Well I actually just divided $39 trillion by $1.3 trillion all by myself. I made a mistake in my comment and did not state that I was referring to net debt to GDP ratio, which the FRED and IMF and others track. You are correct that gross debt to GDP ratio favors the States. You are also obviously looking right past the column that shows the U.S.’s much larger gross debt, so I’m again curious why you just state “Canada’s debt is higher” when you can see that it isn’t.
The USA’s debt is about 30 times greater than Canada’s debt. Canada’s total debt is actually lower than the USA’s annual federal deficit. Canada’s *net debt to GDP ratio is far better than the U.S.’s at about 10% compared to over 100%.
Did you specifically mean household debt?
Highly recommend the book “Doppelganger” by Naomi Klein where she talks about how weird it is to get confused with Naomi Wolf. A real feminist vs a playactor, just like how the right playacts science and reason by ‘doing their own research’ and playacts working class solidarity by showering the public with populist propaganda while shredding their legal protections
Which flavor of Google surveillance would you consider a more private and secure phone platform than iOS?
I actually just bought a pair of porta pros three days ago—any chance you recall what pads you upgraded to? I’ve mostly seen recommendations for Yaxi
That is incorrect, like incorrectly referring to the agricultural practices only in the past tense, or incorrectly lumping all peoples who lived in the Americas prior to European colonization into one generic group. The fact that both viewpoints are not equally correct is what makes it a correction.
Changing the past tense to present tense (these people and practices are still very real, they are not just part of “the past”) is a correction.
I’d love to know what it is about help threads that attracts people who don’t believe in helping.
The market for small phones that last a long time is quite sizable. Which doesn’t matter because they don’t want to buy a lot of phones. It’s like Google. Years before Gemini, they made their search engine worse on purpose because it makes more money. Search twice, get served twice the ads. Nobody outside of the company has ever wanted Search But Worse. There is zero desire for Worse. But as long as Google is free to make purely economic decisions, there is no reason for them to revert to Search But We Make Less Money.
Oh, sure, I didn’t mean you should focus on another country’s completely inaccessible leaders instead of your own marginally accessible representatives. Just that there is no long term viable global solution within the bounds of the UN and that the focus should be on fixing or ignoring or replacing it. Convincing all of Germany that Israel has no right to kill Palestinians doesn’t really change the reality of the situation when the US threatens unilateral economic and military action against anyone who opposes their little ethnostate experiment.
That’s obviously nothing more than my opinion about the best path forward. Perhaps I’m wrong and what’s needed first is a powerful EU actor to take a more visible stand, to make the chains of the security council more obvious when the people’s desires are rendered moot. But my experience is that liberal politicians quite like the stability of written bylaws, more so than actual democracy. Better for Palestine to be blown away than for there to be any uncertainty.
Yes, Israel, the global hegemon. I would love to spread the blame, but seeing as the US has been the only functional vote in favor of Israel’s genocide for 40+ years, the US that allows Israel to decide how Jerusalem will be run, contrary to UN resolutions, the US leadership that calls Netanyahu when he has gone too far, and that Netanyahu listens, you will literally never convince me that it’s not the most important player. I’m aware it’s a systems issue. International conflict is undemocratic and the UN specifically is a system that has no written path for dealing with a bad actor within the P5. We cannot tell how much festers underneath until the US’s unilateral international decision making power stops covering up what the rest of western civilization thinks. I think quite a bit! I think large nations are functionally a front for multinational corporations doing as they please in the name of profit! I think that much of wealthy Europe is happy to sit back and let “America” take the heat for their inhumane financial decisions! But until that happens we should take all the actors at their word and focus on the only one who openly calls for the genocide to continue, instead of speculating on how deep the problem may run and getting overwhelmed with its hypothetical depth.
Germany voted for ceasefire and for making food a human right in 2024. Both were vetoed by the US. There are many other UN resolutions that follow this voting pattern. Germany may be profiteering and enabling, but the US is fully in charge of the situation. They are not the same. The existence of the US’s unilateral veto powers in the security council is another good reminder that they are fundamentally operating on different levels.
It’s probably just for the people who want it. I have thought about how much nicer two pages would be in the past for this reason and for displaying sheet music.
It’s Bezos sponsored, so take the good PR work with a grain of salt given the state of everything he and Amazon have touched
I appreciate the operation you’re running here
AI gets subs wrong, and thinking that doesn’t matter is both ableist and just a terrible lazy product, but that’s not the pressing matter.
It’s Israel. Because giving money to another party is not a value neutral action. Using a site that pays money to Israel—and you either know what that means or are purposefully avoiding the subject—means you are supporting Israel. Your consumption does not occur in a vacuum.
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It will impact weather patterns and severity. I’ve certainly not done the work on how much, nor do I really have a grasp on the scales involved, so that’s mostly a meaningless statement, but I can say with confidence the impact will be real. Just like dams affecting rivers, icecap mass affecting heat reflection, and solar panels increasing local temperatures.
Given that one of the impacts of global climate change has been increased weather severity and chaos, I am not afraid of positing that reducing the severity and chaos of the jet streams could be a good thing.
Similarly, there are some interesting projects going on surrounding the use of aerogel and other materials that could help focus sunlight at the top of the oceans, where evaporation can actually occur, that are focused on creating clean drinking water—and while I think this is a good end unto itself, a nice side benefit would be less solar energy reaching the ocean and raising the body temperature.
For once, it’s cool to hear about proposed industrial projects and their side effects and they’re maybe positive, instead of “well that sounds like it’s going to leech heavy metals into the surrounding community”
Of course, aerogel is horrible to work with and clogs if it doesn’t break, and nobody else has solved the problem of scaling up and dealing with the steam getting in the way. On the lightweight flying jet stream turbine front, well, I’ve been following development for 8 years and nobody has even solved the ‘limited supply of helium leaking away into space’ problem for starters. And it’s hard making an efficient generator so lightweight that it can fly. So we don’t have to worry about them potentially improving global weather severity just yet. Or potentially devastating our remaining populations of migratory birds!
Not only does closing the lid do just that, it works the exact way you’d think it would. The lid is not effective at preventing viral spread. Not the only cause for concern when it comes to things exiting the toilet bowl.
Nobody’s really willing to have this conversation. Much like the TSA, the USPS is a jobs program. The bulk mail justifies the ongoing maintenance expenditures on the mail sorting equipment that will be unnecessary if we stop pushing so many Valpaks and predatory “I want to pay cash for your house” mailers. And a lot of people who process the mail will be out of a job, and a good chunk of people who deliver the mail will be out of a job, and the remaining carriers will have a radically different job as the load is lightened and they would have to travel much further distances on their routes to justify a full day’s wage, but the economics of traveling that far start to raise questions about whether 6 day a week delivery to every address is a reasonable burden for the USPS to shoulder… presumably management would be unaffected.
This will all be in limbo til the nation is ready to talk about what work and life look like in a world where we’re all pretending to need to work 40 hours a week to live. And with the state of mass media as it is, the citizens don’t really get a say when it comes to what we’re talking about this week. Ironically, the USPS is well positioned to reach its customers and get the ball rolling… but taking a stance on the right to life would be deemed political.