Exactly, if an economy is an engine then money is the oil; if it pools (by a few people hoarding it) then there’s less flowing through to lubricate the engine turnover and it ceases up.

I don’t think I can.

All I see on the horizon is, at best, eco-fascism and at worst the slow crumbling of humanity before nuclear annihilation.

Why continue to have eyes if all I can see is destruction? Why continue to have ears if all I can hear is hatred? Why continue to have a mouth if the only words I can speak is righteous anger and cries of despair?

The glimmers of happiness get fewer and further between as life goes on. I just yearn for the long sleep; it feels like it’d be peaceful, unburdened, my metaphorical shoulders fucking hurt and I’m tired.

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Better hope you have zero money sent through or stored in a bank or pension fund and you don’t have a mortgage yourself or your landlord doesn’t have a mortgage or your employer doesn’t have a mortgage or business loan and doesn’t use a bank.

The correct response is what Iceland did: government bails out the bank’s customers, takes ownership, and actually jails the c-level wankers bankers.

Because like it or not, you’re still part of the financial system unless you’re currently sat in a self-sufficient earth-ship borrowing some else’s WiFi connection.

After you then mate.

It was a new and original song that didn’t plagiarise at all…

For the record, I still love this song.

Come to Kenya, we’ve got lions!

Where is the cow? Hidden right now?

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“The commission includes the human rights and counter-extremism activist Sara Khan, the former West Midlands mayor Andy Street, Laura Marks, the chair of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, the former Green party leader Caroline Lucas, and the activist Tim Montgomerie, of Reform UK.”

If you’re trying to work out who’s dividing the country maybe start with asking why you’re inviting a representative from the party who’s doing just that?!

Slashing 10% of your workforce annually is something Jack Welch thought of when he was CEO of General Electric; essentially it shifts that 10% of staff overhead cost straight to profits per year.

The justification they give for the figure is that it’s the lowest performing 10% according to internal key performance indicator (KPI) metrics. What this effectively does is two fold:

1. Anyone who’s focusing on delivering stuff the company needs long term isn’t always or sometimes never will produce nice neat KPIs that can be measured along with the rest of the company. This means these people are under constant pressure and can often get swept up in the firings.

2. It makes KPIs, a measuring tool, the target which as any statistician will tell you that when you make the measurement a target it ceases to be a good measuring tool. Because everyone is automatically incentivised to deliver KPIs NOT the actual company deliverables that generate the added value and therefore the profit.

This means after 5 to 10 years of this cycle all that’s left of the company’s institutional knowledge is how to deliver for KPIs and the sycophants who best adapt to this reality. You get a hollowing out of the company.

If this AI fuelled trend keeps up then companies like Cisco and Meta will eventually implode at some point.

I dunno I seem to recall this one chap who definitely was and a couple who’d fit the definition better trying to get elected.

🎵 We’re not going to make it!

No! We’re not gonna make it!

We’re not going to make it, anymoooore! 🎵

It won’t just make the USA irrelevant in the oil domain: it’ll impact the entirety of the OPEC group who’ll have to massively scale back production to keep the price high enough to sustain their economies.

The petro-dollar will be replaced with the electro-dollar (that is if the US dollar remains the world currency). So a different group of rare earth rich countries will emerge that’ll become more relevant than OPEC in the energy domain but not quite to the same extent as countries that are both gifted with geography to make them major energy exporters and have neighbouring countries/super-grid connections/renewable storage export capabilities will emerge as big players as well.

It’s almost like categorisation is a social and language technology that keeps getting applied because it helps communicate concepts without having to spend the first half of the conversation redefining all your terms.

If common definitions described by a collective in a list is authoritarian, does this make dictionaries authoritarian as well?

Both heavy and light oil will still be needed for other processes and products that can’t be replaced/way more difficult to replace than fuels. But decoupling oil from energy and transportation will have a huge impact on the market and be better for everyone in general.

(shakes Klear’s hand): thank you for falling for the set-up.

(shakes username_1’s hand): and thank you for the delivering the punchline.

I want to buy one just so I can do custom sound effects:

Use the accelerometer to detect when in free fall and play the Goofy falling scream then, on impact, cut it off and play the GTA “Wasted” sound effect.

If you won the lottery I imagine you’d be able to hire a lawyer to sort that out and agree payment terms that say transfer of cash happens after winnings have been collected.