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daifo said:

You have to admit that the US is the land of opportunity. You can be this dumb and make it to high office

One day:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1563569979668439042

Next day:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1563626068724121600

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When Chiang Kai-shek was fleeing to Taiwan in 1949, he shipped all gold reserve and treasury from Shanghai, where the original ROC central bank was located. The new paper money he just issued got worthless due to extreme inflation. As a result, my grandma's savings evaporated, who was raising 5 kids, among whom my mom is the oldest. So my family was a direct victim of terrible governance by Chiang Kai-shek.

Therefore, Sen. Blackburn, you remember shit about what Chiang Kai-shek had done in ROC. But I do remember what Chiang Kai-shek did to my own family. Just stay out of Chinese affairs and say MAGA.

FriedButter said:

Global Economy being screwed has more to do with interest rates than the EROEI you keep talking about.

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This EROEI fixation from him sounds like a broken record. LOL

Chish said:

This EROEI fixation from him sounds like a broken record. LOL

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Interest rate is a function of net energy not the other way around.

The Fed reserve exists within the larger entropic thermodyanmic physical reality, thus legislators cannot just with a stroke of the pen wish away inflation try as they might... no matter how hard the printer goes BRRRR it does not more energy makes...

Money at its core, especially modern money, is but energy deposit's future ability to do 'work'; i.e. money is a claim on energy. It is the net energy inputs infused within every economic system and transactions that gives money the bulk or shall I say vast a majority of its purchasing value, for its the work multiplier effect of energy that is responsible for propping up productivity.

Global economy being screwed has nothing to do with interest rates and everything to do with the global peak and global decline in net usable energy (and diminishing EROEI)... its energy that underpins money, not the other way around, money is but a symbolic abstract token that represents resources out there, (or supposed to anyway) so please lets not conflate and confuse the symptom with the underlining root cause. If I sound like broken record is because its worth repeating since its a concept most people still cannot grasp nor wrap their heads around.

daifo said:

You have to admit that the US is the land of opportunity. You can be this dumb and make it to high office

One day:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1563569979668439042

Next day:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1563626068724121600

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More apt analogy is the land of lottery playerz.... every time at the gas station I want to get something I see 5 guys ahead of me buying scratch offs... everyone wants to quick get rich but only a select lucky few end up like Blackburn with a golden ticket.

Bellum_Romanum said:

The new moon manned space mission by U.S. NASA mission called Artemis will be launched this Monday, Aug. 29, 2022 with launch time at 08:30 hrs E.S.T.

This is a big deal and I for one eagerly awaits and hope for a mission success for NASA because any setbacks or failure will make the country more insecure against China's owned burgeoning space missions and ambitions propelling the already intense rivalry between these two great countries even worse.

It's highly important for this scientific with huge geopolitical development to be posted on this thread.

Here's a good description of Artemis program from WSJ

And from ABC News (U.S. entertainment channel) talking about their coverage of this upcoming big deal event.

Link from NASA's own YouTube Channel

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A true boondoggle

pipaster said:

He was a president, democracy!

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Xi and Putin are both Presidents.

daifo said:

You have to admit that the US is the land of opportunity. You can be this dumb and make it to high office

One day:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1563569979668439042

Next day:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1563626068724121600

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Sigh, after that picture with all the fat legs, I not longer can be surprised by anything anymore, except maybe how much more these idiots can continue to insult the Chinese people until they final decide enough is simply enough. For all the negative words and actions the west loves to say about China, the amount of restraint that China has into not murdering these silly little bastards is simply monumental but eventually when patience has finally run out and the USA is finally caught off guard, one much wonder what kind of hellish vengeance that China is going to inflict upon the west and quite frankly the sheer depths as to how much anger and rage that China as a collective is holding back and maybe the urge to well pay all of that back with well how many trillions of dollars does the USA owe China and are not capable of ever returning.

U.S. is giving exemption to South Korean companies on China chip ban according to this tweet and tweeter poster

Bellum_Romanum said:

U.S. is giving exemption to South Korean companies on China chip ban according to this tweet and tweeter poster

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1564037922088697857

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You all know what's coming:

Japan & Taiwanese & even American companies: "look I'm not looking for special treatment, I'm just saying I would like equal treatment as what the Koreans are getting".

I suppose if true CPC will have to put a red dot next to South Korea in the ledger.

BoraTas said:

I won't make fun of this. Because it is completely normal. Ships break down occasionally. But if this happened to one of Chinese aircraft carriers we would hear about it for years non stop.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1563890660188504066

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I don’t think it’s normal for the propellor shaft to be damaged.

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