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ERIKA KIRK: Every morning I wake up to another headline lying about me. I have comedians dressing up in whiteface, I have people saying I'm not fit to be CEO, and I have Candace Owens claiming that I murdered my husband.

Come on guys, I hate Trump as much as the next guy but $ 400m is not enough to worry about 0.0001 0.01% 1% of 1% We need to worry about the big things

For all the snobbery directed at nu-metal/alt-metal acts in the '00s, that was probably the last time anything remotely unique or interesting existed in mainstream music.

MAGA needs to both understand where we are (just before the elbow in accelerating political/sectarian violence), and either persuade or replace the GOP that is unwilling to take decisive action.

A kind of important question we Conservatives need to ask ourselves is: Why did Mark Carney become a Liberal and not a Conservative?

with stablecoin markets beginning to become illiquid, the situation is now entering a more dangerous stage imo to break down the driving factors: the ETH market is ~16.5% backed by rsETH, and rsETH backed loans could see up to 10-15% haircut in emode if losses are socialized equally on mainnet & external chains, leaving 2-3% residual haircut for ETH suppliers after wiping out umbrella ETH suppliers are naturally incentivized to get out ASAP to avoid this, so utilization is pinned at 100%, and borrow rates are not high enough to incentivized repayment of unrelated LST loops (wstETH, weETH) to free up liquidity because it is impossible to withdraw ETH, users borrowing stables like USDT against ETH collateral cant unwind their position even when the rates for stablecoin borrowing start to spike, which severs the typical incentives scheme keeping these markets healthy now we have 2 unhealthy incentives based on the markets becoming locked at 100% utilization 1) ETH holders cannot unwind their positions to maintain healthy LTVs, and liquidators cant withdraw/sell collateral to close positions atomically, meaning that ETHUSD price drop could potentially cause bad debt 2) users supplying USDT have a perverse incentive to max-borrow other stablecoins as a way of exiting, the position has positive carry (for now) so the optionality has low cost, while if conditions worsen they can get at least 75% of their position value out of the market bottom line is, for these pooled/rehypothecated lending markets to function properly, liquidity must be preserved AT ALL COSTS. recent slope2 changes nerfing Aave's max borrow rates are having a negative effect and significantly increasing the risk of cascading market failure

Universal HIGH INCOME via checks issued by the Federal government is the best way to deal with unemployment caused by AI. AI/robotics will produce goods & services far in excess of the increase in the money supply, so there will not be inflation.

L’essentiel du malheur français des deux derniers siècles tient dans cette carte. Au lieu de voir sa population multipliée par entre 6 et 10 comme les autres pays européens, la France n’a fait que 2,5x. Pour comprendre ce que c’était d’être Français au 18e siècle, il faut s’imaginer une France contemporaine de 250 millions d’habitants. Cela ne nous donnerait que la densité du Royaume-Uni, avec 3 fois plus de terres arables. Rien d’exagéré ou d’impossible. Notre relation au monde serait légèrement différente. Bien sûr que nous avons la gueule de bois. La Grande Bretagne grâce à ses colonies a même fait 40x. Pour nous cela aurait voulu dire 900 millions de descendants de Français. Ce qui n’est pas délirant. Notre modeste population québécoise a été multipliée par 100. Le but de ce rappel n’est pas d’entretenir la nostalgie mais de remettre sur le devant de la scène un enjeu clé : la fécondité s’effondre massivement, cela va rebattre au 21e siècle les cartes de la puissance et de la prospérité tout autant qu’elles le furent au 19e siècle. Nous avons été les plus grands perdants à l’échelle mondiale de cette précédente transition démographique. Essayons de ne pas l’être ce coup-ci.

>>>Doesn't modernity emerge naturally at a certain scale? (population, information processing, communication etc.)