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#31
Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...
Last post by Admiral Yi - January 04, 2026, 02:35:59 PMQuote from: mongers on January 04, 2026, 02:21:13 PMWere you just quoting trump or have you jumped on the 'fake news' intellectual bandwagon?
I need a definition of fake news intellectual bandwagon.
#32
Off the Record / Re: Are we in the opening scen...
Last post by Legbiter - January 04, 2026, 02:32:48 PMAll this geopolitical turmoil feels like a warm old blanket to me. Cold War 2.0
AI is hyped to the sky by overleveraged SF tech elites, so far it's been an upgraded spellchecker and wiki assistant. I can see it freeing a lot of drudge type white collars from their desks. School exams will go back to written essays and verbal exams (already happening).
As to climate change, it's largely solved, if imperfectly, giant carbon capture plants in Iceland will sequester excess carbon to turn it into rock. Already happening on a small scale, fairly easy to scale up. As an aside, we're just about out of the Little Ice Age so the next few centuries would be balmier by default. So if you get more heat related weather events, a simple kyrie eleison should do. God will preserve his own.
As to birth rates, just pay them. That's it, just pay young people the same eye-watering amounts we spend on treating cancer in boomers to give them an extra 1-2 years of shitty extra life. Problem solved.
AI is hyped to the sky by overleveraged SF tech elites, so far it's been an upgraded spellchecker and wiki assistant. I can see it freeing a lot of drudge type white collars from their desks. School exams will go back to written essays and verbal exams (already happening).
As to climate change, it's largely solved, if imperfectly, giant carbon capture plants in Iceland will sequester excess carbon to turn it into rock. Already happening on a small scale, fairly easy to scale up. As an aside, we're just about out of the Little Ice Age so the next few centuries would be balmier by default. So if you get more heat related weather events, a simple kyrie eleison should do. God will preserve his own.
As to birth rates, just pay them. That's it, just pay young people the same eye-watering amounts we spend on treating cancer in boomers to give them an extra 1-2 years of shitty extra life. Problem solved.
#33
Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...
Last post by mongers - January 04, 2026, 02:21:13 PMQuote from: Admiral Yi on January 04, 2026, 02:12:43 PMQuote from: Jacob on January 04, 2026, 02:01:22 PMFair.
What I'm really wondering is what you think drives the current sentiments we hear about the affordability crisis (that there is one and that it's a big deal), if inflation is actually low?
Are there actual economic realities behind it separate from inflation, or is there something else that drives the narrative?
To be transparent - I don't have a strong opinion on the issue and no real understanding of how real or not real the affordability crisis is in the US.
My reddit feed has a semi-steady stream of articles with headlines with "'I Can't Afford This' Trump Voters in Rural America Stunned as Cost of Living Keeps Rising" and I'm wondering how real it is beyond the anecdote.
To be blunt I think it's Democratic fake news. CNN and NPR hunt down some anecdotes, avoid quanitifying it, and call it a thing.
Were you just quoting trump or have you jumped on the 'fake news' intellectual bandwagon?
#34
Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...
Last post by Admiral Yi - January 04, 2026, 02:12:43 PMQuote from: Jacob on January 04, 2026, 02:01:22 PMFair.
What I'm really wondering is what you think drives the current sentiments we hear about the affordability crisis (that there is one and that it's a big deal), if inflation is actually low?
Are there actual economic realities behind it separate from inflation, or is there something else that drives the narrative?
To be transparent - I don't have a strong opinion on the issue and no real understanding of how real or not real the affordability crisis is in the US.
My reddit feed has a semi-steady stream of articles with headlines with "'I Can't Afford This' Trump Voters in Rural America Stunned as Cost of Living Keeps Rising" and I'm wondering how real it is beyond the anecdote.
To be blunt I think it's Democratic fake news. CNN and NPR hunt down some anecdotes, avoid quanitifying it, and call it a thing.
#35
Off the Record / Re: Vote in the New York City ...
Last post by HVC - January 04, 2026, 02:08:08 PMQuote from: Oexmelin on January 04, 2026, 02:05:32 PMMost historians are pretty boring.
Boring people can be weird. Ever meet a train guy?
#36
Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...
Last post by HVC - January 04, 2026, 02:06:45 PMA problem effects someone else, a crisis effects me 
As for the housing crisis, ar least in Toronto, it's still a thing. Mainly for older condos and houses. The new build condo market kind of collapsed, but thats more because they were (are) being built tiny and shittily for the resale and Airbnb market and that segment fell off a cliff.
As for the housing crisis, ar least in Toronto, it's still a thing. Mainly for older condos and houses. The new build condo market kind of collapsed, but thats more because they were (are) being built tiny and shittily for the resale and Airbnb market and that segment fell off a cliff.
#37
Off the Record / Re: Vote in the New York City ...
Last post by Oexmelin - January 04, 2026, 02:05:32 PMMost historians are pretty boring.
#38
Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...
Last post by Admiral Yi - January 04, 2026, 02:04:00 PMQuote from: HVC on January 04, 2026, 01:47:44 PMBefore that is there a situation where you'd agree theres an affordability crisis?
Sure. A case like Canada's housing market (which I haven't heard about in a while
) where the price to income ratio rises dramatically and stays I would call a housing affordability crisis. Or problem and not crisis. What makes something a crisis? #39
Off the Record / Re: Vote in the New York City ...
Last post by Jacob - January 04, 2026, 02:02:40 PMQuote from: Josquius on January 04, 2026, 01:57:41 PMName one historian who isn't a freak.
Suetonius?
#40
Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...
Last post by Jacob - January 04, 2026, 02:01:22 PMQuote from: Admiral Yi on January 04, 2026, 01:31:01 PMQuote from: Jacob on January 04, 2026, 01:07:50 PMSo from your point of view the affordability crisis is not really a thing?
I would need a workable definition of thing before I an answer.
Fair.
What I'm really wondering is what you think drives the current sentiments we hear about the affordability crisis (that there is one and that it's a big deal), if inflation is actually low?
Are there actual economic realities behind it separate from inflation, or is there something else that drives the narrative?
To be transparent - I don't have a strong opinion on the issue and no real understanding of how real or not real the affordability crisis is in the US.
My reddit feed has a semi-steady stream of articles with headlines with "'I Can't Afford This' Trump Voters in Rural America Stunned as Cost of Living Keeps Rising" and I'm wondering how real it is beyond the anecdote.