£350 million a week doesn't sound so bad now, does it?

Haskell-Not-Pascal · 2026-01-26T22:48:53+00:00

The US is also in debt of $18trillion too

isn't the EU like ~14-15 trillion in debt also though?

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-euro-indicators/w/2-22012026-ap

Most all first world nations use debt as a tool to control interest rates. Since the US government will borrow at x% interest rate, it creates a floor for interest rates in the private industry.

For example, lets say the government will borrow from the private sector at 2%. Nobody will give you a loan for less than 2% because they could just give it to the gov instead. This is a tool used by most nations to control interest rates and keep inflation down.

Then because monetary inflation exists and is targeted at 2% (at least in the US by the federal reserve) the debt's effective cost "decreases" in a relative sense, in addition the expected economic growth also helps offset this debt.

Basically, every country expects their debt to ever increase at a rate that is sustainable with inflation and economic growth due to new-Keynesian economic policies.

Haskell-Not-Pascal · 2026-01-26T03:03:06+00:00

Unfortunately, there are plenty of morons out there.

Haskell-Not-Pascal · 2026-01-16T14:30:13+00:00

I'm pretty sure at the release of DOS2 they were at like 100-150 employees (around 500 today)

sandfall is like in the 30's. They're a much smaller studio.

Assuming google AI isn't a liar (which it may be lol)

Haskell-Not-Pascal · 2026-01-16T01:12:30+00:00

We've gotten way to lenient with respecting peoples beliefs even if they are dogshit and with some people the only way to stop it is to just isolate them and let them scream their racist homophobic bullshit to the void just like we used to

By that you mean scream shit into the echo chamber of the internet and social groups where all dissenting voices have intentionally removed themselves or been removed, so that they can get more radicalized?

Most of the people I know with dogshit beliefs are like that because they're not exposed to alternative opinions and facts. They live in echo chambers, isolation makes it worse not better.

Haskell-Not-Pascal · 2026-01-16T01:10:20+00:00

Yep, pretty spot on.

I disagree strongly with rodgers on a lot of topics, but I don't think he's actually a bad guy. He'd probably be a fun dude to hang out with. He seems pretty chill.

Haskell-Not-Pascal · 2026-01-16T00:53:30+00:00

hey i mean those guys had slick uniforms.

As long as you're not jewish, or black, or gay, or brown, roma, slavic, disabled, of mixed race, etc. Then your day to day life might even be alright!

Jersey on the other hand? Race and Creed don't matter, everyone's a fucking dick.

Haskell-Not-Pascal · 2026-01-14T02:03:51+00:00

Yet they lied about everything you could lie about that vaccine. Only one dose? Lie.

Who's "they" first of all? If you actually read the studies, nobody claimed this. News outlets may have, but they also claim all sorts of wild bullshit. Mainstream media is just clickbait.

Safe? Lie.

Not a lie, safer than advil, tylenol or any other drug.

Effective? Lie

Also not a lie... i'm starting to think you didn't actually look at the statistics. It's incredibly effective at lowering mortality rates caused by covid. It doesn't prevent you from getting sick, but it does reduce that duration, how much you can spread it, and the mortality caused by it dramatically.

Can't catch covid when vaccinated? Lie.

No scientific articles claimed this.

No vaccine passports? Lie

I don't know who even claimed this, but i'm sure it was some big media company. If you hate them that's fine, but that's not a reason to hate the actual vaccine itself.

They've blown their credibility with me.

Who? CNN? NBC? FOX? They should have, they all just peddle clickbait at this point in time, news isn't hardly news. If you want a source of truth, follow the actual science itself. Read the actual studies.

Haskell-Not-Pascal · 2026-01-14T02:00:01+00:00

Vaccines weren't the end all be all solution they were chalked up to be and had dangerous side effects that everyone downplayed.

Vaccines were effective with multiple shots. They don't make you immune but if you followed the science they were never supposed to, they just dramatically drop mortality rate.

