GDP is largely a bullshit metric anyway.

Two economists are walking in a forest when they come across a pile of shit.

The first economist says to the other “Ill pay you $100 to eat that pile of shit.” The second economist takes the $100 and eats the pile of shit.

They continue walking until they come across a second pile of shit. The second economist turns to the first and says “l pay you $100 to eat that pile of shit.” The first economist takes the $100 and eats a pile of shit.

Walking a little more, the first economist looks at the second and says, “You know, I gave you $100 to eat shit, then you gave me back the same $100 to eat shit. can’t help but feel like we both just ate shit for nothing.” “That’s not true”, responded the second economist. “We increased the GDP by $200!”

He was cheering the invasion and said Putin was a genius for timing it when he did or whatever.

Dude, I was watching live coverage of the 01/06 proceedings and saw the early breakouts of the problem and then the devolution of it.

Wanna know why I was watching such a boring, non-event? Because everyone with a Twitter account, the ability to read, and a pulse knew that Trump’s supporters absolutely were going to try something on 01/06.

If I knew there was a good enough probability that something would go down that I was watching live coverage of what’s typically not even something anyone ever talks about, the event was completely and utterly predictable.

I never had the U.S. switching sides on my bingo card.

I don’t know why anyone was caught flatfooted by this when it was clear to anyone paying attention that if Trump was elected, his plan to end the war was to hand control of Ukraine over to Russia.

This was as obvious and predictable as the January 6th insurrection.

Petition your governments to drop IP laws for US tech companies like Doctorow is encouraging. If the US isn’t going to honor trade agreements, hit us right in our gold plated scrotum.

Inheriting is more important than working and has been for some time now.

I made all of my money by working, but my success is to some extent related to being born to parents that paid for my college provided I made decent grades in high school. (And the luck of having access and interest in the early Internet in the mid 90s due to inheritance.)

There really aren’t many protests.

Honestly, we – as Americans – are all complicit.

We’re dying by a type of asphyxiation caused by sniffing our own farts for almost a hundred years.

Yeah who has ever heard of bird flu?

ITT: People that think only bats get human-transmissible diseases.

With the help of newsrooms like yours, NBC.

“plan”

“Makes no sense” is the perfect tagline for the entirety of a second Trump term.

This is what they always do. They’re powerless in the face of the actual problem – the richest fucker on Earth being a straight up Nazi – so instead they try to invent another set of circumstances that make the threat seemingly less threatening.

Is this the new “maga supporters are thinking of not supporting trump” headline for the next ten years?

Sell it or don’t sell it. Who cares? 🥱

cigarettes

Speaking of, cigarette butts / discarded filters are a major source of microplastic pollution.

It’d help to be more than alarmed and actually take action against the threat.

I have no idea what’s wrong with your brain.

The three situations are obviously not the same. We provided weapons to Ukraine…we didn’t invade the country.