Yeah, basically every government in the world has some debt that they just keep perpetually refinancing to have additional cash on hand. It’s not a problem until you have other stuff go wrong (e.g. natural disaster, economic slowdown, lose a war, etc.) and your creditors get nervous, in which case it can become a real big problem really quickly,

But still, you’re arguably just wasting your government’s power by not using debt/deficit spending, because government debt means paychecks for government workers or contractors and infrastructure or other services for your citizens that can effectively pay for themselves in the long term

e; the punctuation was somehow even worse previously

Look, we know they’re a Chinese-speaking hacker, what else do you need to know? /s

This sounds like a good way to end up the final boss of an RPG

In any kind of story something that big and obviously evil would cause some sort of cosmic retribution, like a planet wide climate collapse or something. Thank goodness this is real life.

Either choose to participate in capitalism or they stick you in a box and commodify your imprisonment

I do method acting, like “in this next scene I am going to play an extrovert who enjoys making small talk at professional conferences with potential customers and employers”

Basically every single song from the Moby album Play was in basically every single commercial on TV

https://archive.ph/vW5gK

The problem is the lack of debate. This team think that makes every idea from the other side stupid by default. A parliamentary system will fail when people stop talking to each other.

Somewhat agreed, but there are a few things that really need to be behind debate (human caused climate change, the need for universal healthcare and universal human rights, the efficacy of vaccines, etc.). Some political organization is a good thing.

It’s a great century to bring back https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanism?wprov=sfla1

Except in the current disorganized world we always just end up with one or two superpowers bullying the little governments and crushing all kinds of diversity anyway.

Also,

You can move to a country with less oppressive laws

That might work for the crafty and well-resourced individual who has a go bag and good OpSec and can actually hop borders and keep their heads down, but that sort of thing is nearly impossible for, like, a single parent working for a crap hourly wage, or an unhoused person dealing with an extended mental health crisis, or other more vulnerable people. Justice shouldn’t depend on geography.

Public media

My hypothesis is that the rise in distracted driving was just as bad in European countries but they have safer infrastructure that limits cars’ speed and otherwise protects pedestrians, and I think that could be tested by looking at the rates of car crashes overall in Europe (if those went up at the same time as the US without a corresponding rise in dead pedestrians I think that’d suggest their infrastructure is the difference)

This doesn’t read like AI to me, it actually does connect its thoughts together and builds an argument narrative

That said, it is really awful human writing that has some cringey phrasing choices and the kind of grammar/sentence structuring I’d expect from a text to speech derived unedited stream of consciousness, I’m just not getting AI vibes off of it

Yeah, hearing the NYT decry hijacking of the public square is like hearing a Republican complain that Trump’s foreign policy is destabilizing the world

Also should include https://web.archive.org/web/20260619161330/https://www.israelhayom.com/2026/06/18/you-could-have-been-the-greatest-president-of-all-but-you-failed/

Instead of blocking them I wonder if archiving their posts and reposting their questions with the archived comment section would be better. I’m personally less interested in punishing an individual user who’s using this space selfishly (as much as they might deserve it) than I am in making this space more useful for everyone, and I don’t know how either of these proposals would do that in the short term (arguably they might in the long term by changing user behavior, but that seems like it really would take a long while).

Also, conservative media sales numbers are misleading because rich assholes will buy 100 copies of whatever and leave it in their lobbies and other public spaces they own to normalize their right wing trash

Basically any track from the new Vince Staples album, but if I had to pick one - https://vincestaples.bandcamp.com/track/the-running-man

Wouldn’t have happened if he was on Pixelfed instead