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The_Nybbler
Does not have a yacht
11mo ago
But you're forgetting about all those new products like Nexus Q and Google Plus and Google Health and Google Pay and Hangouts and Loon and Google Fiber and Allo and...
(OK, Google Pay actually still exists. But the first few iterations burned, fell over, and/or sank into the swamp)
Turkish Presidential
As usual, any news from turkey is bad news, whether it's earthquakes, NATO, Syria, Kurds, political unrest, bad election results, and so on . It's currency keeps falling against the dollar, it stock market keeps falling too. Same as from 2013-2021. Same shit as always.
It goes to show how whatever problems the US has, are worse elsewhere. America's political problems does not cause its stock market to fall or currency to crash, unlike in Tukey , Brazil, or elsewhere. It's like this with most countries...nothing but bad news that makes America's problems seem quaint by comparison.
charles
11mo ago
Its mentioned in one of the sources for the article that the fans will play the youtube videos on repeat for days on end to drive up the view counts.
Panem
11mo ago
Do you reckon Zafer Party will be able to come to some kind of agreement with KK?
No_one
11mo ago
The US reported violent crime rate fell in half over a quarter century, before leveling out. The very recent trend is worrying
Yes, homicides fell. However, the gradual but undeniable advances in trauma medicine since the Vietnam war have made it far less likely that violence ends in homicide.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/108876790200600203?journalCode=hsxa
So in all likelihood, you have a more violent society with fewer people dying.
As American society does not value interpersonal violence, it's hard to claim the increase in violence as a good thing.
UnterSeeBootRespecter
11mo ago
Economy: Turkey got solidly caught in the middle income trap after a period of solid neo-liberal growth. Inflation is rampant, current is in shambles, and inequality is going through the roof as the government practices wage suppression to a keep trade balance discipline, and low interest rates are sky-rocketing the real estate prices. The opposition parties focused much of their effort convincing the people that they can salvage the situation.
The good news is that pretty decent quality Turkish made pistols have never been more affordable. Seriously, I picked up a forged frame 1911a1 clone for $300. And you can get reliable polymer framed guns for about the same. There's even some HiPower clones for $500-600. I've also heard that there will be a 2011 for less than $1k soon.
sliders1234
11mo ago
I remember reading a long time ago that as a democratically supported populist Erdogen always faced push back for bureaucracy and basically the PMC. Any time he tried to keep them in line and enforce his Democratic backing he came off authoritarian. And this is the way of all populists who always end up fighting the PMC and that fight always comes off unnatural. Same as Trump being investigated even before being elected by the fbi. The constant bureaucratic roadblocks makes a guy look authoritarian while they appear organic. Also same with Desantis attacks on DEI in universities - top down but Democratic control over organic PMC action.
Therefore, I support Erdogen. Not even 100% sure why but he feels like a natural ally. It feels like Trump versus Biden and I’m not voting for Biden. Also when the west does need something it seems like Erdogen always falls in line and helps.
sliders1234
11mo ago
I’ve heard many of tech employees joke up 300k and 10 hrs a week during COVID.
Seems like Musks proved that was true.
greyenlightenment
investments: META/FBL, TSLA, TQQQ, TECL, MSFT ...
11mo ago
This obviously has huge implications for inequality. Too reduce inequality, we have to reduce the rewards that high-income people get for their labor. But this will cause a large reduction in the hours worked by high skilled people and will cause a much larger decrease in GDP than the reduction in hours. By tolerating inequality, we can have a much higher level of economic output, and thus more money to be spent on social welfare programs. The costs to reduce inequality are very high indeed.
Or bigger families, more kids, etc. The robber baron fortunes dissolved so fast, in a few generations, because it was diluted rapidly due to large families, lavish personal spending, and philanthropic projects. Rich people, elites having fewer kids and delaying family formation probably contributes to rising inequality. Jeff Bezos' divorce for example cut his net worth a lot.
sliders1234
11mo ago
Pinochet was close to those god level rulers. Chile is the richest country south of our border.
Tarnstellung
11mo ago
I would expect a benevolent dictator to actually rule the country for a while as dictator. Juan Carlos basically immediately had Spain transition to a democratic constitutional monarchy with a figurehead monarch.
greyenlightenment
investments: META/FBL, TSLA, TQQQ, TECL, MSFT ...
