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Started a 200L (53 fascist units) tank a month ago, added the first fish and shrimp yesterday (5 amano shrimp and 7 sterbai corydora). Planning to add a school of tetras or rasboras next, maybe a couple gourami, and eventually 3 german blue rams. [mention]u1722[/mention] How's Oscar? https://i.imgur...

@Dolan Wtf is going on over there

I thought we had a facepalm emoji

Say you were an outside observer looking at our planet and you saw a place that was importing a lot of useful stuff and exporting a bunch of paper in return. Who would you think is winning in that transaction?

As long as employment in the US is high, its trade deficit is a good thing.

0/10 Needs more words

Democracy is the closest thing we have to a meritocracy

Lol

Dolan wrote: ↑

25 Apr 2025, 12:26

How do ppl have the patience to listen to podcasters is beyond me.
I listen like a few seconds, then keep skipping ahead, then I get bored and close it.

Play a game during. I played poker listening to that particular one

Are you on the train yet? Here 's the next US president on a right-wing podcast. The hosts are annoying as expected but once again he knocks it out of the park. Also he has a beard now, so he looks more manly and less gay. This is important, because anything resembling feminine energy is clearly not...

Rip

callentournies wrote: ↑

22 Apr 2025, 21:58

Oblivion remastered is out!

Sick, I didn't know they were doing this

Did they revamp the leveling system though? Cause I'm a masochist and actually liked it

Their point is that, despite Korea's cultural homogeniety, the North and South suddenly strongly diverged in their levels of prosperity. If culture was a reliable predictor of prosperity, that couldn't have happened. Simple as that. The reason is, as you said, that the North went under communist ru...

To the extent that I'm bearish on the US economy, it's due to the flaws in their political system. In line with the book's theory, we can say American political institutions have been getting more extractive recently, likely to get even more so in the future. This is mostly due to corruption enabled...

Getting pretty tired of explaining the book to people who haven't read it tbh. That's not how I envisioned this book club thing. The arrogance of sitting here reading snippets and thinking you have it all figured out, then going on ESOC to triumphantly type up your complaints about these stupid nobe...

https://i.imgur.com/iurcvEw.png I'm looking at the chapter in which they dismiss the cultural argument and I have to say this was written in a very superficial journalistic popsci way. Probably because it wouldn't sell or create much of a stir, unless they turn it into the textual version of a Nati...

[image] I'm looking at the chapter in which they dismiss the cultural argument and I have to say this was written in a very superficial journalistic popsci way. Probably because it wouldn't sell or create much of a stir, unless they turn it into the textual version of a National Geographic document...

There are 29 instances of the string "patent" in the book. If you download it (link in the OP) you can ctrl-F them yourself and see about the context. Iirc patents are brought up as an example of an inclusive economic institution. The possibility to patent ideas gives people more incentive...

You should probably read the book if you want to talk about it and not sound like an idiot to people who have

Finished it last night, just going to post my thoughts here now while the memory is still fresh. 86/100 I do think the book could've been shorter, or more time could've been spent on the implications of the theory (which was literally an afterthought) rather than illustrating it by examples. There w...

At the end of the day we’re just doing exactly what trump supporters did under Biden. Point to a short term drop in the stock market and act like something terrible is happening. eh maybe this time is a little different https://twitter.com/jd_durkin/status/1910060968626766032 "We're doing grea...

Imagine how much money you'd be making if you were insider trading on margin

Pretty expensive for a shirt. I'll wait for the Chinese copy

@Garja How is your pro career going? Have you moved?

It's kind of useless to go into any theoretical detail here considering (most of) your opponents are donkeys. This is just as well, because I happen to not know much about the "flopped nut flush draw" scenario other than that there is usually not that much EV difference between getting the...