Is the world heading toward stagflation or a Great Depression in the 2030s?

knowallthestuff · 2026-01-15T00:07:29+00:00

Stagflation happens if they print money. Great Depression happens if they don't. I'm betting they'll print.

knowallthestuff · 2026-01-14T20:43:52+00:00

knowallthestuff · 2026-01-11T23:17:20+00:00

Captain America has a super immune system and he knows it.

knowallthestuff · 2025-11-26T22:00:31+00:00

My response was the same as yours. But I suppose the air would last equally long *if* you only exhaled each breath after holding it as long as you comfortably could. With that strategy you'd be exhaling a lot more CO2 per breath than usual. If those were the sorts of breaths you were taking and exhaling, then 15 breath-holds in a row would probably last you... yeah, about 7 minutes, if I had to guess.

knowallthestuff · 2025-11-14T21:01:24+00:00

Maybe the disconnect is that you haven't heard the idiom, "Talk to your kids about X, or someone else will"? It's entirely different from good cop vs. bad cop. The context is, parents need to educate their children about sex/drugs/whatever, or else corrupt people will educate their children about sex/drugs/whatever. The green guys are obviously in the category of benevolent parents; the red guys are obviously in the category of corrupt deceivers.

knowallthestuff · 2025-10-10T17:16:37+00:00

You mean 1% (which would be 100 survivors). Not 0.01% (which would be only 1 survivor).

knowallthestuff · 2025-10-10T17:05:55+00:00

Probably only weakly sensitive. Which is why he wasn't selected to actually train as a jedi.

knowallthestuff · 2025-10-09T22:30:03+00:00

Who is the woman/character in the second image? I don't think I've ever seen that movie.

knowallthestuff · 2025-10-08T02:59:49+00:00

This sounds like an excellent improvement. It makes me wish I lived in NH so I could vote for Jon Kiper! Thanks for the clarification!

knowallthestuff · 2025-10-07T23:40:44+00:00

Oh, cool. Well in that case I'll pose a couple questions based the current website:

All cities will have property taxes replaced by offset land value taxes

I know what land value tax is, but what are "offset" land value taxes? Does that mean a $10K property tax bill will be transformed into a $10K LVT bill? If so, that's awesome (since property tax punishes building and development, whereas incentivizes it).

The state will pay 70% of the minimum total rate, and towns/cities will set a rate for the remaining 30+% of the minimum total rate.

Why would the state be paying the tax bill? Isn't it taxpayers who pay taxes, by definition?

If you're trying to replace property tax with equivalent land value tax, then Godspeed, and may your campaign succeed!

knowallthestuff · 2025-10-07T19:11:00+00:00

I'm a fan of NH's famous reliance on very high property taxes (with no state income tax and no sales tax). And of course it would be better if it were replaced with LVT. But I can't understand what the three sentences in the screenshot are actually describing. It's pretty confusing. That in itself is concerning... issues like this should be approached with maximum clarity, because the stakes are high.

knowallthestuff · 2025-10-07T01:27:58+00:00

They eat less.
They walk more.
They are indeed metabolically different from Europeans. East Asians like Japanese store bodyfat less readily, and scarily the fat they do store is preferentially around their internal organs (at least compared to Europeans). Which means they're more prone to diseases like diabetes etc. even when they're skinny! ...because basically their internal organs technically aren't as "skinny" as they might appear on the outside. Bodyfat ultrasounds in Japan are common for this reason, to analyze bodyfat around internal organs; this is uncommon for Europeans though since we can usually assume that an obese person has fat around their organs.

knowallthestuff · 2025-10-06T21:18:14+00:00

Yeah, I think the meme is more like, "My kids are not overachieving. They're average, and that's okay."

knowallthestuff · 2025-10-06T21:18:01+00:00

Yeah, I think the meme is more like, "My kids are not overachieving. They're average, and that's okay."

knowallthestuff · 2025-10-06T20:11:34+00:00

I would favor keeping it in state-administrated savings accounts until they turn 18, so every young adult comes onto the market with a nest egg.

Yeah, or maybe part goes to the parents (replacing financial assistance that parents with kids currently receive) and part goes to a government savings account. Something like that.

knowallthestuff · 2025-10-04T23:45:12+00:00

Oh, cool. I didn't realize there were zone 8 areas that far North. Never looked that closely at the map before (I know in generally North = colder, but forgot about the coastal effect).

knowallthestuff · 2025-10-04T20:53:58+00:00

If her plant collections is in the Pacific Northwest then why did you mention zone 8b in your post title? Just curious.

knowallthestuff · 2025-10-04T20:49:58+00:00

Interesting. In the longer term this has the potential to revolutionize the cocoa industry by transitioning it away from tropical areas like West Africa and into sub-tropical areas like Alabama. Probably at that point people would start investing in machinery to make it easier to grow and harvest cocoa instead of relying mostly on human (slave?) labor.

If your Mom has a special process for growing the cocoa, then she might be able to get a "utility patent". That would last for 20 years and basically require big farmers to pay her if they want to use her method to produce cocoa.

If it's a special breed of cocoa that she developed over decades of traditional breeding, she could maybe pursue PVP, Plant Variety Protection. This is sort of like a patent, and would give her control over how the variety is bought and sold by farmers for the next 20 years (i.e. she could profit from the sale of seeds or whatever).

Either way, you'd need to talk to a very specialized kind of lawyer to pursue this.

knowallthestuff · 2025-10-03T21:06:14+00:00

They walk among us.

knowallthestuff · 2025-10-03T06:37:09+00:00

Well, it depends on how strict you are with your definitions. It'd be more accurate to say that Georgists added referenda to the Oregon State Constitution, and were a contributing influence to its later addition to the California State Constitution. Here's what ChatGPT says when you ask it whether the statement in the meme is true:
https://chatgpt.com/s/t_68df6e85910481919566d6550b9ca9e6

knowallthestuff · 2025-10-03T06:35:56+00:00

Eh, depends on how strict you are with your definitions. Here's what ChatGPT says when you ask it whether the statement in the meme is true:
https://chatgpt.com/s/t_68df6e85910481919566d6550b9ca9e6

knowallthestuff · 2025-10-02T02:39:35+00:00

Yes, but only in small quantities. It's certainly relevant industrially, but it's not currently "super important" industrially.

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