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Post by sj on Sept 11, 2024 20:29:47 GMT -5
Printing trillions of $'s (to boost the stock market and help the rich grow richer) is basically trickle down Reaganonmics. Most of those new $'s go to the super rich and mega corporations first, who then dump most of it into stocks and stock buybacks, boosting the stock market to artificially high levels. Casey (a self-made millionaire) explains this process in much more detail in some of her YT videos. www.youtube.com/@cryptocasey |
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Post by ForRealTho on Sept 12, 2024 21:27:27 GMT -5
Printing trillions of $'s (to boost the stock market and help the rich grow richer) is basically trickle down Reaganonmics. Most of those new $'s go to the super rich and mega corporations first, who then dump most of it into stocks and stock buybacks, boosting the stock market to artificially high levels. Casey (a self-made millionaire) explains this process in much more detail in some of her YT videos. www.youtube.com/@cryptocaseyInteresting I forgot her name but I watched a couple of her videos like 9 months ago |
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Post by sj on Sept 13, 2024 10:26:28 GMT -5
Printing trillions of $'s (to boost the stock market and help the rich grow richer) is basically trickle down Reaganonmics. Most of those new $'s go to the super rich and mega corporations first, who then dump most of it into stocks and stock buybacks, boosting the stock market to artificially high levels. Casey (a self-made millionaire) explains this process in much more detail in some of her YT videos. www.youtube.com/@cryptocaseyInteresting I forgot her name but I watched a couple of her videos like 9 months ago Yeah, fiat currency and its (engineered) relationship with the stock market is essentially the biggest scam ever devised. It's effectively wealth transfer from the poor to the rich. The consequence, for attaining sustained & rapid growth in the stock market, is inflation (lower standard of living for the people). While the super rich enjoy greater wealth accumulation, since most of their money is invested in stocks and real estate (notice how the price of that skyrocketed also). Inflation (in real estate) is only a bad thing if you're looking to buy (i.e. the poor), and vice versa if you're sitting on properties you already own (i.e. the rich). Think about how slow/stagnant GDP growth has been. If the rise in the stock market was due to economic growth (rather than money printing), GDP growth should've been soaring as well. |
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Post by ForRealTho on Sept 15, 2024 15:58:17 GMT -5
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Post by ForRealTho on Sept 17, 2024 10:51:48 GMT -5
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Post by sj on Sept 17, 2024 17:08:03 GMT -5
Trump walked back "Stop the steal," cut out the "I'm going to drain the swamp" lies, and has been quietly surrounding himself with powerful establishment goons. That last bit has me worried because buddying up to the establishment/deep state/powerful ppl (if he succeeds in that) could reverse the election cycle tide (that's been in Kamala's favor lately). |
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Post by sj on Sept 17, 2024 17:11:00 GMT -5
JD Vance (despite his humble origins) supposedly has lots of rich & powerful, establishment friends behind closed doors. That's probably the true reason Trump picked him.
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Post by ForRealTho on Sept 18, 2024 9:23:11 GMT -5
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Post by ForRealTho on Sept 18, 2024 11:09:00 GMT -5
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Post by sj on Sept 18, 2024 12:16:32 GMT -5
Even if Taiwan shared their fab/manufacturing processes with us, we still wouldn't want China/CCP to get their hands on the same tech. CCP has at minimum 50% ownership of all companies that are operate within China and they have a long history of subisidizing industries so that they can dump products (at below cost) into foreign markets and unfairly drive their competition out of business. Basically, due to their unfair trade and business practices, allowing China to invade Taiwan and steal their chip fab tech would have the same end result for the west (i.e. kill our chip manufacturing). We could do tariffs as an alternative to war (allow China to invade unopposed), but tariffs are temporary and could change from one administration to the next. |
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Post by ForRealTho on Sept 19, 2024 12:26:40 GMT -5
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Post by sj on Sept 19, 2024 16:52:55 GMT -5
Age related memory loss/dementia is very sad. It's one of the worst things that can happen to a person. You don't realize how difficult it is until you've had an older family member, like a parent, go through it and you've had to care for them.
