Also it could lead to a mutation. Not sure how robust the measles vaccine is, but technically possible to produce something new.

That’s the thing, interest rates are almost always less than inflation. The only reason they flip is because inflation needs to be brought down.

The reason for this is that the government/economic model is designed to encourage spending. Holding money is effectively lost “opportunity” so the real value of the dollar is always pushed down.

No amount of time will make you wealthy through compound interest with the current economic system.

While your money does grow in a savings account, the rate of growth is lower than the economy or real value of the money.

Just think about what a million dollars could have bought you in the 80s vs 00s vs now.

This doesn’t need to be a 20 minute video.

While money in a bank does technically grow exponentially, the real value (what you can buy with that money) of the account grows slower than the economy.

Meaning each year you can actually buy less with the money you keep in a bank account. This is why retirement accounts are typically tied to the stock market, to try to tie their growth more to the economy.

I wasn’t super thrilled about the idea myself, but with the ability to disable it I figured I’d give it a try.

Personally it’s a really cool feature that adds to the experience.

I mean, yeah. Putin wants the US to do nothing and give them Ukraine, Ukraine wants the US to stay committed to past agreements and do something.

I never understood the criticism of Bidens handling of Afghanistan. He was given an impossible deadline (due to Trump) and followed through with what I imagine is minimal casualties. And at the end of the day, he did what three other president’s coudlnt do, which was get us out of there.

While the amount of debt has been ever growing, it hasn’t relative to GDP. When it has grown, it’s grown primarily due to policies from Bush and Trump. Both of these president’s also passed massive tax breaks which is a significant contributing factor to the national debt.

At the end of the day, the national debt only matters if we can’t pay it. All the cuts being made to federal spending right now are more significant because they will slow down the economy and cause reverberations for years to come (public research and investment are multipliers for the economy in many ways).

As you call out, we should be taxing billionaires, which points to the larger economic concern right now for America - economic disparity.

You’ve really bought into the propaganda there, besides Clinton our national debt has always been the “highest” every year. The most important factor is foreign vs domestically held debt, and that ratio hasn’t changed for the worse.

Obviously we have some spending concerns, but financially that’s not the primary concern for the US right now (and we wouldn’t be talking tax cuts if it was).

Exactly this, Biden wasn’t better health wise but surrounded himself with competent people.

Right now we have a fox news host leading defense, an anti-Vax moron handling a measles outbreak, a wrestling tycoon killing our education system, and more.

I definitely read that as Turok Tutu

This has nothing to do with the federal budget. Congress already appropriated the money, this is just straight up evil.

Also a fair amount comes from the first Trump administration and their terrible handling of Covid.

Haha given Kevin Sorbos went down a similar path, this is pretty fitting.

So the military was justified in their actions at tiananmen square?

My point is that the US has not been willing to escalate by using live rounds or military intervention in over half a century (at least to my recollection) against its citizens.

I think the counterpoint is that when something like Kent state happened, the government backed down. The question will be if they’re willing to use live rounds in the future and not back down (not that less lethal munitions are much better, but it is different).

People also seem to forget that we’re basically using Ukrainians as cannon fodder so the US and Europe don’t have to put our troops on the line to hold back Russia (not that Trump cares about keeping Russia in check).

I tried a reverse image search and couldn’t find a source. I’m assuming/hoping it’s out of context, but definitely a pretty crazy frame.