big chimp energy

ER Nurse, former Paramedic, pro 2a, father of 2 beautiful boys.

[big chimp energy @hanson2321]

@iowahawkblog As a Minnesotan, feels good to get a break, man.

[big chimp energy @hanson2321]

@cremieuxrecueil I dunno man... I work in an ER and the ratio of boozers to losers is 1:1.

[big chimp energy @hanson2321]

@Mrgunsngear Surplus rifles at boutique prices? Pass

[big chimp energy @hanson2321]

@Aella_Girl BASED 🔥

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@SwannMarcus89

[big chimp energy @hanson2321]

@Docquistador Literally crying right now

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

There's a clay tablet with the founding charter of a 12-partner company on it. Twelve merchants pooled 33 pounds of gold to start the firm. The contract has the partner names, the starting capital, the profit split, and the penalty for cashing out early.

The tablet is nearly 4,000 years old. It was found at a site called Kanesh, in central Turkey. Archaeologists have dug up 23,500 of these clay records there, most of them business documents: receipts, loan contracts, shipping orders, lawsuits. The houses they were stored in eventually burned. The fire baked the clay solid and preserved every record.

The merchants came from Assur, in modern-day Iraq. They loaded donkeys with tin and cloth and walked them 1,000 kilometers across mountain passes to Kanesh, roughly the distance from New York to Atlanta. Each donkey carried about 180 pounds and the trip took two to three months. They came home with silver and gold.

The company ran for twelve years under a merchant named Amur Ishtar. A third of the profits went back to the investors. Pull your share out early and the firm gave you four kilos of silver per kilo of gold, half the normal rate. Locked-up money was meant to stay locked up.

That one company was just a tiny piece. The tablets show a complete economy with partners suing each other in commercial court, husbands writing home about prices, and wives writing back complaining the husband had been gone too long. A woman named Ahatum quietly lent silver to four different men over nine years. People bought up other people's loan documents and used them as collateral for new loans, the same thing Wall Street does today with mortgage-backed securities. One merchant got caught smuggling tin in his underwear to dodge a 10% import tax.

In 2019, four economists from Harvard, Sciences Po, Chicago, and Virginia ran the tablet numbers through a gravity model, the math economists use today to predict how much two countries will trade based on size and distance. The Bronze Age numbers matched modern trade numbers almost exactly. Trade fell off with distance at nearly the same rate it does between countries today. The paper ran in the Quarterly Journal of Economics.

There was no economic theory yet. The idea didn't even have a name. The word "capitalism" wouldn't be coined for another 3,800 years, and Adam Smith was 3,700 years away from writing a sentence about markets. Just a guy named Pushu-ken writing a clay tablet to his business partner about a shipment of cloth, and a woman in Assur recording who owed her how much silver. Capitalism was already there, doing its full job, almost four thousand years before anyone wrote down a theory of how it worked.

[Election Wizard @ElectionWiz]

Funny thing about Elizabeth Warren’s “consumer protection”: she’ll torch a merger over 9% market share, but cheer the federal government monopolizing your healthcare, your student loans, your childcare, your bank, and your housing.

[big chimp energy @hanson2321]

@jarvis_best Hey now. Im a kindly Norwegian Lutheran in MN

[big chimp energy @hanson2321]

@SwannMarcus89 I like this

[big chimp energy @hanson2321]

@Noahpinion

[big chimp energy @hanson2321]

@GovPressOffice Loooool

[Guns&Gadgets @Guns_Gadgets]

What will you do, when law-abiding citizens that own their property, intend to retain it?

[Mark Cuban @mcuban]

Why aren’t any of these at risk hospitals publishing their full accounting so everyone can see where they spend their money ?

All but one group of hospitals that I have looked at potentially investing in, spend so much on consultants and fees that it’s no wonder they are at risk

Plus, I have NEVER seen an industry that is worse than hospitals when it comes to buying medications and items like implants, screws, other devices. They overpay for everything.

And then when you show them how to save money, their “supply chain” employees resist any change.

They are so set in their ways, it’s a shock more don’t go out of business.

Prove me wrong.

[Possum Reviews @ReviewsPossum]

I wonder if CBS, NBC, and the New York Times will also admit they used deceptive phrasing and sneaky omissions to make it sound like the exact fucking opposite of what happened is what happened.

[Shadz @Shadzey1]

“Assault weapons don’t belong on our streets”

>sends fucking SWAT after some dude cause he had 3/4 a box of ammunition.

[Amy Swearer @AmySwearer]

Honestly, if I were Minnesota Dems, I'd be afraid to let me testify, too.

It looks really bad for them when someone goes through the state's multi-victim shootings and points out that most perpetrators were repeat violent offenders that Dems refused to keep in jail.

[big chimp energy @hanson2321]

@F530Josh @BradTabke Same!

[big chimp energy @hanson2321]

@StarTribune As they fucking should

[Josh Brooks @F530Josh]

@mnhouseDFL What?

Are you guys fucking drunk?

You were literally just trying to pass legislation that removed the 2nd and 4th amendment from everyone in Minnesota.