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Freezing investment into the country and nuclear grade austerity will always bring inflation to an almost stand still. You're literally tossing liquid nitrogen on your economy, it's absolutely going to freeze.

The IMF does not expect the Argentine economy to grow this year, but rather to decline by 3.5%, while it should start growing next year.

And this is the key aspect that usually makes people who consider this pause for a second. Because freezing your economy might solve the right now problem, it also has the ability to ice economic activity completely, triggering an economic depression. This is the "balance" so to say. The harder your freeze, the more you'll need to rewarm the markets to get your economy going again.

President Milei and the government hope that the new laws, which offer investors decades of tax and customs relief, will quickly attract capital and curb the recession.

This has always been the super tricky part of the weapons grade austerity. The what comes after part. So Milei has done it, he's cooled the markets and supply has nearly cratered in the country. The next steps is to get production back and start pesos in the country to start flowing again.

I've always been a bit irresolute about Milei's approach on the economy. I'm not against it, it's just a strategy that's playing with fire in a gun powder factory. First and foremost, I hope that the people in Argentina find economic stability, because boy do they deserve it. So to that end I hope WHOEVER succeeds in getting that done. And second, I really hope this is something that can be long lasting. Hyper austerity has a history of bad boomerang effects. It can work, it's just takes a ton of work, more than most governments are willing to invest. And so there's a big chance that we could start to see some positive only to then watch it completely crumble once again.

If I was a leader, this isn't exactly a strategy I would pick. There's just a ton of places where it can go all wrong. But I hope the guy gets it fixed once and for all. But dang, I don't know how dude is smiling in that photo because if I was going down this road I wouldn't be able to sleep properly.

The 118th Session? Yeah, we don't even have a parallel in all of the history of the US to mark how unproductive this session has been. Like not even during the Civil War was Congress this underwhelming. The 118th Session has set a new low water mark for "things gotten done".

The biggest issue was that the House spent something like ~60% of their time in Committee doing "investigations" that ultimately led nowhere. Like, I'll throw Congress a bone here, if they actually impeached someone with all those investigations, I'd give it to them. But that literally nobody was impeached all those investigations basically go into the "wasted time" column.

And they can't impeach any of them come the 119th session because... New President, new people. So all that time they invested goes to waste. Hell, even Hunter I can't give it to them, because in the end, he got a pardon. And as soon as Trump gives the J6 folks a pardon, all that work the Democrats did becomes wasted as well.

But the 118th spent the vast majority of their time in investigations, so they got so little actually done and passed.

For those looking for a quick summary, the first line in the story is the big point.

The Supreme Court yesterday rejected the broadband industry's challenge to a New York law that requires Internet providers to offer $15- or $20-per-month service to people with low incomes.

The bigger take away hearkens us to Ajit Pai days of the FCC. Pai had led the FCC to remove the rules related to 47 USC § 254. This was part of his bigger "no net neutrality" stance or as he'd put it "free market internet". As literally everyone indicated, once the FCC stated that they weren't going to put into place rules for 47 USC § 254, that opened it up for States to regulate.

Which gets us to the ISP argument that they lost on:

Second, the ABA is not conflict-preempted by the Federal Communications Commission's 2018 order classifying broadband as an information service. That order stripped the agency of its authority to regulate the rates charged for broadband Internet, and a federal agency cannot exclude states from regulating in an area where the agency itself lacks regulatory authority. Accordingly, we REVERSE the judgment of the district court and VACATE the permanent injunction.

— Second Circuit's original ruling

Yes, you read that correctly. The ISPs were making the argument that the law 47 USC § 254 was still in place and thus preempted any State law. To which the Courts indicated that the Federal government literally indicated that they were no longer enforcing that law so it would be up to the States to enforce it. The ISP's central argument was that State could only regulate if the FCC removed the rule. Which if you've been following, in 2002 SAME TRADE GROUP made the argument that State's couldn't regulate as the Internet is an Interstate issue that can only be handled by Congress.

Literally the ISPs and their trade group are trying to get into a legal catch-22 here.

The biggest thing ISPs are trying to avoid is this universal service rate, because this is usually how things start before they become utility. And ISPs are seeing this as "if we don't stop this now, we're going down a road of utility Internet". Which they would not like.

All I have to say is that, it's good SCOTUS dropped this because the trade group has been double talking this issue to death. This hardly ends the case, it just means the ISPs will need to look for a new avenue for blocking, which given the Trump administration coming in, they'll have plenty of new legal in-roads built for them.

So this is FAR from the last we're hearing about this issue.

Gerry Connolly, born in 1950, regularly inside trades on his information, is from the affluent Fairfax County, voted down the AHCAA so we got the watered down ACA.

And on top of all of that. Dude announced in November of this year he had advanced esophageal cancer, which prognosis for it is already really fucking poor. But no, on all of that he was like, "Nah FUCK AOC, I'm putting my hat in once more." Dude represents everything that is broken with the Democratic party to a tee.

Some have suggested that the Deep State is already seeking to undermine Trump’s second presidency by plotting a civil war or scheming ways to prevent him from entering the White House

Because they are, and this is the really important part, FUCKING IDIOTS WHO SAY DUMB SHIT.

This is the shit that gets me upset. Back in the early 90s there was this group online, had an IRC chat room and everything, that would wax prophetic about pyramids, exotic matter, the Kennedy's, and the Pentagon. NO ONE FUCKING WROTE ARTICLES ABOUT THEIR DUMB ASSES. Because they were idiots.

