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by jessaustin 4y ago
A relevant book, coming out next week: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/675683/poverty-by-a...
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by jessaustin 4y ago
If they used tasty healthy lard the product wouldn't sell very well in Israel or anywhere else in the Near East...
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by jessaustin 4y ago
Roku should have been nationalized.
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by jessaustin 4y ago
...banks don't "need" depositor money to lend... This seems like one sort of thing, in which money that used to be in a depositor's pocket is now in the bank and available for lending. ...and in fact they generally le
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by jessaustin 4y ago
If "nearly all prices" really were falling, wouldn't that show up on this chart? https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CPIAUCSL
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by jessaustin 4y ago
They have already raised rates enough to suffocate the economy; this episode is just one example. They have not raised rates enough to kill inflation, because the inflation we're seeing today is due to input costs and monopoly rents.
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by jessaustin 4y ago
That's the theory, but does anyone still believe it? In USA now, and for at least the last 15 years, those wealthy enough to hire lobbyists always get bailed out. This week was an opportunity to improve that situation, merely by allowi
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by jessaustin 4y ago
It is less massive than the other planets. Momentum is conserved, so any escape scenario would see at least one other planet with a smaller orbit.
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Do physical measures stop or slow down the spread of respiratory viruses?(cochrane.org)
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by jessaustin 4y ago
Yikes! Did someone other than USA commander-in-chief decide which neutral overseas territory USA military would occupy? (That seems problematic! and also probably true...) Has anyone in public office ever offered another explanation? You&#x
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by jessaustin 4y ago
Voting on this thread seems crazy. I suspect there are enthusiasts present who aren't keen on close examination of their pet beliefs.
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by jessaustin 4y ago
When one appeals to authority, it's better if those authorities exist and actually say anything related to one's argument. You haven't addressed my point, you cite yourself and you should be citing ecology rather than anthr
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by jessaustin 4y ago
That link contains an unwarranted assumption. It's true that particular "mega" species declined and went extinct over the very long period you cite. There's no reason to believe, however, that such a decline would reduce
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by jessaustin 4y ago
Parent comment doesn't actually include any name-calling.
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by jessaustin 4y ago
Remove the mask, and reveal motivations other than "democracy".
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by jessaustin 4y ago
We'll need decades to install a system that could solve this problem when given weeks of notice. Perhaps those decades of effort will start soon? Alternatively, if we knew a particular asteroid would threaten us in one decade, that one
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by jessaustin 4y ago
Bullshit. You could replace Putin with any other Russian politician, and their opposition to encirclement by a pact motivated by opposition to Russia would remain. Care to cite anyone we've heard of and not because they murdered a bu
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by jessaustin 4y ago
Congratulations on producing yet another specious half-assed defense of USA militarism! Wouldn't it be nice if its record spoke for itself? We still occupy Hawai'i, as well as the entirety of continental USA. We still occupy the e
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by jessaustin 4y ago
When you call me ignorant, and then do so again, is it projection or a desperate attempt to distract from the movement of goalposts? The way to refute a simple statement like "not one accomplished a military objective that benefited th
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by jessaustin 4y ago
That apologia might be more convincing if the word "NATO" appeared anywhere? Every time Putin speaks, he complains about NATO expansion into Ukraine and the resulting missiles pointed at his house from minutes away. http:/&#
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by jessaustin 4y ago
He was overthrown because he didn't kowtow deeply enough in EU negotiations. As in, they wanted to install full-blown IMF-style austerity and privatization of public assets, and they wanted to do it all yesterday. Yanukovich tried to g
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by jessaustin 4y ago
Is there a large scale multi-generation propaganda campaign to normalize the creation and deployment of lethal viruses on a global scale... We're still not supposed to criticize whatever happened in Wuhan. Fauci certainly seems multi
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by jessaustin 4y ago
Eight months seems pretty quick to me but maybe that just shows I'm not brushed up like you. Maybe I admire the Greatest Generation more than I should. The Ukrainians have had a year of war plus the preceding eight years under the Mins
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by jessaustin 4y ago
The entire reason the war was fought was to enforce the principle that taking other sovereign territory by force is not acceptable. A better way for USA to support that principle would have been not to invade the sovereign nations of Cu
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by jessaustin 4y ago
India happily talks to and does business with everyone. (In Pakistan's case one might not say "happily"?) Over the last year, it has not taken part in the economic sanctions that USA and its vassals have attempted to impose.
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by jessaustin 4y ago
If you win the war you get to go home. USA presence in the Arabian peninsula was cited by ObL as the reason for 9/11. Kuwait does export useful hydrocarbons, but much less than the Kingdom which could have increased production to make
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by jessaustin 4y ago
If you really didn't read this as "the mind-boggling mass that inaccurate weapons require", QED.
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by jessaustin 4y ago
Lots of this seems plausible at a glance, but overall it is highly theoretical. USA hasn't "won" a war since 1945. That result was mostly determined by USSR. The USA portion of the result was determined by a quickly-assembled
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by jessaustin 4y ago
We Americans don't have representative government; rather we have an increasingly less convincing simulation thereof. Your question is merely a specific example of this. You might follow with an obvious question about Indonesia. Since
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by jessaustin 4y ago
Loans at e.g. luxury-brand dealers are sold with the expectation of payment. There are other business models, however. There are some auto "dealers" who are really just rental places with another name. When they repo a vehicle, th

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