ThunderSizzle

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by ThunderSizzle 5y ago
I don't think you understand the word "constantly". You make it sound like the US fast food scene is a warzone over a single article that is newsworthy because it isn't _that_ common.
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by ThunderSizzle 5y ago
On the military topic, why would the military do something humanitarian for citizens? It was pretty clear the industrial military complex was voted back in with Biden, and that's better for business than something altruistic. Generals
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by ThunderSizzle 5y ago
What motives does the CEO, union, FAA have in all this? Obviously, they all desire a "return to normalcy". The CEO wants a better bottom line. The union wants to avoid fines and penalties. The FAA has political stakeholders that d
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by ThunderSizzle 5y ago
It's a feature, not a bug. The US system is built to be inefficient with the checks of power. Checks and balances of power is naturally inefficient, and tends to result in a more stable system.
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by ThunderSizzle 5y ago
TBF, we never really _paid_ off the WW2 debt. We started to use GDP vs Debt as the measurement tool to avoid actually paying off debt instead of endlessly servicing it. It didn't take much time to convince our 6-year-old selves that we
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by ThunderSizzle 5y ago
It probably wouldn't have been as bad if the time before it and time after it is similarly inflated. If it was a one-off 2T expense, it probably wouldn't be as noticeable as the every growing hockey stick of Keynesian economics (f
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by ThunderSizzle 5y ago
Move to a place where things don't arbitrarily close for 6 months at a time if you don't like that?