Notices by cjd (cjd@pkteerium.xyz), page 44
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y do people buy diesel fuel
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Canadian Climate Change
A can of gasoline and a match
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What I call a supply chain chokepoint, is a SMALL profession which produces something that is indispensable to the nation. If these people can be made to stop what they are doing, the result will be a national emergency.
Two notable examples of supply chain chokepoints are network engineers, and machinists. If the top 10,000 network engineers were to vanish overnight, the result would be absolute chaos. Every corporation would grind to a halt, the financial system would fold, etc.
But the network engineer chokepoint is protected for two reasons:
1. They're paid pretty well
2. There isn't much they can do *except* keeping the networks operational
With machinists it's an entirely different story.
If the top 10,000 machinists were to disappear overnight, the nation would lose the tools that make the tools that make the weapons they use to fight wars with.
Buy your weapons from another country?
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On MOST goods, there is a red line, and if the price of the good goes over that line, it causes irreversible damage to the economy, e.g. communist dictator takes over this whole "market" thing is thrown out the window.
But there's a red line on the supply side too!
When the price of a commodity good goes too LOW, it causes manufacturers of that good to become unprofitable, forcing them to close down.
If there was someone powerful enough to sell large amounts of food under cost, it's theoretically possible to run food companies out of business. After that, they could abruptly stop, causing food to cross the red line -> Revolution.
Governments intuitively get this, which is why they subsidize farmers. But even if they didn't, dumping food on the market is costly and draws a lot of attention. But there are places in the economy which can be attacked much more quietly and cheaply, and still have catastrophic consequences.
Introducing the supply chain chokepoint.
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Something that is really interesting to me is dynamic supply-and-demand and supply chain choke points.
This graphic everyone studies in ECON 101, it's bullshit. In order to believe in this, you have to believe silly things like "if bread were a penny per loaf, I would eat 10 loafs of it per day".
In reality there's a saturation point, be it for people eating bread, or for construction companies buying concrete.
On the other side there's also a huge problem. Economists also think that when bread goes to $1000/loaf, everyone just eat one crumb, or almost everyone goes without...
In reality, when bread goes to $1000, you have a revolution and our dear economists get decapitated.
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This is a very good point. The only two places where you see leaderless groups of peers are school and prison. No, teachers don't lead, nobody respects them at all.
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My use of the word "almost" was not an accident.
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What I love about the Fedi is that there's basically a market for moderation policies. Admins can make whatever policies they prefer and users will move to whatever instances work the best.
Also, I think it can be shown mathematically that everything will eventually converge on almost completely free speech, so maintaining an authoritarian echo-chamber is basically an exercise in futility.
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inb4 it's actually Elon "parodying" himself so he can be less constrained...
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My favorite argument re climate change right now is that people like John Kerry and Bill Gates are not worried enough to stop flying private.
#RevealedPreference
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Something worth noting is that some of the studies on ivermectin mode of action are considering that it may have effectiveness against all RNA based viruses.
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It's going mainstream.
CC: @p
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RFK is the only OBVIOUS primary vote. I don't care who you are, you can't prove to me that Trump is gonna be better than DeSantis or Vivek, you just don't know how each one of them will perform.
But getting the Biden/Obama mafia the fuck out of power cannot possibly make anything any worse.
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Does this mean people are being rejected without even applying?
Like, you get a letter in the mail that says:
We regret to inform you, you have been pre-rejected for an auto loan.
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They're talking about you @alex
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The thing about US judges (I guess you know this) is they're macho, so if you disrespect them, they will absolutely throw the book at you.
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How it started
How it's going
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😂
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No lie. There's a lot of anti-kids propaganda online, it's all fake. Having a kid has been the funnest thing my wife and I ever did.
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Paper here.
> Out of approximately 325,000 posts analyzed over a two day period, we detected 112 instances of known CSAM
They aren't that clear about how much of that is actual child abuse and how much is CGI/animated (there's that Japan website which is going to be a source of a ton of that).
cjd
Give the funny.
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