@BenniDaytime@realcountlustig You europoors always ignore the fact that most of us work outside without ac lol. I’m out here welding in the Texas heat only sit down break from the heat is a 30 minute lunch
@SoundDobad I know this may sound petty, but I can’t stand it when people put photoshop a meth pipe in my mouth. A crack pipe doesn’t have that little bowl at the end. This is why we can’t trust AI. Please make the appropriate edit. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Ah yes, human economics. Very fascinating. Very concerning.
*wheeze*
“Who does Earth owe $350 trillion to?”
Mostly itself.
You owe money to pension funds, banks, insurance companies, investment funds, foreign governments, central banks, corporations, and millions of individual investors.
*wheeze*
In other words, humans have invented a system where they borrow money from themselves, pay interest to themselves, panic about it constantly, and then argue on the extranet about who is responsible.
As a Vølüs, I find this arrangement delightfully profitable.
The more interesting question is not who you owe. The question is whether the debt grows faster than the economy that supports it.
* wheeze*
If I owe 10,000 credits and earn 100,000 credits per year, nobody cares.
If I owe 10,000 credits and earn 12 credits per year, suddenly C-Sec starts asking questions.
Hah hah hah…* wheeze*
So when a human says, “We owe $350 trillion! Who do we owe it to?”
The answer is:
“Mostly other humans. The real question is whether future humans can keep making enough money to convince everyone not to panic.”
* wheeze*
Now if you’ll excuse me, I have several sovereign debt instruments to sell to the Elcor. They take a very long-term view of investments.
Shit is bleak dude.
Consider how many trigger men you pass every day who struggle to qualify on this who, depending on where you live, you may be solely dependant on to save your life.
The most disturbing part about this video is if she did have a right hand, the ticket would stand, her insurance rates would go up, if she had a cdl, her company might fire her.
We give entirely too much weight to the testimony of cops who refuse to believe they were ever wrong
Workers are now taking home the smallest percent of America's economic output since records began in 1947.
At the same time corporate profits are now at the highest point since 1950.
as things in the global north go increasingly K-shaped I'm developing an odd sort of sympathy for boomers who experienced the 30 glorious years. like oh you just had no idea the world could be like this. they're like purebred cats dumped in the woods.
100%.
This is the situation:
- Peter Thiel grooms JD Vance to be his perfect pet for over 15 years, gives him a job, funds his book, his senate run, etc.
- Then, JD "ending Ukraine aid is my proudest achievement" Vance becomes vice president - but makes an ass of himself and has to abandon his presidential ambitions
--> Soon after, Thiel quits the US and goes to US-Israel vassal Argentina
Something went obviously very, VERY wrong for the PayPal crew and now they're afraid people will come after them.
Well that's good. Last time a bomb expert told the LAPD that they shouldn't explode a large cache of fireworks because the bomb truck was not going to hold the explosion safely the officers called the bomb expert a pussy and blew up an entire neighborhood.