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this is a pointless distraction

>>15208

yes

>>15207

this has been suggested for about two decades. guess it only took an executive order to do? but without a penny, that would mean items should only be priced no less than in terms of nickels... for example, $1.00, $1.05, $1.10, $1.15, etc.

But according to https://www.officialdata.org/us/inflation/1776?amount=0.01, "$0.01 in 1776 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $0.36 today, an increase of $0.35 over 249 years. The dollar had an average inflation rate of 1.45% per year between 1776 and today, producing a cumulative price increase of 3,527.64%."

So, a more moderate position would be to stop minting nickels and dimes, as well. With quarters, however, being worth less than they used to be, I would also consider stopping minting them, as well (and perhaps bringing back the 50-cent piece into regular circulation).

A new coin that changes value, such as an inflation-adjusted penny could be minted and set to an initial value of 36 cents. Or, a regular 36-cent coin could be produced as the lowest denomination coin and a new inflation-adjusted lowest denomination coin could be minted every year at a higher value to help citizens keep track of inflation in an easy-to-understand way. (Other coins and bills would not be inflation-adjusted - just the new penny)

good to see darkmatter2525 still making videos

See >>15173

>>15166
Man, the memes had me convinced this was something it wasn't. Like it was anywhere even close. He isn't even doing it straight on. It's to the side like a fucking dab.
Dumbest nothingburger of my life.

>>15178

>Is a takeover of world governments by advanced AI something that ultimately is inevitable?

Nah. Nothing is inevitable.

>Is there any clear way to prevent it from happening?

Eh, why would you want to?

>For context, the screenshot is of a public commentary done by Sam Altman who's the CEO of OpenAI.

...

>cnbc

If this goes too far, the government and state could be dismantled within the next century.

>>15183
What exactly is wrong with the photo? It's accurately described.

And you're actually going to cram "illegal" immigrants, unwanted criminals and leftist protesters indefinitely in an offshore prison known for detaining and torturing terrorists.

The price for freedom.

If America no longer stands for human rights and civil liberties, then it is a failed state by all accounts.

...one of these, maybe - unless you are more of an earth element, in which case a symbol of Ferio's or Master Mage Clef. i don't have any tattoos

>>15122
This is very a good question, and the smattering of news articles that I've seen that I remember appear to describe six eruptions happening in the past four years, counting what just happened as well as these including calm-ish situations where not that much material got actually squirted out.

I'm aware that "six in a period of four years" can be converted by easy and simple math to "???? per year", but I'm too mentally fried at the moment to do that, honestly.

Feel free to check this for yourself, using other news agencies if you want, of course.

I'd say that it is mostly calculated risk as the soil around the vulcanos tends to be the most fertile also.

>>15155

Yeah this, also the predominance of natural springs near volcanoes. Like look at Japan for instance, the main island in the archipelago has a ton of natural hot springs that can provide an abundance of fresh water

>>15143
Nothing against you, or against that result, but I'm now wondering... what's with that guy's arm in the image? It looks off?

...which is weird because I'm not highly-educated, not urban, not in work, hate Labour (at least right now), and try to be apolitical on social media.

But otherwise it's kind of a 'tell me something I don't know' situation.

>>15142
And doing it myself (again)...

This isn't a surprise for me personally, but there's a lot of context that's also important, particularly since as an Irish-American I wish to see both the destruction of the United Kingdom as a political entity through a United Ireland and also the elimination of the British monarchy as a political entity.

There's also the fact that my hatred for the psychotic and nihilistic rich people in the United Kingdom running the economy into the ground (alongside other forms of idiotic financial policy meant to benefit elite property owners at the expense of everybody else) doesn't mean that I support what're essentially open borders. Neither do I like getting rid of what might call the assimilation process in promoting classical British values. To be frank, I'd agree with the immigration resurrectionists and patriots who talk about heritage and moderating social programs mostly if not maybe entirely, with those groups being on the right-wing usually.

I don't view the British monarchy and the cream-of-the-crop gentry as on 'my side', though, so there I'm totally against the right-wing in the U.K. If anything, I think having endless waves of downtrodden immigrants who destroy health systems, labor union systems, education systems, and other things by their sheer mass is exactly what the oligarchs who live in mansions and hate the poor want. I also share the desire to be far, far tougher on crime and criminals. Which, again, is something that appears to me to benefit the poor rather than the powerful elite, who likely would prefer to rule over a quasi-anarchy keeping the other groups below them unorganized.

From my point of view, left-wing social viewpoints and right-wing economic policies go hand-in-hand while right-wing social viewpoints and left-wing economic policies go hand-in-hand. I suppose. Hard to say that clearly, though.

Eh, it's still all quite interesting! I really think so!

