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For example, forcing your bank sector to sell off a bunch of assets that are considered “risk free”, comes with consequences.

“Risk Free” tells me your mental models havent been absorbing recent changes. A US that is attacking former friends and allies and especially itself, who abandons any pretense of law and order, of the netral functioning of predictable markets in a storm of serial extortionism and undermining their own labour pools, capital markets and central banking while going on a wild spending spree of unproductive thuggery and grift. (Pauses for breath.) You call that risk free?

Don’t be the dude left holding the bag. US dollars debt and equities are poison. Contracts aren’t legally enforceable and courts don’t practice law, just applied politics.

Get out while you can. This shithole is going to collapse quickly.

Pride before the fall.

Like a Monkey’s Paw

The threat has to be credible to work. Not using it now means there is no weapon.

Nor about deals.

Good. Don’t trade with the US.

They are saving it for CUSMA “renegotiations” this year. They can play hardball all they want. Our economies are so integrated they are punching themselves in the face to show us how tough they are.

The good news, is that we will deintegrate our economies and supply chains, the bad news is it won’t happen overnight.

Tired of soft pedalling. Not a warning shot. A direct hit. Fires, storms, floods and drought have spanked cities, agriculture and displaced millions and killed millions directly and indirectly.

Le degrowth. It’s here. Are we going to manage this opportunity correctly or just let shit fall appart?

Special breed of Stupid.

Or towards. God makes no mistakes and this was his plan. Furries, Hentai, feet pics on only fans, all god’s plan.

The branch tips look suspiciously penile with a disturbing curve up.

Within a certain range of scale, speed and energy, it’s an excellent approximation of the truth.

You could have just said “Yeah.”

If we look at the way the universe behaves, quantum mechanics gives us fundamental, unavoidable indeterminacy, so that alternative histories of the universe can be assigned probability.

• Murray Gell-Mann

“it posits that the universe functions according to predictable rules”

• you

Not quite. Cosmologists accept a certain distribution of predictable phenomena within known parameters while leaving the door open to chaos, outliers, the as of yet unknown and unknowable.

Complexity theory is a model that posits components interact in multiple ways and behave according to local rules. From quantum physics to cosmology and the aspirational yet elusive grand theory of everything, science is prepared for a world weirder than we understand, and possibly weirder than we can understand.

Just because empirical evidence and the development of predictable rules are a very fruitful line of inquiry doesn’t mean we believe that is truth.

Philosophers of Science have rather lengthy volumes of work on the subject. I’m just a novice on the topic, but my take on the state of the subject is that we don’t accept science and even it’s laws as absolute truth, just a very practical, reliable, utilitarian form of inquiry and understanding which includes uncertainty (Heisenberg), probability, complexity and chaos. Scientists are prepared to abandon everything in exchange for something better.

Look at newtonian physics. No one thinks it’s the truth, it’s just simpler and useful for everyday engineering.

Consequences! Quelle surprise!

Always

You end up with more problems than you solve with squish and smoosh. These are sophisticated machines that can all too easily interfere with each others operation. The snuggle method has been proven to improve operability, lower service calls and reduce complaints

I share the sentiment, but in IR, you only change policy based on events, not rhetoric. The moment you make real changes based on shit people say, but not do, you’re just a dancing monkey while they wax lyrical.

Abacus is tactile.