Not much we can do, I’m also not in the US. Cancel Netflix and Amazon subscriptions maybe? I’ve changed one purchasing decision 2026 to a European brand instead of US.
I’m sorry for what may have been unfair criticism, I guess I’m getting sick of hearing about USA.
Other than making memes, what are you doing about it?
While a big mac has intrinsic value, the value of the coin is based on trusting McD honouring the agreement. Will they still accept the coins 10 years from now when they have forgotten they were issued? Will they be sued out of existence after their meat substitute mushroom burger left in the sun for too long comes alive an eats 9 customers and and a minivan?
The value of the dollar is based on trusting the US central bank and/or governmemt to be responsible enough.
While you should not blindly trust either McD or the government, the latter has a longer track record, even though they seem like they are going to eat a metaphorical minivan soon.
Not sure if it’s relevant to why you feel ridiculous, but feeling like you don’t qualify as what you are is common I think.
In my 20s I felt like a 7 year old boy dressed up in a suit and grandma pinching my cheek and going “well who is this handsome man?”.
It sounds like an inevitable tradeoff.
I’m genuinely curious.
How would a small government ensure economic equality? High taxes and UBI is still the government being responsible for a large portion of your needs, even if the bureaucracy may be somewhat slimmer.
I think you’re coming at it from the wrong way. Instead of picking a label (left libert…) and figure out if you can support a policy (lim. gov.) you should think about if you belive a policy is a good idea and let someone else figure out what label to give you if they feel like they want to.
Not the green. Their policies are hostile towards anyone not living in a big city center. Not the “left party” (former communist party). The rhetoric is the hostile to men brand of feminism and they have a dubious economic policy.
Me voting for either is like an immigrant voting for Trump.
Socialism: what do you call the nordic countries? They have reasonable incentives. If they qualify then yes.
Communism: does China qualify as communist or are they some kind of former communist with capitalist reforms?
I guess you could find some place where they only publish posive news, but you would be getting a skewed positive outlook instead of skewed negative from the usual news. It’s more pleasant but probably not better.
The pessimists will say that he will find a way to get a 3rd term. They will probably not say that he looks very healthy for his age. You will be doing a small fight for optimism there.
Avoid people who have this pessimistic mindset. This includes the news.
Next step is to think optimistically. There won’t be any election? He will be 85- something by then and he is not exactly the image of healthy living. And that is not even optimistic, it’s realistic thinking.
Yes, until then yoga lessons is a good investment.
Generally you never win by taking the left or right voters. They already vote for/against you no matter what (or abstain from voting because they are so far left or right that they basically think you and your opponent is equally too far left/right).
You win by making the undecided middle vote for you. Every vote you gain from the center is also a vote your opponent loses.
Is it okay to make a joke about keeping queers on a leash during straight events?
Having porn as the background saves you about 9 minutes of deciding what to crank it out to, you can just get started.
You don’t get access to anything you’re not working with and if you do have access and they found out you used it to spy on your kids then you’re probably getting fired.
You have to convince the swing state undecided voters, not new yorkers.
They were talking about buying Swedish Gripen instead of US F-35. I’m not sure exactly how far along those plans were.
I’ve used the same pfp which is a photo of myself with a funny mask since 2007.
It looked easy but It’s ludicrously difficult to do. Russia tried something similar in Ukraine and got bogged down in a war they still have not got out of.
The fact that it worked and did not turn into another black hawk down scenario is like you say months of preparing, someone on the inside high enough to have information and dislike Maduro enough and a good batch of luck.
No. Governments (Central banks usually in charge of this) try to create mild inflation to discourage hoarding money.
The rich also don’t horde money, they hoard assets. Usually stocks in companies.
Inflation is caused by there being more and more money in circulation competing for the same stuff, or less stuff produced.
Wealth inequality cause a lot of problems, inflation is not one of them.