SerialStateLineXer
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SerialStateLineXer
4mo ago
Make more Jews, please. We're running out.
SerialStateLineXer
1yr ago
And interest rates were kept artificially low for 14 of those years.
I see this claim a lot, and it's based on a misunderstanding of what the Fed actually does. If the Fed tries to lower interest rates below the natural rate of interest and hold them there, we get inflation. Now, not after 14 years.
What the Fed actually does is help markets clear faster by targeting the natural rate of interest, i.e. the rate at which the amount of money people want to lend is equal to the amount other people want to borrow. This results in savings being efficiently channeled into investments. If the Fed sets rates too high, there are excess savings that don't get borrowed, causing a recession. If the Fed sets rates too low, it causes inflation.
The fact that inflation was unusually low in the 2010s tells us that the Fed was more or less correctly targeting the natural interest rate, or even a bit above it; the natural interest rate may have actually been negative in the early 2010s.
The huge spike in inflation in 2021 was not the chickens coming come to roost after 14 years of artificially low interest rates. It was the result of a sharp increase in the money supply that made the early rounds of QE look like anthills, combined with excessive stimulus, and pandemic savings burning holes in the pockets of middle-class consumers.
SerialStateLineXer
1yr ago
SerialStateLineXer
11mo ago
This strikes me as kinda sanewashing or bad-faith
I don't claim or believe that what I'm describing is any more or less sane than what the OP is describing. It's just different, and I believe a more accurate characterization.
We have these:
- Non-technical Universities
- Black underclass, where a large percentage of the men are dead or in prison.
Edit: This was supposed to be a response to that comment speculating about the effects of reducing the male : female ratio. I'm not sure what happened.
SerialStateLineXer
5mo ago
Might have to wait for third-gen. A lot of second-gens seem to spend their whole lives seething with resentment over white kids making fun of their lunches in elementary school.
SerialStateLineXer
1yr ago
Don't Catholics always have sins to absolve because of original sin?
SerialStateLineXer
1yr ago
God: Hey, I need you to turn my son over to the Romans so that can crucify him.
Jews: :-/
God: Trust me, it'll be awesome! You're my chosen people! Would I lead you astray?
Jews: Well, there were those forty years in the...
God: Oh, for my sakes! Will you let that go already? I gave you manna, didn't I?
Jews: Okay, fine, you're the god.
Jesus: X-(
A thousand years later...
Jews: :-(
SerialStateLineXer
1yr ago
Communism mainly hates people for things that they can change about themselves (being rich, being capitalists, being landlords, etc.), whereas racism hates people for things they can't change about themselves.
This is why communism is worse than racism. Hating people for their virtues is worse than hating people for morally neutral properties like race.
SerialStateLineXer
2yr ago
The thing is, it's not just left: It's oblivious left. They demonstrate absolutely no awareness of then existence of obvious counterarguments to the ridiculous things they say. After the split, /r/SlateStarCodex didn't just move left. It got dumber. The /r/ : SSC ratio increased.
SerialStateLineXer
6mo ago
Selecting an unpopular target?
This is obviously it, isn't it? The media don't want to prevent copycat attacks.
SerialStateLineXer
1yr ago
Jews will not infect us
SerialStateLineXer
2yr ago
I'm not sorry at all, but my takeaway from "Injustice Democrats" is that the author has such a facile understanding of economic policy that he simply can't conceive of any reason anyone would oppose the agenda of the left wing of the Democratic Party other than hating justice.
SerialStateLineXer
4mo ago
Is it your position that the surrogates are criminals, too, or that they're willing victims who are just too stupid to know what's good for them?
SerialStateLineXer
6mo ago
very high IQs more often being symptoms of a problem
I don't think so. Very low IQs are often symptomatic of a monogenic disease or chromosomal abnormality, but there's no known single mutation or chromosomal abnormality that greatly increases intelligence.
I think it's just that people with very high IQs and developmental disorders are more noticeable than people with the same developmental disorders and low IQs because they're able to function despite the developmental disorders.
SerialStateLineXer
6mo ago
The fact that breasts lose elasticity with age is proof that there is no God.
SerialStateLineXer
2d ago
I just realized: Is porn called smut because it's "dirty?"
SerialStateLineXer
4mo ago
You can still get a lower premium with a high deductible, right?
SerialStateLineXer
5mo ago
Booze seems just part of the culture here--which is bizarre in a way when you think of how many people just can't drink in Japan without going full ゆでだこ (an oldish term meaning boiled octopus, referring to the redness of face many get after consuming even a little booze).
This is caused by the accumulation of acetaldehyde, a toxic intermediate product of alcohol metabolism, in the blood. They're literally poisoning themselves.
SerialStateLineXer
6mo ago
Maybe you have scurvy.
SerialStateLineXer
7mo ago
Well, not a fast mass suicide.
SerialStateLineXer
7mo ago
Thanks for doing your part to fight dysgenesis.
SerialStateLineXer
8mo ago
If you have a funny skull shape, you can have a doctor shave your skull.
SerialStateLineXer
8mo ago
more growth -> higher salaries ->
higher consumptionsmore investment -> more growth
Increased consumption is a consequence, not a cause, of growth. It's investment that drives growth.
To be clear, nobody actually wants to abolish the words "mother" or "woman." They want to use them in what they assert is "correct" manner, i.e. to refer to parents or people who personally identify as women, irrespective of sex. Conversely, terms like "birthing parent" and "people with uteruses" are used specifically because they include trans men, and are intended to be used only in contexts in which those characteristics are relevant.
For example, "Birthing Parent's Day" is mostly a GC meme. Trans activists are, to the best of my knowledge, not particularly interested in renaming Mother's and Father's day, because they still see "Mother" and "Father" as totally valid terms as long as they're used in a manner consistent with self-ID and not with biological sex. Trans men who have given birth would, for the most part, rather be honored on Father's Day than on a renamed Mother's Day, and vice-versa for trans women.
If you ignore the ideological aspect and the silliness of the phrasing, there's a certain set-theoretic elegance to it.
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