hark @ hark @lemmy.world

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I don't understand what part you're saying doesn't work. Obviously paying down the debt doesn't work if someone does the opposite right after, that's true of everything.

I wouldn't say manageable, it was only a matter of time before the debt would topple over since it compounds. That's just what happens with anything that has assumed infinite growth. Deliberately burning down the economy of course accelerates the collapse.

Slowly? Isn't just the interest payment on the debt like $1 trillion a year now?

I'm not driving between neighborhoods much, but I do see for sale signs here and there. What I notice a lot more, however, are tons of for lease signs in front of business real estate.

He died at the age of 42.

It's too bad the servers aren't still up. I loved Crysis Wars.

If anything, the idea of a "middle class" benefits oligarchs as a buffer between them and everyone else who has to work for a living.

Trust is why I brought up a federal reserve issued digital currency. The federal reserve already creates US dollars. This would be the same except there wouldn't be an entity printing physical dollars and you'd need an account to work with it, like a debit or credit card.

People already mostly pay through mobile, cards, online, etc. The trust is already there. Digital currencies don't have to be a cryptocurrency. A well-known institution like the federal reserve could issue a digital currency and provide assurances for stability of value as well as measures like the ability to roll back fraudulent transactions. Since it's just a number in a database and not tied up in investments, you wouldn't even need the FDIC since your account and the amount of money in your account will remain as long as the federal reserve is still around.

I don't think I had those exact speakers, but it makes me think of the Windows 98 startup sound and the times it was so loud that I had to scramble to turn the volume knob down.

Any day now...

Why are you putting it in a saucepan instead of eating it directly out of the can with a spoon?

I agree that, on a surface level, the justification seems reasonable, but it falls flat in the face of reality. The existence of israel actually makes it less safe for Jews around the world because the horrific actions of israel are incorrectly conflated as being the will of all Jews. Additionally, it's a terrible idea to concentrate as many Jews as possible into a single small country. That only makes them more vulnerable. With how many enemies the israelis are making through their actions, the second they don't have the backing of the most powerful military in the world, they're open to attack. They're relying on always being defended no matter what they do and they use it as a license to carry out the most horrific acts, including genocide. It's not sustainable and it should not be excused or tolerated.

"nazi germany" does not exist anymore and is a different country from "Germany" (notice the lack of nazi in the name). israel was founded by terrorists and has always been ruled by extremists who wanted to create lebensraum for their genocidal ethnostate utopia. Palestine and israel are not divided by religion. Jews, Christians, and Muslims lived together in Palestine long before the bloody concept of israel was conceived.

This asshole should retire from life.

israel should not exist just like how nazi germany does not exist anymore.

Yeah but this time they've got bunkers and AI, so they think this time it's different.

Do you? Control over the medium is far more powerful than being a mere user of that medium.

You can be pro-Israel and anti-genocide.

That's like saying you can be pro-nazi-germany and anti-nazi. There is no nuance in sending billions of dollars in weapons to a country actively committing genocide. That can only be taken to mean support for genocide.

This is being done by the "facts don't care about your feelings" people?