This is accurate (1980). nostr:note13uj68zt0wgpufa9wc4hy2smkf23hltuzvjf2tgcx9g04jyjz690s57uksc
The toilet bowl in my room is asymmetrical.
I wonder if there are functional reasons for it, or whether it's just aesthetics. 
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Just landed in Rotterdam. Last time I came to the Netherlands, my rental car got smashed and everything stolen (bags, clothes, etc) during a short visit to a client in downtown Amsterdam. The car was parked inside a building, with human security present. Not a big fan of the place ever since.
But as a Catalan I can forgive everything because they gave us Johan Cruyff.
If you *really* study philosophy and have a good understanding of the fundamental tenets of the great currents of political thought and their historical development, you can see the deeper roots of so many things. It's really striking .
For instance, it's very common today to hear people complain about how children are taught "stuff" in and by itself, for the sake of making them memorize it, as opposed to "holistic" approached based on showing the relationships between things, as a door to "critical thinking".
I instinctively rejected that notion even when I was in mid school. I never saw anything wrong in memorizing the names of rivers, capitals and positions of countries, historical dates that would serve me as reference points for other events, and so on.
Now I realize WHO made those claims and pushed so hard for reform 25-30 years ago -- which they achieved, at least where I'm from. It was mainly the "pedagogues" and teacher unions. I.e., the marxists.
And if you pay attention, you see why: marxism has as a basic core hegelian "dialectics", which reject the notion that objects can be studied in isolation and only recognizes the study of "relationships". This is exactly the basis of modern "everything is power dynamics" woke mental disease.
You will exclaim "But I'm a libertarian and I'm against memorizing!". What you should be against is state-mandated content and methods, not the system of learning that took us from darkness to the peak of our societal development.
Dude, we didn't even have a remote or color tv when I was little 😂
You're wrong if you think Milei, who is a Chicago Boy, will not take the IMF's money and conditions.
Even if he didn't want to, which is not so clear cut, he can't fix Argentina with the stroke of a magic wand. Who is going to lend them money?
Remember though that before the Powers That Be blew the whistle, the Democrats came out in force against "Trump's vaccine".
Yes! I wonder if she acknowledges it.
I have an extremely low (ok, null) interest in modern commercial pop music, but I remember clearly that when I first heard Lady Gaga she sounded really different. Actually I was convinced she was Italian or at least European knowing absolutely nothing about her personal background. It was her sound. Later on she changed.
I have wondered more than once, does anybody else feel the same about early Gaga's sound? Kind of Euro-trashy?
Pretty much the definition of a fascist economy.
No, your mother! 
Just received: "Anti-Marx", by Juan Ramón Rallo, one of the maybe... two? truly liberal academics in Spain.
It's advertised and reviewed as the most exhaustive and systematic critiques of Marx ever written.
He goes through every single theory Marx and Engels put forward, to the point of even making a much more cohesive job than they ever managed, and puts them together in a truly "neutral" presentation that takes a whole volume, with no "preventive" arguments or critiques.
Then, he spends 500 pages demolishing them until there's nothing left of them. It is fully up to date to incorporate and take care of modern marxist countercritiques and interpretations too, so it's truly tight.
Unfortunately it's in Spanish, but hopefully it will get published for a global audience soon. Keep it in your to-read list. 
Ain't it funny?
Brazil: real
Russia: ruble
India: rupee
China: renminbi
South Africa: rand
We should call them the REEEEEEEE.
We all know about Blackrock's aspirations to sell paper BTC, as a way to centralize it under their custody (with Coinbase's help).
Now we have PayPal issuing an ERC-20 stablecoin, JPM who controls Infura and Metamask praising them for it, and Huobi immediately adopting it.
The SEC has given leeway to BTC, as we all know, but also to ETH. Just like the SEC has delayed the BTC spot ETFs until Blackrock decided to catch up, the SEC has also been careful to attack ETH's "crypto" competitors, never it's number 1 project.
If you follow the news, you can easily see how among the actors in the pro-cooptation camp of the Powers That Be, two factions are taking shape: Blackrock-BTC and JP Morgan-ETH.
This math isn't right. The unproductive class is a minority, not the majority.
And that's the real drama: the productive majority votes against its own interests, again and again, because the unproductive minority is clever enough to convince the majority of the most outlandish and ridiculous things. nostr:note10ynh370njugfdw9lnha4l0gsxmkcmlkjshpaslcrugs5q6pkgresg8xa93
Food is technology-driven too. You can now eat out of season foods thanks to technological advances in refrigeration, freezing, transport, warehousing, distribution, packaging... that your grandparents couldn't.
How much is that worth? Is it deflationary or inflationary? There's no such thing as "tech" as opposed to anything else in the economy.
My point was rather that the "grandpa ate ribeye" argument is valid only if you also complain that they are also applying substitution for all the deflationary goods for which you are paying hundreds or thousands of times less. How much were you paying for 1 gigabyte of internet traffic on your dial-up connection back in the 90's?
What I was saying is that a possible solution is to account for changes in quality in the basket of goods, but that's a can of worms of calculation.
I know modern economists educated in "econometrics" will say it's trivial. But of course these are the same people who believe they can produce 2-dimensional graphics predicting human behavior, so I don't care much about their opinion.