Guh. Got this crossed with the other coup leader.
zifnab25
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Having a gold reserve means you're not exposed to a fluctuating foreign exchange rate or SWIFT sanctions cutting off your ability to borrow.
Niger can get away with it most of all because they have so much to mine. An expansionary gold supply solves the problem of growing your currency at the pace of your economy.
So it's not as bad idea on its face as it is in theory.
Wait, how is it older than the known universe?
I've gotten all of my jobs because I knew someone
I've landed a jobs because of a recruiter and a couple others from applying online. Good corporate jobs, too. But it's an enormous slog compared to having someone already in the firm who will vouch.
That said, college is a big exception to the rule precisely because of how much effort businesses make to hire directly from senior classes.
The degree matters, but surprisingly less than GPA. If you've got a 3.2 or better at a state school or big city college, it's a ticket to practically any employer in the country.
A self-fulfilling prophecy of "Arabs hate us!" rhetoric going back over two decades.
We keep bombing them and butchering them and moving massive armies to grind them under like the world is our personal Risk board. And then suddenly... omg, you guys, I think I was the victim of Anti-White Racism?! The Arabs are saying such mean things about me, all of a sudden!
she’s not the first Gen Zer to complain about feeling tricked into pursuing further education.
A growing trend in business news journals is to tell people that pursuing college degrees is some kind of trap. It is downright sinister how the response to the student debt crisis has simply been to lie to young people about their future job prospects without a college degree.
If a Fortune Magazine reporter comes at you with a microphone, remember that you are acting in self-defense when you draw and fire.
Counterpoint
I think throwing away a movie thats already been made into the garbage so it never sees the light of day is different then the initial decision to greenlight a movie in the first place.
I agree. And the "throw away a movie to claim the tax write-off" trick only really works when you're a new CEO with a bunch of old media in the hopper. WB can't do this for very long.
I just find it silly to be a fanboi for a movie you're never going to see. If Disney had trashed The Marvels or Quantumanium, this community would have been ecstatic.
Im an art maximalist.
I mean, the Hollywood model has been absolutely poisonous for the arts for ages. Losing a courtroom dramady about a cartoon character is ice cubes on the glacier.
I worry that Biden, with access to the nukes and other security issues is at risk
The nuclear button isn't a literal button. There's a bunch of layers between the President and the actual execution of a nuclear strike.
I would consider a more pressing issue that you've got people climbing the ranks that really don't think using a weapon would be so bad. And a gradient that encourages a certain kind of officer, who would sit in the room with a senile President and encourage him to take the most drastic approach.
But that's less a senile old man issue. Worked just as well on young guys like Obama and Clinton as it did old-heads like Trump and Biden.
He and Trump are both not suitable to be President
Given the state of the executive branch and the methods by which Presidents only seem capable of pointing at places on a map and ordering them demolished, I'm not really clear who IS suitable. The best you can hope for is a peacenik President. And that only saves you for four to eight years, before the next guy comes in promising to make up for lost bombings.
Okay Pentagon officials, what are you going to do about it?
In the race to produce the cheapest possible bilge, I suspect a lot of the professionalism that makes rtv shows good is getting thrown out the window right along with the higher production value art. Sort of like how every iteration of "Walking Dead" (plus the eighty hours of "Talking Dead" and associated behind-the-camera filler) got incrementally worse as they just tried to reanimate the corpse of a popular original.
It all just become a copy-of-a-copy-of-a-copy assembly line crap, because the producers thought they could squeeze a bit more blood out of the stone.
Definitely one of these two things