OfCourseNot

You’re not wrong. As a southern European I know what they mean with all this austerity bullshit, so fuck these cunts.

BUT.

The American economy really is in shambles. I read not long ago that Americans are bound to pay more than $1 trillion just in interests in 2026, and more than $2T (a year) in ten years. With the predictions of gdp growth (which imho are terribly optimistic since the entire us economy is right now hanging from the AI bubble) the interest rates are going to shoot up, or even get to the point where no one would lend money to the USA, unless something (like that amendment) gives some guarantees that you’re gonna pay the debt back.

So my conclusion is that the US is gonna default on that debt sooner than later, and then it’s just free fall from there. And it will try and drag the rest of the world with it.

We all are fucked.

Spain, mixed bag. The food in the school I went (public, poor neighborhood) was quite bad, in every sense of the word. They delivered it to the school already made, and it was just heated there. A friend of mine worked in one where they would order fewer rations than the kids they got and divide them (that was the last straw and he changed career). But I’ve heard nicer things of the food in private schools or public ones in wealthier areas, that have a proper kitchen and actually cooked the food there.

Oi! Some of us like to keep track of our expenses, it’s a good budgeting practice.

Not just Western Europe, it’s the whole of it. But also Asia, and the Americas. And Africa as well. Quite a tribal species we furless apes are.

There’s an argument to be made that it is, in fact, not ‘reading’. The training of the model could be considered a lossy compression of the data. And streaming movies in a lossy compression format is not fair use, is it?

We’ve had them for quite some time. They don’t change price for individual customers, I don’t think they change the price in the middle of the day either. But, I guess, they can change the prices just before opening, like if the wether service forecasts a rainy day they could rise the price of umbrellas and raincoats. Cold? Hot chocolate and soups. Hot? Ice cream and cold drinks. Certain asshole died overnight? Champaign and confetti cannons through the roof. And so on…

In Spain we’ve had those for years now, and prices are as stupidly high in the stores with paper ones…