Of course inflation is natural. Unless we are all gonna share the same $100 forever it has to happen at least without some sort of perfect foresight so the correct amount of money can be issued.
What isn’t natural is somehow people are convinced they should be held hostage by business.
When somehow we are convinced taking out a loan that you have to pay on for eternity (selling stock) that is not natural.
When somehow limited resources (our time) has less value then an unlimited resource (money) that is not natural.
Dividing $100 into smaller and smaller pieces is the exact same thing as making money which causes inflation? If you divide it into 200 parts of fifty cents each and you only need 199 then someone has an extra fifty cents.
We wish they were that cool, the inventors of the modern mile were more concerned about land measurements. A square mile is 640 acres. Which neatly can be cut into quarters 3 times. 160, 40, 10.
No, they just want someone who will appeal to the common person as maybe caring.
I said it during his initial campaign run. A “business man” as leader of the country isn’t a horrible thing. Trump and many others are horrible picks for that role though. People will reject that because government isn’t supposed to be for profit but it really is. As taxpayers we just need to rethink what “profit” looks like to us. Universal healthcare, UBI, proper investment in the country, proper ma/pa ternity leave can easily be taxpayer funded and on and on. A good leader will stifle borrowing by the US and make some headway towards our enormous debt while still finding something that works for us as voters.
That is not true. If it’s pre 1898 it’s antique, beyond that it is classified as a destructive device and has a whole bunch of red tape. Anytime you see words $200 tax stamp it isn’t easy to get.
And even a pre 1898 cannon is going to cost you $8k+ for a rusted out POS that will explode if you try to actually fire it.
It a little hard to blame them since they were sold the end of pensions and rise of the 401k. Which the bottom 60% of the country has close to zero of and then they can’t make a living wage because the shareholders demand a greater return every year.
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It’s everything from redpill misogynists to people who just support men’s rights and saying we should should direct resources to prevent male suicides is the exact same thing as saying women are property and deserve no rights or autonomy and there is no middle ground.
It is important to understand what people are saying about this because when you hear someone say something that seems reasonable and correct but suddenly they show their extremist stance but then you dismiss that part because you don’t realize what they are saying.
This is how all extremist groups get people on their side from Isis to Jordan Peterson to far right politics.
Time for a new insurance company friend unless you live somewhere with lots of roof damage that shouldn’t be an issue. Farmers was more than happy with my 15 year old architectural shingles upon inspection.
It was just 8 months ago. I had no lifting or damage and the inspector for the insurance company estimated the roof was 8-10 years old and I provided documentation it was 15 years old. I’m not saying you are wrong but this is probably highly variable by state. Even hurricane riddled Florida has laws on the books saying insurance can’t decline your coverage if the roof has 5-8 useful years per the inspector of your choice.
a.k.a. the 90–9–1 principle. Does the Fediverse follow this rule, or are there more creators here as early adopters? Are you a creator, a participator or a lurker?
Maybe, but having a sense of community maked a big difference in keeping people engaged when communities are small and need to grow. There are certainly plenty of spaces that should be kept clean and on topic but if everything is always dry and boring you will have limited engagement and limited repeats.
When a lurker knows how to “newfags can’t triforce”
Or respond to “Red Leader standing by.”
Then they see positive feedback from the community they feel like they are part of the community vs an observer and tribalism is one of the strongest features/bugs of humanity.
This also helps keep discussions civil when you can realize the person you have having a disagreement with regarding “tensor wave field dynamics in corn flakes” isn’t just a raging dick because they used the “specific gravity of skim milk instead of whole milk like you were.”
I don’t know why we should be surprised. This is just natural progression and even if they don’t explicitly send it out to a specific location on its own eventually it will find and consume the information in one way or another unless it is kept in an isolated box. There is absolutely no legislation that will fix/stop this unless 100% of all people capable of creating these will respect such a decision and being the odd groups out will severely hamper their future.
Hard times (i.imgur.com)
What are some useful or just cool stuff to memorize?
I just learned the mind palace technique to memorize stuff and wanna put it to use.
How about my social credit now (i.imgur.com)
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PPP loans (Edit: stimulus checks totaled a little over $800 billion) (i.ibb.co)
Choose wisely (i.imgur.com)
Trump's unprecedented campaign pitch: Elect me to be your revenge on the government (abcnews.go.com)
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End thy own life (i.imgur.com)
Wish we didn’t live in a capitalist dystopia (i.imgur.com)
Expected: I cancelled our subscription with HP and they blocked us from being able to use the rest of the ink in our cartridge. (younsfw.com)
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Privatized Healthcare is so awesome (lemmy.ml)
heartbreaking moment (lemmy.world)
Reddit risks losing its identity in pursuit of profits (www.techzine.eu)
Reddit isn’t profitable, despite having more than 50 million daily active users. In preparation for an IPO, CEO Steve Huffman put the platform’s API
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1% rule: 1% of users actively create new content, while the other 99% only lurk. (en.wikipedia.org)
a.k.a. the 90–9–1 principle. Does the Fediverse follow this rule, or are there more creators here as early adopters? Are you a creator, a participator or a lurker?
Anti-union (i.ibb.co)
Google Says It'll Scrape Everything You Post Online for AI (article from 3.07.2023) (gizmodo.com)
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