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I like to park in handicapped spaces
I like to park in handicapped spaces
Goddammit she’s a starfleet captain, not your favorite stripper
Yes, officer, this comment right here
But do they call her Beverly The Life-Saver? No, they do not.
Wait, so should I listen to the song or not?
Agreed, but a concealed weapon keeps you just as safe. Maybe even safer.
I hate this so much.
The secret ingredient is money
The sound of the largest explosion is estimated to have been 180dB at 160km distance, and SPL falls off by 6 dB for each doubling of distance, so at the commonly used 1m distance it would have been over 280 dB.
Because strident, belligerant activists don’t raise awareness, they just make people hate them. I’m sure there’s a generalizable lesson in here somewhere.
Your widow will have all of her needs taken care of
What if rolling coal were a sandwich?
Fair enough, don’t start with that article! Pinning his guy’s mistakes on the other guy is not a great look. I should have specified that his books on economics are where someone should look first, not his tabloid opinion columns. Friedman’s point about pencils was not that a command economy would be unable to produce them but rather that the free market produces them spontaneously, at low cost and in great quantity, of good quality and variety, with everyone along the way acting voluntarily and better off for having participated in the process. I don’t think an offhand comment about sand is really the best representative of his work. I think the quote from Children and Rights might actually belong to Murray Rothbard, but either way I disagree with whoever wrote it and think it’s a perfect example of someone following a generally good principle off a cliff.
That’s funny, I see large corporations as being similar to a planned economy, but bringing the same problems. Corruption is widespread and gets worse the more layers of middle management there are. Economies of scale are what save them. Internal goods and services are mispriced and misallocated because political considerations replace the price mechanism. Man, I really hated that part of my life.
Are you punishing yourself for something?
Frankly, anything explicitly marketed to American conservatives these days is mostly ragebait for stupid people and I doubt you’ll find any of it the least bit convincing. As other have mentioned, Thomas Sowell is a great place to start if you want something serious but modern and clearly written. Milton Friedman’s Free to Choose or Capitalism and Freedom are both widely recommended classics. If you managed to read Marx without dying of boredom you should also be able to get through Ludwig von Mises’ Human Action or Socialism.
I thought your review of conservatism was very fair and balanced. I give it a perfect 5/7.
Literally no serious person believes the sea level will rise by 10m in the next 26 years, that’s just looney toons. It’s an extreme scenario even if were to take 10x that long.