ANewFormation

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by ANewFormation 2y ago
You're fundamentally misunderstanding in a way akin to arguing that 'I've seen no evidence that destroyed homes cause tornadoes.' The US printing money doesn't allow it to export its inflation, but rather exporting
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They're in fact now the 5th largest economy [1], behind Russia and India. And they'll keep going down. And this was the point - the reason you are able to use them as an example of a country that endlessly prints money without bei
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It would be a good idea to site your facts rather than relying on instinct, because I suspect you write be surprised. For instance this [1] is the US monetary supply. If we only dump money on the economy when "bad things are happening&
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It could also simply have been impotence that he did not want to acknowledge. Made perhaps even more likely with Antoinette's alleged proclivities, her children's questionable paternity, and so on.
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Also the [general] requirement for a unanimous vote to convict makes this form of juror action quite uncommon. By contrast a single juror can cause a jury to be unable to convict.
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Do you understand what others (who may not agree with you) think of your arguments when you use extremely hyperbolic language to describe things that do not appear to justify such? The Boy Who Cried Wolf is an excellent tale I regularly re
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There is one straight forward causal mechanism - excessive money printing sends the monetary supply skyrocketing and directly drives inflation. It's not hard to deal with inflation for the wealthy. You will generally have substantial w
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Because it was mostly being astroturfed. Democracy obviously isn't going to end in any way, shape, or fashion under Trump. And so the organizations pushing these lies need to move onto the next lies to keep the rage and fear going. May
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This is not necessarily just a matter of perception if society is indeed generally on a downward arc. This sounds melodramatic yet it's quite trivial to list countless things that have become much worse, while it's somewhat more d
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So many modern problems can be traced to 1971. [1] That is the year that the US defaulted on our obligations under Bretton Woods effectively ending the system and causing currencies to become completely fiat, enabling governments to effecti
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He's making tens of millions of Americans (especially including those who may not have otherwise been political) quite fond of him, bringing back a platform that has definitely been a net positive for him overall, undoing one of his pr
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People don't care about most things because there are a practically infinite number of things one could care about. But when you ban something 9 figures of people happily use, with some small chunk of that even being people making a li
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Indeed, and I suspect as more people learn about jury nullification, the world will grow more just.
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An important difference is that a jury acquittal is not saying you think the defendant is innocent, but rather that the evidence did not establish guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. Innocence is assumed. You could think somebody is probably g
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Of your primary interests in life where would you rank ESPN+? Now multiply that by $12 to get an overall impact since presumably you would be willing to pay at least as much for things you value more highly. This is why "just" $x
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Which recourses are you talking about? It was mostly a classic witch hunt in that they were charged without evidence, presumed guilty, and then told to prove that they were not a witch. It's a tried and true method to find witches.
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Erm... TikTok has longform content.
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What I'm saying is that those are people counted as "knowing English" since the typical way such things are measured is self response. Nowhere remotely near the peecents stated for many countries is accurate. China's als
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CIA gives 18.8%, so about 1.5 billion. [1] But this number is dubious as it's largely from self response. Here [2] is a list by country. So 25% of Thais, 50% of Ukrainians, 50% of Poles, and so on "speak English." In the sens
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It's not like Russia is a closed country, nor is inflation difficult to measure. Third parties don't simply take Russian figures at face value, which is why the numbers from e.g. the World Bank will vary slightly from those of the
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You're not going crazy, they are. But even once things start falling apart, inertia alone can give the appearance of productive movement for years to come. This is probably why when somebody looks to try to find the cause for e.g. the
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I'm about as big a SpaceX fanboy as possible, and still find this a remarkable achievement. You simply can't sim your way to a successful landing because there's too many unknown unknowns. Note on this launch it seems they ev
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Let's assume what you're saying is true, though I'm sure you realize you're being rather hyperbolic, at a minimum. I think the purpose of school is to teach the fundamentals - reading, writing and arithmetic in particula
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The thing is - the average school is terrible. NAEP scores show less than 25% reach "basic" proficiency in math, and reading is even worse. I can't find any comparable stats on just religious schools, but I strongly suspect t
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Many Catholic high schools are also among the highest performing in the country. The claims around religious education are one of the biggest remaining examples of socially acceptable bigotry.
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You need to contrast suggested ideas to the current systems, not an idealized standard that the current system is nowhere near achieving. For instance NAEP scores consistently demonstrate only about 25% of students achieve "basic"
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A big difference to whom? When I judge an educational institution I could not care less why some child being significantly disruptive is tolerated, even slightly. That institution simply becomes a non starter for a place I might send my c
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And after the article was unflagged, it became one of the most upvoted topics.
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Vouching relies on visibilty while flagging dramatically reduces visibility.
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I think the big shift was in cancel culture, doxing, swatting, and all that stuff starting to rise, which is all relatively recent. A moralistic ideology acting holier than thou is nothing new. In the 80s (and for sure time after) evangelic

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