There’s a great book called sum: forty tales from the afterlife I read recently that is great. If you’re looking for suggestions.

Thats our monetary policy. People must consume more every year to create more inflation, as technology actively reduces the price of goods.

If goods get cheaper we have deflation, they create more money supply via lower interest rates, and the price of inelastic shelter gets bid up, and asset holders receive a value windfall until prices rise. Which is why we are at a higher price to income ratio than 2007.

People born closer to the gold standard are richer, they got in when currency wasnt tethered to consumption.

Does Signal not do everything people need?

I don’t understand why any VM language is widely used. Running on every OS makes no sense to me when you could just compile it for other OS, was there some other reason?

https://www.pbssocal.org/food-discovery/food/revisiting-the-evils-of-the-food-pyramid

Food is a weird one. I’ve heard it wasn’t just lobbyists but an attempt to drop inflation, by prioritizing low input foods over high input foods.

Puppy Linux. On very old hardware.

Got an authelia config a man can bum?

I can never get it working.

Biden doesn’t control interest rates or QE, thus he doesn’t control the growth in money supply, so therefore can’t possibly control inflation.

Where I live you can’t cut down a tree, and if it gets destroyed you need to pay thousands for a botanist to come out. I would never take the risk of planting a tree.

I had an old laptop, and my WiFi required some kind of cutter driver that wrapped broadcom, my Intel graphics didn’t work on newer kernels. It booted in 7 seconds on a 5400rpm disk though while XP took minutes.

Oh god, was there even a maximize button so you could maximize your windows?

If Jean-Michel Basquiat can be a famous artist then it was already meaningless.

Hasn’t Team Fortress 2 done that forever?

Just the cancer causing it does. I’d read a study on it one time, I believe it’s accurate.

Did we conclude that, I thought its still heavily debated.

Some argue in the 50s and 60s the US was spending Europe’s gold to build highways and infrastructure, gifting Americans the wealth with a continuation of the new deal, they then defaulted in 1971 as inflation eroded foreign debt owed.

Some feel some form of debt accrual is how we derive such a consumption focused standard of living, which is misallocated capital that ends in someone holding the bag when it can’t realistically be paid back, or when population doesn’t grow fast enough like in Japan or most of the developed countries.

I’m addicted to dopamine, and I’ll take any drug I can to get more of it.

I think people underestimate the problems with teeth hygiene. It can cause dimensia, so teeth should be brushed before you eat, though avoid mouth wash.

I do agree with all of your comment. I am left wondering if this is just the end result of fiat currency debasement, leading to decades of debt accrual, and now higher interest rates due to aging global demographics; a phenomenon most central banks have publications on.

Which is something Ray Dalio talks a lot about, maybe this populism and divide is just a symptom of a larger problem. Germany does do unsustainable immigration to help deal with their aging demographics, which could easily lead to unequal asset price inflation and then nationalism/xenophobia.

Then obviously CBDC and an attempt to perform financial repression, since financializing housing to derive new money supply to grow aggregate demand won’t work any more.

There is a lot of unelected entities persuading governments. Germany for instance was going green with solar and wind as their central bank shut down pro carbon funding, yet they imported Russian energy as a backstop as they shut down their nuclear reactors.

That kind of unelected Davos influence can cause permanent harm to a country, as their energy prices are 3 times higher than the US now as they burn lignite, leading to deindustrialization as they try to compete with China in EV. They also want to censor climate misinformation, as they attempt to put in censorship laws.

https://climate.ec.europa.eu/eu-action/climate-disinformation_en

They are also rushing in the CBDC for October, when they created laws telling corporations to track their emissions its pretty clear where that’s headed as far as carbon quotas.

https://www.benzinga.com/content/44262523/ecb-president-christine-lagarde-targets-october-to-finish-digital-euro

Mine actually emulates switch games.