Loved those boats. ☹

Audit customers getting their money's worth, lol

Throw this clown in the woods

...not enough people are thinking about this incredible, broad, middle-class prosperity engine that once existed. I just find it a little disturbing how much American policymakers focus on this question of how much do we distribute to the losers and not enough on how do we build an economy where there aren’t so many losers in the first place.

That would get in the way of them screaming vae victis and dunking on all of us peasants

To people who are just working at Subway, it’s like, “Okay, the Left is telling me I got to go get more education and move. And the Right’s telling me I got to basically start my own chain of Subways. I just want a decent income to raise a family.” I don’t think anybody’s addressing that middle approach.

In the globalized world, everyone's standards have become unrealistic. Social media has turned the apex fallacy into a psychosis.

The linked essays are good too:

So long as the Left appears more interested in finding new enemies than in seeking new friends, it will fail to advance its many important priorities.

That pretty much sums up all politics; it's just social media grifting and roasting each other for engagement.

Guessing this is why a CSTO intervention hasn't yet been demanded despite the attacks on Armenian soil. We shall see if this just emboldens them.

Given it's a weapon against inflation that doesn't work and we have inflation coming you can probably bank on it.

My current outlook is dollar bullish until the election, as we won't get stimulus until afterwards.

It's actually just brand building and clout chasing by the WEF, lulz

As always, he proves to be one of the most savvy reporters on the planet.

Right. Pretty much everyone has already adopted Americanism to one degree or another. No need to impose it.

The tax revenue collapse for these big cities that locked down hard is going to be truly extreme.

Because it's cheaper.

Bullish

Makes sense; just about the best guided munition you can get your hands on. People will start considering comprehensive RF jamming and going back to semaphore because of this.

As always, they only abandon idiocy as a last resort

Whoda thunkt after 2008 predictable things happen????

Much like other syndromes where PCR tests are popular HINT HINT

Deliberate attacks on churches in Artsakh, and direct attacks on Armenia making a CSTO intervention nearly inevitable now. Stakes are high.

How is this different from using epoxies to print?

This gets the award for best non-humor headline of the year.

I think the point that wordpress is missing is engagement. I doubt most low-effort WP blogs and stuff are not high engagement; to some extent neither are their competition. No CMS is built around that workflow aside from SAAS like substack and locals.

I love how satire is universally the most censored. Encyclopedia Dramatica is the poster child here -- I don't think even stormfront has been booted from hosting as much as them.

At 1,550,000 bar. A wee bit impractical.

Seems that the biggest risk is that this thing mutates fast enough for the previous immunity to be irrelevant after a few months, however not in enough amount to really care that much about it. It does sound like vaccinators are at least targeting the right thing, though I remain skeptical (with this amount of mutation) that any vaccine will ultimately be effective at anything other than waving a dead chicken regarding the stop of corona. That said, it's been being waved as the magical talisman that ends lockdowns, so government and the clerisy has more or less written themselves into a corner regarding the magic necessary to "go back to normal." Perhaps that's the reason the Russians were ultimately so fast to market.

It's almost as if living up to people's expectations especially when they are unfair is the important part. People can't stop being people, unfortunately for you 😂 (and this is regardless of your gender... woe be to those without "Amor Fati"?)