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MikeCrotch
Nov 5, 2011

I AM UNJUSTIFIABLY PROUD OF MY SPAGHETTI BOLOGNESE RECIPE

YES, IT IS AN INCREDIBLY SIMPLE DISH

NO, IT IS NOT NORMAL TO USE A PEPPERAMI INSTEAD OF MINCED MEAT

YES, THERE IS TOO MUCH SALT IN MY RECIPE

NO, I WON'T STOP SHARING IT

more like BOLLOCKnese

Shipon posted:

it's so funny how some crypto people rightfully see how hosed up and stacked against the average man the economy is right now but blame central banking for it.

buddy, central banking ain't the problem, it's a side effect of the problem

You get the same thing on the left but with MMT cultists, it's basically "one weird trick to get socialism, bankers hate it"

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Rime
Nov 2, 2011

by Games Forum

Stereotype posted:

it's real funny that late stage capitalism is so desperate to find anything that could plausibly hold value that they have decided that just burning electricity is value. you get more money from burning the coal to add a few more bits to the end of the unintelligible garbage computation than you spend on the coal and the metal wires and glass and silicon, so capitalism is going to do it.

It's the equivalent of burning wads of money for warmth, except this time it isn't the poor.

skooma512
Feb 8, 2012

You couldn't grok my race car, but you dug the roadside blur.

StrugglingHoneybun posted:

If (inACrash){

log.delete(CONTAINS autopilot);

log.write("Apropos of nothing, 24hrs since autopilot last enabled.");

}

They don't really need logic like that because in a crash, the car is more than happy to self-destruct. Destroying all evidence and cremating all occupants.

It's like how the military always tries to destroy crash sites so people can't learn anything from the wreckage.

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009


good luck building a house

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

just cut more trees down what could go wrong

SpaceCadetBob
Dec 27, 2012
was gonna say, im glad most of my work is in steel buildings atm, but lol steel is just as bad.

Not a Children
Oct 9, 2012

Don't need a holster if you never stop shooting.

I design emergency generator systems and supply/demand on those is hosed

Lead times are approaching half a year

im on the net me boys
Feb 19, 2017

Hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhjjhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhjhhhhhhjhhhhhhhhhjjjhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh cannabis

MikeCrotch posted:

You get the same thing on the left but with MMT cultists, it's basically "one weird trick to get socialism, bankers hate it"

MMT isn't a cult it's literally the only sane monetary theory for our current system

Fame Douglas
Nov 20, 2013

by Fluffdaddy

Xaris posted:

yeah v true. it's easy to go "abloo why dont they just hit the handbrake" but it doesn't really exist and is just a parking brake that unless people live on a steep hill, they have likely never used.

i'm often blind-sided in rentals when i have to disable the parking brake or if it gets turned on after having valet park it or something (which for insurance reasons they're required to do). sometimes it's a loving button, sometimes its a lever, sometimes it's a handbrake, sometimes it's a little pedal.

Abloo, why didn't they shift to neutral/turn the engine off (yes, I know about power breaking. Still would have been better)/unstuck their gas pedal which was the issue in the first place. There's no excuse for the incompetence of that person, apparently able to call 911 but not bring the car to a stop.

stellers bae
Feb 10, 2021

by Hand Knit

Lostconfused posted:

It's not a Prius thing, it's a Toyota thing. Some of their other cars have a foot operated ebreak.

My Prius has a foot operated parking brake

Epic High Five
Jun 5, 2004



Foot operated like....Flintstones style?

Lostconfused
Oct 1, 2008

Epic High Five posted:

Foot operated like....Flintstones style?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_lfX2iJQZw

Epic High Five
Jun 5, 2004



I like my interpretation better, your reality has been rejected, goodbye

CRUSTY MINGE
Mar 30, 2011

Peggy Hill
Foot Connoisseur
They're parking brakes, not emergency brakes. Emergency brakes are just the brakes. But by all means, pull that lever at highway speed, I like watching car crash videos.

oxsnard
Oct 8, 2003

im on the net me boys posted:

MMT isn't a cult it's literally the only sane monetary theory for our current system

yeah mmt is probably the only way to get to a somewhat reasonable future without violent revolution and/or the collapse of society

shirunei
Sep 7, 2018

I tried to run away. To take the easy way out. I'll live through the suffering. When I die, I want to feel like I did my best.

stellers bae posted:

My Prius has a foot operated parking brake

Yep my 3rd gen has a foot operated ebreak

GoLambo
Apr 11, 2006

oxsnard posted:

yeah mmt is probably the only way to get to a somewhat reasonable future without violent revolution and/or the collapse of society

well don't go ruling out that violent revolution just yet

Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007

is mmt like mma?

