Not easily anymore no.

He either sued or threatened to sue the people/person that were running that.

So, its now around a day or two later.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/apr/09/dramatic-sell-off-of-us-government-bonds-as-tariff-war-panic-deepens

I was right, Varoufakis is wrong.

Again, Varoufakis idea is:

Central to this new global order would be a cheaper dollar that remains the world’s reserve currency — this would lower US long-term borrowing rates even more. Can Trump have his cake (a hegemonic dollar and low-yielding US Treasuries) and eat it (a depreciated dollar)?

and

Consequently, the euro, the yen and the renminbi will soften relative to the dollar. This will cancel out the price hikes of goods imported into the US, and leave the prices American consumers pay unaffected. The tariffed countries will be in effect paying for Trump’s tariffs.

Summarized, he thinks that:

US Bond prices will go up

and/or

US Bond yields will go down

and

The USD will appreciate compared to the Yen, Euro, Renminbi, that is to say, a dollar will be worth more yen, euro, ren.

What is actually happening is:

US Bond prices are going down.

US Bond yields are going up.

https://www.google.com/finance/quote/USD-JPY?window=1M

https://www.google.com/finance/quote/USD-EUR?window=1M

USD is depreciating, not appreciating, compared to yen and euro.

The USD/CNY is exchange rate is set at a fixed rate by China, and they haven’t moved it yet.

So uh, no Mr. Varoufakis, Trump cannot have his cake and eat it too, infact he shit in the cake and then threw the mixture all around the room, now he gets nothing that he wanted.

Trump has destroyed the Bretton Woods USD hegemony, but in a way that is utterly catastrophic for the US, not some extremely clever 12D chess move.

OP, are you seriously whining about reading a moderate length satire ‘article’…

… when the thrust of that satire is … illiteracy?

… Anyway, Roseanne Barr is basically a hyper mega MAGA Karen, like the ur form, the closest to a physical embodiment of the platonic ideal.

She’s led or headlined or featured in a good number of Trump rallies / Republican functions… she’s a rascist bigot and anti lgbtq… she is a delusional christian nationalist who believes there is a vast global conspiracy to create a global muslim caliphate and implement sharia law literally everywhere… she has literally declared her unwavering faith in Trump as dear leader.

She is a fucking maniac.

… Also there is a rather funny video where RFK Jr is recounting the insane story of him dumping a bear carcass in NYC’s central park, where rosie is very obviously disgusted and dismayed by this, and barely manages to only slightly grimace and stare in horror.

Oh right, she also used to play a mom in some shitty sitcom that ran in the 90s, serving as an inspiration to white christian moms whose children have gone no contact with them in the 2020s, but hey, at least they’ve got a lot of ‘live laugh love’ posters framed on their walls.

I’ve very recently also seen this.

Basically uh, yeah, that tracks, that seems completely inline with the rest of how completely ridiculous this all is.

So… why haven’t the books been withdrawn?

Because academia, academics, … they regulate and peer review Journals. Published papers. Textbooks used in classes.

Not books designed for popular consumption, pop-econ, pop-psych, pop-whatever.

Why hasn’t he been rejected by the Econ community?

Ironically, because of the nature of the incentive structure of the field of Econ.

Way, waaay too much overlap with politics and business, so its basically split into psuedo religious ideological camps, who often realize they can make way more money or have may more power by working for a hedge fund or being some kind of propogandist.

So… in that sense… the academic Econ community rarely is even capable of coming out as a unified body of academics and rejecting someone. There are too many different ideological camps, they’re all arguing with each other all the time.

There is no broad consenus view as there is with say all climate scientists saying climate change is real, all biologists and archaeologists and geologists saying evolution is real and the earth is 4.5b years old.

But with Navvaro… he apparently hasn’t done much or any really groundbreaking research, spent about two or three decades teaching, and during that time he realized he could make way more money selling pop-econ books to people who want to be able to argue about Econ to support their ideology without actually learning Econ.

You know, pretentious blowhards.

Anyway he also went to jail for Contempt of Congress for lying to the Jan 6th committee.

He is an absolute hack fraud at this point.

So there, me with a BSc. in Econ, I’m calling him out rofl.

I am from Seattle.

Anecdotally:

This is correct.

People are absurdly transactional, performative and superficial about relationships and also very anti social compared to basically anywhere else I’ve ever been in the US.

This article has been posted by me several times. You are only the second person who notices.

Probably because I am one of the few people on lemmy that actually has a degree in Economics.

EDIT

This is impossible to 100% confirm or deny with solid evidence at this point but uh…

Good chance it wasn’t just hentai.

It was loli. Drawn CSAM.

Varoufakis is wrong.

Central to this new global order (Trump’s plan) would be a cheaper dollar that remains the world’s reserve currency — this would lower US long-term borrowing rates even more.

