Late reply, I’m rarely on here but I wanted to answer you and anyone coming along in the future. US here, talking about conditioner we use to make our hair soft and shiny after using shampoo.

It’s happened a few times, no doubt with different products. The reddit thread was saying it’s because the conditioner residue dries the skin and you should wash off with soap. Funny enough, I just did this yesterday, for the first time in many months. No problem so far!

That and many other simple laws. I’ve been saying these DCs are a local government problem. Nearly every one of these building permits could be denied by city and county goverments.

I bought one! Not that brand, forget what I have, but I can’t afford to replace the carpet so I need it.

Exactly one.

Same play, everytime isn’t it?

• Ridiculous threat.

• A “deal” is made.

• Capitulation.

• “Look at what a great dealmaker I am!”

If this is apparent to a dumbass like me, I cannot see why the media cannot simply say it out loud.

In his first admin, watching his tweets was as good as watching Fox News.

I have no investments. Cashed out what little I had over the past two years of unemployment.

But you have a point in looking to opportunities. Always ways to profit from change and crisis. I’m more worried about the overall health of our individual investments. People usually aren’t hustling their money around. Most simply contribute to their Roth or IRA or whatever and let the market play out over decades, just as we were taught.

What do you get when your search “terminal”? My home rig defaults to PowerShell, but I likely changed something years ago.

I’m a Windows sysadmin, this is the exact explanation. The only other thing, and this is going way out on a limb, is that terminal was installed through the Windows Store and something related is busted. I’ve never even heard of a company utilizing the Store for installations.

Read all your comments, would like your take on the Buffett Index topping 200% for the first time (total stock market value vs. GDP). It was around 130% in 1929 and 2008.

Considering the disproportionate amount of stocks in AI, and, so far, no clear path to investors seeing a return, I’m scared shitless.

What’s your take on that bit?

Not OP, but first and foremost, on this bond thing, countries are going to have to be willing to take a beating in their own economies.

Selling off bonds is like Elon selling off Tesla. The worth/wealth disappears if the market is flooded with paper.

Another condition is in our face: The Buffett Index, which is total stock market value vs. GDP. We topped 200% for the first time a couple of weeks ago. It was around 130% in 1929 and 2008. Most of that bullshit money is in AI. We got real problems.

I am both disgusted and wanting to try one again. Even though I know damned well I’m getting corn syrup, Jägermeister, eye shadow and Cure songs in my mouth.

Why would you do this to me?!

Mainland Europe stood aside as Putin invaded their backyard. This inaction was not lost on the American fascists. See where we’re at today?

(And I am not excusing America’s lack of action, but FFS, we can’t do it ALL. And certainly can’t now…)

Makes one wonder how much they planned this out. The Epstein files could picture Trump balls deep in a 13-yo girl, nothing would happen.

The fascists have larger goals in mind. They’re speed running WWII, trying to avoid the Nazi’s mistakes, so good so far. But like the Nazis, giddy over the lack of internal or external resistance, they’re biting off more than then can chew, way too fast. Cheap gasoline at the pumps only goes so far. They’re not energizing the whole economy like the Nazis did, people aren’t feeling it.

No idea what comes next. But the American Empire is over. Our economy is just too large to fall over quickly. But AI gives us hope! (Of crashing…) The Buffett Index is higher than either during the Great Depression or the 2008 recession. We have 200%+ more fake money in the stock market than our GDP. The cost will be staggering.

Can all y’all grow potatoes? I can, but I’m not very good at it.

Many have outlined Trump’s mafia-style speech. Like the truly wealthy, the mafia is a group he admires, was never allowed into, wants to imitate.

It’s so clear I want to scream. The US watched the man make a fool of himself in the 80s and 90s, he was tabloid trash. Even The Apprentice made fun of his bombastic nature, but apparently neither Trump not his fans were in on the joke.

If Europe had fought Russia over the Ukraine, this wouldn’t be on the table. It’s clear to the world Europe won’t fight, even to defend their own backyard, so here we are.

To be clear, I fucking hate it. I have been screaming for Europe to fight back since day one, all while it was clear America was half-assing the fight. But they didn’t, the fascists gauged the reaction, now they feel free to strike.

That’s rather my point! What are we to replace a free market with? Everyone screams SOCIALISM, but no one seems to agree on what that actually means.

Shall we do the literal, textbook definition? State ownership of the means of production? That’s been a complete failure.

What we need is a capitalist economic system, reigned in by:

• Unions, to protect the workers
• Breaking and disallowing monopolies, so they never get so large as to control the government
• Democratic governments who protect us, voted in by an educated electorate

But I repeat myself. I guess the Nordic countries, and most of Europe, who act exactly as I outlined, are failures.

Spell it out then. I am willing to listen, willing to be wrong.

For all the bitching about capitalism, which basically every country on Earth uses for an economic system, we’re missing 3 key things.

• We can have unions under capitalism.
• We can break, or prevent, monopolies under capitalism.
• Our governments can protect us under capitalism.

Everything works fucking great with those 3 ingredients. Imagine that.

Well they can’t just come right out and say we want the warming, Artic shipping lanes and rare earth minerals.