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  • March 14, 2016 at 1:06 PM in reply to: Mortgage shenanigans #795685
    spdrun
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    Piggyback loans are nothing new.

    March 13, 2016 at 4:55 PM in reply to: Reasons I cannot vote for Trump #795644
    spdrun
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    Sounds like there are fucking idiots in Germany too.

    March 13, 2016 at 10:18 AM in reply to: Reasons I cannot vote for Trump #795628
    spdrun
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    Nope. Sanders would be the most reasonable government.

    Americans are generally authoritarian cop-huggers at heart, no matter how much they quack about liberty. Sanders is fundamentally an anti-authoritarian who recognizes that coercion can come from corporations as well as government.

    A good counterpoint to the authoritarian teabaggery of the average American schmoe.

    March 12, 2016 at 11:20 AM in reply to: Reasons I cannot vote for Trump #795616
    spdrun
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    Fact is that NOW, their economy is tied to oil/mineral prices. What happens in 10-15 years is anyone’s good guess.

    March 12, 2016 at 10:44 AM in reply to: Reasons I cannot vote for Trump #795614
    spdrun
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    They’re also heavily based on resource extraction — their economy is less diverse than the US. Dirty little secret.

    March 12, 2016 at 9:32 AM in reply to: Reasons I cannot vote for Trump #795612
    spdrun
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    Also, who’s to say that you (or your kids) won’t fall in love with a Muslim or Latino and marry them? You never know who your family will be in the future.

    March 11, 2016 at 7:18 PM in reply to: Reasons I cannot vote for Trump #795605
    spdrun
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    Interestingly, no one in Brasil appears to care about his rhetoric, but maybe that’s because they consider themselves “better” than other Latin Americans 🙂

    March 11, 2016 at 5:39 PM in reply to: OT: Predictions for 2016 Presidential Election #795597
    spdrun
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    But Hillary will be the nominee.

    Unless the rumors about her ill health are true, of course, and that cough is really lung cancer. Maybe Sanders donors should chip in and send her packs of unfiltered Camels.

    March 11, 2016 at 5:33 PM in reply to: Interest rates #795595
    spdrun
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    There’s not expected to be a rate rise at next week’s meeting. But let’s hope that lack of QE3 will be enough economic chemotherapy to temper growth.

    March 11, 2016 at 4:14 PM in reply to: OT: VW accused of evading emission tests #795591
    spdrun
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    They already have high-end marques. They’re called Audi and Bugatti.

    March 11, 2016 at 2:12 PM in reply to: Interest rates #795588
    spdrun
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    Which rates? FED rates, foreign bank rates, mortgage rates, savings rates? 🙂

    All are not tied together.

    March 11, 2016 at 8:08 AM in reply to: OT: VW accused of evading emission tests #795577
    spdrun
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    Diesels = less CO2 emissions. If they add a bit to smog, so? Smog might block enough light to temper the greenhouse effect 🙂

    March 11, 2016 at 6:43 AM in reply to: OT: Robocrash #795573
    spdrun
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    Maybe North Korea will EMP us before then, setting the state of tech back 50 years, and we won’t have to worry about this crap.

    March 11, 2016 at 6:42 AM in reply to: Whatever happened to rising interest rates? #795574
    spdrun
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    Consumption is a disease.
    Growth is a cancer.

    Stagnation is better. We have it well enough, no point to grow.

    March 10, 2016 at 1:55 PM in reply to: OT: Robocrash #795553
    spdrun
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    No. Operating in the real world, not the sanitized techdweeb world.

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