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TBF, Carrion birds and several apex predator fish (like muskies) could eat landlords. But the fish would need the landlords chopped up into small pieces.

Not too recent, but I think I remember him still posting and calling out Genocide Joe about a month ago on Twitter. He is still around, but because he doesn’t have political office, people don’t pay much attention any more. As far as I remember, he was one of the better Soc Dems rather than an open communist though.

In America, dental and health insurance are separate. And many jobs that provide health insurance can often not provide dental insurance. There is a reason teeth are referred to as the “luxury bones”.

It’s been a long time since my exposure to these weirdos, but I think I remember it being some bullshit evo-psych. Because hormonal birth control mimics pregnancy, it turns off women’s preference for good quality mates that will produce good offspring and provide for the family, and instead settle down with a nearby man, since the act is already done.

I still stand by my stance that Union Pacific is a poorly run railroad.

He’s not man of the year, he is man of the century!

They can have recessions, depending on how plugged in their economy is to the broader international capitalist market. But often socialist countries don’t because the capitalist free market operates on supply and demand self-correction. This is dipping a bit into control theory and dynamic systems, but broadly, you get oscillations (business cycles) if there are delays and/or too much correction/amplification of signals. So, if there is unmet demand, it is overshot or as the market is correcting, the demand reduces, so that there is overproduction. This overshoot, is often seen as a bubble inflating and bursting.

But to get to why this can be avoided in socialist countries, we have to recognize that this is one of the few dimensions where central planning, even very flawed and crude versions, is robust. The planners can say “we have a demand of 500 units, and only 400 were delivered, increase production by 25%.” Where multiple competing enterprises could just say “There is a market for 100 more units. So expand production by a significant fraction of that (leading to the many competing firms to produce a factor more)”. Because of the lack of coordination, and the incentive to try to capture a large fraction of a market for profit, a lot of these self-correction mechanisms in capitalism overshoot their targets, causing a firm to go into bankruptcy and not pay back debts. But any form of planning can somewhat dampen that, even if fluctuations and errors can lead to some overproduction or shortfall.

I just skimmed through the article, but it reduces to being that the two Italian people she mentioned are more laid back and have more friends. Plus less medical and college debt.

But, yeah. Even by that criterion, there are many other countries that would be a better choice.

God, glad this guy is dead. My former roommate used to do fundraising for non-profits and had to deal with the guy often. Munger was a far-right fascist, as you would expect (a lot of sharing viewpoints unprompted that sounded a lot like Musk now). But it was really mind-boggling because during some of the fundraising events the staff and experts would have to meet with donors, so my roommate had to sit back and watch as Munger tried to explain to literal climate scientists, how he figured out that climate change is fake and not happening.

Hey! I may be dumb, but I am not stupid!

This is mostly about how Liberals get upset with celebrating deaths of people with even if they “totally disagree with them and agree they were bad” like Kissinger or Rumsfeld or whoever. Not saying that conservatives are celebrating Kissinger in particular.

Though a minority of conservatives hate Kissinger out of a broader sense of isolationism or just anti-Semitism.

Well, judging by the symbol on its chest, they are DemSoc (not real socialist).

Watching the Sea Peoples row ashore: I bet you are wondering how I got here.

No, the Cambodia series is still probably around a year away and they haven’t covered Israel-Palestine or other conflicts where Kissinger would take center stage yet (the series so far covered Iraq, Cuba, Korea, and Afghanistan).

Obama, but he is picking out lingerie

Uhh, let it be sheer

Obama becoming jealous at how much more useless the Labor Party are than the Democrats

Uhh, let me be Keir

No never heard of it until now. The Trashfuture podcast occasionally reads British MP’s books on some of their episodes since a lot of British MPs write very bad political thrillers.