Hotspur

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I wouldn’t get these personally, but they are pretty funny.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

What’s sort of eerie though is that DCA has been having lots of these TCAS alerts If you consider multiple TCAS alert incidents, as well as the in-air collision that happened, it’s an unsettling pattern developing at DCA.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah ok, so similar MO to the other pay in and get your case squashed schemes that trump has been running. The corruption dial has really been turned to 11 I guess.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

So, did this guy also buy millions of world liberty financial governance coins?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 weeks ago

A.) this is a joke right? B.) amusing they think there’s gonna be a viable election in 2028

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yes I heard an anecdote that describes this trajectory well on a podcast recently: when a society or economy is at the beginning of a development arc, each mile of sewer, road, power, rail, etc can be justified, as it leads to economic growth that was not possible yet. But like you say, 50-100 years later all of that infrastructure requires replacement, maintenance . And the problem is, that investment does not deliver growth, it simply maintains the economic base you already have. So you’d have to be a really long term thinking society and factor in replacement costs in upfront somehow, which would make development substantially more expensive, all for a population that doesn’t exist yet, that you won’t know… a staggeringly difficult ask.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

This isn’t the term, but I remember reading piece years ago discussing the concept of catabolic capitalism, which has a similar vibe; basically capitalism runs out of new frontiers to mercilessly exploit, and it retools to eat itself. So you end up with an economy (very much like the one we have now) where all growth is in dismantling and busting out the infrastructures and institutions previously erected to support the previous phase.

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