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Jameson Lopp · 3w
Just because someone disagrees with you doesn't make them a bad person. Just because someone agrees with you doesn't make them a good person. You shouldn't judge someone based upon their opinions. ...
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Imagine a world where we would all agree with each other the whole time. This focus on outcome, agreeing, would mean that the difference in input (moral values, IQ, experience, knowledge, etc.) should be absolutely equal everywhere to always render the same output so one always agrees.
The value of agreeing would be rendered nill, because it no longer has meaning, and the world would be incredibly boring and predictable too....

Expecting another person to be the same as you is never realistic. And you would also never learn anything or be challenged to maybe change/adapt your own opinion based on new information.

Your own emotional reaction and the importance you give someone's opinion tells something about you, and your reaction is in no way the fault of the other. Blaming the other for your own internal response to words spoken by others is choosing the unrealistic en easy way out, avoiding having to deal with your own inability to cope with your own triggered thoughts.

Opposing ideas are a great basis for discussion to try to get closer to the truth. Formed opinions generally stop the proces of a rational discussion imo, because the mind is already made up of what the outcome should be. And that is just bad science :)


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umni · 3w
If you trust publicly stated inflation numbers but If you calculate using m2 money supply, -79.8% .. $100,000 = $20,000 very similar to the increase in beef prices
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Yes.
Once you conclude that inflation is purely a monetary phenomenon you see that public distributed lies like cpi numbers don't match the loss in purchasing power, but the publicly shared m2 money supply tracks the money printing by banks quite well!
In Europe it's about a factor 4 loss off purchasing power since the introduction of the Euro. They started with 4T Euros when the currency was implemented and adopted by E.U. countries, and now the supply is just above 16T.
Bam, factor 4.
ECB changed their (too easy?) chart on their website so it's all expressed in compounding precentages now, horrible and useless.
This is a screenshot of the old chart though:




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umni · 3w
Governments are funded with debt, taxes are merely to manipulate the population, coercive violent crowd control. Something quite impressive is how much the Japanese can endure, suffering at the beginning of the century and now one hundred years later by absorbing the japanese yen inflationary press...
stupleb · 3w
I'm sure everyone will make an exception for that.
Mr Anderson · 3w
You can say that again!