Interesting, didn’t realize they had a geothermal loop in the concrete floors. I wonder if condensation will be an issue?

In a world with too many humans already, can you imagine painting a drop in the birth rate as somehow a bad thing?

lol

plot twist, cleaning up the source of that contamination would mean a local business endures lower profit margins. the bureaucrat who’s job it was to push the Approved! button got chased away from their terminal by a guy in a rubber mask who brought a fog machine and a projector

You gotta wonder WTF the French were thinking when they decided to force people into the sweltering insomnia of 80 degrees indoors at night just for the sake of creating the appearance that climate change is the fault of the dispossessed proletariat running air conditioners to survive global heating, and pretending like the owners of the means of production aren’t actually in a position to change how the economy functions.

run on “government bad”

get elected

govern poorly

“told you so”

you mean the patriarchy?

This legit sounds like bioweapons testing on the public.

096 has breached containment

The value of stocks has no direct impact on the volume of currency that exists, and printing literal paper money is only a tiny fraction of the new currency generated by the banking system. The person you replied to is correct. Most new money is created by banks:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional-reserve_banking

As banks hold in reserve less than the amount of their deposit liabilities, and because the deposit liabilities are considered money in their own right (see commercial bank money), fractional-reserve banking permits the money supply to grow beyond the amount of the underlying base money originally created by the central bank.

For example, if banking regulators set the ‘reserve ratio’ at 1:10, and you deposit $1,000 at your bank, then your bank would be able to give out loans worth $10,000. The effect on the volume of currency that exists is the same as if the US Mint printed an additional $9,000.

One of the problems with that system is that all that money is owed back to the bank + interest. However, there’s not actually enough currency in existence to pay back all the loans + interest, so the banks inevitably get to confiscate people’s property when they default on loans. Remember that the banks invented that money from thin air via fractional reserve lending - now they’ve turned that thin air into physical, tangible wealth at no cost to them.

Another problem with that system is that big loans - i.e. new currency entering the system - take time for their full inflationary effects to be felt. The “people” who get the big loans can spend the new currency at its full value, but by doing so they put enough new currency into circulation to devalue it via inflation.

One of the consequences of the fractional reserve lending system is that increasing the ‘reserve ratio’ will decrease the rate of inflation. Less new loans are issued, so less new currency enters the system. The banking lobby does not want this to become common knowledge, for obvious reasons. Federal taxes can be eliminated entirely, and the regulatory effect those taxes would have had on inflation can be substituted by taking it out of the banker’s profits by reducing the amount of new currency the banks are adding to the economy via fractional reserve lending.

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

a thin layer of positive mass tucked inside an outer layer of negative mass

If the universe provides negative mass, maybe we could use it to build an FTL warp drive.

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

Ironic. We could afford more flags and guns if we had a single payer healthcare system and stopped overpaying for terrible insurance that doesn’t actually cover you when you need it.

Seems complimentary with the other 10. Boil them down and you get from the 10, “be honest”, and from the 7, “be kind”.

If any are displayed, then both is better than one.

Really though, the book club from a 2,000 year old fantasy novel has no place in education other than its historic significance to the art of literature.

Anecdotally, last time I was looking for a job, these kind of positions were offering about 50% less than the income you need to be considered poor enough to qualify for government assistance - you could work 80 hours a week and still need food stamps.

Nobody wants to hire anymore.

working as intended - won’t fix - ticket closed

so circumcision is banned now, right?

Yeah, there’s no way all those seams are gonna hold in the AC/heat, and I would bet there’s sub-optimal insulation in all the floors and ceilings exposed to outside air.

isn’t that the code that lets you both play as the same character in Street Fighter?

state and local taxes work that way - state and local governments spend tax dollars to buy goods and services

federal taxes just delete money from targeted people, choosing who to make poorer in order to regulate inflation - the federal government creates new dollars when it needs to buy something

That’s not a peer reviewed study - its somebody’s editorialized book report.

enemy spy does enemy spy things and ends up in enemy mafia-owned gas station

oh no!