the paradoxy of tariffs:
they’re at the same time high enough that the people suffer paying them,
but at the same time, if people got the money back they paid previously, suddenly everybody complains it’s so minisculely little that it doesn’t help anyone and nobody can buy anything with it.
It’s actually a bit more assuming wealthy people spend more on consumption than poorer people, and therefore also pay more import tariffs. If the tax credit is distributed to everyone equally, then poorer people get more than they spent.
Problem is, i really really doubt Trump is ever gonna help the people at all. He’s probably gonna say it a thousand times so his republican voters can say “he’s the good guy”, then he’s gonna deliver the thinnest of excuses for why he can’t actually do it and blame somebody else for it.
I don’t like calling it a “K-shaped” economy because it sounds like “ok-shaped economy” if you talk to people, and the economy is very much not OK.
I’d rather call it a “R-shaped economy”, where “R” stands for republicans but also for ruin.
I’m thinking that the US needs to go back to A/B testing. The “christians” in the midwest think social safety nets and “free handouts” should be illegal? They can get that. The countries who want them handouts, however, get them. And in 30 years we compare how’s everyone doing.
I’m very not sure about how to evaluate the end of the shutdown.
On the one side, they didn’t pull through with playing hardball, on the other hand, I’m not sure whether people would have gotten better results if the shutdown would have gone on for longer.
oh boy do i have news for you …
thanks, i figured it out. i had multiple older versions of youtube-dlp and yt-dlp installed on my machine. once i removed them, it worked.
the contents of my ~/.config/mpv/mpv.conf file is now:
script-opts=ytdl_hook-ytdl_path=/home/user/.bin/yt-dlp
yeah this time it’s actually a bad example since they did semi-fuck up. but i’ve been thinking that thought in general.
wait people breathe more than once every 8 seconds?
i measured my breathing speed and it’s about 8 seconds each.
* except when doing physical fitness
“she will get bored” a.k.a. she is young and wants to make lots of different experiences in life.
what if she’s older and has already made these experiences?
I believe OPs story is how it originally worked in a lot of traditional marriages. Women stays home but keeps a close eye on any business activity her man does. Since he earns a lot of money when he’s productive, she tries to keep him productive by pushing him in the right way. That’s how marriage worked. That was a long time ago, however, and such a strategy would not make sense today because people rarely stay together long enough for such a game to pay off for the women.
Also note that i’ve observed that there’s whole swaths of areas which seem to have the same/similar personality type. Like, i grew up in some backwards country village, and all the people there seemed to have a very specific type of mentality that i didn’t share (which is why i hated it there). Note: i was an immigrant child. After moving to the big city, i met much more like-minded people, and everything got better.
My lesson is: In some areas, even large parts of land, people are very similar and if you don’t get along with them, it’s probably best if you move somewhere completely else instead of trying to stay and make friends with them.
I doubt that’s it and it’s most likely just cowards within the party caving to corporate interests.
I also want to point out that no honorable person goes into politics (at least not the high levels where they could have high impact) because a lot of people like you always shit on them whatever they do anyways. There’s no recognition, there’s no thanks from the population, you’re always constantly fighting and attacked even by those that you are supposed to care about. Why would any sane person go through this?
I’m asking you to reflect on what you’re saying and whether it really helps us get better people into government.
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I read an article a while ago that said that nuclear weapons tests (yes, only the tests) caused 10 million people worldwide to die from cancer. This is solely due to the radioactive fallout from the tests. This does not include any weapons actually hitting cities or living people directly.
Holy shit this sounds fantastic!
Only issue i have is mpv seems to use its built-in yt-dlp which is an old version that youtube is blocking now. I have a newer version of yt-dlp installed on my computer, but mpv does not seem to use that. What can i do?
plot twist: they’re rabbits.