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me too.

i’m sorry… i should have encouraged you much earlier!

i’m not for DEI or anything, but we really must do something about the scourge of anti-Tesla-ism.

just a couple of months ago, we had institutions of government.

in this case it’s add liabilities to the balance sheet, as payment! those liabilities are our counterparties’ “investment”! we might decompose it into a financing transaction in which the foreign seller provides an asset and we accept a liability (and so provide an asset) followed by an expenditure.

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they always accused democrats of not being proud americans, of going on apology tours, but i don't think i could support anyone who isn't planning an apology tour.

all production requires financial risk bearing. (assuming even labor has a financial opportunity cost.) not all financial risk bearing finances production. when it finances a trade deficit, it may finance consumption.

defcon.social/@tprophet/11... Note: TProphet is providing the words of a Canadian friend who prefers to remain anonymous. Scroll to the beginning of the thread.

i'd take issue with "depend" (exorbitant privilege or exorbitant burden?) but our perhaps erstwhile global regime did involve foreigners continuously increasing the US financial risk they bore (in absolute terms, not relative to GDP, their economies may have grown faster than our trade deficits).

jfc.

cc @steveroth.bsky.social

when this is all done, the United States will be the 20th census division of Alberta.

it will be kind of ironic when climate nonprofits migrate their finances to crypto. (it won’t be hypocritical — it’ll be proof-of-stake crypto rather than the burn-down-the-world kind.)

it is ridiculous how difficult members of Congress have now made it to meaningfully provide feedback. (and they almost never respond. back in the day, if i wrote them i’d at least get a form letter on some adjacent issue.) i’m keeping at it, overcoming the hurdles. i hope you do too.

Regulating to favor density would helpfully reduce the option value in farmland that it might convert to cul-de-sac.

i guess like most things i think it, or a lack of it, is a product of our institutions, so if we sustain rather than undermine institutions of solidarity and accountability, it wouldn’t have to be so thin and fragile a thing. instead we tax virtue. www.interfluidity.com/v2/5031.html