"John Ganz is a Stalinist, Marxist, Leninist, Trotskyist and Pol Potist. There’s really no better word for what he is. For some reason, people have a lot of trouble grasping this or just coming out and saying it."
"Where does John Ganz speak from?" (Also a famous Marxist strategy to disqualify the opponent.)
Does this open a debate or disqualify and vilify the author?
Why is attacking the person instead of his ideas getting the norm? Lake of arguments? Standardization of activism? Bolsheviks' tactics (Make them swallow the word, they will swallow the thing.)?
Jerome Powell announced an important factor for you during the last FOMC meeting: "We can't allow a wage price spiral to happen."
This means that the FED will certainly increase the unemployment rate and put pressure on companies. Why? Because they do not want a 70s type of inflation auto-fueled by wage increases which is actually already the case in the US but not in Europe.
During a time of layoffs, HR uses generally a LIFO (Last In First Out) list. => Changing job adds risk.
As several have noted: Work is not an individual sport (Forget the tv shows). You need allies. Working on your social skills will increase your income faster than changing job. And it will decrease your probabilities to be fire if (when?) a recession hits.
I can only see a list of suffering people without expected outcome: North Korea, Venezuela, Iran, URSS, Cuba, etc.
(Genuine question to History geeks) Do we have an exemple of mass sanctions on a country that worked? Why are we repeating strategies that do not seem to work?
Theses sanctions seems to be designed to only short term please the people/voters/journalists of the sanctioning countries but are terrible to the sanctioned country/people long term without solving anything.
Why not punishing only the government: cancel all visas to the people working in the gov and especially their family. So no more rich gov kids in Western universities, etc.
I find a little unfair to punish people to push them in the streets and have them arrested, tortured or "administratively" punished (remember what happen after the Turkey coup in 2016? Military were punished but also many people working in the public sector.)
(Swiss speaking) What is important is that the vote/referendum process must be slow. Very slow.
We often see a trendy referendum being launched because of an event. Years later when we finally have to vote about it, we realize that it was only an historical parenthesis.
Soft plastics on my nikon are an issue. I have noticed that they tend to deteriorate quickly on beach holidays. I suspect it is a combination of Sun, residues of solar cream on the hands and the salt in the air.
In France, during the whole year 2020, people were told that the hospital infrastructure was overloaded because of COVID.
Actually, the final report shows that COVID patients represented 2% (!!!) of the total hospitalized... And only 5% (!?!?) of what they call "critical care"...
This report from the ATIH (Official agency) was published in october 2021.
My neighbor is Turkish (very good job). We often speak about inflation (because he recently came here and discovered almost zero inflation).
Sometimes he gives me examples of the consequences of high inflation in the little details of daily life. It is scary and frightening.
What people do not grasp is that high inflation kill all planification (even holidays, buy sometime "big" like a TV, meeting with friends, long term subscription, etc).
Because of it the reliability of business decreases as everbody is thinking short term and is acting at the last moment. How can you execute a big project if you do not know if the unpredictible inflation value will make it impossible or even kill your company? How do you handle an order if the customer cannot pay because the price went up? Or if the inflation eats all your margin, what do you do?
And of course I am not speaking about the negative impacts on the general mood, hopes, etc. on people.
I live in an area were most of the houses (+2 flats) use pellet (also in summer for hot water production). The air quality drastically dropped. It really "burns" the lungs some days.
I suspect that:
- combustion is not properly done most of the time and there is no need to have filters in the chimney.
- some pellets must not contain only "clean" wood
We are only waiting to move to a place with single familly houses because (in my area) they mainly migrate from petrol-gaz to solar energy (thermal) and heat pump (water-water).
Adding tags/topics has been a constant requested workaround to allow some filtering since almost the begining of HN.
Never understood the rejection.
PS: I have always read that it opens mind to other subjects. When I have enough time I agree, but when very busy I would favor some filtering to save precious time.
"Where does John Ganz speak from?" (Also a famous Marxist strategy to disqualify the opponent.)
Does this open a debate or disqualify and vilify the author?
Why is attacking the person instead of his ideas getting the norm? Lake of arguments? Standardization of activism? Bolsheviks' tactics (Make them swallow the word, they will swallow the thing.)?