This is like throwing stones at a normal house from a glass house..

Very interesting point about the depth of oil.

Either it isnt dino juice, or it means we need to dig deeper for more dinos?

Cant believe a two thousand year old prophecy of the Antichrist controlling payment processing missed so hard by calling it a "mark" instead of a "unique palm fingerprint" 😏

Exactly.

Right. This stuff started around then.

Someone can correct me but i think the "zero tolerance" stuff started in the 90s as a way of allowing the school administration to absolve themselves from having to do the right thing. It is much easier to just follow the policy when the policy makes no determination of right and wrong.

Indeed.

Mitt Romney:

When you want to vote for a Democrat but dont want to change your party affiliation.

I was just reading that hydrogen has come down to about the same price as gas

Hydrogen power + nuclear to create the fuel seems like an energy utopia?

Wow!

..Zalenski has two shirts now?!

Everything about redditor culture is centered around instant gratification. Common phrases:

- "insta"

- "immediately"

- "[noun]+porn"

- "edit: wow! Thanks for the [digital dopamine] friend!"

Im sure there are more examples, because it is ingrained behavior, but those examples came to mind.

Because we're giving away $12 billion

I agree with you in theory, but at this point there is no fiscal responsibility for anything, and it seems preferable to spend $12b rebuilding the lives of people than sending weapons of war to foment endless conflicts

The core parts of Libertarianism that should be included as building blocks of a society are freedom of association, and an Austrian school understanding of economics.

But Libertarianism is not sufficient for a society. Libertarianism deals with the logical, but most of the problems are moral and cultural. Libertarianism is built in economic ideas and pretends to be a moral philosophy.

As a holistic model, it has no answer for (and often logically encourages) all sorts of societal ills, like strip mall blight, employer mandates, the toxic factory going up next to your neighborhood, degeneracy in general, consumerism, corporate farms, Walmart out competing local stores, etc

If you listened to the Reason Magazine during the lockdowns, they basically said, "ackshually Facebook censoring content and employer health mandates are fine, because they are a private company." Worse than worthless positions to hold.

For example, what is the libertarian argument against ESG funds?

What is the libertarian argument against a handful of giant tech companies controlling 99% of social media and pushing leftwing ideology?

This presumes that cats think there are beings higher than themselves

No. 😢

Your point about the cycle of civilization is valid.

I was comparing to more recent history, like the 1950s.

But yes, it's all one big cycle in the long term. Question is, are we creating string men already, or have the actual "hard times" not even started yet?

Of course theft has always happened, but not at this level:

> Target last week said it was bracing to lose half a billion dollars this year because of rising theft. Nordstrom, Whole Foods and some other big chains said they were abandoning San Francisco because of changing economic conditions or employee safety. Many other retailers have blamed crime for closing stores.

Everything is fine.

> Late Tuesday, Fitch Ratings became the second of the three major credit-rating firms to remove its coveted triple-A assessment of the United States government’s credit worthiness