And the problem with handouts is that they come from the govt, where the treasury prints money, thereby reducing the value of the existing money supply and increasing costs on goods as suppliers and retailers raise prices because of the increased money supply, aka modern inflation.

Yep that’s why we need a wealth tax sothat the government doesn’t go into more debt.

ah indicator faking

what could possibly go wrong with that one

whyyy did you have to post this here?

are these things dangerous? the whirlwind i mean. they don’t exist where i live, i have never seen one irl.

i would kinda just want to walk towards it to see how strong it is. it that a doable thing?

sth function approaches a straight line, why do you ask?

I suspect that’s where evolution comes in, as it is a strong driving force that’s pushing us in a direction continuously, so in that sense we evolved a sense of happiness or sadness.

hahah that last part :)

Grocery value didn’t go up. Real wages went down. We should measure inflation based on cost-of-living.

Groceries don’t really get more expensive, because the methods for producing food don’t really get less efficient over time; if anything, it’s more efficient. So there’s no real reason for them to become more expensive.

Instead, wages declined. I’ve already commented many times that the labor market is a free market, that means it’s regulated by Supply and Demand. I.e., if prices for labor go down, as we can observe, then that can be interpreted such that supply of labor went up (women go to work too, offshoring labor to other countries, immigrants, …) or that demand for labor went down (automation, end of growth, …).

I honestly think that both cases are difficult, where the supply of labor could be a bit reduced by kicking out immigrants and home-shoring labor (and also, to a lesser extent, making it more difficult for women to work), which btw some advisers to trump are seemingly trying to do, but my honest opinion is that it won’t bring wages up to how they were in the 1960s. Demand for labor is shrinking too, due to the end of growth and now AI and other automation techniques. I guess we’ll have to face that.

edit: just to offer an optimistic outlook, i think that consumerism and therefore demand for consumer products could be stimulated by simply giving handouts to people. most people will spend most of the handouts immediately, and that stimulates consumerism. and that in turn stimulates the economy.

nah, that’s why i value simplicity

the limit that everything converges against?

besides, the major reason why i like molotov cocktails and similar things is because of how easily they are made and it doesn’t require any special ingredients. they can be made either with alcohol or gasoline, and both are widely available. the thing with the aluminium, rust and magnesium is that some of these ingredients aren’t exactly what you’d find in every home, and if trump goes all-in, he surely will make it illegal to sell these things in shops if people actually do use it to build fireworks out of them.

A sandwich bag of aluminum and rust with a magnesium starter will melt through 4 inches of steel.

how do you apply that practically? you’ll hardly have time to install that setup on the car of an ICE vehicle or some place where you pass by by chance. Where else could that be useful?

yeah it actually did happen to me irl some years ago when we were on a field trip and a girl who had already flirted with me for the past two days suddenly wore a perfume and i think it was that that made it really difficult for me to stay clear-minded. could have also been the flirting though, i’m not sure actually.

you’re right, i should have been more careful about this.

i just contacted an old friend of mine who had that view, and he too says that he’s changed his mind about this and no longer sees it that way.

I guess the best thing to do would be to publish your experiences to other people. You’re in this now, but you can prevent others from making the same choices if you inform them about what it entails. That will make you feel better because you’re contributing sth to the world. :)

genuinely, toss in some starchy bread and maybe fruit in there, please. your gut will thank you.

U might want to change that pepsi for some bananas or baked stuff. Like, fruit cake is excellent. And cheap at the local market. :)

Might become surprisingly relevant as fireworks and other explosives could be used in an attack on ICE vehicles and infrastructure.

endlich frischer wind in dieser deprimierenden bude wo alles nur noch vor sich hin versiecht.