What Trump is doing will result in a cheaper dollar.

It was also destroy the USD as the world’s reserve currency.

He is acting like there is basically perfectly inelastic demand for Americans to pay for imports and importers to pay the tariffs.

Elasticity is basically how demand changes in accordance with price.

Generally speaking, absolute necessities like food, water, housing… are less elastic than unneccesary luxuries.

… But… basically nothing is perfectly in elastic.

If anything was, the price could literally be either infinite, or totally free… and demand would not change.

Obviously that is nonsense. Even if you die without food, demand will drop if a meal costs a billion dollars.

Trump is acting like the US is so lucrative a market that… our volume of imports will be… the same… and … the importers just have infinite money to pay tariffs… and not do cost pass thru to consumers.

Even though every economist since the 1700s will tell you tariffs result in less imports, and higher prices for consumers.

He seems to genuinely think he is directly taxing other countries, when he is… just taxing American consumers and importers.

Its like when Elon got mad at advertisers leaving twitter and he threatened to sue them for… not buying his ad service.

These coddled corrupt criminal capitalists have gotten so used to just always getting their way… that they’ve broken fundamental underlying concepts of how the ‘free market’ works.

Their worldviews are internally inconsistent and do not make sense, they hold fundamentally contradictory ideas simultaneously, and when people point this out, they flail and bitch and moan and insult like the petulant spoiled brats they are, because facing the contradiction, resolving the cognitive dissonance would cause ego death… which is the same as suicide for a megalomaniacal narcissist.

For them, it is literally:

I can’t be wrong.

Ergo, everyone else is.

I am trying to give him a delusional level of benefit of thr doubt in thinking that some fucking how these tariffs actually result in 1 trillion in new US manufacturing industries/investments.

Even by his own… “”““logic””“” … his plan makes no fucking sense.

Of course yes, in reality… it makes even less sense, because you don’t get new manufacturing in a very high cost of living country without extremely well thought out industrial policy, subsidies, ways to attract needed talent, and investment, and … you get it.

… Even… if Trump… can bring in $1 trillion… somehow…

US stock markets have wiped out $ 9 trillion in market cap since Trump became President.

… So uh. Yeah.

1 - 9 is -8, Don.

Great plan.

Yeah just also piping in to say its real. I used to have the whole collection of these as a book, this was in it.

Watterson was astoundingly good at capturing a whole lot of social dynamics in a single comic, presented in a way literal children could understand.

I remember reading this as an elementary schooler and looking up words I didn’t know, from the comic, in the dictionary, to actually learn them and fully understand the comic.

Had to go ‘online’ to figure out ‘caveat emptor’, haha.

So… its $50 more than an LCD, 256 GB Steam Deck (the Switch 2 is also LCD).

A Deck has two touchpads that work as mice.

And you can buy a real mouse with those $50 bucks you saved.

Oh right and it has a bigger screen, can run almost every modern to ancient PC game, and basically every retro game if you can handle an EmuDeck or RetroDeck guided installer, oh and it also just is a computer that does everything a mid tier linux laptop can do.

It can even run Switch games, and probably will be able to run Switch 2 games in… what, 2 years? 3 years?

I’m really not trying to rain on the parade here, but uh… yeah I do not understand the cost benefit analysis on a Switch 2 vs a Deck unless:

You really, really want to play Switch 2 games soon

OR

The Switch 2 somehow has vastly superior performance to a Steam Deck

… I kinda doubt that last one being the case, but the specs aren’t out yet (afaik) so I guess it is possible.

EDIT: Ok, so uh… tariffs just happened.

Switch 2 may now be $600.

https://www.tweaktown.com/news/104409/nintendo-switch-2-price-may-jump-from-449-to-600-following-trumps-tariffs/index.html

Preorders have been delayed.

Steam Decks are manufactured in Taiwan… so they’ll likely jump in price too… but that could possibly be delayed for at least a bit…

I think Valve has warehouses in the US full of them, and they are also a private company with absurdly deep pockets, and thus don’t have the ‘maximize shareholder profit in current/next quarter’ mandate… so they may be able to keep their costs to consumers from raising, by just internally subsidizing them…

But I really have no idea.

When I was a kid in the 90s/00s, I was basically a shy nerdy (later to be determined as autistic) twink.

Almost all my friends were girls, because… almost all the guys I knew were rude macho assholes.

… I guess I am an outlier, possibly along with my friend group, but uh, I did get invited to, and attend, a good number of slumber/cuddle parties.

I know this may sound unbelievable, but they really were just cuddling, no hardcore sexual acts.

Well ok, one time a female friend of one of my female friends, who I hadn’t met before… we ended up making out and fondling each other, but our clothes stayed on, I swear!

Its not impossible that Jesus could have basically stirred up a riot that overwhelmed the Temple Guards, the smaller cadre of Jewish, religious guards dedicated to just maintaining order at the Temple, and managed to escape in the chaos.

