harmbugler

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[–] harmbugler@piefed.social 18 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Indeed. Wise decision for everyone else too.

[–] harmbugler@piefed.social 3 points 2 weeks ago

This is a good insight that has wide application. For example in the context of investing: every portfolio is always fully invested, even 100% cash which runs the risk of not meeting the investor's goals.

However it's not always true in all contexts. For example in formal games, there may be a no-risk path to victory for you, where every move can be dominant. In this sense there is no risk in taking those dominant moves to win the game.

[–] harmbugler@piefed.social 4 points 2 weeks ago

The position can be benign: funding and promoting the arts. I am, however, not going to bet on the Israeli culture minister being benign.

[–] harmbugler@piefed.social 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authoritarian_capitalism

Authoritarian capitalism, or illiberal capitalism, is an economic system in which a capitalist market economy exists alongside an authoritarian government. Related to and overlapping with state capitalism, a system in which the state undertakes commercial activity, authoritarian capitalism combines private property and the functioning of market forces with restrictions on dissent, complete lack of freedom of speech or significant limits on it, and either a lack of elections or an electoral system with a single dominant political party.

Next stop, elimination of the Democratic party.

[–] harmbugler@piefed.social 27 points 2 weeks ago

oh, tots and pears

[–] harmbugler@piefed.social 6 points 2 weeks ago

There are also plenty of counterexamples of helpful, sometimes even brave, bystanders.

[–] harmbugler@piefed.social 4 points 2 weeks ago

Maybe creamed corn is different where you are, but the creamed part is a sauce that goes with the corn. It's meant to be eaten with the corn and not supposed to be discarded, so I don't know why you're straining it.

[–] harmbugler@piefed.social 10 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Why are you straining it? It's like saying your bottle of fresh orange juice has hardly any pulp after you strain it.

[–] harmbugler@piefed.social 6 points 2 weeks ago

CSI: Shrewsbury

[–] harmbugler@piefed.social 76 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (9 children)

Sleazy guy at the bar says...

Edit: anyway, your birthday is 1 Jan 1970.

[–] harmbugler@piefed.social 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The only reason they are not shooting Democrats in the streets is because they don't need to. The regime is consolidating power while Democrats go to work, producing wealth that the regime can steal, it's a win/win. The media on the left is a couple of years behind the right at this point. While the right acknowledges "we are at war", the left is still trying to make peace while their position is eroded daily. The war has already started and the regime is winning.

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