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Cake day: July 4th, 2023

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  • I think for sure it’s coming soon! The rating, the store page. I mean there was a dang total solar eclipse this year and it’s always dark in hollow Knight! In fact, if you look at how long the solar eclipse lasted there’s a date in there!! And I’m sure that that’s going to be the day that Silksong comes out!!! This isn’t cope!!!

    It’s real!!!

    IT’S ALL REAL!!! STOP LAUGHING AT ME???


  • TheWorstMailman@lemm.eetomemes@lemmy.worldTake your FICO and shove it!
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    8 months ago

    This is Modern Monetary Theory (MMT). I recommend “The Deficit Myth” by Stephanie Kelton

    It helped me to realize that a federal government that’s in control of their own money doesn’t use or even have money, and basic terms that we take for granted mean something different in that context. A federal government creates money through spending and destroys money through taxes. It is necessary for a federal government to spend money in order for money to exist in the economy. So a national debt just means that the federal government is creating more money that is destroying




  • There is no legislation that they’re misunderstanding. They believe that the United States went bankrupt and was sold to pay is debts. And ever since then, the United States has fraudulently entered it’s citizens into contracts with this private entity. Evidence for this includes your name being IN ALL CAPITALS on any official document, thereby indicating that the contract implied by that document is not referring to your “person” but to your “straw man”, a trust set up by the United States for each of it’s citizens so that it can collect their taxes to continue to pay it’s debts.

    And this is only the surface level weirdness. Watch Münecat’s video essay about them. It’s fascinating




  • TheWorstMailman@lemm.eetomemes@lemmy.worldAccio gasolina
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    9 months ago

    Fair. But isn’t complaining about gas prices America’s largest export?

    Just checked some other countries and it seems like Canada is the only one that breaks this general pattern, though it’s obviously not rigorous research

    Edit: Also, I don’t really care. I was just venting some frustration to The Internet


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    9 months ago

    This is some boomer nonsense. I can’t find 2 sources that seem to agree on specific numbers, but several sources, and my personal experience, agree that gas prices peaked in 2008 after the one two punch of Katrina and the housing market collapse

    I started driving in 2006 and bought my first car in 2008 and I can confidently say that I’m paying less for gas now than I was when I started driving and I’m not even talking about adjusting for inflation. Are prices too high? Yeah, probably. But this “then vs now” shit just ain’t true







  • Reading Atlas Shrugged is actually what broke me out of my teenage libertarian phase. I saw the central conflict of the book as those who were willing to engage with reality (the industrialists) vs. those who wouldn’t engage with reality (the bleeding hearts). However when I turned my mind to the real world it was easy to see that the people ruled by their feelings and far more likely to reject reality were the conservatives and the business types that the book wanted you to believe were the heroes when, in fact, they were just the more long winded. Galt’s arrogant and literally 3 hour long speech (I listened to the audiobook) gives the lie to the idea that this was a confident truth sayer and revealed him to be just a guy who would speak until others had no choice but to believe him. He’s the guy from “Thank You For Smoking”, an unprincipled blowhard. And the people that followed him were just soft minded, listless, and selfish enough to only want what was good for themselves





  • Kodak used to operate on this 13 month calendar. When I asked someone who used to work there, she was shocked that I knew about it and said that it was the best thing about working there. The original plan that this calendar is based on called for a liminal day between years for New Year’s Day with 2 days for leap years