Yup. All of these “solutions” that sound original are known. The reason we don’t apply them isn’t because we don’t know how to solve these issues, it’s because capital has pulled the handbrake. This is the problem we have to solve. All the other problems fall downstream and will magically start getting solved if we can release the handbrake. If we’re not talking about how to reduce regulatory capture, we’re not taking about real solutions.

Oh direct involvement would definitely make a bigger move. In which direction I don’t know.

An attack that damages oil infra that reduces oil supply will immediately result in oil price increases. It doesn’t even have to materially affect the supply yet for the prices to react. It doesn’t matter who conducts the attack either. The prices at the pump in the US will follow shortly after. I think I heard the estimate is 5%. Then corpos will raise prices because “oil went up by 5%” and you have inflation in an election period following a period of high inflation that Democrats just managed to get down. Trump will frame it as geopolitical and economic mismanagement. This could tip the scales in a close election enough for it to go to Trump.

Then there’s the possibility of retaliatory attacks on tankers in the Red Sea. There’s another 5-10% expected from that.

None of this mechanism depends on US army’s involvement in the conflict.

Prediction: Bibi’s gonna do it anyway in an attempt to get Harris to lose (gas price increases in the US) and get Trump reelected. Trump then signs Bibi’s get-out-of-jail-free card, and he’s good to continue.

The warnings came as the Iranian president, Masoud Pezeshkian, sought assurances from Gulf leaders at a summit in Doha that they would remain neutral in the event of any joint Israeli-US attack in Iran.

The Saudi foreign minister, Prince Faisal bin Farhan, said: “We intend to close the book on disagreements with Iran forever and develop relations between us like two friends.”

Interesting. Weren’t these supposed to be enemies?

“Our former model is over. We are overregulating and underinvesting. In the two to three years to come, if we follow our classical agenda, we will be out of the market,”

Overregulating, no. Regulation almost always protects people from harm. We don’t need to harm people more to get better economic results.

Underinvesting, absolutely. The EU’s self-imposed austerity keeps preventing increased public investment. As a sovereign currency issuer the EU can do a lot more public investment in any area that has underutilized resources. A shift away from neoliberal and towards Keynesian economic policies.

adding that looking at gross domestic product (GDP) per capita in the past three decades the U.S. delivered an increase of 60 percent, Europe only delivered 30 percent.

Keep looking at metrics that don’t tell you what you need to know and you’re gonna keep making the wrong conclusions. GDP isn’t a metric of how people are doing which is what matters and Europeans are doing significantly better than the US for a unit of GDP for multiple reasons.

“And it’s not sustainable with the social model that we have,” he added.

Doubt.

“If we want clearly to be more competitive and have our place in this multipolar order first we need a simplification shock,” Macron said.

Just waiting for the other shoe called “therapy” to drop.

I can’t see Israel not accelerating towards fascism and repression after the last year. But I wouldn’t ascribe this to Hamas planning because they haven’t shown themselves to be that strategic or intelligent.

E: Anyone looking at this comment funny should look at the latest polls in Israel. Specifically the popularity of right wing and settler nationaltst parties. Also look at the opinions about the war among Israeli Jews and non-Jews. Finally look at recent polls about right/left lean and compare it to older ones. Then think how things are gonna go in the aftermath when a minority raises this issue while the majority has to keep up the belief that the deaths are a lie and if they aren’t they were unavoidable, and if they weren’t unavailable they’d become terrorists anyway.

Self-hosted?

Have you tried Llama? If so, is it useful according to your criteria?

We do.

Narrator: … depressed noises …

Oh this is smart, you’re getting the required thickness by folding instead of using more pieces. When using an unfolded stack of squares you could end up utilizing just a small spot while the rest remains dry.

What do you do with the washcloth after use? Hang to dry and reuse, throw in a basket for laundry?

Seems like strip searching helped her avoid prison.

While there are voluntary shit-ass PMs, you can only afford to be not a shit-ass PM because the org isn’t squeezing you for all it can. Once it does, you’d have to make similar decisions. If you quit because you don’t agree with the way things are going, a compliant shit-ass PM will take your place, or no PM, and the people would end up in the place the parent described.

When you learn that publicly traded companies are mostly obliged to squeeze as much work from you while paying as little, then all the all the puzzle pieces fall into place and all of what you said starts to make perfect sense.

Make an alt-alt over VPN and tells us more. 😁

I’d go with undies.

Might be someone mad because of this.

I edited it at the very beginning before there was any activity because I realized it’s less ambiguous to have non overlapping intervals. Started with 1-3, 3-5, 5+. Settled on 1-3, 4-6, 7+. Of course it’s stupid to change if there’s any significant voting already. I’m asking because I’d like to know what people do. I wouldn’t want to render useless what precious few responses I get.