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OK let me put things to rest right now. No Darkpriest is not my alt and no I did not steal his password and post on this name!

non sequitur (noun): a statement (such as a response) that does not follow logically from or is not clearly related to anything previously said. Learned about that while studying for my useful degree

I was impressed by the use of fortnight outside of a fantasy literature setting.

We have a specific name for that sort of statement here, the 'Smashed Avocado fallacy': "if people just stopped buying smashed avocados for breakfast they'd soon save enough to buy a house" was a near literal quote from someone defending the housing crisis. ie, despite house price appreciation at twice the median wage annually, the problem is people buying luxuries- so if people just stopped paying a mythical $20 a day for a café breakfast they'd be able to afford their own slice of paradise. Complete fiction of course, that saving wouldn't even cover appreciation on the deposit, and would be, heh, eaten up as annual rent increases outstrip it too. It doesn't stand the most basic scrutiny, and is just victim blaming. To put it in perspective, my parents worked 40 years and the thing that made them 'millionaires' was not that work, but buying a house for $16000 in 1980 instead of renting. They got 40,000$ average return per year, untaxed, every year, from that decision. Not really something someone can do in 2021 though.

Take your sanctimony and stuff it. The Weimar Republic collapsed largely because of hyperinflation due to the overleveraged Deutsche Mark. That event led to the deaths of 91 million people by 1945. High end estimate of World War II military and civilian casualties was 85 million throw in another 6 million for the holocaust and another million or two of disease and famine after. That’s roughly 3 1/2% of the worlds population in just six years. you cannot discuss the causes of that war intelligently without bringing up what caused the collapse of the Weimar Republic flawed though it was. The economic well-being and actual well-being of people are two inseparable concepts. How would you like to be a 64-year-old man who has been smart with money all of his life and suddenly find out all of the companies that you have invested in are now nationalized and you don’t have a penny. But don’t worry Social Security will still give you $1000 a month. Too bad it’s buying power is being diminished by inflation. It’s no coincidence that the mortality in the rate in the United States increased in the 1930s compared to the 1920s

The USA is $27T in debt and closing in on $28T at a rate of $68k per second. When Biden’s relief package passes next week we will pass $30T. The train is going full speed and everyone who has ever read an economics book in their life knows that just down the trestle a ways the track ends and the bridge is out. But faster and faster she goes. This actually would be a fairly simple problem to fix if there was the political will to fix it. You don’t even need to cut spending. Five years of zero government spending growth meaning maintain the current level for five consecutive years in real dollars not adjusted for inflation will right this problem.

Looks about the same level as Drive Angry, and thats good enough for me.

So Wildermyth is kind of addictive. It's pretty much exactly what it's advertised as. RPG and storytelling. With the kind of humor you might find in a webcomic, which matches with the papercraft art style.

We stand in the first week of a shortened season. But at least this time it will be a continuous season. And maybe the 2021 - 2022 will get back on track and things can start getting back to normal in the world of hockey. my two teams the predators and the Panthers will both be fielding a competitive club this season. The Panthers probably a bit less so. For some reason they are at odds with Yandle their best defenseman and have told him that despite his huge contract he will not be playing for the Panthers this season. Which kind of sucks. my favorite YouTube channel urinating tree has completed their preseason analysis. seriously if you guys have not subscribed to this channel you really should because he’s better than anything you’ll see on TV. and if you have a bit more time this is a really interesting video that shows how impactful the Wayne Gretzky trade in 1988 has been on the NHL. The goalies between the pipes the teams are lined up for a face-off, time to drop the puck.

That sounds good. You have inspired me to start drinking. That and the political thread.

"Useless" is relative though. The function of higher education is higher education. If you go to college, you should be exposed to those things because those things improve your mind. I didn't know that I cared about any of the things I spent my adult life being passionate about until I was exposed to them in college. If you want to learn a trade, go to vocational school. Exactly. My son does work. More than I would like him to. But that's the money he's not asking me for while he's trying to do other things like eat. The beauty of the grift is that the current system has some of us thinking the problem *is* us.

I agree, but printing money and going into more debt won't solve that. On the contrary, it will expidite that process even more.

In the midst of a global pandemic, billionaires have increased their wealth while everyone else is struggling. You really think people just need to be smarter with money to get ahead? There is economic data showing a stagnant middle class, growing inequity in wealth distribution, and rising costs in housing, college, health care, food, etc. There are SYSTEMATIC PROBLEMS IN OUR ECONOMY. It isn't just that I overpaid for my papusas I had for dinner last night.

Go home forum software, you're drunk.

is no reason why people cannot bartend to help... but the point being made is that a part time job + summer work could cover most/all o' college expenses once upon a time. people could put themselves through college w/o amassing huge debt or crippling mom and dad's retirement plans. nowadays, such jobs cover cost of books and perhaps personal expenses but not tuition or housing. HA! Good Fun!

am in a curious position: am believing national debt crisis and income inequality is the two biggest national scope problems. am recognizing how difficult it is to fix either 'cause obvious solutions to income inequality is gonna magnify debt. am also one o' the people who saw as axiomatic the pandemic would magnify income inequality. young people today will still be able to buy houses and go to college in the future, but will be increasing difficult unless those young people is from families at the more economic advantageous end o' the income inequality curve. even so, horatio alger stories is possible in 2021, but too many people use such real life stories to perpetuate the myth that the system works fine 'cause a person may indeed go from lowest rungs o' economic strata to the top in one generation. increasing income inequality is in large part what made trumpism possible. polarization political increases as does economic pain. hurlshot is no doubt aware o' the nativism which accompanied the 1920s, yes? am baffled by how little we recall o' the 1920s and how similar is the problems. nevertheless, stephen miller, god help us all, were unapologetic using calvin coolidge policies as a freaking guide for the trump administration. in 2021, inner city urban families is suffering from same core problems as working class americans in the heartland, but thanks to opportunists like steve bannon, hundreds of millions o' people functional sharing the same fox hole see each other as enemies. same nonsense as the 1920s. provide people good jobs, economic security and a little optimism 'bout the future and much o' the anger and most o' the polarization will evaporate. easier said than done, eh? and then we will still have looming and crushing debt... HA! Good Fun!

