Alas, poor Europe. I knew it well, Horatio.
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Quote:6ix, you and many people and their countries are directionless and drifting through life and time, with no particular plans other than the vague pursue of happiness, but also clearly pursuing the path of least resistance. The path of least resistance is what makes rivers run crooked. 6ix, you have lived a very crooked life, going from one addiction to the next (alcohol, tobacco, drugs, Trump ("he'll be fine") to who knows what next.) But don't worry, the EU has the same problem as you do. Just look at Hungary and Viktor Orbán, the crookedest PM in the EU.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:I think a comic is completely on topic because many people and their countries are directionless and drifting through life and time, with no particular plans other than the vague pursue of happiness, but also clearly pursuing the path of least resistance. The path of least resistance is what makes rivers run crooked.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Back to topic: The EU is imploding economically, thanks to fantastical energy and de-industrialization policies. It imploded militarily a long time ago, depending on the USA to protect it so they could afford niceties like nationalized medical care and free education. Socially, they've discarded their national cultures. Financially, they've given control up to The Troika, many EU nations with extremely high debt burdens. And politically, the EU nations have (mostly) given up their independence to that great bloated bureaucratic borg that squats in Brussels.
Let's track what happens to the EU, shall we? And see what lessons we can derive from their experience.
SMBC is a daily comic strip about life, philosophy, science, and mathematics. Recently, the comic had a point to make about meat robots muddling through life.
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/muddle
Bob: Do you think it’s better to accept your place in a web of human relations or to pursue a transcendent authentic self-hood?
Alice: That’s a false choice.
Bob: You think you can do both?
Alice: I can do neither.
Alice: My life plan is to never make peace with society’s perception of me nor come to a contented state of personal understanding.
Alice: I’m just gonna muddle through, Baby! I’m gonna be awkward, never reflect, play video games nights and weekends, and run out the clock on this future corpse.
Bob: My God.
Bob: This is an entirely new way of being.
Alice: No no, everyone does it, they just don’t realize.
The Philosopher: The key is first to realize this and then decide it’s a belief system.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
The above is what happens when you've lived a life with no adversity.
And I mean REAL adversity. Not the fabricated teen angst drama bullshit that is forced on kids in public schools.
This is why we know your fictional character Second is a poorly written character.
Because the person behind the avatar and the Second handle is the meat robot Alice in real life.
Viktor Orbán laid out his dark worldview to the American right — and they loved it
https://www.vox.com/2022/8/5/23292448/orban-cpac-dallas-2022-speech-tr
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A little clarification: Viktor Orbán and Hungary do not have problems with Putin. Russia Boosts Supply of Natural Gas to Hungary because Hungary is following Putin's leadership. Viktor Orbán had taken the path of least resistance to Russia before the Ukraine War. If only more EU countries follow Putin, as Orbán does, life would be easier for them. Pleasure seeking citizens of the EU may force more EU countries to follow Putin and allow him to conquer Ukraine.
https://www.rferl.org/a/hungary-orban-putin-russia-gas/31681502.html
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Originally posted by second:Quote:6ix, you and many people and their countries are directionless and drifting through life and time, with no particular plans other than the vague pursue of happiness, but also clearly pursuing the path of least resistance. The path of least resistance is what makes rivers run crooked. 6ix, you have lived a very crooked life, going from one addiction to the next (alcohol, tobacco, drugs, Trump ("he'll be fine") to who knows what next.) But don't worry, the EU has the same problem as you do. Just look at Hungary and Viktor Orbán, the crookedest PM in the EU.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:I think a comic is completely on topic because many people and their countries are directionless and drifting through life and time, with no particular plans other than the vague pursue of happiness, but also clearly pursuing the path of least resistance. The path of least resistance is what makes rivers run crooked.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Back to topic: The EU is imploding economically, thanks to fantastical energy and de-industrialization policies. It imploded militarily a long time ago, depending on the USA to protect it so they could afford niceties like nationalized medical care and free education. Socially, they've discarded their national cultures. Financially, they've given control up to The Troika, many EU nations with extremely high debt burdens. And politically, the EU nations have (mostly) given up their independence to that great bloated bureaucratic borg that squats in Brussels.
