Long before wages create affordability, they have to out pace inflation. It’s going to take a long period of wages slightly beating inflation for the public to be happy.

Or we could have another recession to make prices drop, but wages would lose ground to inflation when it returns.

Wall of acid, same as wall of fire, but acid damage.

There are no good guys in the middle east. Only civilians that are angry about being shit on.

They were on the phone with bankruptcy lawyers before dawn. That is the ones that didn’t just disappear into hiding.

Now I’m feeling called out. I keep having these stacks of if statements that could just be a big ass list of and and and, but then it runs into the debate of how much crap should be in one line of code? Especially knowing, at some point, it’s going to be my dumb ass stepping through trying to figure out why this one edge case is the reason we’re not hitting the inner code.

I love Nic for making movies I’d love to actually see, except for the fact that he’s in them.

So basically remaking every movie starring Nicolas Cage?

It’s about time someone did. War is just violent economics. Taking away Putin’s income will cost him the war faster than killing Russians.

I mean, i haven’t actually been to Japan myself, but I’ve heard some things…

Finally figuring out that war is economics with violence. Our sanctions have been half assed from the start, and need to include some serious pressure on any country not abiding by them.

China has long had a unification plan. It’s not really anything new. There’s just been a huge political football made out of it for decades. And of course that led to stupidly huge over investment in their economy by the rest of the globe as a way to encourage China to back off. Xi doesn’t see the value in the status quo. It’d be like California seceding, then making tons of money while the rest of the US went fascist and built military power. Same ending.

Well yeah I’m gonna let him out hustle me. That bastards on crack.

The best restaurants in the world are in London. Of course they don’t serve English food. The Brits just knew to bring the best stuff home.

Have you read Microsoft manuals?

It’s not the language. ChatGPT is about as useful as a decent code manual. It won’t actually solve any problems for you, but it can show you the general format for doing so.

It turns out the specialized medical needs are kind of special, and they fly people to where there are facilities when they’re needed. And only affects a special portion of the population. For everyone else it doesn’t matter.

For fuck sake people crossed the entire US in a god damn wagon while risking being shot at by random tribes and eaten by bears. What’s stopping people now is that they can’t afford food or a place to park the damn wagon without getting harassed by the cops.

Moving to more rural areas is what causes rural areas to build hospitals, and doctors to open clinics and offices. There are plenty of jobs everywhere that just involve sitting on your ass in front of a screen, or standing behind a counter. Even in rural areas.

Growth doesn’t just happen. People have to go places and build. UBI would make that process a shit ton easier.

They’re the bunker buster for infantry advancement. You can’t keep them in front all the time, they’d get taken out. But being able to blast and smash fortified positions during an infantry engagement can decide a battle. They can also give short chase to escaping mobile units.

On a defensive front, they’re a bunker that can move whenever your own hard points get bombed out. Providing cover to maintain a position.

I knew it was water, the actual name of it though I had zero recollection.

Those are all the problems for places that don’t get the heat the AMOC moves. It doesn’t list the problem for the places where that heat doesn’t leave.