11mo ago
NYC subways get huge traffic, so I imagine police do not prioritize attending to fights unless it involves guns
RococoBasilica
Actually a Quality Retribution
11mo ago
Therefore, I support Erdogen.
Dude embezzled funds for earthquake victims and shut down social media when people started talking about it.
orthoxerox
I realized I can change my flair color to Barbie pink
11mo ago
IIRC, it's the lack of gigantic pecs and lats. If you look at the old-time athletes, they are broadly Π-shaped, while later bodybuilders like Columbu or Arnie have a much more pronounced V-shape.
Tarnstellung
11mo ago
I have never seen Salazar described as benevolent. Wikipedia says:
One opposition leader, Humberto Delgado, who openly challenged Salazar's regime in the 1958 presidential election, was first exiled and then killed by Salazar's secret police. (...) Salazar's rule is widely described as dictatorial and was characterized by systematic repression of civil and political rights, mass torture, arbitrary arrests, concentration camps, police brutality against civil rights protestors, electoral fraud and colonial wars that left hundreds of thousands dead.
Lost_Geometer
11mo ago
Contrary to what most people think, rich people work more.
"Facts" not in evidence. I suspect the only jobs where marginal productivity doesn't decline sharply with time worked are highly monitored, low intensity, repetitive ones, like warehouse worker or truck driver. Hence your inequality statement is backwards -- the people who get hurt most by shorter hours are already low paid.
sliders1234
11mo ago
I hate being the “source” guy, but I googled your claim and got nothing. That’s a big claim so I believe you need to back it up. The only thing I got is a cell phone tax they claim went to pay IMF loans and general government expenses. That would not be embezzlement.
FiveHourMarathon
You can get anything here except red ink
11mo ago
Not pre-firearm, and I'll try to dig up a primary source later, but I've read in several books and heard from numerous Civil War Reenactor lectures when I was a kid, that American Civil war soldiers often refused to use Bayonets, preferring to club each other with the butt ends of their rifles, so as to avoid conscious guilt for having killed another human. A reenactor would frequently quote a letter to us that went something like "I hit them with the butt of the gun, so if I have to answer to the Lord I can say I just knocked him out."
We do have evidence of Pre-Modern armies engaging in warfare that relied on non-violent shows of skill and ability. And one must keep in mind that before the gunpowder era armies were rarely, if ever, made up of peasantry. They were typically an upper or upper-middle class endeavor. Even Rome and Sparta, famed for their citizen armies, were societies in which citizens were nearer the top of the pyramid than they were to the slaves at the bottom.
Tarnstellung
11mo ago
A dictator who murdered thousands and imprisoned and tortured tens of thousands of people is not benevolent.
Pasha
Defend Kebab
11mo ago
Nope they got purged the fuck out. There weren’t many to begin with. They were just very powerful in media judiciary education and bureaucracy since they acted as Erdoğan’s intellectual shock troops to take over complex institutions. Islamist movement has very low human capital so this is something they always struggled it. When they were purged they were replaced either with some sections of the old Kemalist guard or people from party patronage networks.
it sounds like Kılıçdaroğlu is a Kemalist straight out of central casting
The label Kemalist lost its meaning other than “broadly secular” at this point. There isn’t anyone significant who would like a return to the rule of NATO aligned heavily statist army-bureaucracy network which is what Kemalism used to mean in the 2000s.
sliders1234
11mo ago
Why does that matter? He killed the right people (communists). And put the country on a path to have the highest per capita income in the region.
It’s not like these other dictators didn’t kill and imprison people.
roystgnr
11mo ago
Yes, homicides fell.
This isn't the data I linked to. The violent crime rate is about 75x the homicide rate, and both fell in half.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/108876790200600203?journalCode=hsxa
This talks about a lethality decrease from the 1960s to 90s. I'm talking about reductions in 98% non-lethal crime from the 90s through 2010s.
it's hard to claim the increase in violence as a good thing.
It's especially hard if violence decreased 50%.
RococoBasilica
Actually a Quality Retribution
11mo ago
I own several suits for a number of reasons.
One because my wife demanded I wear a suit to a funeral so I went and bought a cheap suit.
One because I'm almost exactly the same size as my Dad and he gave me one of his Brooks Bros. suits which I then had tailored.
One because my brother had me in his wedding party so we all had identical suits made and tailored.
I wear a suit on average 3-6 times a year depending on who dies and who gets married.
I'm not big on wearing a suit but I can do it easily if required by circumstance or my wife.
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