Fame Douglas
Nov 20, 2013

by Fluffdaddy

oxsnard posted:

yeah mmt is probably the only way to get to a somewhat reasonable future without violent revolution and/or the collapse of society

Because hyperinflation would make everyone more equal? But you'd still have the people with tangible assets being way better off than the peons.

oxsnard
Oct 8, 2003

GoLambo posted:

well don't go ruling out that violent revolution just yet

oh I'm not ruling it out by any means and I'm not saying mmt is ideal either but it's probably the only way to get there without tons and tons of death

oxsnard
Oct 8, 2003

Fame Douglas posted:

Because hyperinflation would make everyone more equal? But you'd still have the people with tangible assets being way better off than the peons.

mmt is based on the idea that monetary supply doesn't create inflation, so no???

I'm not saying it's an ideal future or anything and mmt doesn't promise the end of inequality. I said a "reasonable" future for a reason

Woof Blitzer
Dec 29, 2012

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Nonsense posted:

is mmt like mma?

No it’s like cbt

Fame Douglas
Nov 20, 2013

by Fluffdaddy

oxsnard posted:

mmt is based on the idea that monetary supply doesn't create inflation, so no???

Yeah, but no one actually believes that part.

oxsnard
Oct 8, 2003
if you talk about mmt without at minimum reading "the defecit myth" first gtfoh. Most of the hyperinflation fearmongering is pushed by insane right wing goldbugs

Fame Douglas
Nov 20, 2013

by Fluffdaddy
If only Germany didn't have those fearmongering goldbugs, they wouldn't have had any hyperinflation!

PIZZA.BAT
Nov 12, 2016


:cheers:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRSWmkSJJEs

Stereotype
Apr 24, 2010

College Slice
i'm pissed that teens watching tiktok didn't reign in the abuses of the federal reserve system since they were too busy doing dances or whatever. if only they had been reading my articles that i am paid by the click to write. what will millenials not ruin

Your Brain on Hugs
Aug 20, 2006
$LUMBER number unencumbered by slumber, underdog $HOG is jogged from slog

Stereotype
Apr 24, 2010

College Slice

wolfs posted:

Northman continues to post good graphs now and then

here’s one that made me weary in my bones

https://twitter.com/northmantrader/status/1384177462729330690?s=21

this graph is terrifying. us dollars are worthless now. contrary to popular belief you absolutely can make decisions so badly that they have consequences.

SpaceCadetBob
Dec 27, 2012

Fame Douglas posted:

If only Germany didn't have those fearmongering goldbugs, they wouldn't have had any hyperinflation!

yea because nothing has changed in 100 years on how markets and nations relate to each other.

Not a Children
Oct 9, 2012

Don't need a holster if you never stop shooting.

Stereotype posted:

this graph is terrifying. us dollars are worthless now. contrary to popular belief you absolutely can make decisions so badly that they have consequences.

Dollars are only worthless if everyone's amount of money is shooting up

Since it's only the rich they just get to spend an ever-dwindling proportion on their wealth on obscene opulence while everyone else lives hand to mouth

Father Wendigo
Sep 28, 2005
This is, sadly, more important to me than bettering myself.

Nonsense posted:

is mmt like mma?
Kind of, they both have the same kind of ingrained racism in their respective fanbases.

Banana Man
Oct 2, 2015

mm time 2 gargle piss and shit
I for one am extremely excited about numbers future

oxsnard
Oct 8, 2003
also Germany printed an insane about of currency deliberately to screw their debt holders. I'll talk about how real inflation has been masked since 2009, but even then it hasn't come close to keeping up with the increase in money supply

Casey Finnigan
Apr 30, 2009

Dumb ✔
So goddamn crazy ✔

Stereotype posted:

i'm pissed that teens watching tiktok didn't reign in the abuses of the federal reserve system since they were too busy doing dances or whatever. if only they had been reading my articles that i am paid by the click to write. what will millenials not ruin

i like how millennials have been considered teens since like 2005

Fame Douglas
Nov 20, 2013

by Fluffdaddy
Yes, clearly raw materials aren't shooting up in price. Lumber? Cheap as ever!

oxsnard
Oct 8, 2003
I didn't say inflation wasn't happening at all, dingus.

Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007

house prices are whatever they should be in their respective markets. newly built houses anywhere will never be sub $200k

the bitcoin of weed
Nov 1, 2014

Fame Douglas posted:

Yes, clearly raw materials aren't shooting up in price. Lumber? Cheap as ever!

you might have to do some more critical thinking on why inflation happens and how regarding the money supply to participate in this particular debate, beyond looking at the One Official Inflation Statistic and the One Official Money Number

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Gods_Butthole
Aug 9, 2020
Probation
Can't post for 8 years!

I remember when my lizard milk came in glass bottles :corsair:

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