And you think that printing money and more inflation will help in any of that? The only reason, that you do not have yet a gloval crisis is due to central banks running a lot of money without a real economy to follow on that. I hoped it will be crashing and we will get off the negative rates with the pandemic, but no, it could not be done, as there would be litteral revolutions, so they make the problem even worse for the future by printing even more money... At some point, the obly strategy left to get rid of national debts will be to inflate it away. Banks will keep negative rates, so you will have to pay in order to lend them your money. At that time prices will start going up, and you will be stuck with worthless junk. They will need to do this, as the national debt and its service will be so big, that they will start hitting a wall. Companies will not be paying you more, yet they will need to charge more, due to various fees and access to money being difficult. You forget, that you also have trade deficits in US and you have global economy also affecting your life. At certain point, you will reach debt levels which cannot be serviced, as others will decide that USD is not worth it, and will decide to use other currency.

Look, I'm not for nationalizing anything outside of healthcare, but I think you are missing out on the current outlook for young people in the country today. They can't buy houses, their 'college funds' don't come close to covering the costs, and everyone in the middle is slowly falling behind. The pandemic has made it even worse. This was a fun read I pulled up while looking into stuff this morning. I'd love to see an update after 2020. https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2020/01/09/most-americans-say-there-is-too-much-economic-inequality-in-the-u-s-but-fewer-than-half-call-it-a-top-priority/

The thing is, that wasn't some mainstream thing. Some far right wing politicians will try to make it look better than it was, but as long as it is not illegal, let the fools make more of a fool themselves. People tend to avoid extremes, so if they can constantly see what other people see, they will react to more of that by avoiding such nuts. When you start censoring such on one side, and do not do so on the other side, which says left extreme things, the natural behavior of those undecided will be to move away to the right, while not seeing the full scope of risks there. And by silencing them, you will start sparking emotions, which then lead to conspiracies and radicalization. In the past, there is a reason why pre-elections, a couple more mouthy politicians with crazy talk were being hidden by their own party as the nonesense they spew was too much and while entrentching own radical side of supporters, it made more centrists people afraid to vote such. Seems that these days you are viewed as either an alt-right nutcrack, or sj-lefty dumbass. In truth, both sides should tolerate others existence and right to express views, even if some of them are radical. Usually that leads to some compromised middleground being followed while you have dogs barking from the both extremes.

And utterly ruining all the people whose life savings depend on their investments in those corporations. What do you tell the stockholders then? Go hang? Do you want to see real sedition and insurrection? That’s one way to get it.

I don't know about Poland, but I know our own prime minister, Scott Morrison, who is an even more notorious liar than Trump, is shivering at the thought of someone suddenly starting putting a question mark on his online lies, so he's very busy to try to put a stop to someone who could question the truth of his messages. I would imagine that countries with dictators, autocrats, wannabe autocrats etc. are having sleepless nights and trying preemptively to forbid anyone from questioning the truth of their messages.

David Tennant. Played the Doctor in Dr. Who. The guy in the background looking at the phone has a shirt with TARDIS on it, the name of the Doctor's time machine. So theoretically, if the fan wasn't absorbed in his phone he could have had a chance encounter with a lead actor from a show he's a fan of.

Kind of ironic that they at the same time want to limit the freedom of gay people. https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-54191344 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT-free_zone Europe's Alabama.

I don't know... I thought more like "unstoppable urge meets insurmountable lazyness". Sounds more philosophical and really deep impo.

Amentep isnt that interesting , you and I have the exact same reality where we live except I have no regulations or rules that people follow in the lift It shows again how much random strangers can have in common...thats probably why we agree on so many things

^ He should go up to the guy and ask: "Pardon me, have you seen my screwdriver?"

Oh, it is. New Zealand has almost limitless capacity to decide that something that is corruption elsewhere isn't corruption, here, because we simply don't have corruption. That, and international reputation based on that self delusion is why we so consistently end up #1.

I think you can have an uncontrollable urge without doing something... Like... The urge is uncontrollable... The action is controllable but the urge is not... Discuss

But still illustrates my point fairly well. "That corruption that happened there cannot happen here" while "here" perceives itself - and is perceived by others - to be a lot more corrupt than "there" is a pretty... bold... statement. If anybody wants to know how the CPI is generated can have a look here: https://www.ifo.de/DocDL/dicereport309-rr2.pdf Imo it's not nearly as bad as Zoraptor makes it sound. Other forms of measurement don't produce significantly different lists. In every list Sweden will be a country with rel. little corruption while Poland isn't too bad but also not really good.

That's.. chunky Rat

Including sedition?

I work in a buidling where the only stairs are fire exits. You have to ride up in an elevator, no choice. They've limited capacity (theoretically) to 4, and they have place markers that are positioned to suggest you face the walls, not the door. They've also worked to decrease density at work, in general, so its rare that you end up on elevator with a person.

Unfortunately, some people don't have a choice. What they do recommend though is not talking while riding on an elevator -- but don't people generally do that anyway? Hmm. I wonder how deployment of UV-C irradiated elevator technology is coming along?

Skarpen: "Could never happen in Poland". World Corruption Perceptions Index:

Just for the memories...

Climbing towers will be easier with Force Jump.

Which is awesome.

Yo, imma let you finish, but Alpha Protocol is Obsidian's greatest creation of all time!