Notices by mike805 (mike805@fosstodon.org)

@cjd @kaia @mrsaturday @sj_zero The Treasury is a front for the Fed, and the Fed is a front for some people who don't want to be in the public spotlight. Identify those people and you know where the problem comes from!

@cjd @kaia @sj_zero Meh. The more you read the more you discover the "shining beacon" thing was propaganda from the beginning.

The USA was a place where an ambitious person could get ahead. That was the draw. In Europe, everything worth having was already claimed by someone. In the USA there was plenty of wealth up for grabs.

There no longer is - everything has been grabbed - and that is ultimately what ails the USA.

@cjd @f57533f70aa9f4db5d5864183c155e3c3feff0669eb7d6d2433f4b7c72649973 @Sirpantangelini@noauthority.social @threalist The oil producing countries should create a currency called the barrel, redeemable for a barrel of oil at any of their ports. That currency would have hard value unlike USD or BTC.

There is not enough gold to replace USD at any reasonable valuation, and the long term price of gold is capped (well below the necessary level) by the cost of mining it.

@cjd @f57533f70aa9f4db5d5864183c155e3c3feff0669eb7d6d2433f4b7c72649973 @threalist USA military supremacy is threatened by guerrilla tactics, drones, and possible American bankruptcy.

You cannot get oil out of a war zone, and the drone attack against Russian aircraft would be even easier against oil infrastructure since it doesn't move.

The USA may be able to destroy anything on the planet, as can Russia, but being able to economically exploit resources in a hostile zone is a lot harder.

@atomless @pluralistic I didn't know Karl Marx was ever that broke. He is known for living high on the hog at Engels' expense. Was that before Engels was supporting him?

@sun @thatguyoverthere Declaring AIs to be employees, and imposing payroll taxes on them, is one way to pay for a UBI. Just saying.

@freemo Ever seen a kid in the supermarket who demands some candy or junk food? The parent says no, the kid gets more and more hostile, and gets his way on the third try?

That kid will grow up to be a monster unless either a teacher or later on a cop seriously corrects him.

A lot of people have that approach to politics. There are whole interest groups that have got their way through a social tantrum.

This will stop when they get the sort of correction a kid throwing a tantrum needs.

@sj_zero Heinlein's book "For Us The Living" really altered my view of economics. He was writing from a future perspective about the problems with 20th century economics, and he was right. He clearly explained what causes inflation, for example.

I think economists are people paid to lie to the public on behalf of bankers. The fact there are multiple schools of economics that give exactly opposite remedies proves that economics is still in the blood letting and leeches stage.

@freemo Well yeah having a lobotomy would kind of suck too, especially after anti-psychotic meds were invented.

This is definitely the wrong forum to mention the currently prominent other case of surgery to fix a head problem.

Doctors need to get back to do-no-harm.

I am somewhat worried that Ozempic is going to turn out like Fen-Phen to have some nasty consequences. But for now it seems to be helping people who were doomed to be hungry otherwise.

@freemo The Numbers 5:24-27 is interesting. It sounds like they did have an abortion potion in those days, and it was used on adulterous women.

There is also an ancient rabbinical ruling that if a woman is in danger of death in childbirth, you kill the fetus to save the mother.

@Lassielmr @freemo Mandela was a terrorist. He was caught with a bunch of bomb making material and plans to use it. Hamas are also terrorists.

And both the old South Africa and present day Israel use police state terror tactics to keep their minority populations under control.

This is inevitable when you have incompatible populations forced into conflict. The more powerful one will use police state measures. The oppressed side will use terrorism. The hatreds will sustain each other.

@linuxgnome @Skembear A few years ago saying "Zionists control the media" would get you cancelled hard. Now that has gone mainstream. Never thought I'd see the day.

@freemo The Oct 7 attack is looking like a strategic victory for Hamas in one sense.

Israel's response has destroyed the Holocaust-survivor shield that has made Israel untouchable all these years.

If Israel loses international support, it is a small country surrounded by more angry young men than it has bullets.

Hamas "attacked the enemy's strategy" as Sun Tzu advises. Israel did exactly what Hamas wanted them to do in response.

@freemo The domestic politics is horribly conflicted. The Israel lobby remains very powerful, but the Democrats are catching hell from the Left over Palestine. So they are trying to please two masters, and will end up earning the wrath of both.

Which might just hand the Presidency over to Trump.

@ottman Psychopathy as a business strategy. It's a hoot that Meta, of all the evil corporations, spiked their plans to own AI.

@freemo Well they do have most of the buoyancy between the front and rear propulsion units, so that might help them move through the water more efficiently. They share the water with large constrictor snakes.

@freemo And then there is pointing it up at the ceiling when clearing a house, and poking the barrel around the corner ahead of you. Both of which advantage the other guy.

And the ever popular gunpoint conversation with the gun inches from the other person's head. There are a bunch of martial arts videos on Youtube showing people getting disarmed in a fraction of a second when they do that.

@freemo And I think TV gun tactics were taught to Hollywood with the intention of making thugs who emulate that stuff less effective.

@freemo In related TV physics, you can swing from a rope and be stopped by a vertical wall and not go splat, even if the vertical descent during the swing was huge.

@freemo Why is neither side able to get a younger and less compromised person to step up?

The MAGA side in particular is just ripe for someone who can duplicate Trump's jousting with the media, while avoiding Trump's stupid statements that get him in trouble.