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Real fucking libertarian of him. /s

40 F-35s seems excessive for a country the size of Greece. Those things are not cheap.

So -20% real interest rate. No way that could cause inflation…

Erdogan and his central bank head think raising interest rates causes inflation.

I’m sure that will be to priority instead of trying to save their own lives. /s

Haven’t read the article but from previous news, the previous Harvard president (the first black female Harvard president) was basically forced to resign because she failed to say that a student calling for genocide would be a violation of school policy during a congressional hearing. One of the main guys trying to get her pushed out claimed she plagiarized parts of her doctoral thesis. Business Insider looked into that guy’s wife’s thesis and found that some of it was plagiarized. He whined that they should not be targeting him or his wife.

Business Insider double checked it and his wife definitely plagiarized parts of her thesis.

The Peronists that have plagued Argentina for decades are not communist. They are extremely protectionist and horribly corrupt but they are far from communist.

The exchange rate being real is definitely a good thing. Eliminating price controls and allowing imports will also be good things. That doesn’t mean he won’t leave a path of destruction in his wake. Fixing the economy can be done without having an anarchocapitalist being the one crafting the policies.

While I may not know as much about Argentina as an Argentine, I have taken an interest in its economy since college when I studied the currency board of the 90s and what led to the economic crisis in 2000/2001. So I am definitely versed on the destruction that the Kirchners (specifically Cristina) laid the groundwork for.

Argentina’s annual inflation rate sped past 211% in December

He only assumed office in December. I think he is a whacko but expecting him to have a major change in inflation immediately is a bit ridiculous, don’t you think?

It’s nuts that the decision was that close. Even justices voted to make themselves useless.

If this sounds familiar, it’s because something similar happened in March, taking down links and images across timelines for around an hour. Twitter blamed that on an “internal change that had some unintended consequences” before Platformer reported the bug occurred because of a mistake by the site’s single remaining site reliability engineer, who was operating solo after Musk instituted massive layoffs.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/13/24000170/x-outage-link-error-message-broken

It was true in March at least.

I mean Twitter currently only has one site reliability engineer so being prepared is clearly not a priority for Musk.

Why would proximity to the equator master for carbon neutrality? Indonesia is able to have both tidal and geothermal energy. They are also a much better spot for solar.

I agree with your first paragraph.

Your second one does not make sense in this context though. Oil companies are the ones pushing carbon capture and sequestration. The US did buy into that bullshit and gave the oil companies billions to work on it. Out of the dozen projects, not one of them was workable. I think only one of them even got past the planning stage because the cost and the amount of carbon sequestered was so bad most of them gave up.

They could reverse deforestation considering forests used to cover 84% of land and now cover about 50%. That would probably go a long way toward a net zero target.

Or they could buy into oil companies’ bullshit and give them billions to work on something that consistently fails to be an option.

0 = fucking cold and 100 = fucking hot. That’s about all I can figure.

Kelvin makes much more sense. 0 = dead and 100 = dead.

Asking for a source for breaking information that can significantly change a story should never be frowned upon. I asked, they initially admittedly provided tabloids, and then they provided legitimate sources. Lastly I thanked them for providing the source.

In cases like this, it is new information that the person clearly had recent access to so asking for the source should be extremely easy. Asking someone to waste their time verifying someone else’s claims when that claim could be complete horseshit is silly. I can’t exactly come upon a source that does not exist.

Thanks!

Source?

Well that is a totally sane response. /s

I guess I often forget that there are a large chunk of cities in the US that are still horribly spread out. It’s nuts that Dallas and Houston, for instance, are not much more dense than a city I grew up near that only had 30k people.

Not a fan of needing to drive 10+ miles to do anything, at least from an environmental perspective. I like being able to walk down the street to pick up groceries or hit up a bar.

Technically they are supposed to use that as precedence but with most of the justices, precedent doesn’t mean shit.