Are you saying you didn't see this coming? It is a democratic system, ain't it? So this means politicians just do what is expedient, that's why they are elected. Leaders have stopped being elected long long time ago. Not that I am for any government intervention into any of this at all, I am against it. I believe we must do what we do as a species without any collective action enforced by government, I am against all government intervention. I am totally against anyone trying to architect our survival as a species, I am all for real natural selection.

Asked the thing to tell me:

is this it?

I don't know how some people get these types of weird answers, I cannot get the damn thing to tell me the wrong time. The only really weird thing is that it is 'searching the web' while 'thinking'.

Kind of. China has expanded its borders repeatedly over the centuries, at times bordering on the Persian Empire or down to Burma before shrinking back towards its traditional region of influence.

Deflation is not automatically bad, China is seeing deflation now, and that's actually the plan. To do it though you need competent leadership, which we in the west are sadly lacking.

https://kdwalmsley.substack.co...

Chinese deflation is a result of powerful supply-side forces that have the opposite effect: China’s economy continues to grow at solid rates, while rent-seeking profits are extinguished at the company level by high competition.

So what did the US do? Cut off China's access to advanced lithography equipment, prompting China to create its own litho industry. While they're not yet to the level of cutting edge chips from TSMC the new Huawai phones boast chips with their own design as good as the ones in iToys of just a few years ago.

The GOP has been this way for four decades, the difference is that now it's saying what it's doing instead of blaming Democrats for its actions.

You've never lived with hyperinflation. Know how I can tell? The thought of printing unlimited money based on nothing doesn't send chills down your spine.

The experiment has been done many times, it always ends in failure. Always, and without exception.

You think that Africans and Arabs are going to be effective fighters at -40 in waist deep snow dealing with drone warfare they've never seen before? You're funny.

People around here do know dick about the situation, that's why znrt had to explain the above.

Ukraine gave up nukes that 1) had no triggers (the USSR had removed them before withdrawing), and 2) they had no launch codes for. Essentially they gave up nuclear waste.

Pedantic: Most theories posit that DM interacts weakly with the EM field.

But we do not yet know

(IIUC, there is a finite nonzero coupling constant between *any* two QM fields)

Only stupid people launder money with Bitcoin. SHUM!

OFC this actually exists: magic Bean Coin. It was an inflationary coin (holding coins generated more coins). I met one of the developers a few years ago. He was a really smart thoughtful principled guy. Just chose a really weird goal to throw himself into and not much formal economics education (but lots of "alternative economics"). I just checked first time in a decade, the 24 hour volume was like six bucks and the project webpage is gone

Of course the primary Gold Bug thesis is that Gold does in fact skyrocket up precisely when all other asset classes are discovered to be in a bubble