Spigueira

International Economics

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Slaughtering is not the hardest part in maintaining an omnivore diet, it's the deterioration of our ecosystem. In a world where systemic problems require catastrophes to resolve them, veganism represents an individual problem most viable to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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Grazing pastures are not natural since they take over land that's meant for wildlife like wolf prey. The circle of life needs a wolf and not a human killing wolfs to protect their pasture grazing cattle. Apex predatores are meant to maintain ecosystems and not destroy them.

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On 500 square meters, about 30 of our chickens left the ground barren after 2 months of grazing. After that, the daily feed was 5 kilos of shredded corn and oats as well as 10 liters of water. Excrement was always everywhere. Roosters fought to the death for this number of hens.

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I used to farm chickens. For the usual taste, the chickens are forbidden to move comfortably, eat nutritiously and age decently. If you treat chickens like pets, they taste horrible. Therefore, there is no happy life for a good tasting chicken. The happier, the less edible.

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Better late than never: the price of oil is a proxy for the Gulf region’s economy.

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If the generational shift toward lower marginal utility of oil doesn’t happen, and AI fails to boost productivity, then inflation containment has little ground to stand on.

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Fascinating how circular finance can be the better short-term option for competitors.

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An exciting AI use case in finance is high frequency barter. It makes tokenisation, the marketable front end of a deeper transformation, obsolete. Politically, global reserve currency institutions will obstruct the transition from stablecoins to high-frequency barter.

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Justice needs a critical uncompromising minority. #govegan

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Today it's crucial for men to push through to make something of themselves through giving their input for the system's evolution and last but not least become good role models themselves.

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The risks of AI amplify its short-term disruption. The Iceberg Index contextualizes the labor market across historical cycles. Finally, in the AI industry, labeling expenditures as “training” can serve accounting purposes and improve financial optics.

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Hormuz disruptions hit within weeks. With reserves still below pre-Ukraine war levels, the margin for error is thin.

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It's ridiculous of how AI research began with gated up-to-date training data before solving the alignement problem. Meanwhile, AI is far from aligned but Scam Altman still jumps on war contracts and governments don't c the need for preventional education on products like OpenClaw

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so the Zuck was pushed to ban children's use of his products. Ethical policy does eliminate the wild west way of doing things in big tech. The broader picture suggest partly the no-ownership future which is just getting started

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Obvious stagflation ahead with non-premature deflation on the longer term

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It seems that private credit filled the void of a financing demand gap that predatory mortgage backed securities left after 2008. Tokenization is the next predator if the party of interest and the privatization doesn't change.

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Trump on Netanyahu: " ...it's coordinated but on occasion he'll do something and if I don't like it and so we're not doing that anymore." I love the coherence lol

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I see Bitcoin touching the high to mid 40 thousands. This will be the best bargain to enter massively.

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When it comes to AI consciousness, who cares about semanics in case of misalignment?!