What car?

Never been happier to have a base model car from 2012

You’re making a lot of assumptions about how I think here dude. Also i never said that was the only thing that affects inflation.

There are a lot of factors that push and pull. I know there’s a lot of info out there that contradicts what I said but I also know there is a lot of incentive for us to believe that banks increasing rates naturally lowers supply of money in an economy, so of course you’ll find a ton of articles stating that as fact – needless to say I am skeptical.

I don’t know if it’s completely true, just like how the invisible hand of the capitalist economy is assumed to allocate resources effectively, but we know that in practice it does not, because people don’t just choose to stop purchasing things they need when they get expensive.

So my thoughts are this: how much of this theory is based on an assumption of human nature that’s more optimistic than in practice? Because a LOT of our economic theory operates this way.

Interest rates go up which results in increased revenue (and money) for the bank, which doesn’t have value backing it. In essence it increases the amount of dollars in the economy, lowering the value of the existing dollars within the economy.

People don’t just stop borrowing money when interest rates go up, especially when the economy is so bad people can’t afford to live on their pay.

Keep in mind what interest represents to the bank.

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Nazis were fascists too though. It’s an accurate term.

God this is too on the fucking nose I had almost this exact experience at 11

Like a potato :)

I do have faith in weird pockets of people who have niche interests like role playing games and people who create cool things and write, but the masses disappoint me.

I’m not worried about this tech replacing people, I’m worried about the fact that people are actively losing neural elasticity from using LLMs to think for them.

The irony is that they feel like they have to manufacture outrage in this political environment

Kill jester

I’ll give that, I shouldn’t have called you asinine. I will rephrase.

Your behaviour is asinine – and not making me any less annoyed at militant atheists.

I don’t know you and I have no obligation to be kind to strangers. You’ll live, I’m sure.

You are walking, talking evidence of militant atheists being asinine.

I will not be elaborating.

I figured this was the case. The loud ones tend to set the stage, unfortunately. I’d personally just consider myself to be fully agnostic, but I’m sure I share a significant base of beliefs with most agnostic atheists.

Idk i think atheism is just as presumptuous and asinine as theism.

Atheists don’t tend to fall down the nationalism - fascism hole quite as frequently, but they can be just as annoying.

I just don’t know what’s wrong with admitting we don’t know. We can’t perceive everything and there is still too much mystery for me to subscribe to anything. That being said, I do not use the promise of an afterlife to live well, I justify that by making happiness my goal, I just can’t say definitively there is nothing going on beyond what we know, spiritually speaking. I don’t think any religion has gotten it right because how could they if we can’t perceive everything?

Can’t go one day without being manipulated by Big Chicken

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Ugh saaame