Jikiya

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[–] Jikiya 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Jesus, the state of those dresses. I hope those are "work" clothes, but have a very bad feeling that's their only clothes.

[–] Jikiya 20 points 5 months ago (4 children)

There is a Planet Money (podcast) episode about this. It's a fairly new economic theory, but actual PhD level economists have said this. Government prints money, and to bring down inflation they need to get taxes to reduce the amount of money in circulation, to control inflation. The epidsode was in the 2019 timeframe, I think.

Something that absolutely works in the abstract, but kinda hard to fit into my current model of reality.

[–] Jikiya 8 points 5 months ago

What always looks good is the full truth. Lying about small stuff means you cannot be trust with important stuff.

[–] Jikiya 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You absolutely can ask them that. Noticing it is not the same thing as getting distracted by it. Allowing your focus to be highjacked by the environment is a sign of a weak mind. If you went to work and a coworker told you the shape of your nose was distracting to them, and you need to wear a mask so they can continue to work, that is on the coworker, not you. It is absurd to put someone else in charge of what needs to be done to stop you from being distracted.

People need to control themselves, no one else has that ability.

[–] Jikiya 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The one that wants to overthrow democracy and would like to fund the ethnic cleansing at an even higher rate/amount is the fascist. The one that has encouraged Israel to go faster / do more in Gaza is the fascist. I do not like Biden's weakness confronting Israel, but one is a cheerleader, and one is weakly pushing for caution.

[–] Jikiya 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

One is going to be picked for you either way. Not voting doesn't stop the shit eating from happening, just allows the lighting on fire to also happen.

By choosing the less shit option, politicians will see they need to be less shit to get elected, eventually to the point of maybe even having good candidates. Allowing the worst candidate to win tells the politicians they can get worse and still have their coveted power.

[–] Jikiya 7 points 5 months ago (7 children)

They do, but they shouldn't. You should not ask a stranger to change their behavior because you cannot control your own. Maybe family would do it for you, but even then it's can be a shitty thing to do.

[–] Jikiya 58 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I expect this to get a lot of negative input, but the Orca's free roam space is actually 3x the size they've highlighted. And granted, it's really small compared to the oceans of the world, but someone's purposely lying, and to make the point they don't even need to. Just had to try to get the multiplier to move a tiny bit more, like that would be the sway point.

Still not sure what people expect SeaWorld to do with the orcas they currently have. Should they all be shot? Is that better for the orcas? They would starve to death if released.

[–] Jikiya 2 points 5 months ago

I would if I didn't fear that the scarcity will then be artificial to keep groups in power. The idea is beautiful, our current direction is terrifying.

[–] Jikiya 14 points 6 months ago

It's a higher average than the amount of calls they had 150 years ago.

[–] Jikiya 2 points 6 months ago

Listened to this CD so much when it came out, yet couldn't have remembered them if not for this post.

[–] Jikiya 2 points 7 months ago

It kills me that my brain is so pedantic I needed to come into the comments to make sure that a correction (or a more accurate pun) was made. I'm much more grateful for your pun than an actual correction.

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