It’s not an emergency if it can wait 15 minutes. So the line just doesn’t work for its intended purpose. That’s extraordinary failure.

What if I want to take the cab but I’m not a cutie?

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Fox News and some other outlets like it are pure propaganda. I don’t have an answer to it, but it’s very frustrating that we’re apparently so defenseless and helpless against something that’s intent on destroying democracy. We have no active defenses.

That’s not unique to capitalism. That’s just what living in a society made up of humans is like. Incompetence and malice (whichever applies) will exist for as long as there are people.

Are women more emotional than men? Maybe. Maybe not. But I’ve never heard anyone accuse Hillary Clinton of being too emotional.

And the whining when motorists actually have to pay for some of the roads they use is unreal: https://youtube.com/watch?v=I02i-ddf4Ro

Well, Intel tried with OneApi. As for AMD they go 5 minutes between every time they shoot themselves in the foot. It’s unbelievable to watch.

If it wasn’t Trump I’d agree. However, getting Palantir involved sounds less like unifying databases than creating a social credit score-kind of system, complete with political opinions and other kinds of sensitive data

You have to get from the station to where you want to go. I’ve seen enough videos of Indian traffic to imagin that’s no fun without a ton of steel around you

Makes sense. I was thinking of the old non-direct route.

Berlin to Munich is pretty fast. The issue with Berlin-Paris is that you have to go through NRW, which is where German trains go to get slow and delayed.

If we’re charitable and assume he means from Berlin to Paris, then he’s got a point. That’s a pretty long journey better done by plane, sadly. People do take the train, but usually not for practical reasons.

Never let this guy negotiate anything. How does he get through life with that attitude?

You’re not wrong; highly regulated markets like medicine can be extremely dysfunctional. But lemonade is not medicine, so I feel like you’re moving the goalposts a bit here.

It actually works both ways. They try to produce the most attractive (not best!) product at the lowest cost.

In fact a core demand of the yellow vest protests were… the lowering of a tax on fossil fuels. I think these guys might be the baddies, actually.

They’re only the floor because they’re seen as risk free. “Why lend someone money for less than what the US government is offering you? The government is always gonna pay you back, after all”. If that mentality changes then treasury bonds will no longer be the floor, because you’d rather lend the money to someone else than the US government.

Not that this isn’t disastrous for the US. Increased taxes, cuts to medicare/medicaid/military, a government default, or a mix of all three are an inevitability. The US government can probably keep paying interest payment costs with more debt for a while, but not forever. These movements in the bond market takes us closer to the end of the USA’s debt spree.