What seems to be lost on most, is that money has been coming “out of thin air” for close to a century already. The problem is that every time less money gets destroyed than created, it dilutes the worth of the total… and people who still think in terms of gold nuggets, are completely unprepared to propose anything that would make sense.

Gen Beta might have more of a grasp on things.

• 1 coin = $0.012
• 2 coins = 1 Diamond
• 1 Diamond = $0.005

For every $0.024 that TikTok gets, they pay out $0.005, meaning TikTok keeps 80% of it.

With TikTok just skimming 80% off the top of all prize money… 🙄

$2000/year per person, would be $167/year per person. It’s not $0, but sounds like a reasonable amount for anyone except the most marginalized groups

Medical procedures are indeed a problem, but my understanding is their price is artificially inflated due to intermediaries, so taking a harder approach to that, would partially solve the issue, and pave the way for further regulation.

M4A should be the goal, something most 1st World countries have already, but I also understand it would mean upending a lot of industries and their interrelationship in the US, so a step-by-step approach seems like a wise one.

It sounds to me like limiting spending, and reigning in those predatory intermediaries, would reduce that medical debt in the first place. Or am I missing something?

Suggestion: don’t use your family when discussing politics.

There are also, as they say, five levels of “truth” to any person:

• Public: the persona they project outwards
• Private: what they say when “no one is listening”
• Intimate: what they only let their closest family know
• Secret: what they don’t tell anyone
• Subjacent: what they don’t even realize about themselves

You may or may not know their secret thoughts, and you usually need to spend a lot of time with them (years, decades) to learn about why they hold them.

And following my initial suggestion, I won’t tell you how I confirmed this to be true.

Well, technically… an aircraft “goes down” to touch land, otherwise it would be a submarine… 🥁🛎️

Some religions to this day decree when a female is “unclean” and should be isolated. The problem are people with that mentality.

The same “yuck” factor lies at the root of not thinking rationally about tampons, abortions, childbirth, lactation, etc. Controlling a population’s approach to inherent bodily functions, has been an effective way of brainwashing for ages. Stuff like vote of celibacy, vote of silence, vote of reclusion, fasting, and similar. Convincing people to sacrifice for a doctrine, gets them invested and pulls them into a sunken cost fallacy.

I’d call it Evil… but that is going onto their territory, so laughing it off with Weird, is probably a better strategy.

Memes have been working better than reality, for thousands of years at this point.

The popularization of democracy, and the multiple orders of magnitude faster and wider communication methods, have only made it more obvious.

The problem is “Project 2025”… has already been announced to be renamed “Project 2029” if Trump doesn’t win.

As long as that’s the plan, any Republican win is going to severely erode any remaining US democracy.

People who try to change other’s minds about stuff:

• Politicians
• Activists
• Evangelists
• Marketing Dept

“Influencer” is kind of the generic term.

Right now, his own publicity is also conveying that. If they’re going to have a debate in September, all of it is going to be extra arguments for Harris.

Sometimes, giving publicity to people digging themselves in, is all that’s needed to win a popularity contest.

Don’t “/s /eyeroll” too fast. NFT certificates validating digital content would be a practical use of the tech, unlike linking to GIFs of apes in weird clothes.

Real videos can’t exactly get some sort of Government Seal

Sam Altman from Open AI tried to give us a “seal of Made by Humans”, but everyone balked at WorldCoin and scanning people’s biometrics with a floating orb… so here we are.

Trump has 60+ years of experience as a con man under his belt. Vance is a close runner up, with the right flip-flop attitude towards life… but he lacks Trump’s mastery of the double-think rhetoric, and Trump’s inflated image over all those years. There is no Vance Tower, or Vance golden sneakers.

Try again. I don’t support war or genocide, the Spanish government I voted for, has already recognized the State of Palestine, has been sending aid to Gaza for a while, and is charging Israel a good dime for its weapon purchases. Hey, now that I think about it… is that your dime we’re getting from Israel? 😘

Anyway, the collapse of the USD is likely to cause many wars all around, until the world settles into a new status. I don’t really like that either.

Well, for starters I’m not from the US, so it’s not my dime 😀

we’re a warmongering nation

The moment the US stops being one, nobody will take it seriously, tanking the USD. Keep in mind the US has little to offer other than intimidation: fintech is only worth as much as someone wants to use it, IP is worth as much as others respect it. The US have barely any exports that can’t be sourced elsewhere, making US’s IOU money almost worthless without a military backing it with a “like it, or else”.

Procuring weapons deals, is one of US’s topmost priorities. How US citizens decide to distribute the spoils of war among themselves, is an internal matter.

The US need Israel’s Iron Dome short range defensive technology, to complement mid-long range US defenses.

Meanwhile, everyone needs Ukraine’s cheap drone warfare expertise, particularly in the sea drone area.

You may think it’s “on our dime” or whatever, but it’s really a quid-pro-quo in both cases. Uninvolved countries, will have to actually pay for it.

Not to defend the guy… but most millennials might be familiar with the Goatse website, which in its heyday used to link to Lemon Party and… Dolphinse.

Next he might repost Tub Whale.