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elfenix

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  1. how did he catch that ediot: easier from that angle
  2. Burns: Pork ribs pretty good, brisket over to the point of dryness. Flavors were on point though. House brand coke kinda tastes like RC.
  3. most games are at a temporary stadium (i think it's their lacrosse field, usually) right on lake michigan. great setting for a fooball game. ohio state game is at wrigley.
  4. no greg, missouri is not a good team.
  5. if i lived in CHI i'd be at every northwestern game this year.
  6. georgia not sending their best to the cheerleading squad
  7. you can take the gabriel out of sucks but you can't take the sucks out of gabriel
  8. did they just explain that oregon's uniforms are literally cancer? because i'm pretty sure they just explained that oregon's uniforms are literally cancer.
  9. might be the greatest paragraph on wikipedia:
  10. 17 hour flight I'd probably still wear a mask, at least for boarding/deplaning. Swear I have 50/50 odds of getting something even if it's not the 'rona
  11. The debt matters to the extent it drives deficits but otherwise it's just a number. Deficit to GDP are more interesting ratios because they're both vectors (debt is a scalar, it would be like comparing miles to mph). Debt to wealth would be an interesting ratio. The other factor is that the world financial system is basic built on t-bills and when they tried to find something else to use it ended up pretty badly. One day the Ricardians may be correct but they've had 200+ years of being wrong at this point. Ultimately all money has to be made up. Gold is a useful industrial commodity and it goes well with Persian skin tones but its value as money is only far beyond those things because a bunch of people agree that's how it should be. Greenbacks are no different. And, unlike gold, greenbacks are backed by the full faith and credit of the US government which only morons try to fuck around with. Along with the biggest and best performing large economy in the world, the second largest nuclear arsenal (and who knows how many Russian bombs actually work) 11 actual aircraft carriers, 10 more ships that pretty much every other country on earth would count as aircraft carriers a fuck ton of nukes, and a seemingly insatiable appetite for consumer goods.
  12. Reddit.com/r/NSFW Reddit.com/r/gonewild The thing about a fractional reserve system is that most money is just entries in a ledger. Also most large firms have to use accrual basis accounting. My well-regarded business law professor said accounting was lying by another name.
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