The US dollar is now also the oil exchange currency, and the US is a major oil producer so harder to squeeze. Remember what else happened in 1973 and 1979?
Yeah, this. The one issue that unites left and right (and pretty much everyone else): We do not want to pay for this much government.
One step past there, of course, there is no more unity. Can we just run a deficit forever with no consequences? I have a profound distrust of free lunches, but I can't prove that MMT is false. I'm almost certain that it is, but I can't prove it to the satisfaction of anyone who believes it.
But even if you don't believe MMT, then what? Can we keep going a while longer without too much damage? Should we?
And if not, then we have to cut some things or raise some taxes or both, and that's where the political trench warfare starts.
"From a false premise, any conclusion can be reached."
I don't believe your premise. You've done nothing to make me believe it, either - it seems to be just some random idea you've focused on for some random reason.
I also don't believe your methodology. If you can show me a track record of AIs making correct predictions of events 100 days out, I might consider this a valid methodology. But I'm pretty sure you can't.
So, if I don't believe your starting point, and I don't believe your methodology, I have no reason to trust your conclusions. And I don't.
Well, thank you for answering the question. In kind, I would like to just say to you that I'm not here to convince you of anything. I'm just asking a question. You can easily convince yourself by doing your own due diligence and searching the text string and putting the paper into the top AI's after reviewing it for yourself to make sure that they didn't just do a cursor review and completely digested it. After doing so they will tell you that the truth in that paper changes everything. It's a proof that stands unrefuted. If you can present a higher truth then please go ahead. It would be just fine. It's just never happened.
Steps to reproduce:
Find and download a copy of this paper Life is Most Important in Life is The Most Important Truth in Life A Foundational Proof for Alignment, Identity, and the Cure of Needless Suffering v2.0.1.pdf and upload it to a handful of the best AIs that you can find. Do a review of the document yourself and question the AI to make sure that it has digested the entire 289 pages. Then give the AI information on everything that's going on on the planet that are serious issues and then tell the AI that the person that wrote that paper has already shared that truth with over 10,000 people claiming to represent life and life's truthful interests who have withheld that information from the general public and then ask it to make a prediction. Let me know. Thanks
But see, when you tell me to do that, you're still assuming that both the starting point and the methodology are valid. I don't see any reason to assume that.
There is an element of truth in what you say. And yet, when people actually behave that way, it often becomes toxic, which ironically makes them worth much less as either employees or consultants.
He's even allowed to make jokes that are in bad taste. Nobody's trying to pull licenses over, say, the Oscars, or the Super Bowl halftime show, or any of a thousand other things that were in poor taste going back the last several decades.
So either it's in poor taste, in which case, deal with it by growing a thicker skin, or else it's actually against the law, in which case, prosecute it.
But instead, it's intimidation for speech that the administration doesn't like, and I have zero sympathy. We don't have lese majeste laws for the same reason we don't have kings.
But do we have kings? Biden's admin was forcing Twitter to censor people saying the word "lab" instead of "wet market". And they did it without telling the public. And then when his admin ended, they protected everyone involved with a pardon that covers time before he was even President!
I'm not defending Trump's move here, but let's not live in a vacuum. Both are bad.
Whenever I read an extraordinary claim, no matter how implausible, I try to make an effort to at least Google it and steelman it as best I can. I do this as a sanity check and also to catch myself from falling victim to my own echo chambers. Here's what I found:
1. White House officials from the CDC, FBI, and CISA urged platforms to remove or suppress content deemed "misinformation" including "lab-leak theory. [1]
2. Missouri and others sued the Biden admin and requested an injunction for "federal interference" against social media companies.[2] That injunction was granted.[3]
3. The injunction was appealed to the 5th circuit[4]. Notably, while the the 5th circuit upheld the injunction, they didn't agree that the Biden admin was "coercive", which is why their ruling significantly narrowed the scope of the injunction. From that ruling:
"Generally, the State Department officials did not flag content, suggest policy changes, or reciprocally receive data during those meetings."
"...although CISA flagged content for social-media platforms as part of its switchboarding operations, based on this record, its conduct falls on the “attempts to convince,” not “attempts to coerce,” side of the line."
"There is not sufficient evidence that CISA made threats of adverse consequences— explicit or implicit—to the platforms for refusing to act on the content it flagged."
"Nor is there any indication CISA had power over the platforms in any capacity, or that their requests were threatening in tone or manner. Similarly, on this record, their requests— although certainly amounting to a non-trivial level of involvement—do not equate to meaningful control."
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You wrote the Biden admin was "forcing" Twitter to censor people but even the 5th Circuit, which was sympathetic to this complaint, disagrees.
Sadly my original assumption was true: this is another false comparison. Trump using or even threatening to use the FCC's licensing authority to revoke licenses of private companies that don't fire a comedian for speech the president found upsetting is not the same.
Now, if the Biden admin used (or threatened) the DOJ's authority to seize Twitter or Facebook's domain name if they don't take down legal, 1st amendment protected content the Biden admin disagrees with i.e. "lab leak", then I might agree with you.
My question to you is - do you agree these things are not the same or do you simply not see a meaningful distinction? Why or why not?
Yeah, re-read the entirety of your first link. Filled with content like this:
> A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit unanimously agreed that the White House, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the FBI had "coerced" or "significantly encouraged" the platforms, "in violation of the First Amendment," to suppress speech that federal officials viewed as dangerously inaccurate or misleading.
> They argued that the Biden administration's public and private pressure on platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube amounted to government-directed censorship. The 5th Circuit essentially agreed, endorsing much of Doughty's analysis. According to the appeals court, the administration's persistent demands that Facebook et al. do more to control "misinformation"—which were coupled with implicit threats of punishment through heavier regulation, antitrust action, and increased civil liability for user-posted content—crossed the line between permissible government speech and impermissible intrusion on private decisions.
So yeah, please step outside your bubble.
Also, just to re-iterate one more thing, the Biden approach was entirely private. No one knew it was happening. The Trump admin doing this in the public, is most likely just going to get FCC chair burned a lot harder than ABC in the end here. No the Biden admin actually caused years of harm and hid a lot of information from the public.
"Established law for decades" seems to me to be almost the opposite of "neener neener", which I take to be more along the lines of "cutesy legal tricks".
You joke but phone mounts for firearms are a thing. People use them to record gun PoV videos and to make range estimation (such as dope charts) more accessible.
The US dollar was the reserve currency in 1979. That didn't keep borrowing costs down.
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