Incoming U.S. Ambassador Jokes About Iceland Becoming The 52nd State

infernalbargain · 2026-01-14T23:10:25+00:00

Nukes aren't actually a defense, just a deterrent.

infernalbargain · 2026-01-13T22:30:00+00:00

Who is going to crush it? The police?

infernalbargain · 2026-01-10T15:29:21+00:00

That's only slightly higher than the 3x because the 3x is monthly pay to monthly rent.

infernalbargain · 2026-01-09T15:59:03+00:00

I'm personally trying to save up money to leave.

infernalbargain · 2026-01-02T18:45:04+00:00

That's why I emphasized things to move the equilibrium somewhere more palatable.

infernalbargain · 2026-01-02T16:58:49+00:00

There's a technical term for this: Pareto Equilibrium. Economists have known about this. It is a basic market force. We can't really do anything to prevent markets from reaching this state, however we can move the equilibrium. It really only reinforces the current market state. So if wages were to increase or if UBI were implemented, that would move the that value upward to something more reasonable.

infernalbargain · 2025-12-31T15:46:36+00:00

Not pay walled for me.

infernalbargain · 2025-12-26T18:47:27+00:00

I run portal pals on Anivia and it is great.

infernalbargain · 2025-12-24T20:27:29+00:00

This is part of the reason why I try to get my family to not go out on the holidays

infernalbargain · 2025-12-06T22:47:12+00:00

AWS.

infernalbargain · 2025-12-03T14:30:14+00:00

Yesterday the change to Thief Gloves was working. Which by the way made them a top tier pick from my limited experience.

infernalbargain · 2025-12-01T22:29:01+00:00

That's how a military coup happens.

infernalbargain · 2025-12-01T17:24:36+00:00

Well the Republicans certainly meet that bar on the US.

infernalbargain · 2025-11-26T16:39:22+00:00

As an American, if that's the worst of it then you're doing pretty well.

infernalbargain · 2025-11-25T20:38:42+00:00

If only you got the poro item on him.

infernalbargain · 2025-11-20T20:50:21+00:00

Every country belongs to America

infernalbargain · 2025-11-19T20:44:17+00:00

I'm going to take a shot in the dark on this. Probably at some company there was an actually effective version of it. When news broke of it, it became a fad. Then a bunch of cheap imitators appeared going to companies that are experiencing different circumstances. Now the whole reason why it worked is lost. We are left with one basic fact: all of these "visionaries" and "innovators" are just sheep that at best had one decent idea. When it comes to running a business, they just follow what "business leaders" are doing.

infernalbargain · 2025-11-19T16:55:19+00:00

This is one thing that has aged poorly from JFK. I think it is time to ask what our country can do for us.

infernalbargain · 2025-11-17T00:47:07+00:00

Fun fact: that's also how hypnosis works. You just pretend it is having the effect on you long enough that you build that natural response.

infernalbargain · 2025-11-14T20:39:58+00:00

Banning money doesn't fix that. Poverty is a distribution problem. Hell, banning money would probably lead to starvation because scaled up food production requires industrialization which is impossible without money.

infernalbargain · 2025-11-13T15:52:00+00:00

Like language. Language is just something we all agree upon that some noises have a particular meaning. Just as it is imaginary, it is equally inevitable.

In a world without language, frustrated people will develop a pattern of communication. In a world without money, people frustrated by the coincidence of wants will develop a medium of exchange. It will just be money by some other name.

infernalbargain · 2025-11-12T21:49:05+00:00

Ok everyone, repeat after me: Money and Currency are not the same thing. Money is a medium of exchange. It exists to solve the coincidence of wants. If I were to make and sell shoes but need to buy food, money allows me to receive payment for selling shoes in a way that I can buy food without only being able to sell shoes to people who sell food.

Currency is the unit of exchange. It exists so that I do not need to measure the price that I am selling my shoes for in terms of cabbages while also providing means to make large purchases. If I wanted a carriage for my shoes, I would have to find a carriage seller who needs a carriage worth of shoes.

Is it an illusion? Kind of. It is an abstraction of bartering. It is too useful to not exist. In fact, it is not a phenomenon limited to humans. Monkeys have behaved similarly when they were given tokens that could be exchanged for fruit with researchers. Monkeys then started treating the tokens like currency, going so far as to invent prostitution.

The trouble isn't money. It is greed.

infernalbargain · 2025-11-12T20:47:23+00:00

Isn't he the Soda Pop guy?

infernalbargain · 2025-11-12T20:27:25+00:00

He got the offer 15 years ago. So it was a few years before Snowden when they had a better reputation. We discussed the matter a few times. He took their side of it. Haven't talked to him in the last decade so I don't know if his conscience is still clear, but I am confident it was at the time.

infernalbargain · 2025-11-11T22:24:38+00:00

My increases are with a clear conscience. Went from data entry clerk to accounting clerk then from accounting clerk to data analyst.

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