They won’t do it so it’s not even worth thinking about.

They just happen to publish a new System of National Accounts (SNA) every time this happens. Last time it was to put more emphasis on R&D.

I’ve woken up twice under anesthesia. When I wake up, I’m sort of frantic and they just zap me with more drugs and I pass back out. I honestly don’t think it’s a big deal and sort of cool I remember a little bit of the process. I’m not like in pain or anything, just awake.

It’s more likely they just released the rough percentages and someone natively did the reverse calculation.

I worked in government contracting as my first job out of college and the guy who sat I next to in the cubical worked on curating reports for various gov agencies. They would often come back to him and tell him that they number weren’t right and it should be more like ‘X’. He would then just change the numbers and send it back because he didn’t give a fuck.

I thought if we made workers poorer then it’d force a more competitive environment! How did this basic core macro-economic principle of neo-liberal economics fail us?!

I can bring two magnets close to each other and feel their fields interact so I know fields are real. Why not more fields, idk. What holds atoms together? Fuck if I should know, probably more magic fields. In the point of view of a photon, it travels instantaneously to its destination? That seems fake.

Any blockers. Yes many.

We’re not at war with China. China is our largest trading partner. Realistically we could never be at war with China because our lives would be terribly hard without them. Stop wanting to be at war with China. Do they realize what that means???

Yeah, it’s a major consideration when determining if a merger should happen, e.g. Krogers. Just because its more efficient doesn’t mean you get consumer benefit because you should expect them to profit maximize with monopoly rents. I mean definitely +1 on nationalize them rather than let capitalism go unfettered, but I’m making a general observation that large companies can only be large because they can extract monopoly rents, rather than just a barrier to entry to match efficiencies of scale thing.

I hope they know they’ll become old one day and will need your help, I hope you remind them of how shitty they treated you and you get closure.

Large companies can only exist if they receive monopoly rents. Otherwise incumbents would be outcompeted by challengers and we’d see a convergence of many small firms with low profit margins. So yeah, its the responsibility of the government to regulate monopolization and they aren’t doing it.

Glad they’ll overflow so I can still go rat spotting.

Meat glue (Transglutaminase) is a heavily used food additive in the US and is GRAS (generally recognized as saf). Manufacturers don’t need to report in their ingredients because supposedly the enzyme deactivates when it heats up. I was playing around with it in bread making to increase the amount of gluten in bagels. I stopped when I read some research papers that the health effects were not clearly understood and some people have raised some alarm bells that it might not be.

My grandfather gave me some dilapidated house in some place called Stardew something. It was a dump so I stayed at my job at Joja corporate. Some guy named Pierre wanted to buy it for like a fraction of what it was worth, real predatory guy. Last I checked it was infested with some sort weird bug. It almost sounded like it could talk, the weirdest things. Sometimes, I think about visiting, just out of curiosity, but then the quarterly reports come due, and keep forgetting about it. Recently, Pierre’s emails has gone from predatory lowball offers to ranting about the ‘soul of the valley’ and how my land is supposedly pivotal to some community revival fantasy. Honestly, if the bugs are half as persistent as Pierre, maybe they deserve to inherit the place.

Five hundred dollars? Are you serious? Just for an hour? That’s absolutely ludicrous. I mean, listen, I’m a tech guy, right? I solve problems worth millions to companies. And even I don’t pull down that kind of hourly rate. Let me break it down for you, because there’s no way the value adds up here. Just think about it logically, for the cost of one hour, I could upgrade my entire home entertainment setup and enjoy it for years. Or better yet, I’d throw that $500 into crypto. Now that’s an investment. Bitcoin, Ethereum - hell, even some of the newer altcoins. Exponential potential returns. This? This is just… it’s poor financial planning, is what it is.

But then a philosopher could operate a switch between two moral dilemmas, do you really want /that/ reality.

With no accountability, accidents become a social cost, which the government is ultimately responsible for. Inaction is negligence.

When your fire insurance is worth more than your house.

WASM has the same energy