Banks love cash-only businesses. Cash-only businesses are their profit center. Credit cards have very small profits in comparison. I bet you have been told differently. Let me explain… I’m walking around Brooklyn, and there are two restaurants of comparable quality competing with each other. One of them has an ATM which will charge me up …
Monthly Archives: December 2024
Consent
Every relationship, romantic or otherwise, has an assumed base level of consent. There is always going to be some level of interaction which doesn’t require constant asking in order for the relationship to work. i know we are in an era where we are somehow expected to ask verbal permission every time for everything, but …
Vote SPD
German coalition collapses, and an election will be held in February. https://www.dw.com/en/german-election-scholz-loses-confidence-vote/live-71063891 Germans have three realistic options for their next chancellor: Option 1: The CDU, direct descendants of the party die Zentrum from the Drittes Reich, and the party that denied Ukraine and Georgia NATO membership in 2008. They are fully responsible for the chaos …
Refugees and internal border controls
To be clear, I support border controls between US states when the number of illegal guns crossing the border puts the lives of citizens at risk. However, the current Schengen border controls do not make anyone in the Schengen area safer. The number of migrants entering the European Union has indeed increased since 2021. It …
Romania and Bulgaria join Schengen
This is a map of the northern hemisphere as of today, but starting on January 1st, it will change to the following: Congratulations to Romania and Bulgaria on joining the Schengen Area on January 1st. I hope more countries will join in the future. https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2024/12/12/romania-and-bulgaria-are-granted-full-schengen-membership-with-one-caveat I hope Ukraine will win the war in the next …
Weber was right
https://ourworldindata.org/literacy https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/mean-years-of-schooling-long-run Data on literacy going back to the beginning of the Renaissance tells a very important story. Main points: The United Kingdom and the Netherlands were the first countries to see a mass adoption of literacy in from 1550-1650. The United States had a high level of literacy from our founding. This is due …
Spot the difference
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/armed-groups-in-syria-carry-out-summary-executions-in-lataki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dachau_liberation_reprisals Killing officers of a deposed despotic regime is not a war crime.
How Assad fell
Over the last year, more Iranian military support has been diverted to Russia, reducing Iran’s ability to supply Assad. Russia’s currency has collapsed quickly over the last few weeks, requiring more aid from Iran than ever before, which means less is available for Assad now than at any other point since 2011. Biden has allowed …
Imagine if Stalin had bombed Nazi records
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/israeli-airstrikes-hit-security-complex-research-centre-in-damascus-sources-say/ar-AA1vuqZ0 Israel is deliberately bombing the record repositories of the Assad regime. This is not what happens when an enemy power is defeated. This is what collaborators do when their crimes are about to become public. This does not pass the most basic of sniff tests. Cut off Netanyahu immediately.
Long Live Syria
I had to update this map since the brutal dictator Bashar al-Assad has been ousted from power. Afghanistan is green because the Taliban lacks recognition from most countries in the world, is not the legitimate government of Afghanistan, Afghanistan still has membership in the United Nations, and is still an ally of the United States. …