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Since the nineteenth century, economists writing books and newspaper articles, now appearing on TV, radio and online, have been the apostles of market society. When normal people hear or read them, they tend to draw this conclusion: The economy is too technical and boring to bother. I should leave it to the experts. Except the truth is that there are no real experts, and the economy is too important to leave to the economists. As we have seen in this book, economic decisions decide everything from the mundane to the profound. Leaving the economy to the experts is the equivalent of those who lived in the Middle Ages entrusting their welfare to the theologians, the cardinals and the Spanish inquisitors. It is a terrible idea.
July 1, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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microphone held up to a trash can, "anything else?"
June 18, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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June 18, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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天下統一は永久なり！！
April 26, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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This is one of the worst prize distribution ever, as expected from crapcom.

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Table showing prize distribution of Capcom Cup 11. A total prize pool of more than $1,282,000 USD. 1st place gets 1 million USD, 2nd place gets 100 thousands USD. The rest is spread among the other players. Chart showing prize distribution of Capcom Cup 11. A total prize pool of more than $1,282,000 USD. 1st place gets 1 million USD, 2nd place gets 100 thousands USD. The rest is spread among the other players.
March 8, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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It's that time of the year again
Phoenix Wright saying: "Almost Christmas" means it wasn't Christmas!
December 24, 2024 at 1:05 AM
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My Spotify Wrapped
screenshot of my spotify wrapped
December 5, 2024 at 6:18 AM
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November 21, 2024 at 10:27 AM
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I just cast my VOTE for USADA PEKORA #TheGameAwards thegameawards.com/share/nomine...
November 19, 2024 at 5:24 PM
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October 31, 2024 at 4:49 PM
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October 28, 2024 at 4:42 PM
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Finished reading The Divide. It made me realize that in a way, we're still being colonized by the west.
September 22, 2024 at 2:34 PM
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It tallies up all money-based activity, but it doesn’t care whether that activity is useful or destructive. If you cut down a forest and sell the timber, GDP goes up. If you strip a mountain range to mine for coal, GDP goes up. If you extend the working day and push back the retirement age, GDP goes up. But GDP includes no cost accounting. It does not measure the cost of losing the forest as a sinkhole for carbon dioxide, or the loss of the mountain range as a home for endangered species, or the toll that too much work takes on people’s bodies and minds and relationships. And not only does it leave out what is bad, it also leaves out much of what is good – for it does not count useful activities that are not monetised. If you grow your own food, clean your own house or take care of your ageing parents, GDP says nothing, for these activities don’t involve transacting money. It only counts if you buy these services.
September 19, 2024 at 1:14 PM
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Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #23,836!
September 17, 2024 at 12:17 AM
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Starbucks has given charity to help improve the health outcomes of poor people in Ethiopia’s coffee-growing communities, but at the same time the company stands accused of dramatically underpaying Ethiopian coffee growers. Coca-Cola gives a bit of charity to help impoverished communities in Guatemala, but the firm has been accused of engaging in violent campaigns against trade union organisers in order to prevent wages on its Guatemalan sugar plantations from rising. Fairness is better than charity. In the absence of fairness, charity carries the whiff of a scam. The same argument applies to official Western aid. If the US government wants to reduce global poverty, perhaps instead of doling out aid it should work to end structural adjustment, the tax evasion system and unfair trade laws – some of the major forces that cause poverty in the first place.
September 15, 2024 at 7:03 PM
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#デデデデ #dededede
September 13, 2024 at 12:47 PM
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When we pass a homeless person on the street it is easiest to assume that they are responsible for their own misfortune – they didn’t study hard enough in school, they didn’t try hard enough at work, they’re too lazy and weak-minded to make it. It takes another level of analysis to think about upstream causes: they lost their home because of reckless speculation on the housing market by big banks; their pension disintegrated in the financial crisis; they were victims of unfair dismissal in the absence of decent labour laws; or their employer moved overseas to take advantage of cheaper labour elsewhere. The same is true of poverty on a global scale. It might be easiest to blame poor countries for their own misfortunes, but if we give it enough thought it becomes clear that there is much more to the story.
September 12, 2024 at 1:30 PM
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In the past, pharmaceutical companies were only allowed to hold patents on the process of manufacturing drugs, not on the compounds themselves. This meant that developing countries could produce generic versions of important medicines – and sell them for a fraction of the cost – so long as they were able to find their own methods of manufacturing them. TRIPS put an end to this practice by extending corporate patents down to the level of the molecule itself. During the AIDS crisis, generic firms in India were capable of producing and exporting antiretrovirals for as low as $350 per year, which would have been affordable enough to save millions of dying patients, but the WTO – pressured by the pharmaceutical companies – actively prevented them from doing so. ‘It was criminal,’ my father tells me. ‘I was shocked that the drug companies were willing to let people die so needlessly.’
September 2, 2024 at 2:44 PM
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Western policymakers told developing countries that they had to liberalise their economies in order to grow, but that’s exactly what the West did not do during its own period of economic consolidation. Every one of today’s rich countries developed its economy through protectionist measures. In fact, until recently, the United States and Britain were the two most aggressively protectionist countries in the world: they built their economic power using government subsidies, trade tariffs, restricted patents – everything that the neoliberal playbook denounces today. Structural adjustment allowed the West to ‘kick away the ladder’ they had used to climb the heights of development, ensuring that no one else would be able to follow. The development narrative has it wrong. It is not that poor countries have been unable to climb the development ladder; it is that they have been specifically precluded from doing so.
August 28, 2024 at 3:15 PM
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Jason Hickel's book, The Divide
In the Western imagination, Africa is stereotyped as a continent plagued by corrupt dictators, with the supposition being that Africans are perhaps too ‘primitive’ to appreciate the virtues of Western-style democracy. But the truth is that ever since the end of colonialism, Africans have been actively prevented from establishing democracies. The legacy of strongman rule in Africa is a Western invention, not an indigenous proclivity. Western powers have thwarted countless attempts at real independence, which casts a rather ironic light on the West’s historical image as a beacon of democracy and popular sovereignty.
August 23, 2024 at 2:01 PM
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Excerpt from the book "The Divide" by Jason Hickel: It is estimated that Mexico had a population of up to 30 million indigenous inhabitants before the arrival of the Europeans. The Andean region had a similar number. Central America is thought to have supported around 13 million. The numbers vary by source to some extent, but scholars agree that in 1492 the Latin American region had a combined population of between 50 and 100 million. By the middle of the 1600s, however, the continent’s population had been slashed to 3.5 million. In other words, around 95 per cent had been killed.
August 17, 2024 at 3:40 PM
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Photo from NewJeans Fan Meeting in Tokyo Dome. Someone is holding a sign that says, "Hanni I Love U More Than My Hubby"
August 14, 2024 at 3:45 AM
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picture of Godzilla from the movie Shin Godzilla
July 29, 2024 at 5:55 PM
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my typical bluesky experience on Firefox, nothing loads
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