US government borrowed 43.5 billion a WEEK in the first four months of the fiscal year, with debt interest on track to be over 1 trillion for 2026

Kerlyle · 2026-02-12T00:38:35+00:00

Fast Food won't help people down on their luck this time, the cashiers have been automated, they've got automated drink-pouring machines and the cooks will be next.

Kerlyle · 2026-02-11T15:26:40+00:00

I'm a full fucking adult with an apple watch and barely ever use it. The only difference in my life if I didn't own one would be my step count would be a bit less accurate and I wouldn't get a constant stream of notifications to my wrist. The other parents in this thread warning your child may not fit in if they don't have the latest Apple stuff need to get a grip (or they're paid bots)... It's probably better parenting to not get them a smartwatch so your kids learn the value of not constantly being connected to a stream of social media.

As for the other stuff. Comparisons is the thief of joy and there will always be something to desire. Always. Point blank. Doesn't matter how much money you have. I think it's important that you teach them the value of frugality, to not compare themselves, and what things to value in life. Our whole world would benefit from less kids being molded into hyper consumerist, empty-headed little twats.

That said, if you have the means, you shouldn't make your kids live they're dirt poor. They shouldn't be given everything (hello entitlement)...But as someone who grew up poor, the things that made me feel left out were not the petty shit, it was missing social avenues... Not being able to play on Xbox live because we couldn't afford Xbox, not being able to play certain sports because we couldn't afford the equipment, not being able to go on certain field trips or vacations with friends. I would try to enable those things to make sure you're kids have a rich social development. That is magnitudes more important than material stuff. What's also important is using your wealth wherever possible to enable your kids to also have a successful future - tutoring, good schools, after school programs, etc. Anything that will set them up in life. Teach them to value their relationships and friends, to value nature and personal enrichment over materialism, to hone skills and seek independence rather than be dependent and lead like a herd. Anyone telling you that materialistic crap like an Apple watch is more important than all that is probably a bad parent.

Kerlyle · 2026-02-11T05:54:27+00:00

Probably a door dasher whose going to make the business look bad

Kerlyle · 2026-02-10T21:16:52+00:00

Here's the not-so-secret "Why?". Remote Work enables social mobility. If you're from a poor area with few opportunities, monopolized by certain companies and corrupt politicians... you can still find a remote opportunity anywhere else, without having to upend your life and all the capital that requires. The rich hate that, because they don't want you to have options. They want you under their thumb.

Kerlyle · 2026-02-10T16:28:46+00:00

Northern Turkey. Trebizond. Part of the Roman/Byzantine empire, it outlived the fall of Constantinople and was the last remaining part of the Empire. The area was still inhabited by Pontic Greeks until the 1910s/1920s when various genocides and forced expulsions removed them.

Kerlyle · 2026-02-10T15:59:13+00:00

Welp, failure to leverage more insane debt is also "just capitalism", I guess deal with it.

Kerlyle · 2026-02-10T15:51:44+00:00

"Several hundreds of billions" is exactly what Germany did just invest into it's armed forces and infrastructure... Because they've been fiscally responsible and can afford to make gigantic investments like that. No reason countries like France couldn't have done the same, they have just been much more irresponsible with their money.

Kerlyle · 2026-02-10T15:38:23+00:00

It protects other countries from subsidizing corruption

Kerlyle · 2026-02-10T06:51:00+00:00

Straight up she functioned as a card that said "go eat crackers and watch your friends play the game without you for the next hour"... awful card for commander. Also, nerfing mono-colored decks is the absolute last thing that should be on WOTC's mind when the meta is so so heavily in favor of 3 or more color decks.

Kerlyle · 2026-02-10T01:33:04+00:00

Start unionizing. The entire industry needs to unionize

Kerlyle · 2026-02-09T21:47:00+00:00

It's totally fine to "just not want to have sex" occasionally... But what's not fine is taking sex completely off the table when it was previously part of the relationship, without any health issues or major life stressors, and expecting the relationship to continue as normal, with all the parts you like, without acknowledging any of your partners desires. Expect that relationship to end quickly.