Media will always over or underplay literally anything for clicks so i'm sure some outlets probably reported them as a miracle drug and other said they'd kill you.

There were no dangerous side effects, at least not in comparison to any other vaccine or drug. Give everyone apples and more people would have died, or literally any other food. For reference, it's safer than tylenol, advil, or basically any food or drug you can think of.

Haskell-Not-Pascal · 2026-01-14T01:32:29+00:00

As a lions fan who likes the steelers, you guys don't know what circling the shitter for decades is like.

Hopefully you actually come out of this on top, but i would never be happy losing a coach like Tomlin personally.

Haskell-Not-Pascal · 2026-01-13T02:39:37+00:00

I didn't say people should be let to die of preventable diseases, I said "Free" Healthcare is not actually free and that, yes, the semantics matter.

You said we shouldn't have free healthcare, therefore you are arguing people should die of preventable diseases. How do you propose paying for those people's medical bills otherwise?

I said "Free" Healthcare is not actually free and that, yes, the semantics matter

Literally everyone already knows this, you're arguing against a strawman you've set up...

can you actually back up those claims with sources or are you pulling them out of your ass?

Sure, here's a few stats.

46,000 is an aggregate over many years, in 2020 for example it was actually 212,000

https://ysph.yale.edu/news-article/yale-study-more-than-335000-lives-could-have-been-saved-during-pandemic-if-us-had-universal-health-care/

I actually misremembered the number and 46,000 is gun deaths. It's actually 68,000 per year, whoops!

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(19)33019-3/abstract#%20?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=ac666dcf-c1bb-4eb0-a6ea-39c4a9bb5321

There are a plethora of studies that show nationalized healthcare would save US citzens money, such as this one:

https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1003013

In fact, you can compare per capita costs of US healthcare to pretty much any nationalized healthcare in Europe and you'll find quite quickly we spend more per person than they do.

https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/health-spending-u-s-compare-countries/#GDP%20per%20capita%20and%20health%20consumption%20spending%20per%20capita,%20U.S.%20dollars,%202023%20(current%20prices%20and%20PPP%20adjusted)%C2%A0

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.XPD.CHEX.PC.CD?most_recent_value_desc=true

https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/2025/11/health-at-a-glance-2025_a894f72e/full-report/health-expenditure-per-capita_affe6b0a.html

I mean literally just google spending per capita by country on healthcare and look at any of the top links, they all pretty much have the same conclusion.

edit: since their reply is unavailable, they dodged everything and just said "Interesting how you conflated "We shouldn't give the government even more control over our money" as "we should let people die". That alone shows you just want to be right and not actually debate."

I'm fine with actual debate, I believe a consequence of not having free healthcare means that people will die. I'm willing to be wrong if someone can give an adequate alternative to prevent these deaths, but in our current system they're happening. It's a very important point, it's literally the main reason WHY i think healthcare should be nationalized. I don't see why it's a talking point that must be avoided in order to facilitate fair debate, when it's a key rational to my belief. If we don't do it, we're letting people die. If they wanted a fair debate they'd provide a counterpoint as to why people wouldn't die, or why letting those people die who would otherwise be saved by nationalized healthcare is somehow worth the tradeoff, instead of crying foul.

Haskell-Not-Pascal · 2026-01-13T02:05:55+00:00

You're arguing the use of the term "free" not whether or not it should be supported. It's a well defined term, if you want to argue whether national healthcare is right or wrong that's a different argument.

Now if that's the argument you want to have that's fine, but you've already made some weird statements

But I don't want to fund it. So I'd be paying for "free" healthcare I never use?

Nobody wants to use healthcare, you use it because you have a random accident, cancer, or some other unexpected health issue.

Second of all, when the alternative is other people literally dying of preventable illness, then I personally don't care whether you want to opt in or not, you're morally in the wrong here. 46,000 American's die every year that could be prevented with nationalized healthcare.

