yterdy

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by yterdy 2y ago
You've given individual solutions to try to fix a systemic problem, which of course does not work. They are good ideas; they are also not enough, and don't even begin to address the issue at-scale. What does is recognizing that th
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by yterdy 2y ago
Monetary expansion underlies and significantly influences if not drives, everything you mentioned (save the nature of US mortgages, which is still related in the sense of it being a part of financialization of as much of American life as po
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by yterdy 2y ago
You're comparing ideal to ideal, not practical reality to practical reality. Here's a fact: the Chinese middle class is the size of the US's entire population. The whole thing. Citizens, residents, undocumented immigrants. Th
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by yterdy 2y ago
>Deflating prices on existing housing means either the lender (ha!) or the homeowner takes the loss. Okay. (Expand or they're going to flag you for snark.) The cohort that is currently at prime home-buying age (and, really, most peo
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by yterdy 2y ago
>You have to ask why housing prices doubled, and ask how easy or likely those underlying conditions are to reverse. Massive monetary expansion via QE and low interest rates. Resolved by raising interest rates and taxes on wealth holders
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by yterdy 2y ago
Continuing to the next step of this argument that has been had before ad nauseum: the West is arguably worse in these regards because China et al. make no bones about preferring order to freedom, while we nominally tout our "opportunit
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by yterdy 2y ago
Recently: Google refuses to turn up old pages. I was recently searching for a person who used to have a notable web presence before passing away about a decade ago. I had to dig to find a few links, through DDG and Yandex.
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by yterdy 2y ago
Again, some things aren't worth fixing, and they build up. The fabric on my headliner detached. Quickly went from "foam slightly exposed" to "sagging across the width of the backseat". Car is worth less than 5 grand
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by yterdy 2y ago
It would be nice if I could "work with" a mechanic. Pay 1/4 the labor cost and she guides me (I also rent tools and shop time from her so it's more like 1/2).
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by yterdy 2y ago
Exactly. Its failure was a self-fulfilling prophecy imposed by PE (and other malicious financial actors). Like Toys R Us and many others, it was a stable but unremarkable business that might have been in dire straits at some point in the
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by yterdy 2y ago
>Property values keep increasing because demand is exceeding supply. Not quite. Property values keep increasing because the monetary supply keeps increasing, one effect of which is that large property owners can corner markets by buying
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by yterdy 2y ago
It should be noted that "told they must" is not simply bad Boomer advice, but a reflection of the reality that the vast majority of white-collar work (even work that must mostly be trained on-the-job, due to the particular policie
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by yterdy 2y ago
>But why doesn't this happen to restaurants, or super markets or car mechanics? It does. The reasons you cited just makes it worse in medicine.
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by yterdy 2y ago
That's not true at all. In war? The Nazis took great pains to preserve (stolen) art; the Islamic State went out of their way to destroy it. Americans vigorously catalogue war efforts, with much risk to photographers. Even going back to
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by yterdy 2y ago
For sources with similar protocols/track record that you can actually see the work of, I'd look at people like Sarah Kendzior and Cory Doctorow. One focuses on how corruption and autocratic rule become entrenched in a society, the
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by yterdy 2y ago
It's a double-edged sword. Without that ubiquity, 4 years ago today, George Floyd would have just been known as a junkie who slipped a fake bill and had a heart attack, if he was known at all. Instead, we were able to see with our own
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by yterdy 2y ago
Depending on who you ask, Google's search issues started as early as 2010 (Instant) or 2016 ("brands"). Many of the things people complain about regarding Google's culture - shuttering projects arbitrarily, hiring issues
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by yterdy 2y ago
This argument has been had a thousand times before, and it would be a waste of time to relitigate it. Suffice it to say that "intrinsic value" is subjective, artists absolutely contribute to the productivity of any society made up
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ArcGIS StoryMaps: Freeways and Freedom (2023)(storymaps.arcgis.com)
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by yterdy 2y ago
https://youtu.be/XL7Wxqr2ZRk https://youtu.be/0SvfNhMlnBE Even "cheap Chinese shit" is made by hand.
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by yterdy 2y ago
It's a bit of a stretch to call musical instruments - which are often handcrafted and not manufactured because an object that produces a particular sound requires tolerance that shift with the source material and that are difficult to
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by yterdy 2y ago
Because, half a century ago, it would have been built by a government research agency or a designated monopoly that was obliged to share it with the public, instead of the quasi-monopoly - that can keep secret whatever it needs to wreck you
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by yterdy 2y ago
Note that my root comment got flagged. It really hurts my faith that people in this forum are reasonable.
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by yterdy 2y ago
You can search and find a few from the day, but the flaggers specifically targeted the posts with multiple comments. The only ones specifically focusing on the death that are still accessible only have one or two comments. A few tangentiall
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by yterdy 2y ago
>The idea that "I'm not getting everything I want right now means that government is irreparably broken," is ridiculous on its face. It's weird that you would put those words in my mouth when the actual reason for t
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by yterdy 2y ago
No one's arguing that Trump isn't forceful. It's to what end. The "kleptomanic" part is important, exemplified publicly (at the very least) by the way he changed the tax code to advantage wealthy individuals and bus
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by yterdy 2y ago
To answer what can be done, as an industry: stop overfunding and overemphasizing attempts to leverage cutting-edge technology, with all its unknowns and bugs, into The Answer To All Our Problems. Instead, take existing, well-understood tech
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by yterdy 2y ago
If you'd actually read her long-form work (specifically, her books Hiding In Plain Sight and They Knew)... Humor her for the length of those, then see how you feel. Her thesis is that "Russiagate" wasn't cooked up; tha
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by yterdy 2y ago
>"Infrastructure projects" is just another term for crony capitalism. Just look at funding for telcos to build out infra, or EV charging stations, or solar panels, or anything else they fund as "infrastructure." It&#
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by yterdy 2y ago
Kindly read or listen to any long-form work by Sarah Kendzior. But I don't know if the statement you quoted is correct either. Trump isn't the politician who has people tracking their stock trades because they so consistently outp

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