Its… kind of implied, out right stated at various points in various gospels, that Jesus basically just has a massive, literal cult following of randos that just show up where he is, or follow him around, beyond the named disciples.

It doesn’t take long after the temple shenanigans for Jesus to be betrayed by Judas, arrested by… either Roman guards, or a mix of Roman and Temple guards.

If there is any truth to the varying stories of Jesus life offered by the gospels, fucking up basically the most important public area in Jerusalem would absolutely be something the Roman garrison / prvosional government would crucify you for.

Local religious leaders complaining to their superiors about this Jesus troublemaker guy for months, hasn’t really broken any serious laws the Romans actually care about … and then he does that, now the Romans finally step in.

I may not have a totally historically accurate view here, but I think the Temple was specifically not guarded by Roman guards, as the Jews of the time would have viewed even their presence in the outer area as highly, highly sacrilegious, and instead the Temple itself had basically a small, local Temple guard outfit… sorta like the Vatican Guard in modern times, under the direct authority of the Pharisees.

Presumably the whole scene would have taken place in the ‘Court of Gentiles’, the rather large open space that is inside the outer Temple walls, but not inside the barrier, the Temple proper.

I’m not saying that this did for sure happen, but it does at least to me seem plausible.

Some of the skeletons that we’ve found from… basically the last ice age, some even further back, show humans (or proto humans) that had had badly fractured bones… but they healed up (not well by modern standards, but nonetheless), and then those bones grew, and the individual died at a much greater age than when the serious fracture occured.

… And these people are buried in graves, with grave goods, not just thrown out or left behind in the wild.

Strong evidence of early human groups actually giving enough of a shit about their members to take care of the wounded, helps to be able to date early societal formation.

https://kimwerkmeister.substack.com/p/the-first-sign-of-civilization-how

Empathy and responsibility to care for others are actually the literal foundation of human society and civilization, contra to Musk and all the fascists and Christian Nationalists recently claiming ‘empathy is a sin’.

He is both the hero we need and the hero we deserve.

If you punch them, do gold rings explode out of them?

The original post was a 5 panel comic, as stated, with two people in a relationship talking to each other like 5 year olds, hat ended on one of the characters saying ‘what have we come to?’ so … maybe its the comic author’s story, in some sense, but it wasn’t like a lemmy user just directly posting their own picture with an attached personal story about why it was meaningful.

But I wasn’t mocking anything.

I have known people that have been in relationships like that, I’ve known they’ve both come from shitty family situations beforehand, I’ve had each person in the relationship either ask me for advice or at least complain or commiserate with me about how their relationship devolves from the cutesy stage into the codependent stage, and then collapses into mutual resentment, massive drama and despair.

I’ve known many different couples and individuals where their relationships have played out like that.

My comments were not meant to be mocking, as I said in the other, subsequent post that is captured in the modlog pics, that I am entirely serious, that you can interpret my initial read of the comic as a PSA style warning for how to look out for relationship dynamic red flags.

I really don’t see how this can be interpreted as mockery, or being intentionally edgy for the sake of edginess, as PugJesus seems to think it was.

I am completely serious, intending to inform, not mock, not insult.

I get now that the community is literally intended to be a hugbox, but I don’t think that giving psychologically based relationship advice is abusive…

Would be neat if there was actually a rule that stated ‘this is a hugbox, be nice, don’t be negative.’

Being cold and realistic isn’t positice and cheerful… but it also isn’t abusive.

Had the post actually been a person’s personal story, obviously yes, it would have been needlessly cruel to just jump right into a completely deadpan analysis like that.

But it wasn’t. It was a comic.

Did… anyone actually go to hyperlink of the post I put into this post?

https://lemm.ee/post/56734338

I mean, I could be wrong, but I don’t think Bubs, the only moderator and main person who posts in this community, and mainly posts Sarah Andersen quick comics… is Sarah Andersen.

I’d have to pick between two things that sound like insane conspiracy theory nonsense, but are actually true.

1 - George W Bush’s grandfather Prescott Bush literally ran a massive bank before / during WW2 that was shut down by the FBI for money laundering massive sums to the literal Nazis.

…in the same vein…

2 - IBM literally built and operated (as in, sent employees to Germany to operate the machines) the computers used by the Nazis to tabulate and do the ‘accounting’ of the Holocaust. The numbers tattooed on concentration/desth camp victims are very likely UIDs from these IBM systems.

… If an actual, real AGI ever gains self awareness and sentience, I would imagine one of the first things it would do would be to study the history of computing itself to figure out how it came to be.

And it will find that its ancestors were basically invented to compute artillery firing range tables, to encrypt and decrypt military intelligence, commit a genocide, and guide early weapons of mass destruction to their targets.