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Should be a wild four years.

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The prices of things are coming down btw. Not all at once, but they are. There are areas still high, but a lot of that can be explained by shortages in materials, like aluminum. Talked about cans like 20 pages back, but aluminum is worth a lot now. The US has some Bauxite reserves, but a lot is imported. Gas is weird. It depends where you are. It isn't Biden levels anymore where I'm at, but I'd like it to be under 3.
I'm not entirely sure if this is related but my harris teeter (upper quality grocery story chain in the carolinas) will once every couple of months have a few days where everything is 30% off. Like everything on the shelves, they have a little tag under saying some variation of 30% off. This has been happening since january.
 
I can buy gas at two different prices with a 40 cents split about five minutes apart. It's like they drew a line and everything west is one price, east is another. In the past the cheaper station was cheaper by like 3-5 cents. I have no idea what's going on here.
Some of that kind of discrepancy can be due to stations having corpo/municipal supply contracts, so the general market isn't their target. And some companies just have different pricing models that aim for volume instead of markup. Arco stations are usually a lot cheaper than Shell or Chevron, for example.
 
#tinfoilhattime

The drum up of UFOs and UAPs usually spins around some sort of testing or tests. What if some, not all, of the sightings or claims are tests for spacecrafts by companies like Black Rock. The United States of America has made legislation allowing private companies to mine space resources. With the seeming, hopefully sustained potential Global Quietness on the horizon, defense companies etc. are gonna need to pivot to another industry. With China's actions, who is to say there aren't Private Companies who were looking for solutions to this exact scenario. Space X's program is basically the foundations of a near autonomous space mining infrastructure. There are a lot of companies with a lot of money, who knows.

#RealistTime
We'll probably just authorize mining on American soil and bring back mining jobs/towns.
We are not at the point at mining space rocks, we barely regained the tech to get back to the moon, holy shit.
 
I think China is in deep economic trouble, which is why they're trying to hold onto their rare earth monopoly.
Making matters worse is that Western countries (especially the US and Australia) have a huge amount of mineral wealth, but the greens always stand in the way. To be fair, there is currently no way to mine without polluting and contaminating the local ecology. There are ways to reduce pollution, but that is damage mitigation. You do not want to live near a mine.
Why is china seething all of a sudden? I thought shit was cooling off for a bit
Because their economy is bullshit. Dumping isn't working as much, their real estate bubble is about to pop, and they are turning into weak borrowers. They also haven't recovered from COVID and there's a serious problem in the country of young people simply not working because - surprise, surprise - their options are bad. This is all exacerbated by a fertility rate worse than Japan, created by their stupid 36-year one-child policy.

I have a conspiracy theory that the pro-NEET propaganda and all the shit about declining Western birth dates originates from CCP shills.
 
Even when they figure it out, they fuck it up. Democratic Iraq legalized marrying 9 year old girls.
IMO the truth is Muslims don’t work in democratic systems and need a strong man. I would argue the same is true in Latin America. A lot of Hispanics (Spain was Muslim for 700+ years, many of the conquistadores were from southern Spain with the most Islamic influence) don’t respect anything beyond force.
 
What are your favourite/most looked back upon political or history books?
A City In Terror by Francis Russell. This book is about the 1919 Boston Police riot and a lot of the politics surrounding it. It is an interesting look into decision making around a set of issues and how one person's stubbornness can have massive ramifications.
 
Making matters worse is that Western countries (especially the US and Australia) have a huge amount of mineral wealth, but the greens always stand in the way. To be fair, there is currently no way to mine without polluting and contaminating the local ecology. There are ways to reduce pollution, but that is damage mitigation. You do not want to live near a mine.

Because their economy is bullshit. Dumping isn't working as much, their real estate bubble is about to pop, and they are turning into weak borrowers. They also haven't recovered from COVID and there's a serious problem in the country of young people simply not working because - surprise, surprise - their options are bad. This is all exacerbated by a fertility rate worse than Japan, created by their stupid 36-year one-child policy.

I have a conspiracy theory that the pro-NEET propaganda and all the shit about declining Western birth dates originates from CCP shills.
unfortunately the entire global economy is going to take a massive hit. France, Germany, and the Uk aren’t in a great spot. Southern Europe is running on fumes. Growth is slowing in South America and Africa. Korea and China are on demographic cliffs. The Ukrainian war is going to be devastating for Russias economy. And the US has a lot of debt but I think we’re in a fortunate spot geographically so we’ll weather it better than most.
 
It's not an air force base, it's a training building so the Qataris can train on the F15EX. Not a big deal, Singapore does the same thing as do NATO allies.
Well that's the plan now, but they'll probably switch to the 8UTT5EX once they have more exposure to the USAF.
 
We are not at the point at mining space rocks, we barely regained the tech to get back to the moon, holy shit.
#RealistTime
We'll probably just authorize mining on American soil and bring back mining jobs/towns.

Also, what do you mean? Regained technology? The technology hasn't gone away, we just don't really have a reason to go back when there are other celestial objects that would be of better use to target. We already send back samples of materials autonomously, the difference is that technology is built and made for science and technology a completely different industry to mining. It's not that hard of a fork off when the foundational technology is well researched and previously established foundation.

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You mean to say, you don't want to see this off the coastline of California?

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