Optimism bias. People failed to acknowledge a pandemic was happening until and even while it was happening in their own neighborhood and city…

When the tanks roll in they’ll still deny there’s an issue.

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The only certainty is that after Venezuela with 0 repercussions they now got the taste for it.

Think I read Germany is sending 13 soldiers.

Maybe the best solution is to build a Truman show like simulated world and contain the Trump problem in there.

Deflation is bad. Then people stop spending, postpone all purchases, economy grinds to a halt, people lose jobs and companies go bankrupt.

Hyperinflation is bad. Then people spend money like toilet paper: money becomes worthless. No one has anything left to invest or to save for pension or a big plan or dream.

The general goal of aiming for about 2% inflation is basically just there to try to prevent those two worst case scenarios from happening. It’s the least bad of all evils: money sort of keeps it’s value, evolution of product prices are rather predictable, people know what they will be able to buy with their wages. Inflation is not inherently tied to capitalism only. Socialist/communist economic experiments experience very similar phenomena.

But I enjoy fucking around with Linux

I try, I do often use rdp on work computer (windows 11) to access private computer pc (Linux)

LinOffice looks promising, thanks!

Me too!

Plenty of memory, CPU I think is still pretty good.

No never heard of before, but everyone here is suggesting it so I will check that out. Thanks

What I’ve heard is it’s mainly very single core CPU heavy, GPU not very relevant. Thanks I’m going to look into Winboat for sure, being suggested a lot here

I will look into Winboat, thanks

Bingo on the used as database ;) It’s very hard to move them away from that, I have insufficient impact on that

No, I need to work in excel so much it wouldn’t make much difference

No web version doesn’t cut it. Thanks for the tip, I’ll look into that Winboat

TIL “I’m not mad” is a death threat

The most powerful table in the UN is ruled by 5 nuclear superpowers, 3 of them are out: Russia, China, USA. A fourth (UK) has nukes which are not fully independent from the USA and basically lost their empire they had when they were given this prime seat, they are less powerful than they seem. That leaves France as sole UN defender. Weirdly you could even see China still being a somewhat stabilising factor. UN goal is indeed not to prevent all conflict, but it definitely was to contain conflict. 2/5 and maybe 3/5 want more conflict in the world, it is very clear, they want to prey on smaller, non nuclear armed countries.

Then you could also look at it in raw power: amount of nukes, ships, soldiers, missiles et cetera. In that case it’s waaaay more than 3/5th that are out, because USA military is so fucking massive and the guy at the top of that who should be in jail or dead just announced he wants to increase the size of that massive, non UN-compliant military machine by another 50%… Unless USA get their shit together ASAP, UN is useless for protecting all the smaller member states. The goal of mediating any conflict in UN is simply unachievable without USA, because they hold the (raw, military) power. It has become quite likely the UN will indeed die because the major security council members are ruled assholes. Who’s making deals about environment or climate when their neighbours/“allies” are threatening annexation and no big power reacts (worse, they’re the one anbexing)? Right: no one.

Wait why does Germany have so many church banks?