If you have 20 minutes to spare this video really helped clear it up for me.
It might seem unrelated at first, but bonds will be discussed approx. 5 minutes in, and the preceding parts helps lay the groundwork.
I’d later come to understand this is called Modern monetary theory.
Until lemmy gold is a thing please have these medals, I wish I could offer more: 🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅
When I was much younger: that normal people could see much further than me.
One of my oldest memories is going into a McDonald’s for the first time with glasses; I stopped and read the entire menu, because I couldn’t believe normal people could read it as soon as you walked in. I always had to get up to the counter to make it out.
I got a lot better in school after that!
Alas I sold my soul to VSCode a long time ago.
Also, ew, emacs 😝
Well played 👏👏
I guess I just got, recurse rolled?
Being a content creator.
Yes yes, combined with git add -P makes small, meaningful commits so much easier.
https://github.com/eggert/tz/blob/main/calendars has entered the chat.
Whatever you pick checkout Yousician if they have it. It’s great for learning.
Forgive me for only TLDW and not watching, but was ack mentioned?
I’ve never looked back.
Well that’s it, it almost always is more convenient (again, assuming you have one, it has fuel, roads are built and prioritize cars etc.), but that completely ignores all the negative externalities.
Like: it would always be more ‘convenient’ for me to pee against a wall when I need to go, but if everyone starting pissing everywhere it would be objectively worse for everyone.
I love this! Really gets at the essence of what I was thinking, thank you.
OP using word ‘convinced’ is relevant here because whilst most people in USA ‘need’ a car (because there is no practical alternative to driving), they are being convinced every day that a private car is the only viable solution to transport in general…
… and then of course you get everyone freaking out when someone has the audacity to suggest that installing a dedicated bike / bus lane would mean less people need a car, and that would save everyone time and money.
Also while I’m ranting, I’m so over people harping on about how they can’t rely on public transit and that’s why they need a car. Like reliable and affordable public transport is some magical and unobtainable goal.
But then when gas prices inevitably get crazy high, or they get in a wreck, or traffic is a mess then that’s just The Way It Is and in no way an indication that maybe everyone driving a personal car for every single trip isn’t the most reliable or sustainable way to run a city.
10/10 would visit again.
I fell in love with him after the execution of the Dasani video. Walking backward ten minute single take, amazing: https://youtu.be/wD79NZroV88
Did you see spin off Practical Construction yet? That’s next level production, my wife laughed at me waiting for next ep like it’s GoT or something.
Also do you notice that YT never pushes PBS videos? I’m subscribed but always have to go to channel.
Since you like a lot of same as me: check out Climate Town.
A bit meta: That people who were wrong or mistaken about something just needed it explaining more clearly, and then they would stop saying things which are wrong or mistaken.
I wasted far too many years of my life trying to convince father-in-law of so many things, only to realize there is nothing that can be said to disabuse him. The problem wasn’t the lack of facts or clarity of explanation, it’s that he is fundamentally incapable of acquiring new information if it’s inconsistent with his prior understanding or belief.
Moreover I realized that where I am ashamed of being inaccurate or uneducated about something (and so am keen to correct myself), for him it’s always the case that I must be wrong or mistaken, because he can never be wrong or mistaken.