It was a foregone conclusion to me in the moment that the towers were packed with asbestos and the air was extremely unsafe to breath, and no amount of reassurances from authorities would have convinced me otherwise.

That’s very kind. It’s mostly due to excessive spare time, curiosity, and being old af.

Previously:

Banks don’t really create it out of thin air.

They really do.

• The Myth of the Money Multiplier - How Banking Really Works (3 mins)
• How Commercial Banks Really Create Money (the Money Multiplier is a Myth). (13 mins)
• The Myth of the Money Multiplier (29 mins)

 

Paying back the principal on your loan doesn’t make the money disappear

It really does. You know what else makes money disappear? Paying federal taxes.

When your money leaves the bank account, the bank cannot lend it out anymore.

The myth that just won’t die. I blame James Steward.

🃏 It’s simple. We uh, kill the Zuckerberg.

Stay mad, investors, because this clown drives this clown car. Mark Zuckerberg’s Voting Stake Renders Shareholders Powerless

Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism

I’m fiscally moderate and racially exterminationist.

Is that not Grand Central these US army troops are occupying?!

As “liberal order” realists go, he’s an outlier for sure.

His speech to the EU Parliament last year was a carpet bombing of inconvenient truths.

The only institutional failure was one of containment. The Palm Beach police investigation should have been shut down.

The ~80 cop cities were created in preparation for the breakout of civil disobedience.

Fencing response in da house.

I hope the streamer doesn’t get fucked by the system. In “duty to retreat” states in the US, this might not go well.

📺 ¡Nunca Pensé! featuring Mariachi Arcoiris

The empire isn’t in decay; it’s just on backorder.

It may have started as greed, but it’s becoming more out of necessity as the empire decays. They’re losing the ability to super-exploit the periphery and give us the scraps.

It’s only a dumb game for the people left holding the bag when the music stops, and that won’t be people like Sam Altman or early investors who’ve already cashed out.

I wonder how much of recent US stonk line go up is a reflection of the dollar’s line going down.

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