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Now, why was Musk able to get the Saudis and others to help him bankroll that purchase?

“Mr. Carney is not a businessman.

Is he claiming to be?

Do we want him to be?!? There's a couple of business men in charge down south, and... No fucking thank you!

Could not imagine that we’d get a Liberal party leader who thinks in terms of market realism but not blind worship of the free market, who is both an insider who understands how the world economy works but also how it has failed people. Someone who is focused on results and not process, someone thoughtful and intelligent. Someone who has said the things that I’ve been screaming into the void for a decade — but saying it better.

This is all really important for political insiders to understand. Carney resonates, at least in part, because he's actually telling us it as it is: Market economies have hurt us, but market economies are our current reality.

Personally, even as someone who does not believe markets are good tools for most things, I cannot avoid the reality that we cannot unplug ourselves from the global markets. We cannot engage economically with Europe, the United States (blech), South America, Asia, or anywhere else without playing the market game.

We are currently trapped.

We have to play the game. If we want to get out of it, we need to carefully position ourselves within it first, and then make reforms internally. And for those who don't want to get out of it, we should still be doing whatever we can to limit the damage those with market power can do.

This is where the NDP has fallen flat: they make proposals that ignore market realities, knowing that they will never see the light of day, while their meaningful moves clearly acknowledge that we're beholden to the markets. It makes them look both stupid, and weak. It makes people discouraged and distrustful.

Carney knows what he's doing. Some of us may not like that he won't do more than what the leader of a second tier world power is capable of given the current nature of the global economy. Some of us may not like that he may not want to change the nature of the global economy. But even if he did want to, he can't on his own.

But where he can punch above the weight of the nation is in restructuring our place in the global economy, moving us closer to countries we should probably very much want to be more like, and away from ones we've been far too comfortable with for far too long.

Wow, I never see NGC 4945 pop up in the news, science or otherwise. I looked at it as part of my undergraduate thesis 20 years ago, so I'm always keeping an eye out for it, and almost every time I get a ping it turns out to be M88 or the Sculptor galaxy.

This is fun!

Free trade with the US made a lot of people richer, but it made a lot of people poorer and more vulnerable. And it came with an explicit abdication of soverignty in the name of foreign business interests.

We directly teaded foreign private money for the rights of communities to self-govern.

This is not "something was said in a vacuum decades ago, and it just happened to be right," this is "this thing that we openly gave away at the time, and has continually been biting us in the ass ever since, is something that was an open concern before it was agreed to, but was completely dismissed because some people stood to make a lot of money".

The US has always been a fascist, imperialst state. It has always made unreasonable demands on us. It was only a matter of time before an ideological fascist took control, and it was inevitable that the country would continue to take liberties with us.

This is not a crapshoot. It's "I was paying even the slightest bit of attention", and you're almost certainly only being mocking about it because the group identified here is "feminists".

So, when you post to a community, you're posting to the local copy of it. Your host then forwards that post to the site that houses the community. When you're banned from a remote site, nothing interferes with this process until the local host forwards things along. By that time, you've already posted.

Now, the site that's housing the community is responsible for federating content it receives back out again, so while you can continue to post to the community locally, those posts won't make it to any other copy of the community. But because each instance's copy of the community is quasi-independent from each other, you can, IIRC, still engage with other local users in that space.

The walls, they be empty. The shelves, cupboards, and drawers, though? Kinda overflowing.

The PPC should sue for gimmick infringement at this point.

People have thrown around the term "middle class" to mean "comfortable" or "financially secure" for generations now, but there's nothing "middle" about that. It makes complete sense that as wages fail to keep up with the cost of living, the "middle" is going to struggle more and more.

This isn't a problem with the formal definition, but one of the cultural expectations. The fact that those injured by the lie of the cultural expectation aren't burning down the homes and businesses of the rich is still a small wonder to me.

Seems like it wouldn’t have cost much to keep the original channel up, though.

As if any of what's going on has to do with costs.

Jesus Christ, it's a comedy show, not some national purity test.

You're not wrong, Nintendo fans will buy this. As a Nintendo fan, I will buy this - though, it's gone from a Day 1, no-brainer purchase to "when I can justify the expense" - but Nintendo fans make up a small fraction of people who bought a Switch 1.

See: Wii U, 3DS

The Wii and DS printed money, and they assumed most of those users would move on to the new hardware. They did not. They had to slash the 3DS price within months, and nothing saved the Wii U.