Why the US Debt Is Unsustainable and Is Destroying the Middle Class
https://mises.org/mises-wire/why-us-debt-unsustainable-and-destroying-middle-class
By Daniel Lacalle
> More units of public debt mean weaker productive growth, higher taxes, and more inflation in the future. All three are manifestations of a slow-burn default.
Tariffs Are Taxes on Americans—But Protectionists Pretend Otherwise
https://mises.org/mises-wire/tariffs-are-taxes-americans-protectionists-pretend-otherwise
By Ryan McMaken
> Tariffs are nothing more than taxes, which means that protectionists believe high taxes create prosperity. This is an absurd claim.
Climate Worries Are Non-Credible, Luxury Beliefs That Harm Civilization Itself
By Joakim Book
> Almost all of the climate hysteria is driven by the “luxury beliefs” held by Western elites. Only the wealthiest can afford the effects of climate policy.
Great chart comparing the two soundest inflationary monies.
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You'll always wonder if you could have gotten past Playoff Jimmy, though.
How are you feeling about Boston's odds?
🏀 The Heat confirmed later Thursday that Butler sustained a right MCL sprain and won't play Friday in the NBA play-in tournament game against the Chicago Bulls.
https://www.si.com/nba/2024/04/18/jimmy-butler-mcl-injury
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The Celtics are going to have a big asterisk this year.
Culture and Choice by plebpoet on Thriller Bitcoin \ stacker news ~bitcoin
https://stacker.news/items/92827/r/Undisciplined
This is a very interesting article by our own @plebpoet. We were talking about problems with American culture in my post [Rant: Young People are Getting Terrible Advice and it's Destroying Our Culture](https://stacker.news/items/496016/r/Undisciplined). I wasn't on Stacker News yet when the article was originally posted here. There's also a very good companion piece [How a Lefty Became a Maxi](https://www.citadel21.com/how-a-lefty-became-a-maxi?ref=thrillerbitcoin.com) that gets more into @plebpoet's personal journey.
One of the key points made in the piece is that one thing a culture does is prune our choice set. Having fewer decisions to make (more default options) makes life easier to navigate.
Isn't that stifling and oppressive though? It sure can be. However, @plebpoet articulates how the abundance of choices has sapped those choices of their meaning.
Another great point made in the piece is that you can gauge the strength of a culture by the flourishing of its members. @plebpoet makes the case that, by that metric, our culture has become extremely weak.
All of this leads me to a big picture question that I hope has a certain answer:
Can a liberal culture persist over time or does that degree of openness inevitably degenerate into the structureless void young people find themselves in now?
Culture and Choice by plebpoet on Thriller Bitcoin \ stacker news ~bitcoin
https://stacker.news/items/92827/r/Undisciplined
This is a very interesting article by our own @plebpoet. We were talking about problems with American culture in my post [Rant: Young People are Getting Terrible Advice and it's Destroying Our Culture](https://stacker.news/items/496016/r/Undisciplined).
One of the key points made in the piece is that one thing a culture does is prune our choice set. Having fewer decisions to make (more default options) makes life easier to navigate.
Isn't that stifling and oppressive though? It sure can be. However, @plebpoet articulates how the abundance of choices has sapped those choices of their meaning.
Another great point made in the piece is that you can gauge the strength of a culture by the flourishing of its members. @plebpoet makes the case that, by that metric, our culture has become extremely weak.
All of this leads me to a big picture question that I hope has a certain answer:
Can a liberal culture persist over time or does that degree of openness inevitably degenerate into the structureless void young people find themselves in now?
Looked like you were running an NBA playoff pool that was open to people willing to risk a few sats.
We started the survivor pool on the last day of the regular season, so it's too late to join this one. (We're pretty close to everyone being eliminated, already, so it wasn't a great success.)
Come on over to Stacker News. We do lots of little sports contests.
To what are you referring?
Nostr has opted to give me no context for your question.
What are Mises’s Six Lessons?
https://mises.org/power-market/what-are-misess-six-lessons
By Jonathan Newman
> When UFC fighter Renato Moicano urged people to read Mises’s Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow, it led to a surge in popularity for the book, which is a transcription of lectures he gave in Argentina in 1959. Let’s see what Mises says in these lectures.
What are Mises’s Six Lessons?
Social Security and the Decline of the Employer Pension System
https://mises.org/mises-wire/social-security-and-decline-employer-pension-system
It's certainly less moral than self-defense, but war is not self defense.
How Statism Destroyed Argentina
https://mises.org/mises-wire/how-statism-destroyed-argentina
By Octavio Bermudez
> In less than a century, Argentina went from being one of the world’s wealthiest nations to one that struggles with poverty and massive inflation. Human Action provides lasting wisdom to improve life in that country.
The War on Poverty Makes Poverty Worse
https://mises.org/mises-wire/war-poverty-makes-poverty-worse
By Christopher Baecker
> Government officials like to claim they are doing something about reducing poverty. The trouble is, of course, that what they are doing makes things worse. Next time, they should do nothing.
How Old Guard Media Kills Long Form Discussion
This is an interesting clip of Jordan Peterson's interview with Vivek Ramaswamy. Vivek points out that there's more going on with how the corporate press uses clips out of context than just conducting disingenuous smear jobs. Another objective is to disincentivize the types of long-form discussions that make people vulnerable to such an attack.
# Video Description
> In this excerpt from our most recent podcast with Vivek Ramaswamy, he and Dr. Peterson discuss his run-in with the Atlantic, how they purposely removed context from his interview, and why the establishment media attempts to kill nuance and long form discussion.
It does not. There will still be about 20 million bitcoin a few days from now.
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This article is about drug shortages. There are political implications based on parties and countries, but this quote stuck out to me.
“Current shortages include important drugs commonly used to treat infections, respiratory illnesses, heart failure, psychiatric conditions, and cancer, and include drugs such as amoxicillin, penicillin, albuterol, Adderall, and cisplatin/carboplatin,” Reps. James Comer.
I've been reading about the side effects of covid shots. They include infections, heart failure, psychiatric conditions, and cancer. I believe the biggest reason for the shortage is we are needing much more of these drugs due to adverse side-effects of the covid shots. There seems to be a strong correlation.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/us-pharmaceutical-drug-shortages-reach-record-high-5627738?
This is one article on some of the vaccine side effects:
https://kirschsubstack.com/p/college-math-professor-validates
Did Thanos snap?
Are these the early days of The Blip?
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2024 Perovskite Breakthroughs are the Future of Solar
# Video Description
Perovskites are often hailed as the next big thing for solar panels. They’re more efficient than silicon PVs could ever be, and they have higher yields. However, their fragility and short lifespans have relegated them to the lab...so far.
But 2024 is looking to be the year of the perovskite. The last few months have seen new perovskite researchers all over the world smashing records, including durability. Because of this, some of these new perovskites are even set to hit the market this year. Let’s check out some of the most exciting breakthroughs in the field and see for ourselves if perovskites are finally ready for their big debut. And why should you care?