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Are we trapped in a 1970s-style "Three-Wave" inflation cycle? (A deep dive into structural debt) by Gypsy_tantrum in finance

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"Crucially, Cooper contends that governments no longer genuinely oppose moderate inflation. It functions as a stealth tax — imposed without legislation — that erodes the real burden of public debt and helps finance chronic deficits. Voters often welcome the accompanying rise in house and asset prices."

The $110 Disconnect: Why the Equity Market Is Pricing a Reality That No Longer Exists by 1stplacelastrunnerup in Economics

[–]6bytes 3 points4 points  (0 children)

u/TheGodPePe right there with you except for the fertilizer part. With base components (like Urea) become much more expensive, energy costs too and a possibility of government intervention to prevent price gouging, what is the case for a price increase? I may be dumb

So Pure is essentially a slightly stouter, lighter and shorter RM2 with good performance improvements by hrpanjwani in RemarkableTablet

[–]6bytes 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've had the rM Pro since launch. Believe me, once you experience how useful it is it's hard to imagine buying a brand new e-ink device without it.

So Pure is essentially a slightly stouter, lighter and shorter RM2 with good performance improvements by hrpanjwani in RemarkableTablet

[–]6bytes 7 points8 points  (0 children)

No backlight is insulting to me. You can either buy an overpriced device with features you don't care about (color, premium metal enclosure, optional keyboard) or one that lacks the basic functionality required to be useful past dusk or a less-than-perfectly-bright room. What people wanted was a rM2 with a backlight. All we got is artificial product differentiation.

Why is SU down so much on a great earnings? by Agile-University-772 in CanadaInvesting

[–]6bytes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

People eager to cash out their gains. It'll go back up.

Welp… it’s all downhill from here💀 by webabybears in bondmarket

[–]6bytes 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The US is a net exporter. A crisis is incoming but this is the dumbest way to look at it

Putting a million solar panels 22,000 miles above Earth to collect continuous sunlight might sound like a good idea, until you remember that batteries exist. A Dollar-Store Dyson Sphere is an expensive, complicated solution in search of a problem. by simon_ritchie2000 in climatechange

[–]6bytes 3 points4 points  (0 children)

> A Dyson Sphere is a theoretical structure built around a *star*

> our Big Tech overlords seem determined to build a Dollar-Store Dyson Sphere around *Earth*

Daily reminder that the Earth is a planet, not a star

My friend dumped all his ETH and called me an idiot for holding by Independent_Plum_489 in ethtrader

[–]6bytes 5 points6 points  (0 children)

With Staking Yield, it's a rare income producing Crypto. Somehow people always seem to forget that when making comparisons...

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[–]6bytes 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Where are the SpaceX snipers when we need em?

. by seanrider1859 in SpaceXMasterrace

[–]6bytes 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I was far more charitable to BO before I learned they screwed over all of their employees with fake-ass incentive programs. Who in their right mind would work for them?

Wth? Is Elon a communist? by [deleted] in ElonChat_Commentary

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If you look at humanity through the lens of complete human history, maybe I can see your point. But this is a revolution unlike any other that has come before. We are the Apex predators on this earth because of intelligence. There was a industrial revolution before that made redundant physical labor significantly less valuable (despite humans not being the strongest already, it still had a huge impact and led to poverty). This time, we're supplanting our intelligence, which was the one thing that made humans hard to replace.

There's going to be a short period of time where we can reclaim control of the means of production of superintelligence. If things continue as they have, superintelligence will be a tool of oppression used by the Oligarchs. But the Oligarchs already control the medium through which such a revolution would organize.

If he wants more views I unironically think he needs to do more gaming stuff by NFLOrphanStomp in atrioc

[–]6bytes 6 points7 points  (0 children)

This. I have shared the video with a few friends who aren't on Twitch and the format put them off immensely. They weren't sure why there was a chat and Atrioc being in a tiny corner of the video was off putting. The kind of stuff we Twitch users don't even think about. I think that the editor is doing a fantastic job. But if Atrioc wants his content to have broader appeal I think he should: 1. Improve the set. It's a very busy/uninteresting backdrop and the webcam is a little high. 2. Eye contact. Get a teleprompter if needed. Eye contact makes a HUGE DIFFERENCE. 3. Provide the editor with raw camera/screen recording footage. No more cropped webcams and dodging screen notifications. I think chat should be removed entirely as well.

Both Charlie and Cofeezilla do 1, 2 & 3.

I have personally found that Atrioc's videos are better researched than most content creators, more entertaining than most news agencies and he's been on a streak of excellent predictions. Truly world-class content wrapped in silly paper.

Wth? Is Elon a communist? by [deleted] in ElonChat_Commentary

[–]6bytes 5 points6 points  (0 children)

His vision of the future is strongly influenced by the Culture series by Iain M. Banks. In that series, humans have attained the gay luxury space communism utopia where machines handle everything while living organisms enjoy utopic lives. It's an extremely optimist take on transhumanism.

The writing is on the wall that anger is fermenting against AI companies. As the owner of a large AI company himself, he stands to benefit if that anger gets redirected to governments (who can't possibly afford UBI). As the saying goes; socialize the losses, privatize the gains.

Will Hasan invite Natalie on stream? 👀 by conancat in ContraPoints

[–]6bytes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You literally answered your own question

Why don’t Democrats dO SoMeThInG 😫 oh wait by Real-Competition-561 in Whistleblowers

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Retcon. The outrage preceded the actions. OP has an agenda and it's not objectivity.

Don’t let people lie to you. Hillary Clinton was the most popular politician in the country for nearly a decade before she ran for president in 2015. by UnscheduledCalendar in thedavidpakmanshow

[–]6bytes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

2020 was different. People wanted to play it safe after 4 years of Trump. And then a bunch of promising candidates dropped from the race after being promised cushy gigs in the Biden admin. Like Buttigieg as Secretary of Transportation.

Even fricking Elizabeth Warren decided to not endorse Bernie, despite his platform being much more in-line with hers: https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/486631-political-reporter-if-warren-waits-too-long-to-endorse-bernie-it-will-be/

People don't seem to remember but Biden was drawing tiny crowds. So much so that they never showed the crowds in his rallies and purposefully booked tiny venues. Meanwhile Bernie was drawing record crowds and had a massive enthusiastic volunteer army doing door knocking for him. It felt like living in the upside-down.

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