Anyone remember the phenomenon where rich people flee countries after the effective tax rate gets over 18%?
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whenever you might feel lonely, maybe wanting some female attention, remember that spool of wire guy and all that shit will go away instantly.
@DoubleD @Tfmonkey Owning armor and a trained horse was wealth & status, but also showed generally as your symbols of the position your lord appointed you to or sometimes earned through the spoils of war in some periods of time. Especially considering most armor would be custom fit to someone's measurements.
@DoubleD @Tfmonkey Much better armor would typically come to aristocracy/warrior classes. Either in the form of heavy infantry or cavalry. Swords were never as common battlefield weapons as les to believe and were more like the open carry/conceal carry pistols of today. Something to have, but far from best available weapon to use as they were easy to transport in everyday life or additionally on the battlefield. But the spear, arrow, and pike ruled for the most part.
Gambisons and chain vests were korw widely available. Most common soldiers/conscripted peasants would have had either of those for basic chest protection, basic leather/metal caps, a shield, and a spear. It was a very long time after rome fell that there would be militaries with standardized arms/armor. The general kit above was mostly what would come about because spears are easy to teach, cheap to make, and the most effective general hand weapon.
I just think from my talks that US is still capable of building some decent shit and must be reverse engineering stuff too, but I don't think the gap is so wide; nor our production w/out a war economy is so great. The geopolitics would not at all be playing out as they are if that were truly the case. People see a bunch of tech shit and it is their avenue of autism, but reality does not reflect those things on terms of actors that do know FAR more than any of us.
@kaiservenom Just gonna be the weimar rush for dictator savior.
Thoughts? The US is does seem tonhave some hypersonic counte rmeasures and some of their own, but they're fortifying asia instead of sending things to jizzrael or Ukriane. I don't believe the wuantities of new tech are high and this is coming off the usual convo of guys praising US wonder development and downplaying eastern weapon advancement. Somehow the Houthis aren't responsible for US fleet withdrawls and peace made with them.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/the-u-s-navys-hypersonic-missile-program-is-down-but-not-out
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I've been watching a lot of videos on policing and law recently and years ago I listened to the audio book called "The Non-sense Factory" about the United States Legal and Court system.
Our legal system is far too corrupt to fix. We need an entirely new system.
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This is a reminder to disassemble your laptop/desktop once a year and clean the fans from dust.
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Health Thoughts
Why do I feel tired and loose motivation?
>Looks at previous log on Fitbit, 2,400 calories burned. Less than 979 steps taken.
>Looks at Fitbit today, 2,820 calories burned. 4,000 steps taken.
>Realizes the pattern,
“My body is a damn food furnace”
>Starts analyzing food packaging for caloric intake and setting a goal for 1,000+ calories a meal. Sets time to eat.
@RegalBeagle Probably old glass decorative beading for gardens/plants
@sardonicsmile What is 'living comfortably'. Honestly a lot of ehat changed in terms of standards was giving each kid their own room. I grew up sharing a room for forever.
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This is simply another indicator of increasing racialism in the US. Whites are finally starting to understand we need to band together because no other race will care about whites as whites care about them.
@Justicar Well what I don't see is where Microsoft is earning 16% y/y. They say it is because of trained AI. I highly doubt it. I don't see how they'd be getting more advertising money either. Maybe this is following retailing frontloading to pump as many sales out to the consumers as possible before tariff issues? Maybe it id a mix of it all. Perhaps we'll have tow ait for a Q3/Q4 beat this year.
@Justicar What's got me tapping my noggin is how tech is fairing. Apparently Microsoft has AI writing a shit ton of low level code and has replaced floor lrvel coders with ai engineers that get this... tell the AI what to do. I am a bit sceptical on this considering other AI 'innovations' were indians or koreans doing shit. They must be getting gov doles as well to push funding at stuff I'd imagine too because where's all this spending into their ads and growth if consumers are tapped.
Tech companies reporting Q1 growth y/y
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