I sure hope they can keep them from shaking so much.

Yeah, this is basically a gimmick with bad side effects.

Most people don’t give a shit about Twitter. It only has about 250 million users—less than the total population of the United States despite the fact that it is a world-wide service. The problem is that, in the US at least, it has completely captured the media. Every journalist, every writer, every photographer,…

Disappointed. Wanted more crushing action. All that happened is it was grabbed by the crane, then it hung in the air for 20 seconds or so, then it went off screen. Sure, it’s a fine car and I wish I had one, but the video is pretty boring. I came for the destruction and didn’t really get it.

My hometown—Springfield, MO, population 160,000—started building diverging diamonds a few years ago. They’re actually really rad.

Not particularly creative, but a couple basic stories. I had a Jeep Wrangler for a long time. Toward the end of my ownership of it, I was living in Texas, where it’s sunny most of the time. But, you know, it still rains. Anyway, I left the top down for long periods of time. I figured, ahh, fuck it, it has drain holes.…

You’re thinking of Jamiroquai White.

That discount isn’t big enough.

Ferrari — For the pure Asshole

How can the approach and departure angles be higher if the wheelbase didn’t grow as much as the overall length? That really doesn’t make sense to me.

Others did come up with the idea first. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantity_theory_of_money

If you’re unwilling to back up your arguments, get off the internet. Marx said a lot of things in Capital, that doesn’t mean that those things were the actual inspiration for the policies put in place by governments during the Great Depression. The idea that increasing the monetary supply would reduce commodity…

I will, because you have presented no evidence to the contrary. I’m wrong a lot of the time. That doesn’t bother me so much. What bothers me is when people make stuff up or imagine something without really looking into it. So, tell me, what is the evidence that Marx inspired countries to leave the gold standard 50…

No, I’m telling you that the decision to leave the gold standard was not inspired by Marxism.

Dumb. The Federal Reserve is part of the US Government. Welcome to reality.

You have an odd notion of history. Karl Marx born 1818, died 1883. US began using a gold standard in 1879, went off the gold standard during the Great Depression in 1933 (50 years after Marx died), and finally ended the gold standard in 1971. Doesn’t really line up.

The problem with your argument is that the dollar isn’t going away, no matter how many are printed, because the US government accepts it as payment of taxes. It’s not a free-floating thing. The government isn’t saying that a dollar is worth a dollar. Rather it’s saying that it will accept dollars in payment of debts…

Not really. The extraneous utility of an object does not affect whether it is a currency or not. States used gold and silver as currencies for a long time. Gold and silver clearly have other utility. All you’re really proving is that, as this article argues, Bitcoin is fake. Fake fakity fake. The only reason it has…

If I opened a shop and put up a sign saying “Now accepting kernels of corn!” that would not make corn into a currency. The US government recognizes bitcoin as a commodity. You’re talking about barter.

Should have given it T-Tops. Pretty sure Chevy didn’t trademark that.