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I’m just this guy, you know. Except on Lemmy.

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Terry Pratchett’s “Making Money” taught me enough economics to know that individual debt and national debt are two different things.

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When money is not in circulation, it’s not being used to pay for goods and services…it’s just…sitting there being hoarded.

This is why I think the velocity of money should be a key economic indicator. Money moving around and doing work is what makes an economy better for everyone. When it starts to pool in the economy it slows down and benefits only a few.

This is another thing I learned from “Making Money”

Trump plans to claim sweeping powers to cancel federal spending: In a second term, allies said the former president would look at funding cuts for the World Health Organization and green energy (wapo.st)

Classically, Congress held the power of the purse, able to both bar and require spending. This imposed a significant limit on Presidential power. With a bought court supporting him, Trump would have significant ability to essentially chart power as a king.

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Biden should buy some courts…

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“Congratulations peasants! Here are a quarter million open positions to have your labor value stolen and probably also your wages. Exploitation is freedom!”

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I could see Apple buying it. The form factor makes sense, it’s the fact that it relies on AI and has its own cell connection are the main issues. If I could tap it and have Siri take dictation or take a picture of something to get more information it would be pretty neat.

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As someone who doesn’t wear a watch, having a little fob that I could use to activate Siri without digging my phone out of my pocket would be pretty nice. If it were a phone peripheral it probably would have been a lot better.

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I’d drop the projector interface, as cool as it is, since you have a phone for that. Maybe make it a pendant as well as a pin.

Apple’s got a lot of experience with using tiny speakers in loud places, so I bet they could figure out something maybe using directional microphones. Plus, again, you’ve got the phone so you can use the headphones.

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Airpods don’t have a camera though. 90% of my photos are of things I need to remember, like a shopping list or a specific product I need to get Having to dig out (or find) my phone to do that is a pain.

And I don’t have Airpods because I’d lose them, one by one, and the replacements are twice the price as another pair of perfectly workable Bluetooth headphones.

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It’s the third rule of Anarchy Camp: If you see someone taking charge you’re expected to beat them.

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I used to think stuff like that a lot until I realized I’m just old

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If you call yourself a cyber-terrorist you should be ransomwaring banks, not swatting normal people

“The caller laughed and taunted officers, stating that he was hiding under multiple VPNs (virtual private networks),”

“Good luck I’m behind seven proxies!”

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Lack of sun exposure probably helps him look younger

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Imagine if people who knew how to fix this were empowered to fix it.

Nevermind, it would probably just start playing ads.

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Trump will make a big deal about giving up his gun, which he never actually owned, and then start selling replicas to chuds. I guarantee it. It will be a Chinese-made gold-plated 1911 and probably have an eagle on it.

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That “we” is doing a lot of heavy lifting

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Opinion | Mitch McConnell: An Asshole Whose Grave I Will Piss On

Several PA House Republicans boo officers who defended Capitol on Jan. 6 | Harry Dunn and Aquilino Gonell were invited to PA’s House of Representatives — but several GOP lawmakers booed and walked out (wapo.st)

“I heard some hissing and I saw about eight to 10 of my Republican colleagues walk out angrily as they were announced as police officers from the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6,” state Rep. Arvind Venkat (D) said in a phone interview Thursday. “I was shocked and appalled,” he added. According to Venkat, the commotion lasted...

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Pennsylvania is really America in a microcosm. Mainly in that I’m ashamed by it.

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And if all the progressives in CA and NY and MA and WY and MT and UT vote for Biden and Trump still wins in the Electoral College all the liberals will blame them for the loss.

Democrats don’t appeal to progressives because we all live in high density areas and low-density areas define the government. It’s just like PotatoMcWhiskey exploiting the Diplomatic Favor trade hack in Civ; they’re at least attempting to play the actual game that we’re playing.

Also, I love the subtext of “Everyone should vote! [Democrat].” None of you would know that I just leave the ballot blank every year. Or if I did stupid write ins. But I voted, and that’s what’s important.

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I was one of those Nader voters you all hate so much. They very much blame progressives for Republican wins.

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Cool. I’ll just keep leaving my ballot blank.

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You won’t know either way

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1996 called they want their slur back

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Good news is a lot of them were in bad health in 2020 and refused to wear masks

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Please don’t disparage trombonists by implying Trump is one of us

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I’m not getting my hopes up

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