It’s not that the US economy is better than others, it is just trusted to be the default place for people to invest their excess money which has resulted in most of the US stock market being overvalued compared to the rest of the world.

“U.S. stocks’ outperformance on average over the past half-century or so has simply been due to increasing price multiples, not an improvement in business fundamentals. That is, U.S. companies did not generate more profit than international companies; their stocks just got more expensive. […] Cheap stocks have greater expected returns and expensive stocks have lower expected returns.”

https://www.optimizedportfolio.com/international-stocks/

He’s been writing his pop-tart joke since 2010!
https://youtu.be/itWxXyCfW5s

The difference is the profits used to return to the US, now they stay overseas.

I think that this article is saying that they don’t dispute the other claims made in the NYT article, only the one which they opened with, the lady in the black dress. I’m not claiming the NYT article is correct or not, just pointing out what I think the author’s intent was.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/28/world/middleeast/oct-7-attacks-hamas-israel-sexual-violence.html

This could be a commercial for the cyber truck, the only bulletproof instacart approved delivery vehicle.

You have to put 2 spaces after each line to force the next sentence into a new line.

Side note: here at the airport you check your flight information by just walking up to a screen and it uses facial recognition to instantly pull up your flight information, gate, seat, etc. lol. Completely different comfort level with cameras here haha…

At the risk of sounding like propaganda myself… Just because you don’t witness poverty and crime doesn’t mean it is propaganda. US has a major homeless and drug epidemic that is getting worse. It is easy for those with money to put it out of sight and ignore it.

I’m visiting China for the first time right now for 2 weeks and I must say I’m very impressed with how clean the cities are and the lack of homeless and drug addicts.

In the US my old house in OKC has been broken into twice by homeless and my parent’s house in Miami twice as well, and their car stolen twice. Walking to work in Brooklyn, people are literally sleeping on the sidewalks under trash bags every night as everyone walks past like they aren’t there.

Even in my my home town in Vermont, population under 10,000, there are always homeless people out in the cold begging and sleeping in tents in the woods. These people have given up on life, or given bad luck, or addicted to drugs.

I haven’t seen any of that in China so far. Sure there are some areas outside the city centers that are more depressing looking, lack much personality, and have run down buildings but at least everyone has a home, a job, and is taken care of. People here seem to have more respect for themselves and for others. It is part of the culture here.

Everyone I talk to here says it is incredibly safe. In fact, today I saw my first 2 police cars on the highway for the first time a week into my trip. And we’ve been driving an average of 3 hours per day everywhere between Shenzhen and ChengDu (visiting factories ). There are many cameras everywhere but there isn’t a need for hundreds of police to patrol the streets non-stop like in every city in the US. I haven’t heard a single siren the entire trip either - in cities of 20 million. You won’t find that in NYC which has half the population. Just some thoughts I wanted to share, thanks for reading.

Right, because they’re not evil, but it is still a club organized by a group that is recognized as an organized religion by the US government and has all the protections that come with it. The school will have to choose between allowing all religious groups into schools or none.

I’m just pointing that out since other commenters are insisting that they will have to ban all after school activities as a result which isn’t true

The Satanic temple is a non-theistic religious group, that’s the entire point. They use religious groups’ own tactics against them. If the school allows the Christian church to host a club, then they must allow the Satanic temple to host a club. TST doesn’t have anything against after-school clubs and the school could simply choose to ban activities funded by religions.

Yeah, and if someone receives the diagnosis too late then there may not be time to go to court and still perform the procedure before it’s too late. This woman was lucky to have lawyers working on her behalf.

Now the Republicans will always point to the few examples such as this one to claim their system is merciful and fair. It’s such BS though, as if a judge’s opinion on a medical issue matters one bit against those of doctors.

Yeah, the last time I went to a chiropractor for back pain, they also “corrected” my neck which in the past felt good but this time it just immediately pulled a muscle in my neck and left me in pain and barely able to turn my head for weeks.

It’s better now, but I’ll never go back to a chiropractor again because of the risk of making things worse for essentially no benefit.

deleted by creator

I see your point and it stands. Certainly anyone can lead a country down the wrong path and we don’t know their true motives.

My point was mainly that the power structure is seemingly reversed, so the incentives don’t make as much sense.

In most cases, Jews who chose to collaborate with Nazis did so to guarantee their personal survival, which distinguished them from most other ethnic groups who collaborated with Nazi Germany. It’s not exactly a fair comparison.

I second your experience. Additionally, if you disrupt their echo chamber too much, they’ll delete your comments and ban you. This has happened repeatedly when trying to have civil discussions like this one. They justify it as preventing misinformation so I have yet to see a fair debate on there.

Ironically, Russians think they are fighting Nazis in Ukraine.

The board of random people who cycle out every year? Some of them working for competing AI companies? Yeah they definitely aren’t the brains of this operation.

Sam has been there since the beginning and had the vision, but he made some mistakes along the way that allowed this power grab to happen.

No matter what OpenAI does, Microsoft will own their IP and future development on it, so OpenAI has already lost.

That’s only because everyone was voting against Trump. This is the fault of our voting system. It is why we need rank choice voting, so we can vote for the people we like instead of against the people we dislike.

I suspect that there’s a lot more people than we think who would rather not vote for either Trump or Biden, but they don’t want to throw their vote away.

This is why we need rank choice voting. It would eliminate any risk of people voting for a third party while also voting for the lesser of two evils put forth by the D & R’s.

The only reason I can see why rank choice voting is not already everywhere is because they know it would strip power away from the top.