President Hellsatan

Im gonna assume I don't get a lot of engagement mostly because I post so sensibly and my takes are so obviously wise.

@phil_mcalister Just post the fucking comic you hack

Let's settle this will a quick economics 101. Imagine an island with 100 people. All of them have just a crude spear allowing them to catch 1 fish per day. GDP is 100 fish per day. So long as everyone eats one fish per day, the economy will never grow. They're consuming their whole output and there is no savings. How does the economy grow? Someone eats half a fish and saves the other half. That savings allows them to spend a day building a fish trap instead of fishing all day. The trap allows him to catch 3 fish per day. The savings became capital which was invested into capital equipment that made him more productive. Now that he's catching 3 fish, he can eat 1 like everyone else and still have 2 leftover. Now someone sees his surplus and says - I'm better at building than fishing. If I build you a hammer will you give me a fish? Another guy decided to harvest coconuts in exchange for the third fish. In other words. now that the economy is productive enough to cover basic food needs with less people, some folks can do other things. The net maker, realizing other fisherman want a net like his, enters the net industry and makes more in exchange for other people's fish. Eventually the whole island is so productive fishing that they only need 30 or so fisherman and 70 people are free to solve new problems and improve their neighbors lives All of these people in turn save more than they consume and continue to reinvest the savings into more capital goods that make them more productive, and an ever growing abundance of goods and services becomes available on the island, making everyone's life better. The key, and in fact the only way, for an economy to grow is by consuming less than you produce which is called SAVING. A last note: The "demand" from the people on the island is restricted by their productivity. They always demanded housing, clothes, more food, tools, medicine, etc. The problem was never a lack of demand. It was a lack of the productivity that would allow them to create all of that stuff. You first produce, then use the fruits of your production to demand things in the market. The key is productivity, which is driven by savings. Not demand. Thank you

@littlelongboy Sickos yes dot png

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@ArmandDoma Cmon dude this is middle school level dumbass sophistry.

the vast vast vast majority of poor people are not criminals and it will never stop astounding me that the “progressive” position is to argue that they are

@taste_of_tbone The next level pedants move is to note that Frankenstein, the guy who makes the frankenstein, isn't a doctor.

@madelinealright @zugzeke oooh heaven was a place in the computer --- belinda carlsile

was at a party with a bunch of boomers/gen x and they all believed in God and The Singularity simultaneously. all of it came from pop-sci bs. Each of them seemed convinced if they just live 9 more years they get to go in da computer. techno-feudalists stay winnin.

@fart_idiot @ArmandDoma @KourdaN I think you would have to actually try it and see how much this happens though.

@ArmandDoma @KourdaN The only big issue I see is that free buses (where fare enforcement is more dangerous) plus paid subways (where enforcement can be largely automatic or handled by safety personnel) would cause an inefficient level of demand for buses over trains

“people were assaulting bus drivers so we decided to let them ride free” is just a bananas thing to say and I wish Zohran would stop saying it

@BravoBuzzard @fart_idiot I'm responding to this thing down here, when you said: "You asked: is it precedents to deploy national guard to states that don’t want them there. Yes, it is precedented. I could give you more examples (1992 LA riots, 1970 Kent State university)"

@An_Old_Man @fart_idiot Brian Schatz stated we don’t do it. But, as I pointed out, we do do it. Especially when the governor isn’t enforcing federal law, such as the Illinois, California, and Oregon governors.

Fuck authoritarianism, and everyone should say so. We are not a country that sends soldiers into our own cities as if it’s enemy territory. I know we Democrats can be annoying but that’s not the main thing right now. We have to stop this, peacefully, together.

@BravoBuzzard @fart_idiot Naw it was in response to a followup about deploying national guard against the state governments wishes, with a bit of a side conversation about sending one states branch to another state.

@An_Old_Man @fart_idiot The whole point was to answer the assertion that activating the national guard to quell social disruption is not unprecedented.

@ArmandDoma @Jooneefin How many chatgpt queries do they run?

@Jooneefin Americans eat about 50 billion burgers a year

eating a single burger has about 1,000 the emissions of a ChatGPT query

@BravoBuzzard @fart_idiot OK have fun? I'm just saying Kent State is maybe a bad example of "oh it's normal and fine to deploy the national guard places"

@An_Old_Man @fart_idiot I’m enjoying watching you guys so upset about this. Your people literally killed a conservative influencer and tried to kill a presidential candidate, celebrated both, and blamed it on conservatives. But your pearl clutching is precious.

I read this and was confused until I remembered it was supposed to be "cats" instead of "cars"

Beazor: the all cars coughing up hairballs weezer cover band.

@BravoBuzzard @fart_idiot I mean first because their presence was requested by the governor of Ohio 2nd because it was the Ohio national guard in Ohio not some other states national guard being moved around. And 3rd because it famously worked out so well.

@BravoBuzzard @fart_idiot oh huh, Kent State 1970, that's a weird one to pick

@no_earthquake I mean it kinda depends on what you think "coding" means. Like as a guy who sometimes gets paid to write software the easiest part is writing all the text down. The hard part is getting people to explain exactly what it is they want the computer to do.

LLMs have convincingly demonstrated that coding is the easiest activity, maths is medium hard, and having taste is the hardest

@cafreiman Unfortunately this graph doesn't actually show that. It might be that real median wages have grown despite "capitalism" instead of because of it.

Capitalism has actually enriched the working class

@zugzeke Albert Ignatius Guy

I did the dumb thing I argued with the "AI guy" at work

@Zigmanfreud They think he did all that.

I’m still contemplating what the right-wing reaction would’ve been to a rapidly aging Joe Biden accidentally publicly posting a private message for his attorney general, instructing them to use the DOJ to punish his enemies & then deleting it. We are SO desensitized to insanity!

@cafreiman This isn't much evidence.

If Democrats want to win more elections, moving toward the center is actually the evidence-based strategy

@Lord_Greenland @ArmandDoma Eh it kinda is and it kinda isn't. It talks a lot about frictions to building and construction and doing things like increasing state capacity, but it doesn't ever talk about distribution it tries to elide that but just saying "oh there will be so much it doesn't matter"

@ArmandDoma Nader did a lot of good. Different times call for different solutions. But yes, Abundance is literally New Deal liberalism and the left really seems to hate that for some reason

The New Deal would be impossible today because the Ralph Naderite public interest law movement explicitly went about creating a permitting and lawsuit regime in response to what they saw as the New Deal’s excessive growth. Abundance *is* the inheritor of the New Deal legacy