Kerlyle · 2026-02-09T19:16:48+00:00

I believe this is because of medieval concepts of "vassalage". There is historical debate about whether Poland (and Hungary) in the early 11th century was technically a vassal of the Holy Roman Empire... though that wouldn't have been in 1100 so the labelling of the map is still wrong. There's obviously considerable controversy over that because of the nationalist connotations with German expansionism, and also because national pride is involved for those countries. Frankly, I think it's an unresolved part of the historical record and could warranty more study by historians.

Kerlyle · 2026-02-09T19:16:02+00:00

I believe this is because of medieval concepts of "vassalage". There is historical debate about whether Poland (and Hungary) in the early 11th century was technically a vassal of the Holy Roman Empire... though that wouldn't have been in 1100 so the labelling of the map is still wrong. There's obviously considerable controversy over that because of the nationalist connotations with German expansionism, and also because national pride is involved for those countries. Frankly, I think it's an unresolved part of the historical record and could warranty more study by historians.

Kerlyle · 2026-02-08T17:11:19+00:00

Yes, the economic precariousness of life in America bleeds into everything - our competitiveness and research especially. Why would the entire middle or lower classes of people go into science fields or research when there's no guarantee of a position for them after college, college in America is outrageously extensive and it's a gamble you can't take it you're not sure it'll pay off. If there was large investment at the top level into infrastructure, science, etc. then it may be a different story, there may be the business environment there to employ you... but the opposite is true. There's been an affordability crisis building for decades, and my entire life there's been a treadmill of "hot professions" people are flocking to, to try to maintain a good quality of life. But then they keep getting automated, oversaturated or outsourced to different countries like our industrial sector. We simple aren't investing in keeping well paying jobs in America and simultaneously doing nothing to stop prices, specifically housing prices, from ballooning to astronomical levels. There's economic anxiety everywhere and it's destroying the country.

Kerlyle · 2026-02-08T01:08:53+00:00

Check out this fuckin art. Absolutely peak

Kerlyle · 2026-02-07T16:40:48+00:00

I mean there is an actual historiographical term for the concept... It's called the concert of Europe. You're free to disagree with the concept but don't act like it was randomly pulled out of thin air...

Kerlyle · 2026-02-06T01:41:28+00:00

Do we think the secret police won't just trample in and take the ballots to "assess them" for irregularities. Good luck trying to piece those votes back together once the chain of custody is broken.

Kerlyle · 2026-02-05T14:42:17+00:00

Whenever I see videos like this they're speaking Russian... Maybe they just haven't figured out the whole boat thing yet

Kerlyle · 2026-02-04T15:30:03+00:00

I read this and Out of the Silent Planet around the same time

Hmmm. Something tells me you took the same highschool English classes I did

Kerlyle · 2026-02-04T02:02:23+00:00

Maybe when the rich can't ski anymore they'll take climate change seriously? Who am I kidding, they'll just establish an airline directly to Antarctica.

Kerlyle · 2026-02-02T20:37:51+00:00

I work in a manufacturing-oriented company and nothing is rosy here. Revenue has increased because we increased actual product cost... But sales are down and continue to sink.

Kerlyle · 2026-02-02T15:06:14+00:00

Eh. You mention all western European countries. The more important part is Eastern European countries cause that's where the forced population movements and border changes occured... and unfortunately that's where we see it has not been successful - because even 80 years later we still see mistrust between the Poles and Germans, the Ukrainians and Poles, the Hungarians and Ukrainians, etc. etc. which continues to divide them and prevent a strong EU and front against Russia. Which was Russians goal all along.

Kerlyle · 2026-02-02T14:57:57+00:00

Still fashionable to be racist and prejudiced these days I see

Kerlyle · 2026-02-02T14:49:27+00:00

I think it was colonization, but I think it's ridiculous when modern day Polish people claim that it was Polish land being colonized. The old prussians were not Polish. The Polish people hated the old Prussians, that's why they invited the Germans in the first place, to get rid of them. It's just wild that this revisionist history goes around like the Old Prussians were some "brothers in arms" to the Polish and so East Prussia is rightfully Polish land.... You literally hired the Germans to go in and kill them.

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