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TheDemonBuer

@ TheDemonBuer @lemmy.world

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  • With more dollars on the market chasing the same amount of goods (e.g. oil) the price of everything denominated in dollars would shoot through the roof.

    Yeah, but that's what I've never quite understood: how would it put more dollars on the market than there was always going to be anyway? I mean, the idea was always to pay back these bond holders. Weren't the dollars that will be needed to pay back bond holders going to have to be created at some point regardless?

    The total Federal debt is $39 trillion, but there's only something like $20 trillion actually in existence, if I'm not mistaken. Even if we collected every single existing dollar out there through taxes, we'd still have a shortfall of almost $20 trillion.

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  • It does feel like flushing money down the toilet, doesn't it? Then again, I'm not a Medicaid, Medicare or Social Security recipient, nor am I a member of the armed forces. They might disagree.

    But why shouldn't I want to get something for my money? If I pay Medicare taxes, why shouldn't I get Medicare benefits, for instance?

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  • This is what conservatives want: medicine based on various opinions at the state local level so that you can't know what is true.

    Yeah, but not all states are going to just pull nonsense out of the air to base their policies on. Many states, like the ones you mentioned: California, Oregon and Washington will at least try to establish policies informed by experts.

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  • States must set their own guidelines. The Federal government has become unreliable so we shouldn't rely on it.

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  • We're fucked because the only solution is raise taxes and/or cut spending, and neither are politically feasible.

    We could try printing our way out of it, but people will swear up and down that would cause runaway inflation. Maybe it would, but it's always made we wonder. I mean, I'm not talking about printing money and sending everyone in America a check. I'm talking about printing money and using it to pay bond holders. Obviously not all at once, not all bonds come due at the same time. And, in theory, wouldn't that cause bond yields to go down? If treasuries were essentially guaranteed investments (and weren't they kind of seen that way for a very long time, up until recently?), yields would drop and the cost of borrowing for the Federal government would go down. Right? In theory, anyway. I'm sure I'm missing something, so please someone enlighten me.

  • As goes CBS Radio News, so goes the idea that news media should serve the public interest

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  • Public interest!? What are we, communists? It's all about private profit. That's how you know you live in a free country. True Freedom™ means prioritizing the maximization of profits for a relatively small number of owners and executives, over public interest, the environment, and even basic human decency and well being in general.

  • Go ahead and reward yourself with a very small cookie, or maybe a string cheese.

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  • Personally Ive never been able to lose weight except by eating less.

    That's absolutely the best way to lose weight.

    People shouldn't exercise to lose weight, they should exercise because it's good for your general physical, mental and emotional health. To lose weight, you eat less.

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  • This is mine now.

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  • It is. And so is American football. You don't believe that because you're ignorant, but just because you don't like or understand a sport doesn't mean it isn't a real sport.

  • Are you telling me they don't?

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  • Thank you for the clarification.

  • Are you telling me they don't?

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  • What we call AI today isn't really artificial intelligence. When you have a conversation with an AI chat bot you're not talking to another thinking entity, you're interacting with software that has been designed to give the illusion of conversing with another intelligent being. The technology has advanced enough that the illusion can be very convincing, but it is still only an illusion. That's why I don't fear LLMs being self aware and taking over the world, because they're not real intelligences. They don't have the ability to think for themselves because they don't have the ability to think.

    Edit: please read ricecake's reply for an important correction to my comment.

  • I would kill for decent public transportation in this fucking country

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  • Even people who are neither gay nor zoomers, in some cases.

  • This is mine now.

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  • So should rugby be called handegg, too?

  • White House to host mass prayer event to promote Christian origins of the US

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  • We're gonna have to fight these bozos at some point, aren't we...

  • Gold

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  • Everyone being a billionaire is the same as no one being a billionaire.

  • Record number of Americans are leaving the country and renouncing their citizenship for good, report says

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  • I mean, I don't really care if someone works honestly and gets more. Want to do OT and buy a jet ski? Fine, whatever. Not my preferred avenue but you do you.

    Yeah, but that's the thing: when the priority is get rich so you can buy lots of shit, morality becomes a secondary consideration, if it's a consideration at all. Morality, empathy and ethics should be the standard, with exceptional wealth and consumption being the exception, rather than exorbitant wealth and consumption being the goal and morality and empathy being fringe concepts.

    It's not just that some people work a few extra hours to earn a jet ski, it's that our culture conditions us to believe that the money and the things are what people should be primarily striving for, and that everything else is unimportant.

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  • That's just the reality of exponential, compound growth. But of course no society would ever think such growth could be sustained permanently...

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    James Carville Rips ‘Loudmouth’ Anti-Israel Dems — But Says Most Anti-Semites ‘Are Not Democrats’

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  • JAMES CARVILLE: That’s an understatement. And the reason that most people become a Democrat, at least the reason I did, I think it’s true, we don’t dislike anybody. We’re not against anybody.

    But, you do dislike some people. You dislike those critical of Israel. But I know what liberals would respond with, "what he means is that Democrats don't dislike anybody for who they are. We only dislike people for the choices they make." Yeah, right.

    According to the Zionists, the Palestinians have choices: convert, leave or die. Maybe people like Carville don't dislike Palestinians for being Palestinians, but they might dislike Palestinians for not being willing to accept any of the options Israel has given them.

    I mean, if the Palestinians would just accept either total destruction and/or their fate as a stateless people, this whole silly conflict could end.

    And I don t have anything against them. I like Palestinian people.

    Just not enough to believe they also deserve their own state and autonomy as a nation of people.

  • Record number of Americans are leaving the country and renouncing their citizenship for good, report says

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  • That is unfortunate. I guess there's no place for people like me.