping your pants fresh is actually working, now your pants really last forever.