Interesting seeing this after the flurry of positive articles he's been receiving over the last month.

From the original actual news article:

Christie explained that he sees the term “woke” as referring to a “new age of thinking that's quite left and quite Green” but isn't factual. “It's based on the surface on good principles — let's protect our native bush. But then when you actually are educated and you look into a little bit further, it's like, no, that actually doesn't make sense,” he added.

Somehow in these people's thinking they're the educated ones. They know that state parks are good but national parks are bad. Smashing up the bush with your diesel soaked 4WD protects the environment. Logging native forests is good for the environment.

I see echoes of the old 'carbon is actually good for the environment' in these weirdos.

I absolutely don't agree with your perspective.

AI is just another way to ensure control of the means of production stays in the hands of capitalists.

It empowers the techno-feudalist monopolies to put further pressure on more industries. Not content to own a portion of every retail purchase, every digital payment, every house, and every entertainment property. They now get to own a portion of every act of creation, every communication that could possibly challenge their power.

They can subvert any act of independent impactful art by copying it and remanufacturing lesser versions over and over until the original's impact is lost. And they can do it faster than ever before, cashing in on the original creative's effort and syphoning returns away from creators into their own pockets.

You might think it's inevitable and inescapable, but that's what people once thought of the divine right of kings.

Got bored of Reddit's capitalism

The Marshall Plan was a hell of drug.

Good luck

Turns out of you do this with a basic block of cheddar and cheap shaved ham, everyone still thinks you're being fancy and compliments you on the cheese choice.

I remember a little while back reading something about how Financial Literacy was introduced as a way for the banks to avoid regulation, pushing the responsibility to individuals rather than face government pressure to change.

I'll have to look for the article...

EDIT: https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=1198&context=faculty_scholarship

Why aren't people taking a closer look at Japan? Their inflation rate is down 929% from last year, without adjusting the cash rate.

Why is it that the EU, UK, Canada, NZ, USA and Australia all keep trying to reach the same goal of suppressing demand until unemployment is high enough for prices to fall. It's insane.

What I was basing my observation on: https://theconversation.com/japan-has-gone-its-own-way-on-fighting-inflation-can-nz-learn-from-a-global-outlier-210618

It's false just in its premise. Experts typically become experts by developing expertise in their field, usually by working in that field.

I hate how much he hates chicken nuggets. His only argument against them seems to be that they use all the bad dirty bits of the chicken. I'm like "Yeah..if we're going to eat chicken we may as well eat all of them."

Assassins Creed: Odyssey. Cassandra is my muscle mommy.