The cognitive decline among older populations (50+) is absolutely appalling. It’s safe to say that the average 5th grader has better critical thinking skills than the average septuagenarian.

So… why the latter can vote but not the former is a mystery to me.

The average ACT score in Florida among college-bound seniors is about 18. To be clear, that is only slightly higher than my cat can score by guessing. It’s an astonishing result. They are actually illiterate. And again, that’s the average for the state (nationally it’s around 22), and half of them do worse.

If you’ve ever tried to have a conversation with an average person… well, you can’t. There’s nothing to discuss except sports, since everything else is way too complicated. So now imagine a standard deviation lower.

Yes, because it would make the Mac worse. Nvidia GPUs are comically inefficient.

EDIT: tech illiterate shit-for-brains downvoted this comment.

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We are so lucky Nintendo sells shitty video games instead of health insurance. It could always be worse, folks.

OpenAI has entered the chat^

Let me know after you move to a region with no taxes. I’ll come kill you and take all your stuff since there’s no justice system.

I don’t care if he’s an extraterrestrial or a gerbil, eating the rich is awesome.

Evil. They’re evil.

FOREX is explicitly the market that compares the strength of competing currencies.

I’m aware of how the bond market works. What is your problem with the bond market?

“Look what you made me do!”

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Ironically, they’re the ones with the most time and education to figure out the truth. Then their own (wealthy) family will turn on them when they try for change.

Never have I seen such blatant evidence that the news media is completely made up controlled opposition bullshit.

There’s nothing to “absolve.” Feature was worthless.

As opposed to… your generous donations?

Since we are discussing dollars and not houses, that would be the FOREX market. The dollar is very strong at the moment.

The thing is… the market disagrees with you. For now. But hey, put your money where your mouth is! I’ll give you a hundred rubles for a hundred dollars. If you really think the US government is impotent and on the verge of collapse…

That’s not the point. The US has the power to extract rents; it doesn’t have to use it.

Absolutely. Speculation on the stock market used to be illegal until the 80’s, meaning that investments had to be based on a company’s tangible performance. No options (until 1973), no stock buybacks (until 1982), even the rules for short selling were different.