This is pretty cool.
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Fun video but reminds me of a pet peeve. Which is describing something as 10,000 times slower than something else. For whatever reason I just can’t interpret that easily. Am I alone on this?
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Taking jobs away from real americans.
That was very cool.
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Seems fine? If it’s an English grammar thing I’d never notice.
Nice little parable about money
When I was ~ 8 years old I was riding in the back of a station wagon that my mom was backing out of a driveway into the right lane closest to the driveway.
A motorcyclist came over the crest of a hill to our left at approximately 70 mph. (in a 40) He panicked and smashed the breaks laying his bike down and skidding 130 feet at which point his helmeted head smashed through the passenger window next to me. I, luckily, had not put on my seat belt yet and scooted over.
Guy was related to the officer on the scene. Cop was gonna write it up as no fault until my dad got there and raised all kinds of hell.
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Rip Paul Mooney we speak your name
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Seems like a poor parable, because in reality, almost everyone owes their money to a few different banks.
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Also, as much as I have shit on libertarians in my lifetime, fractional reserve banking is kinda fucked up. That, and that ACism is kinda fucked up, were my main revelations from my detailed dialog with Borodog during the Politics exile.
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This reporting has everything about America in it. Some history, Black Lives Matter protestors, a good ol’ boys town with a Sheriff who’s about law and order but mysteriously keeps arresting only Black Lives Matter protestors, and a loser who finds family and redemption (in a bad way) in reactionary politics
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I like to think that I’m pretty informed about how rooted and steeped in racism this country is, but still when I read this I felt some disbelief that this town exists in 2021 America.
https://twitter.com/chris_notcapn/status/1395217603048640521
Around 5:14 p.m., RCMP said a man in a pickup truck was pulled over by an officer for stunting on a highway around 98 Street and 101 Avenue in Grande Prairie.
RCMP said after the first traffic stop, the man was pulled over again, a few blocks away, for stunting.
After the officer ticketed the driver at the second stop, he drove away, hitting the officer with his pickup truck, according to RCMP. The officer followed the truck, pulled it over for a third time and additional officers were called.
Can one of you LOL Canadians tell me wtf “stunting” means?
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WTF sounds like basically everything a cop could possibly write a ticket for.
“Having a green piece of paper with a white man’s face on it doesn’t make you rich.”
Yes, and it overlooks the basic argument for borrowing/lending in the economy. The implication in the parable is that all debt is consumer debt, like they all borrowed $100 to buy something from another service provider. But “useful” debt is a step in the process of capital formation → capital investment → economic growth. Obviously given the state of the world we should question how valuable this process is vs. alternatives but I think that parable probably resonates better with someone whose experience with debt it limited to their own personal consumer borrowing.
I think this pattern is common in towns with one or a couple of blue collar key employers. For many years the health of the town depended on Democrat support for unions, but when those blue collar jobs died all that was left to be political about was racism.
I subscribe to Davison’s Foreign Exchanges newsletter and he’s been slightly skeptical of the claims. I basically haven’t followed the story at all myself, so don’t yell at me, but from what I vaguely gather the issue is, at least until recently, that much of the reporting was the work of a single journalist. I can’t find Derek’s previous takes but here’s the most recent one:
For those of you who, like me, struggle to get a handle on what’s really happening in Xinjiang and how to separate legitimate reporting from claims made by shady actors with obvious agendas, Al Jazeera has published a new piece by academics Azeezah Kanji and David Palumbo-Liu that I think makes one of the stronger cases for a systemic Chinese campaign against the Uyghurs that I’ve seen. It may not convince you and I’m not saying it should, but I think it’s worth a read. While we’re on the subject, a new Reuters report this week claims, albeit anecdotally, that Chinese authorities are demolishing or at least seriously renovating mosques throughout the Xinjiang region.
It’s not at issue whether there’s an authoritarian crackdown, what’s being contested is whether this rises to the level of something like genocide. I don’t think it’s unreasonable to suspect the US and the West more broadly of using these claims for political propaganda, as has usually been the case with human rights rhetoric. That doesn’t of course mean the claims aren’t true, but there’s also nothing that can reasonably be done about how China conducts itself domestically, and I don’t think we’re in any danger of the Chinese government becoming wildly popular in the West, so erring on the side of excessive rather than insufficient skepticism about these claims seems prudent. That’s a 30,000 foot take, cause like I said I have no idea about any of the details.
Is a bell tattoo (liberty bell, I think) a right wing / white supremacist thing? Seen a couple on fashy dudes, wasn’t sure if it was a thing or just a coincidence