but through businesses taking loans.

… Also called “printing money”.

The classic inflation from the economy working a little too well is not a flat tax, since both wages and prices are growing

Inflation doesn’t cause wages to grow proportionally, despite what some Harvard wankers like to pretend. Theoretical models are interesting in science, but for something like economy, they are completely useless.

Classic inflation erodes the savings of the rich, and erodes the debts of the poor.

Capital ROI is almost always greater than inflation, meaning wealth inequality increases regardless of inflation. This is before taking into account that physical assets (e.g. housing) also increase in value through inflation, meaning the owning class never loses money to inflation.

Again, theory and practice diverge pretty much entirely.

Inflation is a concept created by governments to be able to run on a perpetual deficit (necessary when you privatise everything profitable by selling it to your buddies). Making a tax on the poor is a “nice” benefit, but don’t be mistaken: if the owning class saw it as a threat to their wealth we’d be back to the gold standard already.

Why would the Dutch/Polish/Germans speak more languages?

2nd most exciting thing in the USA is randomly bashing France (#1 obviously being school shootings)

There are more varieties of accents inside London than across the entire US. You understood their point, no need to be pedantic.

Parent comment was about Germany, so no not really. The Germans (including the whole DACH area) are as much fun as the Japanese. Although when it comes to car it’s more or less free for all

Plenty of non Chinese brands are on the EV train now.

I can buy an Alpine that it is, in every conceivable way, better than the cheapest VW EV (while being a bit cheaper, or the same price). How is this not a problem with German manufacturers specifically?

And why is it so hot, I wonder

It ignores it because that’s a different point that’s being made a.k.a moving the goal post. The people saying “oNlY 20ish % of thE poPuLaTiOn” would still claim this shit even if there were no gerrymandering at all.

Not that I’m not denying the publicly admitted election fraud, but in most western democracies AFAIK non voters are the majority. That doesn’t mean none of them have legitimate leaders

The day Germany gets the Internet I’m sure we’ll be served as well, but in the meantime French / Belgium / NL already have this.

I’m noticing cars are not part of the list, despite being smartphones on wheels

Cachy is built on top of arch. There’s no fundamental difference between the two

to open a python code

This tells you everything you need to know about who wrote this.

That’s not a meme BTW, why is this even here.

As often, it’s more of a liability thing than anything else.

I doubt these people support feudalism?

You were not kidding lol. Also the case for Italian. Not for French and Spanish though. Not very consistent copy paste skills

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

Is a good inspiration

Are you implying 20% body fat is low?

Ubuntu doesn’t even let you upgrade LTS version on release, they take 3 months to fix upgrade bugs.

My experience is the same as yours. Plus the problem of looking for a fix to some issue, only to find out upstream fixed this 5 years ago

SQL, the new LLM frontend

Swapping two tabs in an SPA, how fucking unethical