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by bequanna 4y ago
> Yes. A pattern of things, on the other hand ... Is it a real pattern? Or maybe just a simple feedback loop caused by click-bait journalism and confirmation bias.
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by bequanna 4y ago
Exactly. Good scientific claims don’t need to form a pseudo-religion around their “findings” and push to censor anyone who disagrees.
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by bequanna 4y ago
In the short term, maybe. Also, you’re assuming debt has fixed interest rates and asset prices will continue to rise forever. Neither of those things is likely to be true in the medium term (~5 years). It’s complex. You can’t just look at h
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by bequanna 4y ago
I don’t understand your second paragraph. Are you saying: “If inflation is good, Biden will support more of it”?
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by bequanna 4y ago
I'm not sure what you think you mean by "corporate farm". Pretty much every single business has some corporate structure for tax, liability, etc. purposes.
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by bequanna 4y ago
Why wouldn't you finance the purchase of the land? You can get by with putting 0-10% down. Additionally, you're completely ignoring appreciation and paying down the loan. Farmland has went from ~2k /acre to 12k in about 20 ye
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by bequanna 4y ago
I guess I’m not familiar with this. I live in northern midwestern farm country (corn/soybean fields) and can see some consolidation, but still almost all family farms.
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by bequanna 4y ago
Lower middle class? Come to Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, etc and visit a farm. Their reported annual income may be small because of amortization/depreciation, but net worth is very typically several million. If you’re a poor farmer, you’
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by bequanna 4y ago
Not true. Organic agriculture/horticulture on a scale large enough to survive is definitely possible and best practices are usually well-documented by your state’s extension. Conventional, factory farming is “easier” and more widesprea
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by bequanna 4y ago
Not exactly. In the US, subsidized crop insurance lowers the risk of low yields and provides a nice safety net.
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by bequanna 4y ago
> The stock market's price level is well above where it was pre-pandemic Nope. Only a few percent above and trending sharply downward: https://finviz.com/futures_charts.ashx?t=ES&p=w1
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Short-Seller “Turned the Tables” on Espionage Op Targeting Nikola Whistleblowers(zerohedge.com)
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by bequanna 4y ago
This oft repeated reason to suppress speech is absolute bullshit. Be honest. The goal is to shut down people who have views that make you uncomfortable. The idea is to have some broad definition of “extremist” that can be applied subjective
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by bequanna 4y ago
Wait, you’re claiming that someone needs to be able to diagram a sentence or spell perfectly to understand tax law? That’s ridiculous.
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by bequanna 4y ago
Was there any indication that this kid would have been happier or “better off” in any other situation? It sounds like he thrived in the specific set of conditions that he was raised in. Would that be true if he had grown up middle class and
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by bequanna 4y ago
So in your view, it sounds like being able to perfectly diagram a sentence is more important than understanding tax law?
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by bequanna 4y ago
Did you read the article? His parents were immensely supportive. I can’t imagine any other situation where a parent would essentially dedicate their life to support their child’s development.
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by bequanna 4y ago
The idea is that Soros only gives away money with strings attached. He expects you/your group to further his political goals in order to continue to receive funding.
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by bequanna 4y ago
Plenty of questions there. Do you have any of the answers? Ah, right. This problem is so terrible and sneaky that we (quite conveniently) can't even measure its effect! Just to be safe, we should just assume everything bad is caused by
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by bequanna 4y ago
If strong emotions were facts, I suppose you'd win this argument. Let's see what you think in ~10 years when the newest, focus-group tested climate crisis de jour is being pushed after "climate change" is quietly disprov
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by bequanna 4y ago
Setting aside how silly it is to think about weather in this way, you’re also just plain wrong. Despite the doom and gloom marketing from those seeking to put their hand in your wallet, most people will definitely NOT be negatively impacted
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by bequanna 4y ago
I’m not sure it is a good idea to buy longer dated govt bonds when we’re in the middle of the most aggressive rate tightening period in a generation.
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by bequanna 4y ago
I agree with the benefits you cite, but isn’t the problem that EVs are still too expensive for most people? Additionally, what is the plan to build a grid that can actually support mass EV adoption? There seems to be very little talk about
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by bequanna 4y ago
Are you referring to the minimum corporate tax treaty effort? Has something like this happened previously before a recession?
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by bequanna 4y ago
> Ultimately, if you want to handle all of your load with only renewables, you're going to need to build about 3x what's needed, just to account for wind turbines not running, sun not shining, etc, and you're going to need
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by bequanna 4y ago
Efficiency is not the same as negative growth. There are actual, real-life proponents of policies that would have us shrink our economies and decrease the standard of living.
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by bequanna 4y ago
We should be continuously discussing and evaluating how to solve all real problems humanity faces. Your criticism of the Federal Grant you mention is valid. It would have been great if you could have expressed that thought _before_ they wro
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by bequanna 4y ago
Wrong and somewhat naive. If you have a list of problems you don't only focus on solving the one with the largest impact. You need to balance resource allocation between how the problem negatively impacts AND ability to solve. If we fo
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by bequanna 4y ago
For context.
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by bequanna 4y ago
Right. And we could actually create a reliable grid vs. a shitty patchwork of unreliable power sources that require us to massively overbuild generation capacity. I guess we don't do this because too few bureaucrats can grift if we bui

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