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In mitigation, my wife tipped me off that it was “a weird word”.

It’s Thursday? No, that’s totally wrong. Send it back.

Conservatives were given the respect and treatment they deserved, back in those days

Once we buy, then it will dip. That’s also how investing works, in my experience

I don’t know if papering over the bad debt with TARPs was exactly a sane response, but it definitely kept the music going long enough to have looked like a good idea in retrospect.

I kind of assume anyone posting in a collapse community doesn’t need a lecture on that, though.

Small wonder, I’ve read something like fifty of his books at least once. More often twice.

Worth noting that until monetary policy changes so that housing isn’t treated as an investment, almost any collapse in prices will only set the market back a few years. Obviously not talking about a complete catastrophic collapse of the economic order, but those are harder to time.

Watched Lupin III and the Castle of Cagliostro with my kid earlier, he really clicked with it

That all-important eighth mover advantage that they teach in business school

It’s so stupid for the government to fail to provide for lawful dissent. “How do we deal with these disreputable little proles, eh? How about instead of letting them be slightly bored standing out in the weather, let’s make them into heroes and martyrs! Hmmyes, that’s the bunny.”

CFDs are a bad joke. “You don’t own the stock at all, and your purchases won’t affect the price, and we sell your buy order data to exchanges so they know how to fuck you, and if you get lucky we’ll definitely prevent your trades - but hey, happy trading!”

The really crucial thing is to have enemies who are subordinate to an Ethics Review Board.

I am in awe

Did they raise you themselves, and do you have a subtly different culture than others because of it?

I left America and I sometimes struggle not to be self-loathing about it. I love a lot of American-made culture, but it pains me to see people who prefer the giant trucks, the myth of “rugged individualism”, and the false machismo around guns, misogyny, and nationalistic tendencies.

I like a version of America that probably never actually existed beyond the imaginations of a minority of us. Those old world Enlightenment ideas melded with the optimism of the new are still attractive to me. I still can’t listen to this sort of thing without getting a little swept up in it. I’ll never make a proper cynic, I fear.

By all means like what you like, and it’s nice if you like American stuff - but we have more to offer than just crutches for fragile egos, and it doesn’t take a disillusioned seppo to see it for what it is.

I give to wiki, but recently convinced my wife we don’t need Netflix. Feels great tbh

I was going to mention those at first, but who hasn’t had a throw go wild with one of them?

I feel like the ultimate ‘stick’ you can attach to a grenade these days is a drone. But yeah, agreed in general

The states, west coast in general. It’s kind of funny, between the three of us in my family, we have one person born in CA, OR, and WA.

I’m glad NASA does work like this, even when it gets shelved it’s money in the bank imo