I just looked at the Monthly Treasury Statement which tracks receipts and payouts of the Federal government. The deficit spending in Medicare jumped by 43% in a single month. That's a disaster. Health care costs are spiraling out of control so badly that they're enough to spark another major inflationary crisis by themselves. And that's on top of the fact that inflation has been heading back upward almost this entire year both for consumers and producers.
The scary part is that Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services was recently about 16% funded or something like that from tax receipts. Now it's at less than 2%. Exponential functions are a bitch.
The next four years are going to be fun as Trump and Congress continue deficit spending into an inflationary nightmare.
It actually kind of looks like a long exposure shot with the stars rotating in a circle
LOL yes I keep getting drawn out into the world
It's not a bed of roses...
It reminds me of a hot chick I met earlier this year, it turns out my friend met her too at some event, and she immediately started hitting on him as he had a wedding ring so she assumed he must have something worth stealing away. This is in spite of the fact that he's not that successful (not being a hater, he just isn't and the truth is that a lot of men in my generation are in this kind of bind, it's tragic because this includes smart and talented men). The actual fact didn't matter - she just assumed because he was married and a "situational alpha" that it would be worth it. The hotter the girl, the more kryptonite.
Yeah it's like the guy from the movie: "there's no romance or adventure, Ned. There's only trouble and desire. Desire gets you into trouble and when you're in trouble you can't desire anything."
Quite a powerful and infamous family. I didn't know their line was still around but I'm not surprised. This is more data to support your thesis of "race mixing is not ALWAYS wrong". They are probably the most race-mixed elite family in history because the Ottomans took brides from all over the place, wherever they got slaves from. They actively practiced eugenics in this way. And it seems to have worked better for them than for all the inbred houses of Europe...
Nobody likes Jack because he's cursed. He started a good thing with Twitter and then made an absolute hash of it. Then the same thing happened with BlueSky. Is it any wonder no one wants him, and especially thinks he should have NO influence whatever on NOSTR?
i wanted to use noStrudel on my new Android Tablet but here is why i went with Amethyst instead
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1 - noStrudel wasn't in Google Play Store
2 - when i opened noStrudel as a web page it seemed to be running in desktop mode with menu on the side, even though the tablet was in portrait orientation. i didn't know if there is some other mode that was available for vertical tablet use or how to enable it.
3 - i really didn't want to deal with Alby again and simply pasting the nsec into Amethyst was a breeze compared to the nightmare of trying to get Alby to find one of like 20 accounts it set up for me and then confused them all with it taking me an average of like 5 trial / error cycles to get Alby to provide the correct keys when setting up on a new machine
4 - when searching for noStrudel on Google Play Store with filter set to minimum of 4.5 stars Amethyst is basically the only result - so that's why i went with it
it was probably the smoothest experience setting up a NOSTR client on a new device for me yet. it felt almost like setting up X on the same tablet - i pasted my NSEC in and it worked.
this literally never happened to me with NOSTR before.
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The only issue I had with Amethyst is that it appears to cut off the feed after a certain point kind of like Twitter would show you only the most recent 3000 posts and after that you would have to search or scrape the site should you wish to find older stuff. And I do not know -- haven't looked or had the time to -- whether there even is a way to scrape NOSTR. As for aesthetics and functions apart from that I have no complaints, it was the smoothest experience getting on NOSTR and is in fact why I am here in the first place since signup was so painless.
Well that's the elephant in the room. The entire political system has been controlled by blackmail networks since at least the middle of the last century. It is the system. For example, Trump was involved with the people doing it long before Epstein came on the scene (i.e. his involvement with Roy Cohn as a young man in New York). Of course that's not to say that this whole system couldn't decay, and that one day these things are no longer the basis of black markets and blackmail, but that's going to take a while. There is always the possibility that these things will again be legal and not particularly taboo, as they were before.
The pic below sums it up: Realistically this is why no one wants to date anymore. It's just a pain in the ass. There are much more direct routes to the same thing (getting off).
Think about it: if you date a woman who's actually attractive, and that's not an "average" girl in the USA - it's more like the top 10-20% at most, you will be sharing her with other men, whatever you may think. It was acceptable to believe otherwise, maybe, 10-15 years ago before manosphere knowledge was mainstream, but not now. And, you will have learned this the hard way if you dated attractive women already. There is simply every incentive for these women to juggle men, and no countervailing force that would even begin to change the effect, especially since promiscuity is now the "old normal" and widely socially accepted.
De jure, polygamy is illegal, but only if you actually *marry* multiple women. De facto, it happens all the time, and what you have with the women of today is them building what amount to reverse harems or stud farms. Again, of the public that actually dates, we have the receipts now (data from dating apps), if our experience wasn't enough. For young women who do use dating apps, an average case of hookups is several dozen per year. We also know from sociological research that the more partners a woman has had, the less likely she will be able to have lasting relationships.
I would love to believe that "healthy relationships" are possible in our time, as many tell me this is so, and yet I see little evidence for it.
I wouldn't be surprised. She might have some Latina ancestry for example (Amerindian and whatever else)
Not cope at all, since my family are all high IQ and my lineage has always been above the rabble. There are plenty of lowborn whiggers with light eyes. About 1/2 of my family has light eyes BTW.
