Starting a war with the people who control the trade lines that brings fertilizer right before spring is how you can tell no one in the WH knows what they're doing.
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Starting a war with the people who control the trade lines that brings fertilizer right before spring is how you can tell no one in the WH knows what they're doing.
anyways. we’ll start knowing how bad it is in a couple of weeks and if the sources of those disruptions don’t get better by then, its going to get weird in all sorts of unexpected ways that take months to get back to normal. for the time being, its all bad news unfortunately. :(
essentially everything everywhere has some room for quantity variability and most things in most places have buffers for timing variability, but when buffers are exhausted and the disruptions move downstream effects start compounding and the slope of the economic effect starts getting way steeper
generally the rule with the global economy is that it can get through a really bad thing happening, many bad things happening in a lot of places, or a bad thing happening that lasts for a long time. its the combinations of those when the wheels really start coming undone
did you start DTF St Louis? its a lot better than you would expect it to be.
The H5N1 bird flu virus has been confirmed in northern elephant seals on the California coast. Just a few years ago, the virus decimated southern elephant seal populations in South America. @susrust.bsky.social www.latimes.com/science/stor...
the recent jerryrigged review was the first time that a car review video has made me lust after a car i have no business owning
2024 volvo v60 recharge polestar PHEV for me www.motortrend.com/reviews/2024...
fwiw i actually think scrapping it all might be just as big of a mistake. hybrids and EVs will absolutely be winners and the loss of momentum was rate-driven. watch luxe auto (inc rivian) sales skyrocket as soon as cashout refi starts flowing again with the top half of mortgsge-borrower wage earners
none.. i’ve just been thinking about discworld and remembered the quote after seeing SOTU posts but i guess it works for all of those
no, frances ontiere, you failed to get the joke
one of the big global banks used to put out an annual report on zombie funds, PE and VC funds that still had assets (usually down quite a lot) but just stopped returning capital so as to not have to crystallize the loss. stopped publishing about 10y ago i think. it was more frequent than one expects
It was amazing, this mystic business. You tell them a lie, and then when you don't need it anymore you tell them another lie and tell them they're progressing along the road to wisdom. Then instead of laughing they follow you even more, hoping that at the heart of all the lies they'll find the truth
ok maybe the joke there was not as obvious as i thought
wait how is it even possible that every single woman in both teams is hot? yeah yeah young and +4sd athletic whatever but thats not this, those are all top tercile face cards. how do none or them have weird noses or crooked teeth or an unfortunate haircut like men so often seem to?
33 of the people pardoned by Trump for January 6 have committed more crimes including molesting children and killing people while drunk driving.
today i introduced the (almost) 5yo to animaniacs and then we had hot dogs and some italian orange soda. 10/10 afternoon
this is just a modern-day play on an old scheme where undocumented immigrants “rent” SSNs and the employer facilitates it. the worker has extra money withheld and the SSN’s owner gets the SS credits and the tax refund
wait DASH broke the tax-snitch model and doesn’t verify SSN/TINs? Is this just like “common knowledge” or do we have documentation?
yup. bad gamblers are all the same. they want to make it back the same way they lost it, they double down, they worsen their outcome distribution to bet on a long-shot that allows them to save face, they bleed (npi) to hold on to skew, they think they can just raise the stakes until opponents fold
yes. people use “skill” but the only real measurements we have are wages and prestige, and the latter is quite fuzzy. when you actually want to be serious instead of just spit takes on the internet the correct nomenclature is low- and high-prerequisite employment, because that is how hiring works.
The very well-accepted term for "stripping the legal protections of a minority group and then sending a paramilitary force to carry them away" is "ethnic cleansing."
They are planning to ethnically cleanse Springfield, Ohio.
Never mind the jobs you had. Tell me five classes you took in college:
History of the Soviet Secret Police
Feminist Film Theory
Morphology
Stochastic Processes
Programming Languages
the capitalization is all wrong on this. its a poor imitation with bad cadence
the online chuds are wildly underestimating how many first-time protesters are showing up to things and how fucking pissed off they are and how radicalized they become after being on the receiving side of the tear gas and police brutality. the fascists are sowing the seeds of their own demise
Weird how some drug dealers get pardons while others are subjected to extrajudicial murder just on suspicion of it.
i think about this every time i look at the latest Overdrive or Hoopla or Kanopy invoice. unless prices or demand stabilize, our budget and thus our library will soon be describable as “lessee of digital content with a legacy dead-tree side concern.” 📚
Non-protesting dad just trying to hustle his kids, as young as 6mo, out of the neighborhood. ICE threw a flash-bang INTO HIS car, all 6 kids in the hospital now.
If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.
how is an offer that is written out, responded to with acceptance, and then replied to with confirmation that it was their intent to make that offer not a binding offer? you can just renege on stuff like this????
god knows we do not allow Ms Rachel in my house (I'm sorry, I like her politics, but the show's format is not for me) but this content is the polar opposite of slop. i thought these dorks were the "word mean things!" people?