Everyone is going to miss Pax Americana when it’s gone. The ones who aren’t killed in this or that genocide, that is.
Day: December 16, 2024, 3:34 PM
Center
Mangione mostly held center-right views. Rare these days as a political type but them’s the facts. Not that a single person alive seems to care about what is and is not a fact anymore.
Mad Libs
How ‘the mother of all bubbles’ will pop.
A lot of people in Europe are Big Mad that they’ve shot their economies in the foot, the face, and the ass while so far the US largely has not. It’s both sad and hilarious to watch. It’s sad because we’ll be fighting Russia for them in 2030 because they will be unable to do so, and hilarious because they’re so aggrieved by something they themselves largely caused and continue to inflict on themselves.
All that said, I don’t disagree in the main. I think that the US can’t keep dominating so much as it does now. Trump might put an end to this or might not, but it’s not a question — the US simply cannot be the entire world’s economic engine in perpetuity. And should not.
What I’m laughing about is that so many Europeans are angry about how the US didn’t make the mistakes their bloc made and hold us at fault for their failures. Like, you’re the ones who fucked up, broes and broettes. We had nothing to do with it. Own it or shut up.
But I Do Not Live In a Garbage Bin
I’m very grumpy. It’s not personal. It’s just how I am. I try to curb it, but it’s gonna come out if you hang around me long enough.
I address it by saying, “I’m very grumpy. I try to not let it get too bad, but it’ll happen.” Being extremely high on disagreeableness will do that to you.
Risk Flight
What I got for a $12 dollar cheese and ham sourdough toastie in an Australian Airlines flight.
That has a negative dollar value; that is not even food. I never buy anything edible that’s not prepackaged and shelf stable on flights for just this reason.
Burg
Probable burglar casing homes in the neighborhood earlier.
No, I haven’t gone full NIMBY; it was fairly obvious (my gf talked to him on the sidewalk briefly). We’re almost always home and I’m one of those evil “stand your ground” types, so his chances are low.
I haven’t run across one of those in quite a few years. Everyone needs to make a living I guess.
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