"Some have suggested" WHO?! Name and shame or shut the fuck up about it. Articles like this just fucking make idiots look bonafide. This isn't an us vs them situation. This is like eight people who are detached from reality saying crazy ass shit and some outlet reporting it on a slow news day.

I swear one day, I hope, media will see how fucking twisted they themselves have made this god-forsaken planet. What they draw from it, I know not what, but hopefully a bit of "damn maybe we should chill a bit" is in the cards.

Faith.

Same reason I don't cite poor farmers giving to Trump's presidency.

Faith in an idea is a powerful motive. The poorer you are the more you rely on faith rather ability and/or resources. Literally take a political science 101 class. Belief that something is right or true is like 99% of how organized humanity works.

Exactly. Like I'm going to feel whatever for the opposite side of the aisle here. But the fuckers who looked at the state of affairs outside and was like "nah, fuck it". Oooo, that's a whole other feeling that's not pleasant one bit.

I do really hope that everyone understands that the default nature of the universe is to be undone, including the niche that humanity inhabits, and that are continued still being here state requires some input from us. Get up off your collective asses and do something for fucks sake. Somehow I don't believe it's a tall task to press a fucking button. Which one we can debate, but at least PUSH ONE OF THEM.

Nobody knew health care could be so complicated

— President Trump (February 27, 2017)

I mean if nobody got the message he wasn't going to anything. Being direct this time isn't going to help. Literally didn't even fucking LOCK HER UP like he said he would. Don't even get me started on his tax return, still waiting on that, likely will happen on infrastructure week.

Anything that guy says is just utter shit.

Oh man tell me about it. The ones who voted Trump, yeah. But the vast majority that decided to stay home? I have less savory words for.

Too filled with rage to starve to death.

Article gives zero reasons. I'll add my opinion. Newness factor. Not having the meta settled, the lack of map knowledge, etc. Just all the things that circle the "new" of such a game drives the folks at the moment. It's got the feel of early OW when you just picked your person, got on a map, and did the objective not really knowing anything.

It's yet to see how the balance patching goes for the game and how new characters for the game go. I'll say the game does one thing out the gate better than OW2 and that's the reduced FOMO in the game related to battle pass. You buy the battle pass, you have infinite time to complete it. Now you can't sit the fence on if to buy the BP or not, hence my "reduced FOMO", but this is one of those things they've started doing in a lot of other games like Halo and what not, and it's something that I think Blizzard should do for OW. But I don't think that alone is going to turn the tide massively.

But I will say that Rivals and OW2 are absolutely proving the F2P is here to stay as a model for games. So I really think those in the OW community who were salty about OW2 swapping over have basically lost the war on the topic.

Again, all my 2¢, and I'm not claiming to be some scion of knowledge in the gaming industry. Just letting you know my feels.

Not exactly related to this, but I find it incredibly interesting the sheer level of media coverage on the shooter, when compared to media's supposed new rule of trying not to linger too much on the shooter least copy-cats get made.

The last five days has been a deep dive into this person's hunt, social media accounts, and a complete life bio. Like cops are going to toss him into jail, but this guy hit rock star status and it's got the feels of we're going to see this again down the road.

I don't condone the dude's actions, but goddamn has everyone including law enforcement made this man shine brighter than any shooter that has come before. If law enforcement plans on having some sort of backburn narrative getting out but shit like this, where the guy acted on pain.

That starts transcending the guy himself. That makes it a lot harder to prevent McVeigh style inspiration for retribution. We had the Ruby Ridge / Waco spawn the OKC Bombings because those events stirred ideas, so the people themselves became less important to the narrative. Columbine's major memory was one that was alluring to disaffected youth that continued to be largely ignored.

The toothpaste is coming out of the tube on this shit. If law enforcement is going to get a handle on this situation, they're going to need to start picking up the pace. Senator Fetterman's hot take of "news media is just shitty" on a story about how this was inevitable has been largely seen as clears throat:

Wow they're all fucking disconnected from reality

Like it's not some new science that if you back into a corner a wild animal, it's likely going to strike. The fact that Senators are THIS blind to their failures to address this issue that both of them continually indicate they want to solve, is unsurprising, but holy shit that's the kind of shit that turns words into gasoline on an already raging fire.

No shortage of shitty takes on the 2024 election or on this assassination

— Sen. Fetterman (via Twitter)

Yes, excellent choice of words to ignore how Congress for the last three and a half fucking decades has continued to FAIL over and over again on fixing this problem. No need to look at this event as yet another failure of Congress to do their fucking job correctly or anything like that. It has to be the various shitty opinions at fault here.

But the media has stories they need to hype up so that you'll put money in their pocket and Congress will just continue to do their favorite past time of pointing fingers until the heat death of the universe. All the while they'll look at each other befuddled on how the next one of these could have possibly happened?

I find all of this wildly interesting in how most of them professed not too long ago that they had learned their lesson to only show, yet again, no they didn't. But that's about par for people who have long since become comfortable with their positions of wealth and power, there comes a point where feelings and the emotions of the masses just no longer appear on their radar. When you stop giving two shits about anyone else but yourself, every wrong looks like someone else's fault. For Fetterman, I hope his ass gets primaried, one can only hope.