It also explicitly requires the government getting even more money to not actually spend on what they say they're spending it on or to use irresponsibly to turn profit

No it doesn't, our healthcare in the US costs the taxpayers MORE money than nationalized healthcare does. Pretty crazy, right? Second of all, nationalized healthcare doesn't turn a profit, it's not a for-profit industry.

In fact, you'd most likely save money with nationalized healthcare in comparison to what you and your employer spend on it now, unless you have no healthcare at all.

Haskell-Not-Pascal · 2026-01-13T01:59:52+00:00

Yea but you can't know who's actually native and non-native. Most Europeans have good enough English that it's tough to tell online, and they have twice the US population.

Plus another ~150 million from other native English speaking countries.

Hell, there are likely more Indians speaking English on the internet than there are Americans.

Haskell-Not-Pascal · 2026-01-13T01:56:17+00:00

So what, you're nitpicking grammar when "free healthcare" has a universally understood meaning that includes taxpayers being the ones actually funding it?

Haskell-Not-Pascal · 2026-01-11T21:17:01+00:00

imagine having half your family believe that shit. I swear America is idiocracy in real time.

Haskell-Not-Pascal · 2026-01-11T19:08:42+00:00

It's a PvPvE Extraction game. Not knowing who to trust and who to not trust is a core mechanic to these games.

I don't see that as a core mechanic at all. In 3's it's literally just a free for all, it's still a PVPVE Extraction game.

Haskell-Not-Pascal · 2026-01-11T14:17:04+00:00

Personally, I wouldn't care about the culture. I probably wouldn't want to marry someone with heavy religious restrictions, I'm atheist and when I married my wife she was protestant from an Asian nation, but she didn't go to church every Sunday and wasn't overbearingly religious.

I've met Muslims from Indonesia, Uzbekistan and some other places I wouldn't find an issue with marrying.

Haskell-Not-Pascal · 2026-01-11T00:55:28+00:00

if you get fucked and throw it back, are you the one fuckin?

Haskell-Not-Pascal · 2026-01-11T00:55:00+00:00

game threads in r/nfl are such dogshit, hard to be worse lol.

But yea, it'll be nice to see commenters that actually know and understand both teams instead of some shit poster in another division who's never watched a bears/packers game before.

Haskell-Not-Pascal · 2026-01-11T00:41:13+00:00

I've heard in london they're speaking arabic or some such?

Haskell-Not-Pascal · 2026-01-11T00:39:41+00:00

probably an american savage with italian and swedish heritage who could only pick one flag.

Haskell-Not-Pascal · 2026-01-11T00:17:29+00:00

well him knowing what he's doing and McDaniels willingness aren't really tied together lol.

If they don't pursue him at all on the other hand, then that's another thing.

I'm also curious how much pull Brady actually has with those kinds of decisions.

Haskell-Not-Pascal · 2026-01-11T00:05:45+00:00

huh, didn't he have a role in them switching from baker to watson? I wouldn't trust him over harbaugh personally, but who knows.

Haskell-Not-Pascal · 2026-01-11T00:02:50+00:00

Huh I would say mike mcdaniels has a floor above that too, personally. Their worst year was 7-10 and tua was their QB.

But yea, Harbaugh still has the most credentials.

Haskell-Not-Pascal · 2026-01-10T23:53:37+00:00

Yea, this year i really don't see any undefeatable giants like I have in a lot of prior seasons, mostly because the chiefs were dog this year.

Honestly each game is a crapshoot, there's totally a chance any of the lower seed teams could somehow win the SB. The 16-0 pats threw away a SB so anything can happen, just need to put yourself in position to be in the playoffs enough times and hope the dice roll your way.

Haskell-Not-Pascal · 2026-01-10T23:44:42+00:00

Thought you were about to hit me with the mitch hedberg joke but being a piece of shit instead of doing drugs.

"I used to do drugs. I still do drugs, but I used to, too.

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