Does Mitch McConnell have a family? Does anyone love him enough to talk with him about... the finite nature of life. The preciousness of hours, minutes seconds?
How from dust we all have come and to dust we shall all return?
He could be petting some kittens. Listening to the sound of a child's laugh-- Dude really wants to die in front of us holding a pen mid-way through signing a bill that forces orphans to work in coal mines or something.
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I only see them at night, there are like 4 of them I think.
I don't know how all these people got up on the 6th floor ... but they're here now.
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I have a small acanthus tree that randomly grew in a neglected pot, this pot is very large and excellent for moss gardening. It developed a carpet, when I see moss in NYC if there is a lot of it and if it's a kind I don't have (and if it's nice and dry) I take a pinch home in my pocket and add it to the carpet. Since all moss is local it all grows very well and so far there are 18. From fuzzy, to trim, blue green to yellow-ish.
As tiny as our "nature area" is... somehow it has:
-worms
-crickets (who sing at night)
-fireflys
-two ant colonies
-isopods
-many spiders
-wasps
-bees (during the day)
-fireflies
-18 kinds of moss (I collect moss from all over the city and am trying to max out diversity)
-strawberries, potatoes, squash, catnip, beats, carrots
-weeds
Even a tiny garden can pack a big punch... and we have so much room to grow!
She loves her little nature spot #pica #cats
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No worries. It was confusing to try and summarizes 1000s of years of the history of markets in a few sentences.
Leveraged lending is an early "capitalist" feature since it "puts capital to work"-- I don't think simple loans are quite there yet.
I just want a little more consideration of the difference between markets and capitalism.
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There will always be people willing to lend and borrow money at various rates. This creates a tempting opportunity to borrow money so that you can lend more out. But, now you've entangled the interests of large numbers of people and if some of them can't pay it's a big problem.
The "regulations" are about preventing this. That's all I was saying.
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Oh the the regulations aren't about making the rates consistent. They are just to mitigate the risk of the too big to fail failing. (or more likely to provide free insurance for such concernes at everyone else's expense. )
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Oh-- I wasn't suggesting the rates would be consistent. Just that the existence of inconsistent rates offers a new and dangerous way to make money quickly that will be exploited, until it blows up, everyone gets mad and then it is regulated.
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Minimum reserves for lending institutions? But historically sometimes they'd just make it illegal to lend money at all, or only allow certain institutions to do it.
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Important correction. The other sign contain significant errors!!
"Music may enhance the effect of painkillers"
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/324816
Seems to check out. But ... they are like "join a choir" pfffft.
I will explain what works because I had to find this out when my leg was very bad. The most effective musical painkiller is death metal. Ideally played very loud:
Here is one more.
It's kind of funny because it's this almost cheerful little metal ditty and there's just some guy yelling about nature off in the distance, barely audible.
So relatable.
"Music may enhance the effect of painkillers"
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/324816
Seems to check out. But ... they are like "join a choir" pfffft.
I will explain what works because I had to find this out when my leg was very bad. The most effective musical painkiller is death metal. Ideally played very loud:
Would you like to hear a charming little angsty song?
If you know who "The Cure" is, but never heard of "The Church" that is a crime:
The way that I think religion really works is:
We have texts and traditions, myths and songs, folk stories and superstitions. Fragments of truth are there but in the sense of a palimpsest the glyphs of dead languages faintly visible in the space between words.
A signal to noise ratio beyond hopeless. We won't ever know exactly what was correct. It could be anything.
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Still I wonder if we'll see a candidate who can *really* use social media who isn't toxic in the future?
Seems like a power democrats and even better yet, the left, might want to unlock.
So far, it's been easier for the right as it goes well with a "I don't care who I offend" regressive conservative political stance. 3/
The Trump fan is also correct, though what this means requires more examination.
Everything Biden tweets is "vetted" and it's not really intended to be Biden giving you a little window into his day, or his thinking and reactions moment to moment. It's carefully thought out, manicured, positive... and unipersonal. Which is fine to me, but I think it bothers some people. Obama had a similar style and was called "aloof" --
But no one is voting for Biden out of para-social attachment. 2/
A popular pastime with some political reporters is to compare the most recent post from Trump with the most recent tweet from Biden. This reliably produces an embarrassing contrast: Trump: always stewing, full of invective against his enemies or asking for money. Biden mostly touts his legislative achievements. Liberals call this a win, my instinct is to agree.
But, there is another angle: a Trump fan said something like "Well, at least Trump is real. Biden isn't even talking to us." 1/
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That being a Yankees fan is anything more deep than an arbitrary allegiance that only has meaning because you continue to do it and because it connects you to others who do it.
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Sports is also something of an "evidence free" activity... insofar as one thinks oneself to be a "Yankess Fan" or "Redsocks Fan" --