Indonesia:
Indonesia's blasphemy law is used to prosecute and imprison individuals from minority faiths. For example, a former Muslim cleric who converted to Christianity was sentenced to 10 years...

How do the rights of Palestinians in Israel compare to the rights of non Muslims in most Muslim majority countries?
Some small examples:
Saudi Arabia:
Public practice of any religion other than...

You thought the USA had a $100 Trillion economy?

I hope your career isn't in math.
What is 2.75% * 25.44 Trillion? It's certainly not $3 Trillion.

It's $690B. So enough to pay for about 43% of the deficit.

If Israel is trying to get rid of all Palestinians they're not being very effective:
https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/state-of-palestine-population/

Least radical campus protest leader: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/26/nyregion/columbia-student-protest-zionism.html
Columbia University announced on Friday that it had barred from its campus a...

Do y'all just ever reflect how awesome it is to live in a country of immigrants? Their groundbreaking contributions in tech and business are driving our competitive edge globally. Plus, the music and...

A few more:
Protesters learning how to chant death to Israel and America in Farsi: https://twitter.com/TheFP/status/1779555667784728784?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
At the UM Michigan...

Hamas continues to reject ceasefire proposals: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/hamas-rejects-israels-ceasefire-response-sticks-main-demands-2024-04-13/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email...

There are dental offices that do more revenue in a 9 month period.

Do you have any evidence that payout rates have changed significantly? Or is it just more expensive houses in more disaster prone areas?

Last year nationwide home and car insurance companies paid out more in claims then they took in as premiums;...

Owed about $3k extra. Seems like a small price to pay considering all the time I spent recreating and sleeping on federal land. Plus ya know.... I get to live in America in modern times.

Not according to Pyreglide. ISIS is the enemy of basically the entire world.

Is there anything that buyers agents do that can't be effectively automated using AI? Seems like a ripe place for a tech startup to charge a flat fee.

Imagine being so incompetent that your main adversary knows about a terrorist threat in your capital before you do. Also a concert in the main locus of wealth in the country.... wonder if any...

Are we heading towards a country where most people spend 14 hours a day with a vision pro strapped to their face mainlining them AI generated content? At least the trails should be empty.

Can y'all imagine having to live in Russia? The GDP peaked a decade ago. The population peaked 30 years ago. Nothing is invented there. Nothing cool comes from there. Anybody creative has left....

It's almost like farmers responded to higher pieces be growing more. I think I learned singing about that concept in school way back when.

Even if you think there is context wrt "from the river to the sea" slogan and believe that it doesn't mean getting rid of all the Jews in the area or would still mean them having to live under...

Could the tightening of credit also be seen as a prudent response to past over-lending?

Might there be potential benefits to a tighter credit environment, such as avoiding over-leveraging and...

Doesn't the suggestion to make loans at far below the market rate suggest a complete abandoning of underwriting standards? When I think of the government backing loans at below market rates it makes...

Maybe one of the experts here could help me with a few questions I have:

How might the deflationary nature of Bitcoin affect economic growth, considering that spending and lending often decrease...

What safeguards are in place to prevent these loans from leading to a housing bubble, similar to what has been observed in other economies with easy lending practices?

Could the extension of these...

Both Australia and the UK have worse housing affordability than the USA.
...

It's probably actually 80% and its a well regarded ratio in almost everything. The Pareto principal.

80% of your sales comes from 20% of your customers.
80% of your sales are generated by 20% of...

Pixel 8 is a great phone. Was on the 5 for years and this feels like a seamless upgrade. The camera is insane and the UX is top notch. Plus mine came with some free Pixel Buds Pro from Best Buy. I...

I get into arguments with people so often about this. The claim that the middle class has it worse now is just simply not reflected in any of the actual data. Yes inequality has gotten worse and we...

Almost like a significant portion of the populace with signs declaring how much they believe that "housing is a human right." are giant hypocrites.

Better than status quo. Stage 1 includes a better climbing trail and extensions of Bjorn and Hello Kitty to the base area. Eventually we'll have over 20 miles of bike specific trails up there. As an...

On a long enough timeline aren't we all the decedents of people who have at various times been both colonizers and colonized?

Imagine waking up every day just to put out this level of negativity and cynicism out in the world.

I grew up in Albuquerque. Done the La Luz Trail run a couple times. South Boundary during peak Aspen color is one of the coolest rides in the country. West ridge in Taos has some of the best skiing...

How exactly can you design a tax that is only paid by the supplier and not the consumer? Been a while since I took econ, but my understanding is that tax incidence is based on the elasticity of the...

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Agreed man. I mean I feel strongly about this, but not quite strong enough to start showing up to city council meetings.

30 years of policies designed to restrict supply. That Americans voted for. Maybe they'll change their minds. Maybe not.

May have been easier to buy a house, but chances are the house was a lot smaller and the appliances in it were also terrible. More ways the past was terrible:
No widespread availability of fresh...

Isn't this mostly being handled by the respective governing bodies of the sports? I'm sure as the peer reviewed research things may change / evolve in various ways and we'll all continue on our lives...

Chase pays .01% on Savings and Sofi pays 4.2%.

I'd recommend the book Outlive by Dr. Peter Attia: https://www.amazon.com/Outlive-Longevity-Peter-Attia-MD/dp/0593236599/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1682174494&sr=8-1

Lots of really...

And then everybody clapped.

You two fucked yet? Seriously get a room.

In which on of those incidents did the chair disintegrate?

Most are. People are fucking up getting on lifts all over the country and yet stories like this making National news seem fairly unique to this one ski area. Weird.

I agree that there is likely a narrator problem.

Doesn't matter if he's not wrong. If you're in a position of leadership (like director of ski patrol) you don't throw lower level employees under the bus like that. Criticism of work performance...

I can't believe the ski patrol director would just throw the liftee under the bus like that. Total lack of leadership all around. Seems like an incredibly toxic place to work.

This one could be really bad. They're going to be very lucky if they don't get sued. And if they willfully ignored warnings about that lift....

While we're at it lets apply mark to market to homeowners, car owners, small business owners as well. Underwater on a loan but still generating cash flow to make the payments? Sorry it's the banks...