hotcouchguy

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[–] hotcouchguy@hexbear.net 0 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Can't wait to see what they do with the "stabbed in the back" narrative

[–] hotcouchguy@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

Look, Biden just had a cold, and was tired that day, and I don't even care that he can't finish a sentence, and also the debate wasn't even that bad.

Kettle logic.

[–] hotcouchguy@hexbear.net 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is seriously one of my pet theories: apparently lead is sequestered in the bones, so it would make sense that once someone hits a certain age and bone density starts dropping, that decades of lead exposure starts re-entering the bloodstream.

[–] hotcouchguy@hexbear.net 39 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Boomer question, but how do you drop your car off for an oil change or whatever without a key?

[–] hotcouchguy@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago

At the rate Biden is adopting Trump policy, he'll purge them himself anyway

[–] hotcouchguy@hexbear.net 44 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (11 children)

Bro how do you get jet lag on a 2 hour private flight? You didn't even leave the time zone. I know people with longer commutes

[–] hotcouchguy@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

Turning the big racism dial, and uh, you know the thing

[–] hotcouchguy@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

Ok, that's starting to make sense. Still not sure about it, but I feel like I'm understanding it at least a little better. Definitely interested to read the book now, thanks for all the info

[–] hotcouchguy@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This could make some sense in aggregate, but doesn't make any sense on a micro level. How does, say, a fast food franchise receive the super-profits? And why is the restaurant hiring people that lose them money? If it's motivated by a need for sales, and the sales are "worth it" economically, meaning enough to cover labor and other costs plus profit, isn't that just describing surplus value?

[–] hotcouchguy@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago (6 children)

This is interesting but I'm extremely skeptical. If all workers are paid more than the value they produce, why do business hire anyone? And if all business in the core are inherently unprofitable, what is the mechanism that keeps them afloat?

[–] hotcouchguy@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

Campaign is going well when you have to keep insisting you aren't dropping out and are still mentally competent

 

Sad to see random sailors get killed, but regardless still have to hand it to the Houthis for an extremely successful ongoing campaign. Shipping volumes passing through are down dramatically, and alternate routes are adding a lot of delay and expense. It's costing Egypt a lot of money in lost transit tolls as well. And shipping was in a less-than-ideal state to begin with, due to the Panama canal drought and issues with shipbuilding.

Insurance rates were already keeping most higher value cargo out, it's currently mostly bulk goods, crude oil, and some refined petroleum products still transiting; that's why we never hear about container ships being hit, they were generally the first to leave.

This attack will further increase insurance rates and further increase pressure on the west to "do something" but other than a ceasefire they don't have a lot of good options.

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