Let's track what happens to the EU, shall we? And see what lessons we can derive from their experience.
SMBC is a daily comic strip about life, philosophy, science, and mathematics. Recently, the comic had a point to make about meat robots muddling through life.
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/muddle
Bob: Do you think it’s better to accept your place in a web of human relations or to pursue a transcendent authentic self-hood?
Alice: That’s a false choice.
Bob: You think you can do both?
Alice: I can do neither.
Alice: My life plan is to never make peace with society’s perception of me nor come to a contented state of personal understanding.
Alice: I’m just gonna muddle through, Baby! I’m gonna be awkward, never reflect, play video games nights and weekends, and run out the clock on this future corpse.
Bob: My God.
Bob: This is an entirely new way of being.
Alice: No no, everyone does it, they just don’t realize.
The Philosopher: The key is first to realize this and then decide it’s a belief system.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
The above is what happens when you've lived a life with no adversity.
And I mean REAL adversity. Not the fabricated teen angst drama bullshit that is forced on kids in public schools.
This is why we know your fictional character Second is a poorly written character.
Because the person behind the avatar and the Second handle is the meat robot Alice in real life.
Talking about me again, I see.
I'll be out doing more structural repair to my house today so it's ready for the shiny new overhead door that will bring the shed that's been missing in my life for 7 years back into play. And while he's here to help me hang the new door, I'll also be showing off all of the house upgrades I've done since my friend's dad was last here helping me install the new kitchen floor back in January and pumping him up by letting him know that most of what I did was stuff that he taught me over 20 years ago.
Your problem, and the problem of MOST of the fringe Leftists in your group is that you don't believe that people can change, that they can improve themselves, or that they're worthy of redemption. Th
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Quote:Wrong as usual. My theme has been very consistent over many years: Trump is a scumbag and so are his defenders and apologists. He cheats on his taxes and they cheat on their taxes. He brags about his minuscule accomplishments and so do his people. He lies and they lie. He is a coward and they are cowards. He blusters and so do they. Trump is a gaudier version of his Trumptards and as worthless. Angry poor white trash recognize Trump as one of them. (He's not but explaining what he truly is to the suckers would ruin his con artist games.)
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Talking about me again, I see.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Wrong as usual.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Talking about me again, I see.
LOL
Dude. I've got over a thousand posts of you talking about me. Things I've shared with people I like that you save to a file on your computer and whip out whenever your jerking off all over these boards. None of them as bad as you sharing Signy's personal medical information all over the place though.
You are a garbage human being.
Get fucked.
Your little dick needs a break, beta bitch.
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Quote:Let me push your meat robot buttons. All Trumptards I know have got the same buttons, but I don't push them in Texas because it disrupts my work. Pushing the button: 6ix, did you know that four Presidents were assassinated? What are Trump's chances? Did you know that Teddy Roosevelt and Franklin Delano Roosevelt were almost killed? Teddy survived because his prolix speech on many sheets of paper stopped a bullet. FDR survived because the Mayor of Chicago got in the way of a bullet. Are you archiving this, 6ix? Meat Robots have got to be meat, so I expect you are. Later, you will have a cigarette because meat robots seek out pleasure, even if will kill them, same as they would abandon Ukraine because Putin would be mean to meat robots, raising gasoline and natural gas prices, if the meat robots don't bend to Putin's will.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
LOL
Dude. I've got over a thousand posts of you talking about me. Things I've shared with people I like that you save to a file on your computer and whip out whenever your jerking off all over these boards. None of them as bad as you sharing Signy's personal medical information all over the place though.
You are a garbage human being.
Get fucked.
Your little dick needs a break, beta bitch.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Speaking of false narratives and meat robots:
SECOND, you are a meatrobot compelled to push false narratives.
I know what you will post before you post it, bc you are compelled to post your self-justifications, no matter how nonsensical.
You will post about anything and everything except what actually happened. Bc if you accept what actually happened you might realize that your rationalizations are crap.
