conservatism is a grift
That particular regulation is specific to determining age for Social Security
I don't think the problem is that 3rd worlders are willing to accept lower standards of living - over time that problem fixes itself.
I think the fundamental problem is that USA is highly regulated to the point that even with workers who are 3-4x as productive it's just not worth it to produce here.
Another big problem is reserve currency status of the US dollar - if you can pay for your imports with a printing press rather than real goods and services, it's going to make sense to do a whole lot of that. It's also going to make sense to import as much as possible rather than produce even for your own consumption.
Libertarianism (or to be more precise its predecessor classical liberalism) is how Britain and then America got rich & productive enough to conquer the world
In both cases it was the conquest that ruined the mother country. Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.
Supposedly the English accent in the 16 & 1700s was much closer to modern Midwest American
The East Coast ports (especially Boston) had lots of British trade and adopted elements of the British accent while the rest of the Americans did not
If I wanted a luxury car probably I'd go Korean, the G90 looks pretty posh to me
Good article, but can be summarized simply:
WNBA loses money and is basically a leftist-feminist project, so a popular white star injures the core premise of the league. The NBA makes money so a popular white star (like Larry Bird) enhances the core premise of the league.
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Why is the nutty stuff never right wing?
You'd think they could sneak in religious education, or cutting some department or something
I wonder why they would want to annihilate Israel. Perhaps it is because the Jews owned 7% of the land but claimed almost the whole country, and are now ethnically cleansing them.
I guess if they were good Christians they would follow the example of Christ and just let the Jews murder them.
Also, "Israel" the nation-state has nothing to do with the "Israel" of the Bible.
alternately empty your checking account
Powell says US is doing great with 2% growth but inflation is more than 2%
He's not worried about inflation because the labor market is weak
The impoverishment of the working & middle class will continue until morale improves
Can it exist? I haven't seen any Bitcoins yet
I think twitter refugees gave it a try after the US election and are discovering the leftist conversation is unpleasant
Another death caused by "suddenly"
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ana-orsini-death_n_67617bbce4b017a6e9df7802
I noticed you were gone
No idea on nostr growth, although we do have more mini-celebrities now like Saladino & Berry
the printing will continue until morale improves
lots of layers of meaning here
life goes on
civilization is built on the sword
agricultural civilization enables organized conquest
