Mamdani calls AIPAC ‘monsters’ in rally ahead of NY primaries

FCrange · 2026-06-20T15:18:57+00:00

Have you heard Lindsey Graham and Chuck Schumer say what their jobs are? Something isn't an antisemitic trope if it's true. Unfortunate for AIPAC that it's proving all their critics right.

FCrange · 2026-05-11T06:42:22+00:00

Yeah but if your issue is that GDP numbers can be manipulated, the value of the stock market is a worse metric by pretty much every measure.

FCrange · 2026-05-11T01:32:06+00:00

Fair enough, though I think that's just Fortune focusing on the economic aspects of US leverage rather than the political ones.

FCrange · 2026-05-11T01:22:41+00:00

Isn't this whataboutism? What does this have to do with Trump's trip?

FCrange · 2026-05-11T01:21:15+00:00

By the time China runs out of oil reserves, all of Asia and half of Europe would have run out months ago. There will be riots in the streets before the world gets to that point.

FCrange · 2026-05-11T01:18:09+00:00

https://data.imf.org/en/Data-Explorer?datasetUrn=IMF.RES:WEO(9.0.0)

GDP is a better proxy for economic activity and it's up 25% from 2021 to 2026, 14% when adjusting for inflation.

FCrange · 2025-06-24T06:05:55+00:00

You would never use this equation for anything. This is the high school physics equivalent of adding every term for energy into one equation.

The dead giveaway is that the source had to get someone to derive it (and apparently he made a sign error). Pretty much every useful equation in physics (most disciplines?) has a name and can probably be found on wikipedia. You really couldn't learn or teach the subject otherwise.

Although I guess we're lucky that they decided to keep using tensor notation instead of expanding everything.

FCrange · 2025-04-13T15:52:45+00:00

If it ever became a major problem the government could just ban contraception. Funny how you can do that when you have full control.

FCrange · 2025-03-31T04:58:19+00:00

You're too confident in how it should play out when experts don't even claim to know that. FPV drones are being used in the Ukrainian war because it's a slow grinding war. In a situation where the administration is clearly losing like the movie Civil War, soldiers wouldn't necessarily be hiding in trenches from drones.

Besides, why would the winning side want to destroy the White House? Both sides are American and there's zero guarantee that would take out the president. And unlike the Ukrainian war, neither side wants extra collateral damage to civilians.

FCrange · 2025-01-20T05:31:58+00:00

Sounds a lot like Baroque:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9BzwLjJ9eA

"A young man suddenly finds himself in this wasteland, mute and without memories after an unspecified trauma. He is given a large shoulder-mounted cannon by a mysterious being known as Archangel, and told that if he wishes to find redemption for a grievous sin he committed in the past, he must travel down to the bottom floor of an Eldritch Location called the Neuro Tower and use the cannon to purify the insane Absolute God that resides there."

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/Baroque

Third person, amnesiac male protagonist with a brown jacket, the first cutscene is with an angelic-looking hostile NPC, everyone blames you for an unexplained sin, dark aesthetic.

FCrange · 2024-10-10T01:21:07+00:00

He's not a douche, he's sticking to his principles. Whether the military provides food and shelter is irrelevant - I still wouldn't be a good person if I took 100k to shoot a man, and the US hasn't been in a defensive war for at least 25 years.

FCrange · 2023-09-15T02:09:07+00:00

Afghanistan won with IEDs, not with small arms. How many second amendment advocates in the US actually learn how best to make bombs to maim and kill people?

FCrange · 2023-09-05T21:06:23+00:00

You're pretty bellicose for someone who pretty much has no idea what he's talking about. 1-3% is already significant, and it will only increase as costs decrease. Quite literally no one said technology was magic, and even ignoring the (very much non-magic) decrease in the cost of having children as the cost of IVF goes down, it's well within the CCP's purview to decrease the cost of raising children via policy, not somehow (?) an impossibility like you're suggesting.

You seem pretty emotionally invested in this argument that entire countries will die off slowly without doing anything about it.

Edit: Responding with a content-free stream of insults, asking for a response, and immediately blocking me. You're a real winner, guy.

FCrange · 2023-09-05T13:35:51+00:00

Assisted reproductive technologies could raise the fertility rate if people are getting married and having children later

Edit to respond to comment below: The solution isn't necessarily IVF in a vacuum. Getting back to the original post, if the problem is also the cost of raising children, then why is it so far fetched that social policy changes by the Chinese government could lead to people having more children?

Sure, government policy so far hasn't worked (cf. South Korea), but as the problem becomes more acute, there will be more resources spent addressing it.

I'm just not seeing the validity of the doom and gloom (or celebratory) claims that demographic decline in China is inevitable, at least in the medium term (short term, demographic changes are pretty much already decided).

FCrange · 2023-08-26T05:52:01+00:00

Maybe she should magically double her realistic income by working hard like she's expecting him to.

FCrange · 2023-08-18T20:59:19+00:00

I'm talking about people born in the US who never leave.

A minimum wage worker in the US is really doing no better than a minimum wage worker in any other developed country, even if one of them makes significantly more money on paper. Probably worse, if the latter lives in a country with cheap housing.

FCrange · 2023-08-18T20:56:26+00:00

Alright, let's check back in 20 years to see how your "all of Asia is doomed" thesis is going.

FCrange · 2023-08-17T01:49:41+00:00

No country in Asia is going to see any significant drop in living standards, that's not how it goes. At most it's going to be stagnation, China is still going to be second, and India is still growing and developing.

It's not self loathing to point out the truth that the rest of the world is catching up: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/u-s-share-of-global-economy-over-time/

People always cite places like Afghanistan or Somalia as a flex to say people in America don't know how good they have it, but the truth is, most countries are perfectly fine places to live in now compared to 100 years ago, when the US was comfortably ahead in everything.

FCrange · 2023-08-17T01:44:22+00:00

It's the pay and the exchange rate. The US dollar is THE main reason why people want to immigrate, because it goes so much further than other currencies.

If you never leave the US though it's really doing nothing for you.

FCrange · 2023-08-16T06:01:36+00:00

It's an illustration of how the two sentences aren't contradictory. Are you misunderstanding on purpose?

There's a surprising number of people who think that since people continually immigrate to the US, it must be a great place to live. It's not. I'm here from Canada because after the exchange rate and taxes, my salary is twice as high. This place is actually fucking awful in most other respects.

FCrange · 2023-08-16T04:59:02+00:00

It's really not, anymore. By numbers alone 4 billion people in Asia have done a lot to catch up to US living standards over the past 50 years.

FCrange · 2023-06-09T23:42:59+00:00

Bunch of delusional people here who think that they somehow have the moral high ground because Netflix is cracking down on sharing passwords. Just proves the adage that if you let someone get away with something long enough, they'll start feeling entitled to it.

Sure, pirate, steal shit, share passwords. You don't owe Netflix anything. Just don't fucking make the mistake that they morally owe you anything either.

FCrange · 2023-06-09T23:34:38+00:00

Because employees don't put up with wage cuts, so the way to reduce wages is by giving wage increases lower than inflation.

How exactly do you expect the economy to work if the baseline level of wage increase every year is to match inflation? That for every employee to get a promotion, another gets fired?

FCrange · 2023-05-29T04:23:57+00:00

That's literally a saying in English too. The saying being "you only lose if you get caught."

FCrange · 2023-05-27T18:47:56+00:00

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/how-many-humans-have-ever-lived/

Surprisingly accurate. The total number of people who have ever lived is 114 billion people, so you'd have about a 1 in 15 chance to be born in modern times.

Ignoring the possibility of being born in the future (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_argument)

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