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I wouldn’t say great. The 10 year is still 15 bps higher than it was at open yesterday and 50 bps higher than a month ago. It certainly responded positively to the 90 day tariff pause.

We are officially entering the cool zone now. The US Treasuries are (were) the gold standard safe investment. It allowed the US to weather financial crashes in the past because the flight to safety lowered borrowing costs giving the government a lot of room for stimulus. The US may not be able to finance its way out of this crash of its own making. It might not be able to finance entitlements and military spending.

Retirees should have mostly moved into bonds from stocks to finance their retirement. Meemaw’s retirement account is getting eviscerated at the exact moment DOGE is fucking with SS. Get ready for Great Depression 2.0 with previously financially set old people in the streets.

Wow. Are you telling me the people that’ve been pounded by airstrikes for over a decade and kept fighting, kept fighting after being pounded by airstrikes? Who could’ve seen that coming?

No, I need a homunculus of my mom to tell me I’m a good boy.

The author is such a fucking loser. Jesus christ.

LoCascio got the idea from his previous startup, LivePerson, where he spent 22 years building webchat systems to provide customers of companies like Delta and Citibank with real-time, interactive assistance online.

This guy should be fed into a wood chipper.

Step away from the finite state machine

That’s a load bearing asterisks .

This is the correct move for China, but America absolutely cannot be trusted to choose its own Bishops. Within 10 years the Catholics here will be indistinguishable from a prosperity gospel church.

Looks like he did.

God could you imagine. Followed by immediate land reform where all their land is given to their undocumented workers.

I think there’s something to be said for Trump delaying the Mexican tariffs, but keeping the Canadian tariffs in tact. Maybe someone in the Trump admin actually read a climate report and realized where all the arable land is going to be. Canadians should prepare for increased antagonism from the US while it fishes around for a casus belli. The Americans don’t want Mexico in the same way. At most they want a buffer zone in nothern mexico to stop climate refugees.

Listen, all the marine one pilots get MKULTRAed to fly directly into the nearest commercial airliner when they hear the phrase “beware the noids of march”

There are very few kinds of labor that don’t need some kind of material input to function. That material input comes from other labor that is mostly elsewhere. You can’t assemble a transmission without steel and someone needs to make the steel, which necessitates the extraction of iron ore. Even an economy of e-mail jobs still needs computers to function. Even if labor doesn’t need direct material inputs (like say a vocalists), the laborer still need food, clothing and shelter.

If the billionaire and high-multimillionaire class is liquidated, that’s a lot of resources and more importantly political power that is back in the hands of the proletariat.

What resources and where do they come from? Because ultimately, even if the final product or design is extracted from the US proletariat, the inputs (and increasingly the final product and design) are being extracted from elsewhere. With few exceptions (mainly agriculture, oil/gas lol, and some mining/forestry) everything we do, buy, or design at its base is extracted from elsewhere. Agriculture is its own can of worms since the labor is mostly imported and we need to end oil/gas extraction yesterday to have a habitable planet.

Can’t get more obvious than the Haitian revolution

As an ultimate goal, I’d agree. But that’s not something you can just do without incredible investment in alternate forms of transit, which is not happening. The road the US is going down, cars will not be banned, they’ll just be unaffordable and only for the rich. We’ll keep the shitty transit and jaywalking laws though.

The question is, have the bourgeoisie any capacity left for self discipline? Once a shooting war starts with a peer power, will they be able to forgo these juicy profits to ensure their own survival? Their response to the climate crisis says no, but that’s still a rather abstract problem to most people. The COVID response also say no. Will the fear of dying in a Chinese prison camp finally do it?

black sheep

Isn’t this also about the literal color of wool? Black wool is caused be recessive genes and shepherds didn’t really like them because it can’t be dyed and isn’t very marketable. At least that’s been my understanding of the term.

Toecutter > Humungus

This is upstate erasure. Suburban/rural upstate is full of psychos.