[-] [email protected] 36 points 10 hours ago

Boomer question, but how do you drop your car off for an oil change or whatever without a key?

[-] [email protected] 7 points 12 hours ago

Lots of people asking questions already addressed in my "I'm still mentally competent" fundraising email

[-] [email protected] 77 points 13 hours ago

I would argue we have a better record by doing zero genocides

[-] [email protected] 18 points 20 hours ago

At the rate Biden is adopting Trump policy, he'll purge them himself anyway

[-] [email protected] 49 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Bro how do you get jet lag on a 2 hour private flight? You didn't even leave the time zone. I know people with longer commutes

[-] [email protected] 16 points 4 days ago

Turning the big racism dial, and uh, you know the thing

[-] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

Ok, that's starting to make sense. Still not sure about it, but I feel like I'm understanding it at least a little better. Definitely interested to read the book now, thanks for all the info

[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

This could make some sense in aggregate, but doesn't make any sense on a micro level. How does, say, a fast food franchise receive the super-profits? And why is the restaurant hiring people that lose them money? If it's motivated by a need for sales, and the sales are "worth it" economically, meaning enough to cover labor and other costs plus profit, isn't that just describing surplus value?

[-] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

This is interesting but I'm extremely skeptical. If all workers are paid more than the value they produce, why do business hire anyone? And if all business in the core are inherently unprofitable, what is the mechanism that keeps them afloat?

[-] [email protected] 16 points 6 days ago

Campaign is going well when you have to keep insisting you aren't dropping out and are still mentally competent

[-] [email protected] 35 points 6 days ago

That takes experience

[-] [email protected] 52 points 6 days ago

You ever visit a dying grandparent who keeps miataking you for other relatives who are all 30 years older than you?

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Sad to see random sailors get killed, but regardless still have to hand it to the Houthis for an extremely successful ongoing campaign. Shipping volumes passing through are down dramatically, and alternate routes are adding a lot of delay and expense. It's costing Egypt a lot of money in lost transit tolls as well. And shipping was in a less-than-ideal state to begin with, due to the Panama canal drought and issues with shipbuilding.

Insurance rates were already keeping most higher value cargo out, it's currently mostly bulk goods, crude oil, and some refined petroleum products still transiting; that's why we never hear about container ships being hit, they were generally the first to leave.

This attack will further increase insurance rates and further increase pressure on the west to "do something" but other than a ceasefire they don't have a lot of good options.

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