I don’t think you looked into how bad it was in 1979. People couldn’t get gas for love or money. Many states set up rationing laws such that you could only get X gallons, and only every other day. At gas stations, cars lined up on the street for hours to get any. For the first time ever, the industry designed cars for their fuel efficiency.

We haven’t gotten a reminder remotely like this since 1979. This one is only getting started, and some say it will be worse than the last.

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• Glenn Diesen’s Substack

In most states (meaning countries), all base/narrow money^[1] is backed by the fact that the state will only accept its own currency for taxes due. Which means that, if the state has no debt, then there is no (base) money. The base money in the economy is equal to the state’s debt. All the base money in the economy came from the state at some point buying goods/services/labor.

The US dollar is a safe haven insomuch as it’s likely to continue to have value for the foreseeable future, but it isn’t necessarily safe compared to the value of other currencies. In fact, IMO the US dollar is likely to continue falling w/r/t other currencies in the short & medium term, thanks to the deterioration of the petrodollar system and of dollar hegemony. We’re also a fading empire, and our economy is hyper-financialized, awash in debt, which doesn’t help. We’ve de-industrialized and don’t have a viable path to re-industrialization.

the USA is more on promoting maximum employment.

It’s supposed to be that, but in practice it isn’t. The Federal Reserve has a dual mandate, but they’re in conflict with each other, and really the maximum employment part is only given lip service.

This is long, but answers your questions: Why Not Signal?

-how to explain it to my friends who use signal because i recomended?

Okay it doesn’t answer that one. But also, whether they should use Signal or not depends on their threat models. Many people don’t see the US police state as a threat.

Some people are very protective of Signal.

• Reason: Disinformation
• Reason: privacy rule #3: “Try to keep things on topic”
• Reason: Misinfo, alarmism
• Reason: This is harmful disinformation

Why not Signal?

In theory warrant canaries could have been used, but Marlinspike has an excuse for everything.

1a) Buy $80B in crypto.
1b) Sell the crypto for $50B.

Finally it can be explained: 1) Dig a ditch, 2) Dump in $80B, 3) Light it on fire.

That’s a poor analogy, because nobody is lying, saying things are on fire that aren’t.

We weren’t born yesterday—or at least I wasn’t. We know where this is going, and it’s folly to wait until almost the end before pushing back.

There are fascist governments demanding genital inspection for playing highschool sports

• That is already going on in the very same country we’re discussing.
• “Things could be even worse, so until things are just as bad as that, don’t complain or try to stop it from getting worse.”

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In a few years, we may be smuggling in contraband Chinese RISC-V computers.

Unless it is fought, this corporate-driven rot will burrow all the way down to the sub-processor TEE/TPM and all the way up to the web browser/app.

I don’t know, but I think more Germans per capita are fluent in English than French, Spanish, or Latino people are, and maybe that has something to do with it.

Debian is 32 years old. Arch is 24 years old. Gentoo is 23 years old. Alpine is 20 years old.

Even if it were to exist in the short run, it wouldn’t be stable. The predictor must be predicting somehow, which eventually could be at least partially sussed out, and future decisions would change as a result. Unless the predictor runs on literal magic, it would eventually no longer fit its own definition.

Mmmm, this sounds like an idealist hypothetical problem that in reality can’t exist, so to engage with it is to engage with nonsense.

The predictor rarely makes mistakes because… just because. It’s axiomatic. The predictor runs on the magic of unsupported assertion.

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Delete. Your. Meta.
Delete… Your… Meta.

Are you not dismissing every other type of sausage, or did just not consider them? Because if this is about lips & assholes, almost all of them are all lips & assholes.