So, let's discuss what actually happened, and not your fantasies.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
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Europe’s Gonna Party Like It’s 1979
Aug. 30, 2022, 12:30 p.m. ET
By Paul Krugman
You probably have to be a senior citizen to remember the gasoline shortages of 1979. I am, and I do. I also remember how demoralizing they were. Then as now, outside a few big cities, America was a highly car-dependent nation, and waiting in long lines, not knowing whether you would be able to fill up, was deeply disconcerting.
What caused those shortages? The precipitating event was the Iranian revolution, which sent world oil prices soaring. But an oil price surge in itself needn’t mean gasoline shortages; it could — as we’ve seen recently — just mean higher prices at the pump.
The problem was that policymakers weren’t willing to see that global price hike fully passed on to U.S. consumers, given that only about 40 percent of the oil we consumed was imported. So they tried to limit the hit with various controls on prices and distribution; we needn’t go into the details. The point is that as every economics textbook will tell you, price controls often (not always) lead to an excess of demand over supply, and that was where the lines and shortages came from.
It’s a cautionary tale, but the moral of the story isn’t that governments should always let prices rise as high as needed to balance demand with supply. When politicians don’t do what Econ 101 says they should, it’s not necessarily because they’re stupid (although sometimes they are); it’s not even necessarily because they’re cynical (although that happens too). Sometimes there are good social reasons not to let markets rip, even if government intervention comes at a cost.
Which is why we’re probably about to see a number of countries intervening heavily in energy markets over the next few months.
America, where plunging gasoline prices have temporarily brought inflation down to zero, won’t be one of those countries. But Russia has drastically curtailed shipments of natural gas to Europe, and European households are facing a huge inflationary shock as a result.
You might wonder why Russia’s de facto embargo matters so much. After all, Russia isn’t the only provider of European natural gas, and gas is only one of Europe’s energy sources. Consider, for example, British electricity generation. Gas accounts for only roughly 35 percent of Britain’s electricity, and currently none of it comes from Russia.
Yet British home energy bills are skyrocketing. Why?
Part of the answer is that, as I wrote last Friday, markets in natural gas are basically defined as regions served by particular pipeline networks; and even though it doesn’t import gas directly from Russia, Britain is part of the European gas market. Russia’s stealth embargo has sent prices in that market soaring. https://web.archive.org/web/20220830013320/https://www.nytimes.com/202
2/08/26/opinion/russia-ukraine-oil-gas-prices.html
Even so, isn’t gas just part of the British picture? Yes, but as the textbooks tell us, a good’s price normally reflects not its average cost of production but its marginal cost — the cost of the last, most expensive unit. In Britain right now, the marginal kilowatt-hour is produced with gas. So it’s up, up and away — unless the government steps in.
Which it will.
Just letting things rip isn’t an option, not in a democracy anyway. Without government intervention, energy prices would rise so much that millions of families would be financially ruined. Something has to give.
In Britain specifically, the policy picture is especially murky because Liz Truss, the most likely successor to Boris Johnson, is refusing to announce her energy policy until she takes office. At this point it sounds as if the preferred policy is likely to involve financial aid to families rather than the price caps France and Spain, among others, have imposed. That is, keep consumers paying sky-high prices for each additional unit of energy they consume, but give them a check to help them afford what they were already consuming.
In practice, however, this probably won’t be e
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Let me push your meat robot buttons.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
LOL
Dude. I've got over a thousand posts of you talking about me. Things I've shared with people I like that you save to a file on your computer and whip out whenever your jerking off all over these boards. None of them as bad as you sharing Signy's personal medical information all over the place though.
You are a garbage human being.
Get fucked.
Your little dick needs a break, beta bitch.
Nah.
Didn't read past that first sentence.
Get fucked, little dick.
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70,000 protest in Prague against Czech government, EU, NATO 
https://nypost.com/2022/09/03/70000-protest-in-prague-against-czech-go
vernment-eu-nato/
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
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Also, punishing the west with sanctions against Russia
http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=65264
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
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