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I support capitalism because I want businesses competing to make themselves useful to me. “We’ve abolished your alternatives, but the remaining nationalized provider represents you” is a remarkably unconvincing upgrade.
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it’s fascinating how no one with an IQ above 80 thinks this
You reduce crime by eliminating poverty. The reason so called nice neighborhoods have lower crime rates is because people’s basic needs are being met. It is not because of police, alarm systems, or neighborhood associations. Poverty creates crime.
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Sibling studies show no causal effect of childhood family income on violent crime after accounting for shared family factors. US violent crime declined during the 2008-09 recession despite rising poverty, and more police officers reduce homicides.
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Capitalism lets people who can’t stand each other make each other richer. Your revolution can’t survive a disagreement in the group chat.
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What’s happening in Paris and Milan is no surprise to anyone who has spent time around young people in Europe during the 2010s:
Virtually all of them were working on their 4th masters degree in social welfare, were unmarried, attended communist dinners every night, and regularly participated in riots.
Now the economy is suddenly transforming and they have nothing to show for it.
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Europe .. Remind you of what the UAE Foreign Minister said a decade ago! Just in case you forgot (which you obviously did) !
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Chris Rock just nailed one of the biggest problems with wokeness.
Helping people who feel marginalized is good. He says so himself. The trouble starts when a good cause becomes an institution.
The first few witches were real. Then you open a witch office. Now there are salaries, budgets and pensions to justify, and the office needs a steady supply of witches to keep existing.
That’s the trap. Once a cause becomes a career, solving the problem means losing your job. So the problem never gets solved. It just keeps getting redefined.
A system built to find wrongdoing will keep finding it, whether it’s there or not.
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Amazon decayó desde que subcontrata gran parte de sus envíos a gente Shrek.
YA ESTOY HASTA LA CHINGADA @amazonmex DEVUÉLVANME MI PUTO DINERO CABRONES
Desde el 24 de septiembre unos de tus repartidores hambreados se chingo mi celular que pedí y jamás lo entregó, solicité el rembolse y desde entonces la chingadera no llega a tu pinche bodega para la devolución por qué
CLARO SE ROBARON EL PINCHE TELÉFONO ANTES DE ENTREGÁRMELO
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Bluesky users are crashing out that Bluesky is using AI. Some say they wanna go back to X, but realize X also uses AI.
They are also pointing out that Bluesky is posting on X and other platforms about its AI use, but not on Bluesky.
These insufferable anti-AI people will have nowhere left to go, as everything is affected by AI.
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Poniéndole más clavos a ese ataúd, hasta que marca se enfade y terminen cerrando la planta
El Sindicato de Trabajadores de Volkswagen RECHAZÓ la propuesta de la empresa alemana.
La situación está en un punto máximo de ebullición y traerá consecuencias en el corto, mediano y largo plazos.
Las circunstancias de la industria automotriz son mundialmente conocidas. Y aunque los intereses de los colaboradores de la empresa son legítimos y es comprensible que piensen en su ingreso, aparentemente los líderes sindicales no están haciendo reflexionar que al llevar la negociación a instancias más difíciles, están poniendo en riesgo la estabilidad de sus trabajos y la de una empresa que lleva prácticamente 70 años invirtiendo en Puebla.
El Grupo Automotriz Volkswagen está atravesando por el momento más complicado de su historia. México no escapa a esta realidad.
La huelga podría estallar el 22 de octubre si el Sindicato no logra establecer un acuerdo congruente con la realidad.
Hay que decirlo. Si estalla la huelga, ya no sólo peligra el aumento, peligran empleos para toda la cadena productiva y lo que eso impacta a la economía regional.
La ideología romantizada hace mucho daño, sobre todo en épocas en las que se requieren líderes competentes que comprendan la realidad y ayuden a que la sociedad supere unida las circunstancias reales por las que está atravesando.
Que haya luz y que haya conciliación 🙏
Puro pendejo usa threads, exhibit 9497372:
Last year I thought Threads was an existential risk to X.
When Meta puts its full weight behind something -- by injecting the app into Instagram, it’s DEFCON 5:
You have to squeeze out every last drop of growth from all available surfaces to save the app.
However, I started to realize that the opposite was happening:
It was strengthening X.
If you look at any announcement by Zuck, you will see the most rude & toxic comments on the internet.
But when he makes those same announcements on X, people are thrilled about how he’s pushing humanity forward. X is a place where people are excited about the future, so it’s no surprise he and his top lieutenants are using it more than their own app.
Threads — and Bluesky — have effectively quarantined some of the worst people on the internet.
And so I had an epiphany: those apps are X’s anti-abuse systems.
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Cuando triunfe MORENA y se acabe la corrupción en la compra de medicinas, alcanzará para garantizar la gratuidad universal de medicamentos
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Linus Torvalds says, rules prohibiting AI usage are “UTTERLY STUPID” and “idiotic”.
For the Linux kernel, Torvalds says, “we’re not going to make stupid rules that say ‘you can’t use tools for X’”.
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Latam leftists will see China purchase 8 billion acres of their land, critical infrastructure, and take their precious resources and then cry about an Israeli company fixing their neglected water supply.
The more I encounter Latam leftist the more I feel sympathetic to Kissinger
The Mexican state of Chihuahua signed a contract with an Israeli water management company that specializes in drought management.
This is, to the most unserious people on Earth, the equivalent of a full scale military invasion.
Israelis are helping to ensure Mexicans have water and this is how some people respond. Insane.
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One of my favourite Harry Potter loopholes doesn't even involve magic. It involves exploiting the Muggle economy.
Hagrid tells us there are 17 Sickles to a Galleon. Sickles are silver, Galleons are gold. Simple enough.
Except gold and silver don't have a fixed exchange rate in the Muggle world. Their market value fluctuates constantly. Before 1900, the gold-to-silver ratio averaged around 16:1, which is pretty close to the wizarding world's 17:1 rate. Throughout much of the twentieth century, however, it averaged around 45:1.
See where this is going?
Wait until the market heavily favours gold. Melt your Galleons down and sell the gold in the Muggle world. Use the money to buy as much silver as possible, then take that silver to Gringotts and have it converted into Sickles.
Finally, exchange those Sickles for Galleons at the fixed 17:1 rate.
Congratulations. You've potentially turned a small pile of wizarding gold into a much larger pile of wizarding gold, simply by exploiting the difference between Muggle market prices and Gringotts' fixed exchange rate.
No Dark Arts. No Horcruxes. No elaborate schemes.
Just precious metals, a fixed exchange rate and a wizard who understands arbitrage.
The real question is why nobody in the wizarding world seems to have built an entire financial empire around this.
