Oh yeah, I understand. I was just pointing out that compounding interest (even just on a yearly basis) adds up quick.

I mean 5% inflation is a pretty high rate. At 5% YoY you’d have prices up ~30% in 5 years.

If that rate is uneven (lower/higher across different segments of the purchasing basket) you could get towards 50% inflation in some areas.

I’ve been saying this for over a decade and it’s served me well.

Its even worse with LLMs, at least an autonomous vehicle has a set functionality, but people are using LLMs to solve all sorts a problems.

I don’t have any issue with the bottom part of the image, it’s the top part that seems to be oblivious to how the world works.

You’re adding in additional concepts that change the arguement. The original post talks about fences and guarding resources, not about someone taking a cut of other people’s work.

Additionally, even in the self-governance principles mentioned above there is a need for:

5. Graduated sanctions: Appropriators who violate operational rules are likely to be assessed graduated sanctions (depending on the seriousness and context of the offense) by other appropriators, by officials accountable to these appropriators, or by both.

You could argue that “sanctions” and “weapons/violence” are separate things, but ultimately even the economists mentioned above call out there is a need for enforcement on how “commons” are used.

Edit: quotes are from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elinor_Ostrom

Isn’t the whole point of the “tradegy of the commons” narrative to draw attention to the fact that the “commons” need governance?

The image you posted seems to be in support of non-goverance, which would be the opposite of what people like Elinor Ostrom advocated.

Looking at her work, the first stipulation on pooled resources is:

Clearly defined boundaries: Individuals or households who have rights to withdraw resource units from the CPR must be clearly defined, as must the boundaries of the CPR itself.

That seems like she is aware that commons can be misused and simply calling out that societies have found ways to manage them, which in turn kinda refutes the arguement being made in the post.

The top comment in the posted image is just stupid, food takes work, like a lot of work. Whether the land is private/public/something else, it takes a lot of work to maintain a steady supply of food.

Actually, I’m pretty sure it’s the inverse in this instance. There is a lack of faith in the US to repay its debts, so they have to increase the rates to attract buyers.

Typically, in bad times rates go down as people are clamoring for stable/risk free places to store cash.

So basically, even though things aren’t looking good economy wise, people are still avoiding bonds and so the government has to jack up rates to move bonds. This is tied to some of the crazy moves Trump/Republicans have been making that almost destroyed the US bond market.

Yeah, I thought high yield on bonds is bad for the government and means they had to increase rates to intice people to buy them. Meaning Trump is bad for the economy, according to the Treasury.

Yeah, I think it’s the combination of things. Breaking personal property is pretty much universally frowned upon, and if he’s breaking car windows he was just as likely to hit a person.

Not sure if that’s enough to be deported, but it wouldn’t be an outrageous outcome even in the past.

Hey, at least they put it in quotes, the way this adimiatration works they’d probably deport the reporter for saying he was racist.

Damn, an hour is a long time to wait. I had been assuming that it was a quick one two, but waiting an hour means they had time to see what happened and still decided to murder these people.

The only thing I can think of is they were afraid they might actually survive and speak out against them.

Funnyjunk? Just checked and it’s still around, not sure if it matches what you’re looking for.

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I don’t think it was overestimating, more just not realizing that the term “blood libel” isn’t a widely recognized antisemitic concept. I know a lot of Jewish people and have never heard blood libel used that way.

I just read it as meaning some sort of lie revolving around death like “you’ve got blood on your hands” kind of thing.

Edit: Also thanks for the explaining your perspective to me.

I think I’m even more confused after reading all of this.

I know Miss Rachel is getting attacked for calling out the atrocities in Gaza, but what is all the blood libel stuff?

Sounds to me like we’ve just got someone upset that Miss Rachel is not asking for more kids to be killed, but you seem to believe there is something else going on?

I suspect most people aren’t buying it as a daily driver, but as a gaming device. I don’t use my steamdeck for computing (although toyed with the idea) for example.

Yeah, that’s what I was trying to get across. Either you have to do a lot of research or youre doing a “pre-built” configuration. At that point what Valve is offering is at least equal to other pre-built concepts.

I feel like the biggest thing everyone always overlooks is the amount of researchyou need to do to build a PC. Understanding what motherboard, ram, cpu, and gpu will let you play the games you want is not very clear, especially now we have AMD making good cpus and Intel making Gpus.

The naming conventions are all over the place and the specs on what’s best and what’s compatible is opaque at times.

Building the PC is easy, but making sure you didn’t waste your money by buying a motherboard that won’t work on the next generation of chips or you misunderstood the 10+ gpu models distributed by multiple different distributors is also easy.