My great-great-uncle lied about his age to go fight the Nazis in France. Two days in he got shot by a sniper and died. Presumably he never even saw combat.

A lot of people die like that in modern warfare. They get blown up or shot somewhere vital and that's it. Taking a human life, robbing two parents of their child, is really too simple.

So honestly? On the face of it, it's just another state-sanctioned murder. But going down staking one's life on a personal test of strength, skill and determination is a far better death than most get. You might still die in the end, but you'll die having forced your killer to look you in the eyes and respect you as a fellow warrior.

Maybe the guy is rolling in his grave reading this post from a person on their PC posting an anime cheerleader, but I'm just trying to see the good in the situation.

>>15136
I honestly hate living in a world in which "Human Safaris!" are a normal, natural thing, with regular civilians living their ordinary lives being intentionally killed by military aircraft.

At the same time, well, I'm positive that this is going to get much, much worse given that less and less governments across Earth care about protecting civilians in wartime, especially when it comes to disabled and elderly people who might be perceived as of less ethical worth than others.

Note: this video does not include clips of the actual "hunting" involved by Russian aircraft and anything related to that. In American terms, it would be something like a 'PG' or 'PG-13' video.

>>15140
>>15141
Yes. That individual, Passionate Lion, is thinking correctly and is right.

>>15145
Given my academic background and work experience, my first instinct is to look at the student loan crisis from a straightforwardly economic perspective.

Any financial instrument that's an asset, whether we're talking about a group of bonds, a collection of stocks, a couple of accounts receiving loan payments, or whatever else, can be bought directly by the U.S. government for the purposes of regular maintenance, like when it comes to doing anything that you'd want the state to do.

There's really nothing, as far as I can tell, keeping the executive branch from simply buying up between 50% to 100% of the student loan related instruments in the U.S. and just sitting on them as assets. Not bothering to collect any money at any point, with people being able to pay everything back basically whenever. Or, frankly, the government could just discard all of those assets. Something like a grand write-off. Honestly, I would want this to happen were I in any way a part of the government.

>>15147
The leftwing bias of most of higher ed is finally starting to bite it.  Republicans have noticed that most profs and academic departments are quite hostile to Republicans and right-wing ideas.

>>15147
See *Biden v. Nebraska*, 600 U.S. 477 (2023). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biden_v._Nebraska

Summary from ChatGPT:
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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2023 that President Joe Biden's student loan forgiveness plan was unconstitutional because it exceeded the authority granted to the executive branch under existing laws. Here are the key reasons cited in the ruling:

1. **Separation of Powers**:
  - The Supreme Court determined that the executive branch did not have the unilateral authority to cancel hundreds of billions of dollars in student debt without explicit approval from Congress. This was viewed as a violation of the separation of powers, as such a sweeping action requires legislative approval.

2. **Major Questions Doctrine**:
  - The court invoked the *major questions doctrine*, which holds that federal agencies must have clear congressional authorization to take actions of vast economic and political significance. The justices ruled that the law cited by the Biden administration—the HEROES Act of 2003—did not explicitly grant the authority to implement such widespread debt cancellation.
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>>15148
Yes, for the federal government to just seize any financial entity of any kind requires a hell of a lot of things to be true in the first place in order to make it clear that some special circumstances apply. Otherwise, one ought to respect the way in which a free market with private property rules works. That makes sense to me as well.

Otherwise, naturally, America would become like modern China and Russia in which those in the legislature can just straight up steal a company that they personally want to have, based on nothing other than "Gimme!". Or anybody else in the government doing whatever the hell that they want, with regular people having no sense of there being a rule-of-law that applies fairly. I think Iran also isn't much different either.

The most reasonable thing would be the most rational thing, as stated in >>15147 in detail, with Congress and the executive branch just passing ordinary laws that allow student loan related financial instruments to simply be bought fair-and-square.

Shooting somebody until they die is an act of murder.

Preventing a cancer patient from being able to heal themselves and doing that over and over again until they die is also an act of murder.

It's not exactly difficult to understand why a murderer being themselves murdered generates complex, mixed feelings among innocent bystanders such as myself and the OP.

As has been pointed out many times and many ways, this CEO would literally still be alive if he didn't head an organization that genuinely makes money from causing other people's deaths. He would be walking and talking in perfect health today if he had made better choices in his life. CEOs in charge of companies that bake bread, manufacture cars, repair computers, print books, grill fish, and the like felt no fear of any kind after this assassination. For obvious reasons.

The issue at hand should not be about whether Luigi Mangione is a terrorist or not.

The discussion to be had is how to ensure that the average American citizen has access to quality affordable healthcare. Especially now that Medicare/Medicaid are on the chopping block.
Because it seems Health insurance companies are eating away the funds of their customers while denying any request where they have to pay out, resulting in people still not receiving any decent care despite spending what little money they have.