“Historically the world is at its most peaceful when trade is the most free.”

This is a bad idea, but also laughable that the EU is harping on others about protectionism given that the EU’s entire purpose was to create a protectionist Europe (in addition to a single European state).

In my experience, high schools sports, both on the field and in the stands are some of the most acrimonious scenarios you can attend that aren’t soccer games with large hooligan contingents (or the parking lot of Dodgers Stadium).

I don’t mean that I actually believe that to be the case, but the above sentence confused who is claiming to the be the victim.

“That woman behind the camera is possessed by the spirit of Chaos”

I am a laugh riot at parties, assuming most people understand the joke. For those who don’t, allow me to explain it. Author makes a hot take that I actually disagree with. I respond with what appears to be a serious, but is actually a joking response regarding media distrust. Humor ensues.

Banking and investment allows pretty much every business in the world the to operate. I find it generally laughable that you don’t understand the value add of being able to take out a loan to start a business or buy a home or receive capital to grow your business. This just scratches the surface...

I am chubby, but have excellent jacket and boot game. Women will regularly wear form fitting clothes regardless of the weather (god bless them). Fall for the win!

“Give me a brisk late September or give me death!”

“Rather than a nice prolonged spring—which is objectively the best season”

Not concern trolling. Illustrating the obvious flaw that you think most wealth and power is a functional of structure that keeps the wealth in a specific group of elite’s hands. Since that doesn’t appear to be accurate, the narrative falls apart. I genuinely disagree with your examination of power because power is…

Not to burst your bubble, but if you even do a cursory google, around 80% of millionaires are the first generation of wealth in their family along with 62% of billionaires being self made. If most of our ridiculously wealthy people earned that money as opposed to inheriting, are you just using Marxist dialectic to…

It doesn’t really though. The word you are looking for is ethical. Morals are individual. Ethics are societal/cultural. Also, it is laughable to use the phrases privilege and power at the same time as personal responsibility. The former is a collectivist narrative that doesn’t believe in personal responsibility while…

1. A sophistical and unfalsifiable form of argument that attempts to overcome an opponent by inducing a sense of guilt and using the opponent’s denial of guilt as further evidence of guilt.

So Michael is saying that journalists are disingenuous assholes who will rip the context from a statement to specifically defame someone? Because in context of Michael’s media landscape argument, he is basically agreeing that the media landscape is such that they can’t be trusted to report on reality.

Agreed. This isn’t very hard when you realize that pretty much every person views themselves as good and fair-minded. It would be bizarre for someone to not trust themselves (although quite right for us to not trust them).

It makes perfect sense to him, because he thinks he is a good powerful person. We shouldn’t trust him, but it would be really weird for him to not trust himself. There are very few people who don’t think that they are fair-minded.

What are you referring to when you say oversight? Because I am talking about making sure the contractor is meeting their contractual agreements and hitting project milestones. Also, making sure a system does what it is purported to do.

To make this the most deadly storm in history, wouldn’t you need to retroactively use the same modeling process for all historical storms? Otherwise, you are comparing two completely different types of data sets.

Uh, accountability and oversight are usually not the problem around cost and speed. It is scoping the project accurately at the start. The issue with acquisition re cost and speed comes from change of scope that blindside the projects. We also suck at accountability and oversight, but that leads to more cost, not…