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This is an opt-in thread, where if you post, you're in. Mild roasting expected/encouraged. (I can't find the original opt-in thread, someone finding that thread would be a great way of getting more targets.) I got made fun of at work a few weeks ago, where everyone overused a word all day...

"You should vote Liberal. I guess we need a total collapse before we can rebuild" "Huh, both Japan and Germany were extremely rightwing and they're probably the best recovery stories in mod.... waitaminute, is that why you vote Conservative, because you want the Cons to ruin everything first?"...

The risks can be a dilution effect, I guess. Or a fragmenting of messaging. The 'silliness' will be how it's presented, which I think we could explore but needn't really. There's a risk of someone learning each term and then snorting because eventually some term is just too snowflaky, I...

Sure, you could take natural 'forsythia', but science shows that the bioavailability of the active ingredients are not very high. You'd be better off taking the cross-linked version during this tenth coronavirus thread. ForXthia. On sale now at veterinarian wholesalers near you. Here...

In Canada, we're really seeing a spike when it comes to household debt to debt-service ratio. It's a culmination of bad policies plus the fact that people-gonna-people and make unwise decisions, knowing they're unwise. It must mean a heck of a bubble, though I'll not know how to time it. So...

Ask your easy questions here! 2 rules: 1) if you're answering someone's question with a novel insight, quote the actual question. That way the person who's interested in the answer easily finds it. 2) if your answer starts to become complicated or it differs from previous answers...

I'd like to just take a moment to point out the raw (unexpected) power of the United States in the 21st Century, from the perspective of people who let their expectations shift over time. 2001 opens with a recession and closes with a nation shocked by 9/11. It's a trauma, for sure. There's...

Let's start with the first understanding, (light) inflation is better than deflation. It causes higher levels of investment, higher levels of employment, and higher productivity. We want (light) inflation, merely because it's better. There's also a simple productivity bump that can be gained...

This is literally one of the most concerning tweets I have seen. This is something that deserves actual investigation. The underlying question is this NBC article It's literally a yes/no question. Did he express a desire to see the stockpile increased when shown that graph? And did his...

When we talk about secession (not succession, sorry for the thread title), the apportioning of the nation's debt strikes me as the biggest factor in where I don't actually have any answers. If a province wants to say that the territory under their jurisdiction is now theirs, meh, we live in a...

I can read the Abrahamic texts and just play along in the paradigm. Let's suppose I believe every single miracle described. Every single one. Moses was given visions of the beginning of time. Jesus fed a crowd of thousands. Is any of this sufficient evidence to believe that it's describing...

I had a long chat with a few people who worked for restaurants. In 2016, my New Years resolutions was to give more to charity than I tipped at restaurants. I figured, my tipping was an attempt to be a generous person. And my charity is an attempt to be wise. But the monies (nearly) come from...

Voters are shareholders in the nation's wealth and its growth and security. They own the country. And, like all shareholders, they need to decide whether to pursue short-term or long-term profits. They need to know when to trim expenses to maintain marketshare or when to shuttle dividends...

There are two premises to my immortalism: Involuntary death is a bad thing, it's not the worst thing, but it's a bad thing Reducing involuntary death is something that can be accomplished So, in my more general musings, I note that most people avoid involuntary death. And we tend to avoid...

Well, we're all watching the American election. Might as well. It's pretty important. So, now we get to put down which policies we've heard or read that you'd either (if you supported them) "hold their feet to the fire" for, or would actually want to see imposed, even though it was proposed...

Hypothetical! Suppose we collect very good evidence that the dimming of KIC 8462852 is due to an ongoing construction of an alien megastructure. i.e., the light we're looking at is due to the fact that some type of orbiting paneling that was in the process of growing during our...

We can all look forward into the future, and there are various linear and exponential trends that we can see as 'troubling'. A reduction in liquid fuels, dropping aquifers, the ability to create bioweapons, etc. But some of these problems are low-boil enough that there are obvious incentives...

I'm seeing more and more talk about Universal Basic Income (UBI) from people I see as 'center-left' thematically. So, it might be time to start expanding the conversation so that we have solid answers available for the partisan 'zingers', no matter which cohort is generating them. The main...

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-35351888 Heard this on the BBC podcast. Seems like it's a really big deal. The dam is not surrounded by hard rock, but with rock that contains a lot of limestone. So, no matter how good the dam is, the water is just eroding, eroding, eroding...

Here's an idea. Instead of having an income-tax, how about we allow people to opt-in into a subscription-based service whereby a subscriber is allowed to access the courts to enforce contracts (with a small service fee), and the cost of the service is proportionate to how many contracts...