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  • *forking

  • If you take a close look at the trajectory from 2008 and the wage, asset, and income inequality trends from the stagflation days to today you'll find that imprudent rate cuts have been the name of the game for awhile now. Yeah Trump will overcharge it and cause the massive collapse and inflation faster but it's coming regardless. Powell ain't no Volker but even Volker couldn't fix the absolutely shit fundamentals the neolibs have fooled themselves into thinking a healthy economy is made of.

  • *Staph.

  • Mechanical turk even before that which frankly wasn't much better.

  • PSA

    Jump
  • Gotta do something about Alice first.

  • Yeah, all we got is man made tragedy of the commons disasters where the data centers deplete not only the water for humans, but the water for the data centers. Poof, no more data.

  • Why the hell are they trying to build data centers in the fucking Sonoran Desert anyway.

  • I do not likev the flounder eyes of the fish in bed.

  • euthanized by a zookeeper

    I gotta ask how. Usual protocol is benzo/barbiturate overdose followed by potassium chloride shot. But the benzos/barbiturates are contraindicated for the fact that they're feeding them to other animals and potassium alone is torture even if eating something killed by it is fine. That generally leaves stunner and exsanguiation or shooting them.

  • Aren't they all Jeffrey Combs anyway?

  • If you don't watch Star Trek I'd imagine it would seem so.

  • Like if it's stolen then that depends on drive encryption and boot permissions. I only say this because you didn't even specify if it was gifted or loaned. Corporate laptops often have all kinds of things going on with them and giving one set of instructions it's generally inappropriate.

  • Circle? It clearly says draw a line around whatever you decided wrongly to indicate. Lines don't curve and aren't boxes, so good luck.

  • The problem is looking at it too functionally. You cannot fix it by "fixing" voting as if voting magically creates a functional government. It's a method to derive consensus. You cannot look at a system that is failing to produce consensus and then fix it by directly removing anything that increases consensus. That's insane.

    You need to critically look at the entire system and identify what the problem is. In this case it's largely the abstraction layers. People now interact with their government through filters even greater than the old Hearst days. Information flows from media filters to the population and from the population to government through social media filters. And both of those filters have their own agendas. Of course nobody believes the resulting government is responsive or legitimate. It's not.

    There are many potential solutions for civic engagement. But that largely means breaking down the very walls that powerful interests have created. There's no easy solution to it. Certainly not "let's make these stupid people unable to vote." A solution is much more radical and takes understanding both what you want to achieve and how the current system is preventing it.

  • Sure. Disenfranchise most people. That's a suitable hack to a checks notes stable, legitimate, and responsive government.

    Even China would have more political legitimacy than such a system. It would collapse almost immediately.

    If you ever want a good example of functionalist ideas leading to absolutely uncritical nonsense, here it is.

  • The primarily problem I've got with this is that one guy naming his imaginary state on Antarctica "Westarctica". Where's the bears then man? I don't see any arctus on your land. Maybe dropping the ant for your antarctic state isn't the best idea.

  • Hey I'm regularly wrong and don't mind being corrected.

  • There's a reason for that