There’s part of my that’s thinking he’s so sure of his analysis, maybe he’s wrong. Especially as he’s a bit of a lone voice. Trouble is, I don’t see how he would be.

It certainly broke your bubble when you saw it.

A guy by the name of Geoff Eppstone apparently.

I dunno. I didn’t have arguments with Marxist-Leninists on Reddit.

I think he Britta’d the meme.

If you have a swap partition setup that’s larger than the RAM the Linux will hibernate into it. Trouble is a lot of people don’t bother with swap partitions these days.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Power_management/Suspend_and_hibernate

Well he got elected on 34% of the vote. So on day 1 you’re on -32%.

I see this kind of reaction a bit, but the fact is if you win on one topic you have a foundation to argue other topics.

It’s a Trojan horse issue on all ownership rights and right to repair issues.

Rookie numbers. That’s only -34% . Starmer is currently on -44% in the UK and all he’s done is appoint a dodgy US ambassador.

How can you cut things you don’t fund?

No

I think framework are worthy of support even though the company is American.

1. Regardless of who you buy from… Manufacture including assembly is done in east Asia. That’s where most of your money is going.
2. Framework are not tech giants. They’re a small company battling giants.
3. The ethos of ownership, repair and upgrade needs supporting.
4. They’ve been following through on their promises.

So yes, I’m not buying US goods as much as I can also. I make an exception for Framework. They’re the resistance in an occupied nation.

SVU?

There’s a group that see falling teenage pregnancy and say that’s the reason birth rates are falling In the west. They then equate falling birth rates with the erasure of culture. Therefore, in their head, teenage pregnancy is necessary as is carrying it to term.

A wholly messed up view.

Does seem like something snapped in Glen Greenwald. Once a good investigative journalist. Now a conspiracy freak.

I know breasts drop a bit when the bra comes off, but it’s a bit much to legislate against them dragging on the …

Oh!

How banks lend money isn’t controversial. How governments spend and collect money isn’t controversial. Those are just points of fact. The controversial part is the government being able to spend before it has tax levels which “support” the spending. That’s what I meant. MMT says that’s an available choice. That’s all.

Many mainstream economists will say that unchecked spending is reckless and you risk hyperinflation. Now we’re in to policy choices though. Regardless, if you spend without worrying about the other side of the equation (tax) they’d be right. However, that’s a strawman argument because that’s not what is being said.

I’ll be honest, I’ve yet to hear a convincing argument against MMT, and I’ve looked. I started off sceptical, but I now think it’s a useful framing tool. Every counter I’ve seen doesn’t address what it actually states, rather what they imagine it states (normally unchecked spending). If anyone has seen a good factual argument against MMT I’d be interested.

So these ideas are the basis of modern monetary theory (MMT) i.e. the theory of modern money, not that it’s a modern theory of money. There’s nothing very controversial here, in that the “theory” is just a description of how things work when you have a fiat currency. The controversial parts are what you do in your fiscal policy once you think about things this way.

Stephanie Kelton is a vocal proponent of this style of framing. She’s been an economic advisor to Bernie Sanders and is the author of “The Deficit Myth” which explains these concepts. She also gave a TED talk on the concepts.

Richard Murphy is a UK proponent who writes a blog and has a YouTube channel where he explains the concepts.

There are others, but these two are a good way in. Searching for them, and also the the phrase “Modern Monetary Theory” should get you lots of talks, interviews and articles on both sides of the arguments.

…and the constant war for natural resources.

The spice must flow.

The six hours you’ve watched so far is just an abridged version of the first book.