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[whippingstar @axialarray]

legendary post

[RÈBELs RÄÎDÈRs @Rebels_Raiders]

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.

[whippingstar @axialarray]

except that this "perfectly valid reason" is completely unacceptable in a functioning society

[Jarvis @jarvis_best]

I try not to contradict Nate very often but there’s a perfectly valid reason why it takes so long to count votes in California. Here is a typical timeline:

Election Day: everyone votes

Week 1: mail in ballots, absentee ballots, military ballots, overseas ballots, ballots accidentally issued to people’s pets, and ballots harvested from Skid Row start trickling in.

Week 2: As the ballots pile up, Officials consider appointing a Committee to Count Ballots.

Week 3: Committee to Count Ballots is appointed and commences discussion on electing a chairman.

Week 4: deadline for ballots from illegal immigrants.

Week 5: Committee decides that “chairman” is an outdated term and will be replaced by a term to be decided later once the Committee to Count Ballots Diversity Consultants finishes their report.

Week 6: fraudulent ballots from the Chinese Communist Party arrive.

Week 7: The Committee elects as Chairzerxon a nonbinary disabled child to count the ballots.

Week 8: it is discovered that the Chairzerxon does not actually know how to count.

Week 9: the ballots are thrown away and the Committee announces election results that are entirely made up.

[whippingstar @axialarray]

@wil_da_beast630 let me know when they lay a keel

[David Burge @iowahawkblog]

The average European dies of heat exhaustion inside an un-air conditioned pay toilet during a brutal 78 F heat wave

[whippingstar @axialarray]

@Pen2Paper97 @LAHero333 @emeriticus like me tell you a story about reproducibility and the the two most pseudo-scientific domains in history kid

[whippingstar @axialarray]

@sircalebhammer as long as they make it look nice. i do get tired of the same prefabbed concrete whatever over and over again.

[whippingstar @axialarray]

@Grady_Booch @elonmusk "philosopher"

lol

[whippingstar @axialarray]

@Steve_Sailer @cremieuxrecueil or, you know, driving your fucking self places

[Curtis Yarvin @curtis_yarvin]

Yes he’s going to purge all the MAGA universities, the MAGA newspapers, the MAGA NGOs, the MAGA civil servants, the MAGA labor unions… heck I’ll do it myself while he waits

[whippingstar @axialarray]

@luusssso it might be possible to be more wrong but it's doubtful.

[laughs in transistor]

[whippingstar @axialarray]

@AndrewBenson "Early isn't a strategy. It's a date stamp."

at least read what chatgpt writes before you post it.

[whippingstar @axialarray]

@RichardHanania neither can you

[whippingstar @axialarray]

*laughs in Saturn V*

[Josh Kale @JoshKale]

This New Glenn rocket explosion released 20% of the energy of the Hiroshima atomic bomb and that wasn't even the bad part:

→ The pad: LC-36 is the only pad on Earth that launches New Glenn and now it's gone. Over $1B to build. SpaceX needed 7 months to rebuild after a similar hit.

→ The deadline: Amazon needs 1,618 satellites up by July 30 to keep its FCC license. It has ~300. The rocket that was supposed to help fix that just blew up twice in a row

SpaceX made us believe that landing rockets on barges was a normal expectation. Turns out rocket science is hard after all. Wishing the team a speedy recovery 🚀

[RAW EGG NATIONALIST @Babygravy9]

Apart from Anthony Bourdain, Henry Rollins is maybe the worst greyhaired shitlib moron of all time.

[どーにゃ @donyaOCer]

スコットランドグルメ、意外と侮れませんでした。期待していたよりはるかに美味しかったです。

特に美味しかったのがバーガーキングというお店のトリプルワッパーという料理でした。スコットランドに行く方はぜひお試しください！

[whippingstar @axialarray]

this guy is either gay or blind

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

The new Ferrari is beautiful for what it is. It’s just, that kind of aesthetic is over. A new world awaits.

[whippingstar @axialarray]

@avidseries @EndWokeness good? she has be to breaking some sort of religious law here. it’s terrible that America would cause someone to disregard their own religion

[whippingstar @axialarray]

@9mmsmg gay

[whippingstar @axialarray]

@curtis_yarvin if no one present is going to attempt to stop them then we deserve what we get