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Thu, 02/04/2026 - 00:30
The core reason for America and Europe’s decline (and, in a way, Japan’s) was the belief by our elites that money was the only thing which mattered. Money is the ability command resources from anyone who will, or must, sell. People who need to sell their labor or starve—Marx’s famous “whip of hunger.” Countries who […]
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Wed, 01/04/2026 - 20:58

Twenty-four hours prior to last November’s Autumn Statement, a social media post from Prime Minister Keir Starmer read: ‘The cost of living is the number one issue people are facing, with too many struggling to make ends meet. I am determined to tackle it.’ The following day, Chancellor Rachel Reeves presented the said statement — […]

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Wed, 01/04/2026 - 08:13
Although I never submitted to it, I made several appearances in the now-defunct quote database on bash.org (QDB). I’m dealing with a broken keyboard now, and went to dig hard to find this classic in the Wayback machine. I thought I would put it back on the web: It was, in fact, horrble.
Created
Wed, 01/04/2026 - 00:30
~by Sean Paul Kelley Headwinds: “a headwind blows against the direction of travel of an object . . . decreases the object’s speed and increases the time required to reach its destination.” Rip Tide: “A rip is a strong, localized, and narrow current of water that moves directly away from the shore, cutting through the […]