Hapa
"It is better to be approximately right, than precisely wrong"
— Warren Buffett
now the challenge for nostr:npub1xy60n57p02ugl743zfag2ljftxh4s0ufpzu0wsmhdvng7hj5c0vqvx8w7v is to understand how it relates to our mini feud about precise definition of hyper inflation.
all right i am going to help him. you need to get the principles right before worrying about numbers. if you're fundamentally measuring the wrong things it doesn't matter how precisely you're measuring them.
when i came to America i noticed Americans have an unhealthy obsession with numbers. for example in America often a person's age is listed as a number next to his name - we never had that in Soviet Union.
Americans compensate for their total inability to do any kind of math ( compared to Russians ) by trying to put numbers on everything for no reason.
"United Kingdom enters recession" then 3 days later "United Kingdom exists recession" ... what changed ? NOTHING. it's just that there is some arbitrary number that shows when a country is a recession and it flips by 0.0001% within 3 days and that makes the news ... even though that number doesn't measure anything relevant at all.
I had to take Linear Algebra, Multivariable Calculus and Differential Equations for my dual major in Electrical and Computer Engineering at NYU but i rarely bother looking at numbers because they are almost always irrelevant.
it's the principles that matter. numbers are not substitute for understanding.
( as you can see nostr:npub1xy60n57p02ugl743zfag2ljftxh4s0ufpzu0wsmhdvng7hj5c0vqvx8w7v has managed to get under my skin LOL )
Remember I'm only technically American; racially I am Eastern European like you. Also I had to pass through Calc IV (which is the same as the Differential Equations and Linear Algebra course you are talking about) for a math minor, although I realized after getting out that it is pointless for the kind of software engineering that I ended up doing, although if I had gone into AI it would not be irrelevant. But at that time AI didn't have the cachet. I haven't used calculus or looked at it since university. My uncle, who is an engineer, used it only a half-dozen times in a decades long career. How much use it is depends a lot on the specific field of engineering, though.
I don't care too much for the government's numbers on inflation myself, I just used them for general reference to know that the peak took place around 2022 and also that there's a split between how goods and services behaved. I believe you are right that goods spiked enormously from a shut down economy and also the fact that people being stuck at home bought everything out of the pipeline. We all remember the huge wait times that would come up on Amazon goods in '20-'21. But the persistent signal of increasing services prices has continued past lockdowns, I think a side effect of both the Fed pouring a lot more money into the system than had been there before, and also the politicians continuing massive budget deficits. I pay attention to those numbers because I've noticed bills for certain types of services relating to for example homeownership going up 2-3x from where they were.
Dark eyed light skinned master race reporting in
Christians seem to secretly fear that they will be hit with a bolt of lightning or something if they look at porn or jerk off.😂
But in ancient times, the god of storms Jupiter/Zeus fucked every attractive female of every race.
Overall the middle ages was a strange period of cults that really hate anything bodily or sensual.
in NoStrudel you can actually check who a person is being muted by ( whether that person is yourself or anybody else )
i just checked for you, and you're muted by one person, namely > nostr:npub1andenkdh6ds94lvwj685ezqedzksxlfj0fkfdvdgvq8700pq3nzqcl04xe
whereas i am muted by about 150-200 people, which is also about the number of people following me. seems like a good balance to me - i don't want to be universally loved or universally hated - i want to challenge people.
of course due to nature of relays this data is not reliable, but i am certainly not muting you.
as for me getting angry / upset yes i did not like being lectured but i wouldn't mute somebody for lecturing me. i mute haters.
i muted Low Information Voter, Operation Eunice and Vermeil Kisser.
Low Information Voter made fun of my taste in women and is a suspected Boomer.
Operation Eunice called me a cuck and is a suspected Pajeet.
Vermeil Kisser kept calling me a Kike and is just an all around psycho and i got tired of his shit.
You nit picked me over a technicality ... now if a Fren makes an honest mistake you should let them know that in a DM not try to score points over them publicly ... so i was frankly shocked but it was more of a disappointment than anything.
i mean it is one thing to disagree over something that can produce an interesting debate, and that should happen in public of course, but to point out a spelling mistake or another technical mistake ( definition of inflation vs hyperinflation ) that is something that should be done in private otherwise it's an attack, rather than an argument.
i guess only time will tell whether it was an intentional attack or a lapse in judgement. i wouldn't mute a Fren for a 1st time offense unless i sensed bitter hatred. instead i sensed some arrogance but the proper response to that is screaming in capital letters not muting. LOL
Understood, my intention was not to lecture, I just thought it was a casual discussion on economics but it was not taken that way. I read Milton Friedman's writings on monetary history back in college and I remembered some of the big hyperinflation events he talked about and thought they would be worth mentioning today as a case of how bad things could get. But without further money printing and lockdowns I don't see that happening immediately. One point I probably didn't make very well is that the government and the central banks seem to have off-setting agendas: Congress is pursuing deficit spending but the Fed is letting bonds mature and roll off which lowers the money supply.
Again this is intended for discussion not as a declaration of absolute truth as some university lecturer might do 😅
I've actually been betting on the 2nd best case scenario for some time. If that doesn't happen then it means the elites see some benefit in Trump being in office... Which would be quite concerning...
(This post is also a test to see if I'm muted because DS seemed to be upset about our economic discussion a week or so ago)
Twitter today obviously has an enormous number of fake accounts and it wasn't small before, but now with AI driven fake account creation it has accelerated to a ridiculous degree.