https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M1SL
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it's amazing how many objectively false things (which are nonetheless popular beliefs) gruber posts on daring fireball. apple doesn't do any shady union-busting, gun violence is only an american problem, cryptocurrency is only used for scams and fraud, et c.
i used to read him because he was insightful. now he's just an old parrot.
Everybody's Lying About the Link Between Gun Ownership and Homicide
https://hwfo.substack.com/p/everybodys-lying-about-the-link-between
lerna oh look more javascript tooling that didn't exist before and i have to learn and understand and write more json for (which was never meant to be a configuration language and lacks comments and should never be used for this purpose in a new tool) and probably won't exist in its current form in 36 months
is it javascript that's terrible or javascript people that opt into these nightmares that are terrible?
The year is 2040.
You log into a cafe and your coffee-app automatically pops into the foreground till you order.
You select the UltraEthics choice which gives $0.50 to Starving Orphans Inc.
You read about the two political parties: Rich and More Rich, and wonder why nobody talks about anything else.
The coffee arrives, the cost automatically comes off your Musk-Coin, along with 2% PayPal fee.
Some idiot is trying to pay in cash. Unlike him you a pragmatist and just want to use what works.
DO NOT AUTOCLOSE YOUR BACKLOG
you're just cheating yourself out of the free QA your userbase has done for you.
simply not using social media is not a solution to the current implementations of social media being bad. socializing on the internet with billions of people (i.e. not irc, not the fediverse, not matrix - the people using WA and IG and Twitter etc) is one of the best things to ever happen to humanity, and it sucks bad that it's been zucced by a greedy, totalitarian sociopath. if elon unfucks twitter it might be totally fucking amazing.
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