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Love: Japan, History, Skiing, Movies, Korea
Hate: Donald Trump, America, Myself
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Pity the fool who didn't get Garak.
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The Nestor special
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It's gotta be satisfying to dogwalk the entire Jedi order.
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Unfortunately, Labour politics were built on not upsetting the sure victory over the Tories at the last election - but you can't bank on everyone hating the other guy more forever. Total failure of imagination.
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cannot think of better way to describe most of Trump cabinet than people who are enslaved to their desires
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If by last crisis you mean covid - there is a lot of bogus belief the fed will be able to save the market if it crashes not accepting the reality that if the tariffs are in play that inflation will be up. So it's really also betting that Trump is full of shit.
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There isn't really a bifurcation. Majority of people in the room were lawyers.
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Disaster quarter, huge miss and really bearish guidance, stock up 4%. It's like a personal insult directed at the concept of market efficiency.
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Costco will overcome, too. It is popular in every country.
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I'm sure people in the admissions office thought it was terribly intellectually bold and provocative of this guy to be such an ardent Nazi.
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This guy has always been a moron though.
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It's because everyone anticipates recession in addition. The only upside is it might not drive inflation as high as it otherwise might be - but it will still be high, which means no interest rate cutting will help us anyway.
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That is a very one sided description of the reality.
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I think there's obviously some tension inside the idea, at some points in elite culture outdoor pursuits and sports become fashionable, and at some points in history power consolidates towards strongholds in the hinterland. That I think is the post-Roman experience for a while.
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Yeah although the southern gentleman has a troubling mystique in US culture. People yearn for the plantation life as civilized, but it's just a bunch of pigfucking rapists without culture getting fat on everyone else's work.
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To put it another way, a Roman nobleman in the countryside is like Mcnulty on the boat.
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People forget that this stuff is an occasional retreat from courtly life for elite people.
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Ovid famously not very in to living in exile. Machiavelli, same. Rustication is a punishment still, using that very word, in Oxford and Cambridge.
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But very clear if you read Xenophon that being overly concerned with your estates was considered to be very odd behaviour for an Athenian nobleman and that is obviously also true in Roman life. The City was the epicentre of both culture and power - it was seen as weird to like your estates.