I’m in Lisbon and right before the power went out the lights flickered like crazy for a good second.

I need to read Amusing Ourselves to Death…

I’m not an expert but I’d say mdadm with btrfs on top

This could have been a The Onion title

Stop playing so much DnD

“No.”

I would sleep just as well if Shaq’s top marginal rate was 90%.

Not relevant anymore, TempleOS now has more users than BSD.

You’re not wrong. There’s probably a better way to stabilize Argentina’s currency which won’t lead to as much suffering. But no one presented that better way.

Peronists have been doing the same things for decades and it led to 40% poverty. Milei ripped off the band-aid and it led to 60% poverty. But it probably paved the way for lower poverty in the future.

If you find a way to lower inflation (which helps everyone) and make the poorest people in society equally prosperous, I’m sure they’ll give you a Nobel in Economics for it.

Lowering inflation when it’s too high is always a question of short term pain for some people to get long term benefits for most people.

Inflation is going down. That brings hope. A year ago some saw their life savings’ purchasing power cut to a third. That brings despair. This year it only went down by half, which brings hope because it’s an improvement. Once inflation is at a reasonable level, economic growth will have to bring hope, which it probably won’t, since Milei will be focused on lowering debt and trying to fill the hole in the central bank, which still stands at negative 7 billion dollars in foreign reserves.

Milei is a Christian, authoritarian, regressive fascist.

And he would never have gotten into power if the Argentinian left had respected the independence of the central bank, been more pragmatic with their subsidies and let the market decide more of their economy. Protectionism doesn’t work and Argentina is a shining beacon letting everyone know that.

The left in Argentina did this to themselves. Even the trade unions in Argentina are struggling with support because they’re seen as complicit in the country’s wild overspending.

Because in the long term, very high inflation leads to everyone being poorer. And Argentina is the very best example of this.

A country that went from being the 6th richest in the world to having over half the population in poverty in 100 years. All thanks to protectionism, subsidized living costs, low taxes and printing money to make up the difference.

And let’s not forget fleecing the international community for money to rebuild the economy several times and then not paying it back.

It existed up until the pandemic, Trenhotel, I took it once. Fell asleep in the center of Madrid, woke up in downtown Lisbon. The trip had beautiful snowy landscapes lit by the full moon. It’s such a shame it’s gone.

What do you mean?

The whole “more cows and computerized milking raised prices of milk” reeks of anti-industrial Luddite garbage.

You could learn this internet if you decided to.

Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made A Great Point

Yep, when stocks start going south, the first thing to do is lower wages/fire people and the second is heighten prices.

People shouldn’t be under the idea that problems in wall street mean the rich are becoming poor. It means the rich will be less rich and the poor will lose their jobs and suffer higher prices. The GFC was proof that wall street fucks up and the rest of the population finds out.

Near my university there was an underground bakery open from 18:30 to 6:30, and whenever you were drunk or high coming out of some university party or just a night of drinking with your friends you’d end up going there and it was amazing. At a reasonable cost, some high sugar and fat pastries, or just a warm croissant, served by an immigrant man in his 50s who would call everyone nephew. All this through a tiny barred window below the earth. A wonderful thing.

There were anti Trump republicans, some even voted to impeach him, but they’ve all been purged or are in the process of being purged. Because now the Republican party isn’t about an ideology as much as it is a messianic cult around Trump.