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Post by ForRealTho on Sept 19, 2024 18:42:38 GMT -5
Age related memory loss/dementia is very sad. It's one of the worst things that can happen to a person. You don't realize how difficult it is until you've had an older family member, like a parent, go through it and you've had to care for them. People with dementia or other forms of mental decline can get very tangential in their thinking. Alaska and Saudi Arabia both have oil so in his mind he knows they are related somehow, then two places with oil start with A. Where are all the Republican's talking about Biden being unfit for office and needing a mental acuity test now? |
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Post by sj on Sept 20, 2024 21:33:12 GMT -5
Age related memory loss/dementia is very sad. It's one of the worst things that can happen to a person. You don't realize how difficult it is until you've had an older family member, like a parent, go through it and you've had to care for them. People with dementia or other forms of mental decline can get very tangential in their thinking. Alaska and Saudi Arabia both have oil so in his mind he knows they are related somehow, then two places with oil start with A. Where are all the Republican's talking about Biden being unfit for office and needing a mental acuity test now? His dementia's not as bad as Biden's yet, so he might be able to pass it. But age-related mental decline can be very rapid, like we saw with Biden. To answer your question tho, look to your own party's statement about Trump's followers being a cult. Is it not the typical pattern of cultists to follow their cult leader to doom & defeat? |
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Post by Cop on Sept 21, 2024 11:07:29 GMT -5
Heh, I saw this guy in action when we were over there in 2022. Only got a few pics from afar myself because we were riding bikes through the park before and only passed by the tower right at the end and the bike place was too far to linger around for too long (or walk back afterwards... If I had known I wouldn't even be able to get a MAGA hat in Washington DC, I would've made the effort though because they were bound to be sold in his building, no?)... |
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Post by sj on Sept 21, 2024 11:14:52 GMT -5
There's a reason for that. DC is one of the bluest areas (as far as citizens who live there) in the US. Naturally, there'd be no market for MAGA hats in DC.  |
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Post by ForRealTho on Sept 23, 2024 11:11:49 GMT -5
Damn, end of an era. www.cnn.com/2024/09/23/business/kmart-closing-last-store-us/index.htmlI remember when Kmart finally opened in Alaska in 1993. I went with my siblings opening day. People literally slept outside the store to be the first in Kmart. It was a madhouse. Being a kid I checked out the toys section and electronics. Turns out the person they hired to do security was a friend of a friend and the first day they didn't stop anyone for shop lifting. If I knew that I would have tried to steal a SNES game. The guy who bought KMART Eddie Lampart is a true believer in Ayn Rand so after he bought the company he encouraged the employees to fight instead of save the company and this drove it into the ground |
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Post by sj on Sept 23, 2024 13:47:57 GMT -5
Damn, end of an era. www.cnn.com/2024/09/23/business/kmart-closing-last-store-us/index.htmlI remember when Kmart finally opened in Alaska in 1993. I went with my siblings opening day. People literally slept outside the store to be the first in Kmart. It was a madhouse. Being a kid I checked out the toys section and electronics. Turns out the person they hired to do security was a friend of a friend and the first day they didn't stop anyone for shop lifting. If I knew that I would have tried to steal a SNES game. The guy who bought KMART Eddie Lampart is a true believer in Ayn Rand so after he bought the company he encouraged the employees to fight instead of save the company and this drove it into the ground When I was a kid, I walked to and from Kmart (probably at least 2 hours) to buy Ninja Gaiden 2 (the 1990 NES release, a side-scrolling/platforming game - not the XBox NG2, a completely different & full 3D game) with money i earned from mowing neighbors' yards. The game was just under $70 (not including taxes), which was kinda crazy expensive when u consider inflation since then. A friend of mine turned lawn mowing into a full fledged business by high school and paid all cash for a new Mitsubishi Eclipse turbo before senior year HS, just working his lawn business during the summers. I worked in fast food the summer before my senior year and my friend asked if he should get a real job too. I told him no, working in fast food sucks, and keep doing what you're doing. My older brother worked at Kmart (shortly after HS) and they fired him for exchanging NES games one too many times. Which made no sense because he wasn't a thief - these were games he bought and he had the reciepts. |
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Post by sj on Sept 25, 2024 15:02:37 GMT -5
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Post by sj on Sept 25, 2024 15:13:12 GMT -5
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Post by sj on Sept 27, 2024 10:24:47 GMT -5
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Post by sj on Sept 27, 2024 10:28:46 GMT -5
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Post by sj on Sept 27, 2024 10:33:48 GMT -5
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Post by sj on Sept 30, 2024 20:47:45 GMT -5
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Post by sj on Sept 30, 2024 20:53:50 GMT -5
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Post by Coolverine on Sept 30, 2024 21:01:47 GMT -5
They slap some mirrors on those drones, won't it render the lasers ineffective? |
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Post by sj on Sept 30, 2024 22:40:52 GMT -5
They slap some mirrors on those drones, won't it render the lasers ineffective? Good question. I've always assumed, without giving it much thought, that mirrors only worked with visible light (or near visible, like infrared). It looks like somebody has developed mirrors that reflect microwaves of a very specific wavelength. So short answer, it's possible. www.snexplores.org/article/new-mirror-picky-what-it-reflects#:~:text=A%20mirror%20made%20of%20copper%20wire%20embedded%20in,it%20like%20a%20window%20and%20passes%20right%20through. But it sounds like that a microwave of any wavelength other than the 60mm would still pass right through and destroy the target. I imagine it would take tech much more advanced to be able to modulate (like Star Trek tech level shields) to any wavelength. |
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Post by sj on Sept 30, 2024 23:01:37 GMT -5
Also, they're talking about using this microwave weapon against those smaller drones, like the ones Ukraine has been using to destroy Russian tanks and small aircraft. What makes shielding drones (with mirrors, ceramics, etc) so tricky is that this type of drone's usefulness depends on it being small. Adding shielding adds weight, which would hamper smaller drone's range and maneuverability.
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Post by sj on Sept 30, 2024 23:26:06 GMT -5
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Post by ForRealTho on Oct 2, 2024 9:13:12 GMT -5
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